I can't believe I'm actually posting my little project on here...it's a bit like asking Gordon Ramsey to taste your cheese sandwich.
Anyway, hi everyone my name's Chris and I'm from Belfast. I've lurked round here for a while now and it's by far my favorite place on the interwebs. There never seems to be any judgement and no dick measuring...it's a proper community that I actually feel part of, despite not being good enough to be called an indie hacker.
Speaking of dick measuring...here's what I made over the weekend. It's called sizematters.io and it's a reference site for finding the latest social media image and video sizes.
Last week I was making some posts for social media, but the image size cheat sheet I had downloaded was out of date. (There are literally hundreds of these things floating about, most of them are out of date and useless.)
So I thought, wouldn't it be cool if there was just a site where you could click on an icon, get the right size, and go on about your business. No having to trawl through massive blog posts, no having to download rubbish cheat sheets.
Like I said, I'm not an indie hacker...I could spend the next 6 months trying to make it. Or I could bang it out in a weekend using a site builder like carrd.co (thanks @ajlkn) and see if anyone wanted it...so that's what I did :)
I'm not sure if anyone will use it, but I plan to keep it up to date, even if it's just for me. And to be honest, this was more about me actually putting something out into the world...even if it is just a simple cheese sandwich.
Thanks for reading,
Chris
@ChrisKyle Hi Chris, what happened to this project?
I really like the site design...it’s so neat! Congrats and all the best.
It's a great idea, I'm with @jmstfv, I think would be awesome if you can provide a conversion tool for the images.
Look at this service for inspiration: https://realfavicongenerator.net/
Well, that's perfect, and thank you! ⭐️
Subscribed. 💌
Nice work Chris. Congrats on getting something out. Keep us updated on any changes. Also it would be good to allow a upload feature - eg select the social media platform and image and you can get the image in all the possible sizes. Any way nice work :)
This is a good idea, and good execution. Congrats for shipping.
The only thing I would do top of my head, is some kind of reference at the top of each page (so you know how many type of size you have), maybe browsing all the way to find the size you are looking for could be faster this way.
I love this!
Congrats on shipping. Looks nice and handy.
Is this a static website on carrd? Or you are using some db or api?
Thanks Shree...yea it's static, I'm just updating it manually for now.
Not sure if carrd allows javascript, and if you are ok maintaining a simple table, this can be converted into a data api. It is easy to maintain a table. Check table2api.com
Nice! As long as you keep it up-to-date with the changes made on each platform, this will be valuable to designers for sure.
Nice work!
Thanks Chad! I'm sure there's a smarter way to keep it updated....might take a few more weekends to figure it out though :)
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Thought this would have been a great idea to monetize as well, but it looks like https://sproutsocial.com/landscape already does this very well and for free.
Nice Cheese sandwich Chris!
Just as @jmstfv said. You should monetize this! I for one would probably pay for a full stack of appropriately sized images for each website/purpose.
From all platforms and options you have listed there. How many actual variations are there?
Another question:
How do you keep track of these sizes? Is it automated? If it isn't, you will inevitably become one of those sites/blog posts you mentioned where your sizes are out dated.
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lol...I'll be humming this all day now!