Show IH: The Crypt - Summarized Finance/ Tech Newsletter using Text Summarization Algorithms
We recently spent the past 10hrs on the front page of HackerNews and would love to show y'all what we're building!
Using a number of Algorithms, I have automated (and still working on) building a scalable process of delivering high-quality article summaries through a newsletter.
I've been iterating quickly... See More
Hi Indie Hackers,
My background is in corporate finance (financial analysis, modeling, cash flows, investments / financing etc) and I am looking to build an online business revolving around these skills.
Are there any finance-related pain points or unmet needs that I could help any of you solve?
Cheers!
The next Portland, OR IndieHackers meetup is coming soon (March 7th)! If you're in the PDX area and interested in building your own projects—you should stop by!
We're a group of developers, designers, marketers, builders, and makers that meet up the first Thursday of every month to hang out and chat about our projects. Sometimes we'll brainstorm on a tricky problem or talk about indie/startup/make... See More
Hey Indie Hackers!
Hope you all had a great weekend!
Me and my team are developing a time tracking solution and we just made a beta version live.
There are yet a lot of gaps to fill and it is not completely perfect but we are hoping to achieve that soon.
It will be really helpful if you can take some time to test our App and share your feedback with us.
Here's the link to our website: https://staf... See More
👊Punch me! It is your turn...
In the last several months, I have critiqued your landing pages, judged your copy, questioned your business acumen... now it is your turn.
My brother and I have been working on www.onefinaldoc.com since last Christmas. I would really appreciate your brutal honest feedback, even though I guess IHs are not the target audience.
Is it clear what we are trying to solve?... See More
#looking-for-cofounder #developer #ask | Paris | Cognitive science | radically emancipatory science
Hi Hackers,
Any anarchists in here ?
We are a co-op of scientists and developers and we are looking for more irreducible freedom lovers to build together a rigorous, transparent and emancipatory scientific research infrastructure owned by the people.
This project* is backed by a strong business mode... See More
Question - is it 'ok' to use a significant outlier for a case study?
Background:
I'm putting together some case studies for PostPerk.com so that ecommerce brands understand the value we provide.
Realistically, that value is probably a 5-10% boost in sales for most brands.
We do have one customer, however, who has doubled their sales within a month by using PostPerk (and we can prove it).
Is it 'ok... See More
Hi all,
I developed a résumé builder app with advice sections to help people find work. I worked as a recruitment consultant for 3 years before completing my MSc Computer Science and wanted to share my knowledge.
I've been struggling to get the iOS app up the rankings. Retention seems to be a lot lower than for the Android version (which is older and has 79,000 downloads ... See More
Show IH: Karma Smart Habit Tracker.
We have been working on this for one week now. It's a simple new page extension which allows you to track your online and offline habits.
We are trying a business model - you can add habits for free but you need to pay to delete them.
You can discuss it on Product Hunt here https://www.producthunt.com/posts/karma-smart-habit-tracker
Or you can Install it here ht... See More
The internet has a bad reputation with non tech users. People are afraid of fraud because it is so easy to put up a fake product websites. Some sites like trustpilot try to solve this with user reviews but these can also be faked easily. We need a system with Strong Identity to make fakes prohibitively expensive.
Imagine a Graph of Trust where a legitimate startup founder can create an ID based on... See More
Signup / Login Flow UX Feedback
Good morning, fellow hackers!
I wanted to get some feedback on all of your thoughts about a new-ish style of signup/login flow I've started seeing.
I recently started using https://www.notion.so/ as my place for notes and journaling for my indie hacker adventures.
One feature that I thought was particularly thoughtful was their signup/login flow. To sign up, all you... See More
Show IH: Ultime.me - Animated Meme Editor
Link: http://www.ultime.me
Hi All!
There are currently quite a number of image & video captioning apps to choose from,
and none of them really provided all of the features or UI ergonomics that I want when making memes.
Even desktop image editors like Gimp, Photoshop, or Krita, are surprisingly hard to cajole into rendering readable, nicely outlined (d... See More
"I consider myself an accidental entrepreneur. Growing up I wasn't that kid selling lemonade on the corner for 10¢ a cup or starting businesses out of his college dorm. None of that stuff. I was very much raised in this mentality that you go to school, you get good grades, you get a good job after school, and that's kind of the path of life. My parents paid a lot for my education. Private sch... See More
5k users!
The key to reach a nice looking growth rate, 5% to 10% weekly, is to ask people to help you. Go ask the bloggers, youtubers, reporters, and website owners as many as you can.
Hey guys,
We launched a social good software http://www.taliware.com/ to close the existing loopholes in the US judiciary system. Taliware's Biometric Geolocation Authentication app-service helps individual fend against false stalking accusations, discourages witnesses from lying under oath as well as from presenting false affidavits and much more.
We would appreciate indiehackers community's poin... See More
Feedback please!
We have recently made a tool that helps people estimate how much it costs to build an MVP.
Would love to hear from Indie Hackers community on how we can improve this tool.
#marketing #product-feedback-request #idea-validation
eBay meets Patreon web app. The idea is that traditional celebrities auction off their time (caddying for Tiger Woods for golf charity, a traditional example), and that this new class of mini-celebrities--creators, streamers, and influencers--can do the same, mostly virtually. The site is built and a functional MVP.
I'm somewhat at a loss of wh... See More
Show IH: indie.help - Help and get help from fellow indie hackers.
Link: https://indie.help/
Are you a programmer who needs small design help? Are you a designer who needs help installing and configuring the latest Javascript library? Do you have a landing page that could use a marketer’s eye? You are one of us.
We built https://indie.help to help fellow hackers, programmers, designers and makers ... See More
200 paying customers
🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉🎊
A few people have had the bright idea of there being a #meta hashtag where we can discuss the state of the community and the website itself. I figure #meta will be a great place for me to keep you all updated as well, so here's a list of a few things I'm focusing on for the website right now:
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Performance. The site is too slow and has been for a while. Lots of fixes in the pipeline.
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UX issues, ... See More
What's the most annoying aspect of remote work that you did not find a solution for yet?
Hi there indiehackers,
I'm a self-taught web developer who currently is working 5h per day onsite for a web development agency and also 3h per day remotely for clients on fiverr. In the near future I would like to increase my remote working hours and decrease the onsite ones as I begin to really love the perks... See More
Feedbacks ? I made a product to help solo indiehackers connect with each others and share experiences.
Good morning, everyone!
Last week-end, I had an idea for a small online service. Something that completely meets my expectations. For the explanation, I have been running a blog about video game development for some time now. However, I'm all alone on this project and I don't know anyone who does... See More
Hey guys, Renee Dua is going to be live on Startup Circle today at 1 pm US Central.
Renee built Heal, a HealthTech startup that connects patients with doctors for an on-demand visit, after a long night spent in the emergency room waiting for her young son to be treated.
Heal has so far raised over $71 million.
Renee will talk about fundraising, launching startups in highly regulated industries, co... See More
Bootstrapping a Hardware Product to 7 Figures Despite Student Debt
Those of you who offer SaaS subscriptions at different price points, what percentage of your customers opt for each level?
Having 3 different monthly plans at different price points is a common strategy. I'm interested whether most people opt for the cheapest plan or your designated "best value" (middle?) option? Has anybody tested how the distribution varies as you adjust the offerings? See More
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Monday Edition: Daily Stand Up!
Why?
That extra nudge of accountability to achieve even a small step on your IH journey each day.
To join in:
01 Share your epic (a big chunk of work with a meaty objective) you'd like to complete by the end of February.
02 Share what you accomplished yesterday.
03 Share what you commit to accomplishing today.
04 Comment on at least one fellow hacker... See More
Ask IH: How should I monetize this platform?
Hi all,
I posted before about a place to showcase your resume files to your clients and/or employers. I'm running in a situation on how to monetize this product. At first, I thought a subscription may be the best choice but I thought to myself that would job seekers pay for this service? I'm not 100% now about this approach now. Then I thought of compan... See More
Experiment: My friends control my life for 1 week!
As an experiment, I wrote a little app that allowed my friends to control my life for a whole week. They could tell me who to meet, where to eat, what to do and even when and where to sleep. That was amazing, exhausting, challenging and one of the most exciting days I ever had.
I wrote more about it in this blog post: https://medium.com/@sgabler/this-is-what-happens-when-your-friends-take-over-you... See More
Hi all...need a bit of help. I'd love to know what's the biggest website built with Hugo static site generator (in terms of the number of pages) you've ever seen?
The only one I know is SmashingMag....so what else is there?
Thx.
I'm building https://upgrades.to and will be streaming the entire process on twitch daily. Any ideas/suggestions on the business side? How can I make the product profitable?
Idea: Community curated upgrades for your gear. (Something like product hunt for tech upgrades.) Challenge: 100% live coded.
I was initially thinking affiliate marketing, but seems a bit restricted. What do you guys think?
Hi Everyone.
I am a backend developer looking for a frontend developer/designer to work on some projects with. I have some ideas already but am open to working on anything. I can also do marketing.
I live in the Bay area/Silicon Valley, but am open to working with anyone.
Hi Indie Hackers,
Would you go on a retreat to be able to work on your side project?
I need your feedback to see if this idea is feasible.
I set up a landing page with more details here:
https://www.creatorsretreat.co.uk/
Cheers,
Radu
Does Apple optimize (make faster) an app when it is uploaded to the app store? I believe I had heard or read somewhere after you submit your app to the app store it is made much faster. Is this true?
Mailing list: charge or not to charge?
Hello IHs,
I have a question about my mailing list.
About 5 months ago I started my project called "SaaS Idea" - the SaaS boilerplate for fast SaaS development. To find more potential customers and share my ideas on SaaS apps I created the email series called "SaaS Ideas Weekly" - now it has more than 350 subscribers, the average open rate... See More
Giving back to the community: This Week - B2B Influencer Marketing Strategy.
In 3 simple steps, I'd show you how to reach 100k audience in your industry, with expected seniority level, filtered by location.
Please send me through your details as well as:
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Company name / Website
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Your target audience industry / location / seniority level / company size / any other preferences
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Your prime competi... See More
Does anyone know of an app that allows you to bookmark a section within a podcast/audio book? One that's agnostic to your podcast and audio book platform. If not, will someone please make one for me. Haha! If you do make one, will you please include a feature for voice command. I drive a lot and listen to pods/books....it would be awesome if I had the app running in the background and said &qu... See More
#idea-validation Would you pay a service to manage your wildcard ssl certificate? For example, get a ssl cert for domain name like *.example.com. Such a service would renew the cert for you, provide you the download link, and create some simple script to install cert in your server.
Any Indie Hackers from Amsterdam ❌❌❌ 🇳🇱?
It would be nice to organize some meetup.
Social Proof Widget?
Do y'all use social proof widgets (Fomo, Use Proof, etc...) on your product pages?
Is there space in said market for a lower priced offering targeted at Indie Hackers who are willing to handle a bit more technical setup work?
Show IH: gramchat - A live chat tool for indie hackers
Link to gramchat: https://gramchat.me/
As a Indiehacker myself I am always interested in finding new ways to serve my customers better and thereby grow my product. An important feature I found customer demanding is a live chat for support and presales.
The other solutions I found do have at least one of the following problems:
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Too expensive
... See More
Hi. I've made this free Sketch plugin for computer-generated people faces placeholder using 'This Person Does Not Exist' site https://www.producthunt.com/posts/thispersondoesnotexist-for-sketch
Have a great weekend everyone!
Hi everyone,
I am currently a mentor in the teach-programming-to-kids program with https://codeandplayclub.com/
If anyone is interested to join, please have a look. It's an awesome way to help your kids learn programming through 1:1 sessions with experienced mentors all over the world.
Cheers.
Hi folks, I need to add a subscription management solution to our SaaS products that as of today work via invoices. I’m aiming at having as less development work as possible.
I’m talking about services like ChargeBee, Recurly, Zoho Subscriptions, Zuora, Chargify, ServiceBot etc..
I’ve looked at many solution, but every of them keeps having some downsides or needs workarounds.
I’ll give you some of... See More
#ShowIH: Server Hunter - Easily browse over 11,000 VPS, VDS, and Dedicated Servers
Hello! If you have time, please do check out our website.
It would be nice to hear thoughts of fellow Indie Hackers about Server Hunter:
You may also suggest hosting providers that are missing in our database:
https://www.serverhunter.com/providers/
Thank you so much!
#startup #product-... See More
Sunday Edition: Retro!
Why?
Take the time to reflect on your week. What's gone well? What can be improved?
To join in:
01 Share your epic (a big chunk of work with a meaty objective) you'd like to complete by the end of February.
02 Share your triumphs over the last week.
03 Share the concerns you've uncovered over the past week.
04 Share whether you're on track to achieve your epi... See More
Hey Indie Hackers!
This past week I joined my first tournament over on Pioneer.app (https://pioneer.app/join/copypaste.club) & finally started work on solving a problem I have been thinking about for some time.
Progress report:
‣ Published my first Medium article detailing how I removed myself as a bottleneck during an internship at a tech startup & set them up to save $38 400.00 in the ne... See More
Show IH: Open Shippers
Hi IH!
For the past few months I've been working on Open Shippers (openshippers.io), a place for solo makers to build and ship projects in the open, publicly sharing their progress as they take their products from conception to launch and beyond. Makers will post daily standups, log decisions made, and provide general commentary about their project... See More
I'm a Backend Engineer that specializes in creating graphql api's, I have experience in front-end with react as well.
I'm looking for a Marketing and Front-end co-founders that would want to team up and build something cool!
Let's brainstorm ideas!
Hi folks, we're doing an IndieHacker meetup in Waterloo, ON this Thursday (Feb 21st) at 7:30 PM. So far, we have 6 people on board including myself but if anyone else wants to join, please feel free. If you know you're going to join ahead of time, please ping me to make sure we get a large enough table.
Hi Guys,
I have a questions for you: Do you think we need another slack bot that helps teams do remote (text-based) daily SCRUM standups, or is the market saturated?
In general, how do you think about creating a product that already has a bunch of competitors? (How much of a USP or special features do you need/want)
Thanks so much! (first post)
Jannik
SaaS for getting an overview of all (company-wide) projects?
Hi all! Me and my team was facing this problem in the last months for multiple times: We were not able to tell if another team in our company built/is about to build a solution for a specific request that we got.
We had no overview about all projects of our company. Some teams were using Trello, some were using Taiga, some didn't use a p... See More
Created a video to show Statictastic main features. What do you think?
After reading https://clearfounder.com/how-to-diy-a-product-launch-video-with-no-experience-and-for-free/, I decided to follow the steps and create a video to Statictastic.
You can see the video at https://www.statictastic.com/how-it-works/
What do you think?
Tl;dr: Technical cofounder with an alpha version of a webapp, looking for another cofounder to take it to the next level for fun and profit.
For the last few months I’ve been developing the Get In Touch webapp. I spend 15-20 hours/week on it. You can check it out here, though, be warned, it’s still an alpha version, so there are still more bugs and usability issues than ther... See More
Built a tiny tool to monitor your cron jobs (uptime and running time).
3 teams are already using it I would love it if any of you are willing to test drive and give me feedback. checkout the tool at https://cronpress.io
I built www.emailkit.io for a friend who was finding it hard to clean up his email list(e-commerce) and too much bounce was hurting his delivery rate.
Would love it if any of you would be willing to test drive it and give me feedback to help improve the product or validate the same :)
Two use-case
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Verify your email addresses for deliverability
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Find email address at any company you want
Hi guys! :)
Just wanted to share the idea of single-use email addresses. Basically, start treating email addresses that you use when signing up for apps like passwords. They should be unique, generated and used only once. Store them inside a password manager. This protects you from leaking personal data (in case of personalized email address) and makes nearly impossible to hack into your accounts ... See More
we are trying to validate a problem that exists in group travel booking. It would be awesome to know your thoughts on the following few questions.
It will not take 5 minutes :)
Thanks a lot. #idea-validation
Hi everyone,
I’m working on an idea and hoping to get some validation.
The product is a digital platform for contract, who makes it very easy to create, sign and store contracts.
Create
Based on various issues, the desired contract is auto-generated.
E.g. Employment Contract or Freelance Contract.
Sign
Send the contract to all recipients and sign the contract with digital signatur... See More
Made my first sale!
This is my first side project app, and I made a first sale! It was a special day!
There is something wrong with IH
Lately, I have seen more and more posts without comments. It is sad. Think about it. Someone (probably) worked hard, tried to bring here and nobody cared.
But I get it, because most of them are "asks": Rate my homepage (something I will be asking soon), how do I grok market? etc.
Asking is totally is fine, after all, this is the one reason this communi... See More
Sent the wrong email to users 🤦
I am sending weekly update emails every Friday to users about new cities and foods. I am not supposed to send an email if there is no new food or city. I have control for that in the code but this control code was wrong. I fixed it. But feeling really bad because I sent an empty template email without any new city or food. One user replied "Thanks, very informative"
😭and some users uns... See More
I launched a podcast https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/my-side-project/id1451687428?mt=2 that talks to founders about their story and business. Think of it as "How I Built This" but for very early companies. We mainly focus on YC and product hunt companies.
The interesting thing that I learned though is that people want to talk about themselves and what they have accomplished so cold e... See More
How do you keep track of equity or any other form of acknowledgment between founders before incorporating?
Real curious what you guys think. I have participated in multiple early-stage startups and it was always a hassle to have the "equity talk" between founders let alone sign IP/NDA. It seems like every startup makes up their ways/documents to sign.
From my research, nothing is 'formal... See More
#idea-validation #product-feedback-request
I built another restaurant review app, but I simplified the review system to an upvote/downvote system. So you can rate up/down menu items if the food was good or not and rate up/down restaurants if you'd come back. The intention is to strip out long, unreliable, yet influential reviews and instead promote restaurants by the total count of upvotes and dow... See More