Ask IH: What's your business/side project about?
Interested to learn about what the community is working on.
I'll be grouping the results and presenting it back here - might surprise us, might not but more importantly, it could be the basis for connecting one another for more customer opportunities.
Short-form movie reviews. Aiming to be quirky and fun https://intermission.xyz
https://propertyments.com - property management tools.
You mention on your page that you also collect rent. I assume you use something like PayPal or Stripe? If that's the case. How do you present the 2.9% fee coming off each charge?
Hi Matthew - I do use stripe to manage recurring rent payments. Stripe's ACH processing is capped at $5, that amount can either be assumed by the landlord or passed onto the tenant each month. I don't allow rent collection via credit cards currently.
Hey @mikemey01 I'm a Front End Developer, I want to collaborate.
Awesome product! I've been a landlord before, and would have loved finding something like this.
One caveat is that I don't think you're charging enough. Maybe make it free for 1 property and charge $15-30 for 2-5(~10) properties?
Either way, love the look of your product!
Hi Rich - Thanks! I'm playing around with the pricing to find the sweet spot. for now the most important product development has come from feedback provided by current landlords so the more landlords I can get on board now the better the product will be down the road.
A service for sending email and Slack notifications for new version software releases, https://newreleases.io.
Currently working on
http://www.growyourclicks.com
http://cooee.network
http://mousecrafted.com
http://www.desket.co
http://www.workforthem.com
http://www.fiveideasaday.com
How do you stay productive working on so many projects at the same time?
Everything I need to do is broken down in my Trello boards. Each product has its own board with a list of tasks. It's actually very straightforward.
https://www.brighthike.com
Duolingo for math -- counting through quantum mechanics and relativity
I have a friend that might be interested in helping/working with you if you're looking for lessons and such. He's an engineer, but was a math/physics professor before that.
I'm interested. How should we connect?
Your menu button doesn't work for me here on iOS Chrome, so I can't click through to pricing- what does it cost?
Thanks for showing interest!
I haven't started selling yet, so prices aren't listed.
I'm actually interested in feedback on that.
My plan is to have life time memberships eventually cost $200, but to work up to that. So, for example, maybe the first 100 users only pay $10 and the next 900 $20.
Any thoughts?
Hmm. Personally I don't see myself paying 200$ for some random unknown untested internet place. If I did test it several months and found out useful, then I wouldn't mind.
This might interest you:
https://brilliant.org/
Agreed.
Of course, that's why I proposed a graduated price. The people who take a gamble early pay $10, not $200, for lifetime access.
I also like the idea of letting people try it out, but probably in a controlled way -- like free to all students of particular classes.
Sounds fair.
Founders podcast. For every podcast I read a biography (or autobiography) of an entrepreneur and pull out ideas you can use in your business.
You can listen on Apple Podcasts,Google Podcasts, or on The Web
Founder Stuff: A curated list of resources for founders
https://founderstuff.xyz/
This is pretty awesome. Are these the places you personally go? How do you currate the lists?
Hey, Courtney! Thanks for the feedback :)
I curate the lists myself. Some of the resources are those that I visit very often and the rest are sourced from discussions here on IH and from Twitter as well.
The link doesn't work for me! if it was just an example it sounds like a great idea.
Hey, Steve. The link seems to be working for most people. Try accessing this page 👉 https://founderstuff.xyz/#blogs
I found this useful, thank you for creating it.
I'm glad you found it useful 🙌 Please let your friends know about it too :)
PDFShift.io
An API to convert HTML documents to PDF with a single POST request.
This is so cool!
I created a pdf for https://autenti.ca/smile and it works wonders!
Congrats
Awesome! I'm glad you liked it :) Feel free to reach out if you plan to integrate PDFShift with Autenti.ca, happy to help!!
Free and Open Source Software Jobs in the US: https://www.linuxjobs.io
Just signed up. Btw, broken link in the footer -- https://linuxjobs.social/@linuxjobsio
Thanks! I'll have a look at what's going on.
My project, https://alchemist.camp is about teaching web developers a language that's more productive and more performant than PHP, NodeJS or whatever they're probably using at the moment.
Thank you, and Great work, I've been using elixir and phoenix for the past month for my project. So I been using yours and various other sites for reference on how to do things.
Thanks for the kind words!
Can you remember how you first found my site? I've had really good retention but a lot of people don't find it until after they've already learned the basics of Elixir. I've been thinking about changing marketing strategies.
I found you by looking for tutorials of phoenix on youtube. I tend to learn better with visual. Not sure exactly what I was looking for. I was playing around with learning phoenix/elixir at beginning of the year when I found you but switching from oop programming was hurting my brain. So I put it off until I decided to force myself to learn it for this project.
Thank you!
Turn your search query on any website to feed. https://alertfor.com/ watch for new entities.
Recast Studio - Video creation made as simple as writing a blog post.
Recast is a Chrome extension to convert blog posts into videos in few clicks. Digital marketing teams, Bloggers, Agencies can use it to repurpose their text content as video.
https://designthingy.co - An on-demand design to HTML website conversion service.
This looks super interesting. How are you doing with it? Is it a good niche? How are you marketing the tool?
I'm pretty sure that a standalone post here about your product would be well accepted.
.. And that I'll use your service sometime soon :)
Thanks Tris!! We're currently in the verge of cracking some deals with more established design studios. Currently, we are not using any rigorous marketing strategy. Our current focus is on validating the MVP. That's why we are just sharing it on multiple platforms like Indiehacker, Reddit and OnePageLove.
Thanks for the suggestion :) but I've already shared it on here
Recently I have built https://heroicpilot.com - website review & SEO audit by a human (me :)
Heads up -- pricing page appears to be broken (Chrome, Windows): https://heroicpilot.com/pricing/
Hye Ryan, could you please send me a screenshot of what you see? I tested it via https://www.browserling.com but it appears ok.
Simple & cheap remote user testing for your app or website
https://www.userlook.co
This is cool
Thanks Michael! Let me know if you want to give it a try if you have a consumer website or app with a 1-2min user video on us :)
https://hallmonitor.co/ - Monitor everything in one place. All your data at a glance with automated reports sent to your inbox or Slack team.
Website looks cool
https://www.growthstore.io
It‘s a curated marketplace for pre-vetted growth gigs.
This is great!
https://trolley.link
Lets you accept payments using Stripe, with no server.
Simple HTML buttons that work with any website.
(Great for pre-orders, deposits, one-off purchases and so on)
Looks interesting. What happens after someone pays. Is there a callback or something?
Hi JonH
Right now it's email notification to the seller.
Soon we'll have webhook callbacks (inc Zapier)
hitmetrics.io
Digital analytics agency to help both businesses and white label partners with analytics needs
https://petify.io/ - My side project of Pet adoption and rescue platform
My side project: Time management app for side projects :) https://www.kiamboy.com
The latest internal side-project we launched is https://kwiki.io/ - a simple tool for writing nice documentation, primarily for the IT sector. Built out of our on necessity, we decided to let it out into the wild :)
https://www.phpjobs.app/ - Job board targeting PHP specific jobs
Currently working above all on https://sportekjobs.com/ - a job board for tech and start up jobs in the sports industry
https://timely-reviews.com/ -- still in very early beta, but hoping to build something to improve pull request review communication flow. Classic example of "solving something that's a problem in my day-to-day life".
Working on 3 projects right now!
I'm the Head Buff at WP Buffs, a 24/7 WordPress website maintenance service for serious website owners and white-label partners. Whether you're looking after 1 site or 1000, they've got your back!
I'm also launching WPMRR, a robust video course that teaches WordPress professionals how to implement, sell and execute ongoing care plans for their clients and increase their revenue every single month.
Finally, along with WPMRR, we're launching The WPMRR WordPress podcast entirely focused on growing successful WordPress businesses and monthly recurring revenue without taking itself too seriously.
Technically this is 3 different projects, but they definitely over-lap. WPMRR is pretty much open-sourcing WP Buffs for agencies and freelancers. Plus it should drive leads to our white-label program so that's a win too. Hoping they all work in synergy. Boom!
I'm currently working on https://www.moneysite.com - Insights about building profitable online businesses
https://opstales.com/ -- business process outsourcing agency
Think back-office tasks that need to be done but are repetitive / process-oriented and do not require high skill level. Transition this work from in-house peeps to the OpsTales outsourced team to save time and $$
I am working on a similar concept, but am wondering how you deploy your product? This is aimed at product/department owners within larger companies. So after you develop a tool/processor for the repetative task, how do you get it deployed and installed without having said owner need to approach corporate IT Service?
I'm approaching it from a manual labor direction, not tech solutions.
There is work that companies need people to do, not everything can be automated esp for older industries. But its repetitive and time-consuming. So it's about transitioning that work to my team so that the client's team can stop spending time on it.
I build out manual processes, the training materials on how to do it, then hire a team and train/manage them to do the ongoing manual work. It drops the cost of the work by up to 87% depending on how expensive the employees are.
My advice based on what you said: If you're looking to sell tech solutions and don't want there to be a large chain of approvals, it needs to be very easy to implement - minimal engineering time - and it needs to be cheap. It sounds like it would be hard to not involve IT services though if it needs to be implemented.
Currently working on:
cultivateandkeep.com - a podcast and website
Notion For Marketers - small video course
Notion For Indie Hackers - small video course
SaaS Marketing Crash Course - free video course
I started https://surprisepackage.me almost a year ago.
If you love receiving packages but are overwhelmed by the choice of subscription boxes, this one is for you! Our bots scour the web for silly and fun or interesting things to ship to you randomly!
nice idea! btw, I have the remote controlled mouse but my cats dont like it and it got broken quickly!
I have literally been trying to get my husband to build out an idea like this with me for years. I think it's so cool!
My twist -- provide a monthly budget and have gifts randomly sent to you each month. I love getting packages and would be so happy to put down $100 to receive random gifts from places I like.
I wonder if I could somehow help you with this - shoot me an email if you're interested in chatting.
Me and my team is working on bringing a complete ecosystem of Software testing under one umbrella. We are building a SaaS product named as LambdaTest www.lambdatest.com
With LanbdaTest you can test your website and web apps for cross browser compatibility issues across 2000+ browser-OS combinations right from your local browsers.
If you guys working on any website or web app, give a shot to LambdaTest and we will be very happy to have expert feedbacks from you guys.
Currently working on TeleDone - Enrching Telegram with Project Management features
https://www.indiehackers.com/product/teledone
https://owwly.com - Space for design maniacs interested in new cool digital products and trends.
The truth is that we are in the middle of transformation in design industry. It’s Product Designers time!
We want to create special space for them. Space where Product metters!
HTTP debugging & development tools: httptoolkit.tech
https://sharetoall.com - Sharing for free on linkedin / twitter at the same time for free. More social networks / functionalities to come!
https://askadragon.app Human Intelligence Task, visual QA, fact checks, and your homework done for free.
The site is not deployed yet, the early alpha version (once you get past the bugs) is kicking up a storm. Here's how it works: You ask the dragons questions or do something for you and they try their best to fulfill it. Other dragons will vote on your task and the solution or answer itself (heavy penalties included)
The site is run by bots and humans working in harmony. It originally started as a joke from /r/theydidthemath and /r/Random_Acts_Of_Pizza where we tried to answer ridiculous questions and fact check some content and soon evolved into a task runner, fact checker, and concierge service.
For monetization we're experimenting with gold. Dragons love gold but they are a one-way investment.
p.s. it is a side project. It'll launch in Q2 of 2019 but mostly as a free fact check service (limited features)
p.p.s we'll be implementing "some" safety protocols. We've already seen some assassination requests and things I really wouldn't want to discuss here. We have such lovely alpha testers.
www.fitmytime.com - a marketplace for online private fitness and yoga classes.
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https://www.yought.com
On-demand service to get quick feedback and opinions with a targeted database.
Helps answer those pecky business decisions from user experience related queries to basic market research
http://www.amazingmarvin.com - a customizable productivity tool for procrastinators.
https://vpsformakers.com - My attempt at writing a first book :)
https://www.gettandem.com - Language exchange I started long time ago and finally have some time for updates.
Https://pastelpad.com - quality illustrations for free.
https://asciiprints.com - ASCII art posters.
https://kanrails.com
Workflow and automation for business processes!
https://usepunch.com/ - insightful time-tracking for individuals and teams with a focus on motivating people and being more efficient with time. We're a team of two in South Australia.
https://autenti.ca/smile - mood booster using AI
http://brisaboards.com - An open source organizer/productivity tool with a simple API, and a frontend that is easy to add additional boards (it has kanbans, whiteboards, and sheets so far) to.
Tried it out for a few minutes.. it looks great, nice job! I got mixed up with the save/cancel buttons on the right at first. Wasn't sure whether 'x' meant cancel or delete, or if I was applying to the heading or the body. So it took a bit of getting used to. On my screen (using a desktop right now) it was pretty wide, so a lot of mouse motion needed. I like that you have "save on enter" implemented in most places.
It'll be very useful when you get to the sharing functionality! I could see it being useful for collaboration on projects or just note taking.
Wow, cool. Thanks for checking it out! Yeah, really struggling with usability (not the best UX/designer haha).
Really appreciate the feedback! Sharing is top of my list, but I've been putting it off. That and a great API so developers can use it to store whatever they want.
https://www.taxomate.com - Amazon Seller Accounting Tool :)
Hey @taxomate, is this the product you built after having only a google spreadsheet? I think I read your story here on IH
PipeGears http://pipegears.com lets you create and run REST APIs and Web backends in minutes by snapping them together from a rich set of prebuilt components.
If you want to iterate and release products more quickly, you can build your application backends on a service platform like PipeGears so that you can spend more time focusing on the frontend.
I just released the public beta last week and am very interested in any type of feedback!
Absolutely love it. Can't wait to find some time in the coming week to work up a project that's been on the shelf for too long.
Thank you! Followed you so I'll get the news about your project :)
Cool! I really like the no code/infrastructure movement. Are you targeting frontend developers similar to firebase? Asking because the first thing I think about is having pre-defined tools (kind of like form mail tools, but could be more) that generate drop-in code on websites for less technical users. Not trying to mess with your MVP, of course. Just sprang to mind :)
That's an interesting suggestion.. I'd considered building sample backend apps and making them importable, then building frontends for them and just publishing the code on github, as starting points or examples. I like the drop-in code idea though.
Yes, I'm targeting frontend developers.. Do you think the messaging and tool are tuned right for that target? Thanks!
I think it's pretty good messaging, based on my brief view.
I do a lot of frontend dev, but I'm far from in-the-loop with all the tech available, so I'm not sure how your offer compares to something like firebase.
My first thought was "How would you deal with authentication/authorization?" But I may have glossed over that detail.
I assume you've thought of some example use cases and make sure it covers the bases. Maybe you could publish an example or something to clarify how it all fits together. Like a to do list or something?
That's a great idea.. I've got a sample "shopping list" app sort of ready to go that I could publish.
That sounds perfect. I want to make a video tutorial for my app. I think something that catches visitor attention and spells out ease of use is important to developers :) Also like the video already on your site.
You've provided the first feedback on my app, so thanks :). If you'd like, I can find some time over the next couple weeks or so to try using yours and provide some feedback as well.
That would be great! Let me know if there's anything I can do to help in return. I'd be happy to help you out!
Sent you an e-mail :)
Block Lab - A WordPress plugin that makes it easy to build custom Gutenberg Blocks.
The new WordPress editor (when it arrives), is going to change how a lot of developers build with WordPress. It requires a very different approach to development and our plugin seeks to significantly lower this barrier to entry, allowing WP devs to get going with Gutenberg without having to master a whole new set of practices.
contentiskey.co unlimited content for only $250/mo
Http://www.txime.com - a better way to define software requirements through collaborative discovery
https://www.scholarcy.com
Reads reports, book chapters and research papers for you and highlights the most important bits. Creates revision flash cards automatically
Deploy Dockerfiles in 30 seconds. https://usekube.co.
Community Powered Fitness Platform for creating, sharing and discovering workouts. http://totallystrong.me
Launching 10.21.18
Cryptocurrency Jobs: Blockchain and cryptocurrency jobs
https://cryptocurrencyjobs.co/
NODESK: Curated resources and remote jobs for digital nomads and remote workers
https://nodesk.co/
Hey Daniel. I'm gauging people's interest in a paid slack chat room for crypto believers. It's a nominal cost of $60/yr and the idea is that the fee would prevent crypto trolls from joining and interrupting. If you're interested drop your email here (https://cryptofanatics.carrd.co/). If not, no worries. I'll probably end up reposting the link again tomorrow for the rest of the IH folks. Maybe we can collaborate soon (ads, promo, etc.) regarding cryptos.
Hey Vez, thanks for the note. Will take a look.
Easiest way to test your website features: parrotqa.com
Owning an E commerce
Amazon FBA or other? Category?
shopify, fitness market
Founder News: Updates from early-stage startups and side-projects
EarlyStageblog.com/#news
I have built an online image resizer - https://imageresizer.online
SaaS boilerplate features as a JS snippet.
Integrate all the SaaS features (like billing and subscription management) in just one line of code.
https://unleak.io
Mobile multiplayer game: http://tapsquad.eu
https://getartemis.app, an open source project management tool with full API access, so you can hook a front end to the API and send and receive task data between them, like a headless CMS but for project management. Potentially, you could for example embed a status widget of various task completion stages with an integration into JIRA and your CI tool.
Data-driven tools to help software engineers waste less time and get more done. Specifically, we provide tools to help you automate your standups, your historical reporting and your code review.
https://intuition.app/
BackendLab: a service for building web app backends without writing code: https://www.backendlab.app
Neat! Also reassuring to see the export data freedom!
One thing I'm doing with my project is auto-generating client libraries for simple CRUD methods. Might be worth a thought :)
Heads up, mobile site is broken, Android Chrome 69
https://imgur.com/a/xnY5alT
Yeah it's not optimized for mobile yet. It's on my list...
Collecting and giving insights into what it costs to run a startup: http://www.startupcosts.co
Indexframe
A software that analyzes people's videos (using machine learning) and provides feedback to improve their communication skills.
Use cases include - interview prep, presentation prep, pitch practice etc.
https://www.indexframe.com
A service for sending 2-factor authentication and push notification over the messaging apps (chatbots). https://botdelive.com
A community of people who enjoy decorating spaces!
Link?
BetterBase: checklists and style guides for code - www.betterbase.io
https://kernl.us
Premium WordPress Plugin & Theme Updates, License Management, Analytics, and Feature Flags
Awesome initiative.
I am working with video (intermedia.video) and my side-project might be interesting for some hackers here: wecut.video, providing on video editing services, think of it as video editing as a service.
https://crammut.com/
A tool to create, keep track and complete learning paths.
Codeply
A tool for designers and frontend developers
This is pretty interesting. What's your intentions/goal for this project? - I like that you can click to build HTML, pretty slick.
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