What are you working on this month? (February 2018)

Writing this from a plane heading to Annual SaaStr in SF right now. 🙃

1. Working on a "solutions section" for the plainflow.com public site.

The idea is to expose some of best use cases doable with our workflows to give you an instant idea of how you can use the Plainfow for your product.

2. Working on my next essay on the blog.

3. Working on the transcript of my last 4 hours of customer interviews.

4. Refining our product and developers doc. plainflow.com/docs (live now 🎉)

I've spent wayyyyy too long building Letterfuel (https://letterfuel.com/).

It's a super-easy way to start a curated newsletter and publish issues frequently.

I made it available for anyone to use today and emailed the launch list. Next I'll be working on the landing page, getting feedback, and trying to find more people to who'll get some use out of it. My biggest goal for feb is to get closer to P product-market fit.

I'm working on Atlantida, which I launched this January, pushing a new issue every week. It's already at about 50 subscribers and growing.

Additionally, I've started working on a new project for this February: a wall art and prints store, based on generative and procedural designs. The idea is that every print that you order is completely unique in the world, since it's generated by an algorithm. I'm hoping to launch around next week or the week after that, if everything goes well.

I'm doing the 12 startups in 12 months challenge this year and I didn't launch what I had in mind Jan. 1st, however since I was pressed for time by the end of the month, I launched something else instead, a much, much smaller version of what I had in mind, outsidelist weekly: https://outsidelist.carrd.co.

Still working on driving traffic, which is what I'm focusing on this month, any advice on traction or audience building would be much appreciated.

This month, I'm picking up where I left off, I will launch a smaller, less ambitious version of outsidelist.com before the end of February! 🚀

I'm working on some varied but fun stuff in February.

First up is a new project called PostPerk.com - if you have a b2c ecommerce product (or know someone who does) then we can send out a custom deal email for you to 50k+ targeted Instagram micro-influencers. It's a quick and affordable way to reach lots of potential customers and test/build up relationships with influencers who can perform for your brand. I'm really lucky to be working with two other Indie Hackers (we met on the forum) on this, who both have significant experience in the space.

In other news, I'm also playing around with some rough ideas in the recruiting, personal training and sales tool fields. If you're an IH user who is interested in one of these fields, hit me up :)

I'm working to make February my Marketing Month! For me, spending time coding is fun, whereas spending time marketing and spreading the word often feels confusing and overly difficult. I know that I need to do that hard work in order to get in front of more potential customers, but it usually takes a back seat to development endeavors. So, this month I'm going to be devoting more time, energy, and money to marketing.

Picshareparty.com is an event picture gallery built by attendees through text message. No apps or installs are needed. Guests simply text pictures to the gallery’s private phone number and the gallery is instantly updated.

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I'm working on building a web application that takes CSV files and turns them into API endpoints. This is not an original idea or anything and I don't intend to do it to make money (that would be cool) but mostly it's to learn/solidify concepts in frameworks. I'm playing catch-up.

I'm a full stack LAMP developer but don't use any frameworks so I'm hoping to build this thing using technologies such as Nginx/Node/ReactJS/Laravel.

I'm already finding for example Node doesn't go with Laravel (both are back end technology). There's also that initial wall/hurdle to learning something new.

I'll probably build a working version of the app from the ground up as I'm capable of doing that now, then try to build it with the new tech (new to me).

I'm at the stage where I can build things but don't know what problems to solve/build that makes money.

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I'm working on a book!

End of last month I started telling people about https://www.reactjsvideos.com. A side project I made over the Christmas break to search over React.js conference videos, but took my time putting it out there. Always nervous about releasing sites to a developer audience.

This month the plan is to spend more time with friends, brainstorm and come up with something I can quickly test the market with.

I'm still working on Alchemist Camp. I failed in my goal of getting to 500 YT subscribers.

Here's what I did get done in January:

• Grew from 132 to 332 YT subs (150% growth)

• Launched a side project, for personal use, teaching content, and a back link: StatWatch.me

• Made 3 affiliate agreements with Elixir-related authors yet teachers, but none live yet

• Made a simple Stripe wrapper for Elixir since the ones linked to had "warning we're upgrading and changing allthethings!" messages on github

• Specced out an internal affiliate program using GrowSurf of IH regular, Kevin.

In February, my goals are:

• Launch premium offering ASAP, definitely before Chinese New Year

• Launch viral marketing campaign

• Get to 1,000 YouTube subscribers (~200% growth)

• Release at least 40 minutes of free video per week

on January 27th, I launched the MVP of my first project. This month I'm hoping to fix up the JSON bugs, add the alerts, and start styling it.

for 2018 I decided to make 12 apps in 12 months, and write a post telling the story behind the apps. I'm almost finish with my first one, sine I started on January 15, I still have 'till February 15, to sum it up, in my country (Venezuela) we have a parallel price for the USD, and the crypto currencies are getting very popular. Im creating as a side project,(putting 2 hours a night) a crypto-currency dashboard with the pararell USD price and ways where the people can calculate how much a USD is in local currency (paypal, wire transfers,etc) so they can convert them, get the info via twitter, whatsapp and telegram. a very simple app but useful in my country. It will have a couple more features but I'll tell the complete story in my blog when I launch the app.

http://schemaexplorer.io/ for exploring sql database schemas.

This month I worked so hard on a big refactor (after learning from people what might be useful) that I burned out hard, got the Flu and have been off-grid for a week straight :-(

Still failing to get anyone to say they'll pay for it so stuck unable to decide if my MVP is too minimal, if I'm just crap at explaining what it's for, if I'm just crap at reaching people, or whether it's a stupid idea with no business potential and I should just give up and rename it to a hobby project excuse for coding in GoLang instead of chilling with the family in front of netflix.

Can't decide whether to heed suggestions to put it in the azure cloud from my microsoft buddy, or keep it as desktop/server software for download.

Can't decide whether to add salesforce or SAP support as has been suggested, worried about diluting before I've even got the core thing proven.

Think I'm still shite at marketing basically, and web design which probably isn't helping. Sorry, bit of a vent there! I hope that's cool for this community, I'm new round here, just discovered and have been enjoying the podcast. Love hearing about everyone else's struggles, makes me feel more normal!

Hi, my name is WWWillems and I'm currently working on TeamHut (https://teamhut.co).

TeamHut makes it easy for freelancers and digital teams to organise their digital content.

My goals for February are (finally) finishing the folder sharing feature and introducing the web browser plugin.

Good luck everyone!

Starting in January, I started being disciplined about writing for a few hours every weekend (over at http://sighack.com/). The idea is to start building up a targeted audience for products I want to eventually build.

Hi! I'm working on a todo-list application that I actually use! It's called NiceyNicey (http://niceynicey.com/) and it has a couple cool features:

• Breaking big tasks down into smaller manageable tasks

• When you archive tasks, you get a report with your last 24 and next 24 for daily scrum updates

Next up is to really up my marketing game... but if anyone wants to try it out I would love feedback!

This month I'll be working on a couple little apps. One is https://awsmconsole.com/ an AWS S3 management console I built as an alternative to Amazon's. I'll be making small improvements to this app. Recently I started on a new (unnamed) app for managing images across your websites and projects. Still a long way to go, as I'm learning a new programming language (elm) as I build it. Wish me luck!

My brother and I are making a YouTube channel where we find, test, and post free no copyright music for others to use in their YouTube and Twitch videos.

https://youtu.be/HgYjHm1Xt3Y?t=57s

We have a couple hundred songs so far. If you have ever needed music for a video, check us out!

I'm building a platform for organising tech events. I've ran a few meetups in the past, and know quite a lot of organisers of them in my city, and a lot of them use Meetup but really don't like it.

I also have seem people lamenting about the way Lanyrd has gone downhill, so I'm currently picking some bits from the two of them.

I'm very specifically targeting developers in my city right now, as I can use my unfair advantage of going and talking to people in person to convince some more to signup and then expand from there.

Still very early days but already having people pestering me to signup, so fingers crossed.

On a potentially interesting sidenote, I was struggling with what to call the codebase, so I went to GitHub and let the new repository suggest a name for me

I'm building Trunk, inventory management syncing software for small businesses that sell on multiple platforms like Etsy & Shopify.

After about 6 months of development, launched my MVP in early January to a small early-access group. Initially it was a lot of bugs and things didn't work well. After a month of putting out fires, it's now working great and I've been getting lots of good feedback.

My goal is to convert one of my early-access group users to a paying customer by the end of the month.

https://www.trunkinventory.com

I've publish my side project that I have been working in the last couple of months.

https://remoteindex.io

it is a job aggregator that a part of get the jobs info also fetch relevant company informations like social medias, github, funding, and more up to come features.

The need for such a project is based in my own needs, I have been working as remote employee for some years now, I know we have a couple of job aggregators, but before to apply to any job I do like to know more about the company, and I used to go in github/twitter/facebook/linkedin/website/glassdoor to know more about the company, so I have deciced to try put together all these informations.

I was procastinating to publish because there is always a must to have feature that I would like to have before go live. But I endup going live yesterday, to start get some feedback, in the meanwhile I will be developing the features that I think are necessary before to publish in HN, PH, etc... (like a search)

Behind the scene the stack is: JS, node, pgsql, react, nextjs, redux, serverless, lambda

What I think I have done right:

• It's a project that solve my own need

• I did automation of deploy and monitoring of project from day 1, so it helped a lot during the process and now that is prod it is helping as well.

What I think I have done wrong:

• Took too much time to publish

• I'd like to have some charge feature from day 0, but in the end I didn't achieve this

Any feedback is welcome 💪

I'm working on webaccessibilitychecklist.com. It is a checklist to help developers create accessible websites and web apps.

Accessibility is something that is not "sexy" and is not often discussed, though it is very important. Having accessible websites allows better usability for all users.

Please take a look at the checklist and let me know if it makes sense or any critiques you may have. It is still very MVP but i'm looking to make it better in any way.

February looks like a very promising and motivating month for everydayCheck, the simple and beautiful habit tracker to help you work on your goals EVERY DAY.

Since the 30 day trial period for the New Years Resolutions campaign is now over, February started REALLY GOOD with subscriptions. Yesterday was an all time record of 22. If only the $ wasn't so weak against the € right now! ;D But what I am really happy about is to see that people really find value in the app, many write me with encouraging words!

Another good thing is that I have improved conversion rates from signup to subscribed of around 130%. I'm really working on that. I decided I'd do little marketing for the first trimester of the year so that I can focus on improving the product, especially engagement, of which the main task is to release a mobile application. I have really been struggling with it and I still have some major doubts on how to pull it out when it comes to mobile app marketing, auth system that works well with the web app, payment system... Mobile and web are two really separate worlds. I'm sure I'll ask you guys about it here on IH soon.

So a little list:

• redesign for EDC v2

• mobile app beta

• engagement and first UX

• public boards

• optimize load times

Just remember to do a little bit EVERY DAY guys, it really pays off.

Hey everyone!

I'm working on promoting https://Guideblocks.com, our latest SaaS solution for user onboarding and integrated help center.

We've managed to get initial traction, already iterated several times on public web and product features and are moving forward.

Nino

Hi everyone,

I'm currently working on writing programming tutorials, which I publish on my blog https://flaviocopes.com and on Medium.

I have two ebooks which I sell exclusively on the blog right now, and I'm happy with the results so far!

This month I'll work on growing my Medium/Twitter following, on curating my email list and on publishing at least one article a day.

Last month I've soft-launched FilePond, a JavaScript file transform and upload plugin. At the end of January I finished up core features like image previews, client-side cropping and resizing.

https://pqina.nl/filepond

I'm really, really, really bad at writing marketing texts so this month I'll try to learn more about that and improve the website copy (why use FilePond over other open source alternatives, why to ​buy FilePond at all, etc.).

Hoping to officially launch by the end of the month. 🚀

I'm working on neelkadia.com/whereareyou open source project.

• Making Alexa Skills

• Integration what3words platform

Checkout github repo for the same @ https://github.com/neelkadia/WhereAreYou

is my first week of Feb goals. :)

I'm working on Noto57, a line of cute, funny and beautiful clothing and homeware designs.

I started learning how to create vector graphics some months ago and, combined with my love for Google's Noto Nougat emoji set (now replaced by a mess of a set), I decided to create collages and original compositions containing those emojis and put them up for sale.

It's a great learning experience for me, plus I get to release something.

It's my first non-coding side-project, too. :)

Hey everyone!

I've been working on the infrastructure for ipdata.co over the last few months, this is after losing clients due to multiple outages during Black Friday. I'm finally at a point where I'm comfortable with my code base and infrastructure and have little that is mission-critical left to work on.

My goal this February is to tackle the most clueless part of all this for me..acquiring users. I'll write articles, pitch articles, write tech guides and tutorials, write tools and small snippets for users, try and get featured on TC, everything that I can think of to do to grow by 100 paying users.

I'm also going to look at bringing netflix like vpn and proxy detection to the ipdata API.

Working on my first startup - DM Faridabad (digitalmarketingfaridabad.com). My goal is to help Entrepreneurs and Business Owners to leverage the power of the Internet in an Affordable and Effective way!

Hi everyone! I’m an entrepreneur in Chicago. I recently launched The #Bizamo project where I’m attempting to validate one startup business idea per month for the whole year (read about it on Medium here: http://bit.ly/bizamoproject_1 )! Today I launched Whoopla to help Chicagoans save time on planning fun outings with friends :) bizamo.co/whoopla . Would love feedback! You can always email me at lindsay@bizamo.co :) Cheers!

We have been working on our first offering - Laravel Factory

It's for the Laravel developers and saves hours of work while "Setting up" a new Laravel project.

https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/marketing-guidance-for-our-first-saas-like-offering-cd729c70af

Hey everybody! I'm working on an iOS app that uses a network filter to block access to addictive social media feeds outside of specified times. Think of the Hacker News "noprocrast" setting for the entire web. I've found the alpha version super useful for myself, and I'm excited to get it published soon on the app store!

Mido here, I'm working on a major update for my app http://Foodzilla.app.link

I've been working to release an update once a week because I noticed the App Store tends to show apps that update frequently.

The main features I'm working on are:

1. UI redesign to follow iOS design concepts more closely.

2. Scanning of nutrition labels using OCR to make logging packaged items/meals easy.

3. Finish setting up a blog and populate it with initial content.

I'd love some feedback if anyone is generous enough to do so :)

http://Foodzilla.app.link

P.S: currently the app is only available on iOS.

This month I will be working on adding some new features and gathering more feedback for my startup, 🚀ConnSuite

🔗https://www.connsuite.com/razgraf (my profile)

ConnSuite is an online approach to the classic paper business card and can help you store all the links to your social accounts & networks🛰️ and all the important data about you, in one single place. Would really appreciate some feedback from you guys on how to improve it!

I'm going to be working on a few projects -- some fun additions to News Refinery to allow people to customize their own newsletters, and I'm also writing some non-fiction science shorts and creating a new book review site to complement my science fiction magazine!

Hi All! I'm working on building Instagram scheduling into Cloud Campaign.

They exposed a new API allowing native posting last week, so working on getting that out quickly!

My biggest goal for February is to onboard 20 new customers.

I'm currently working on moving madewithreactnative.com to a keystone.js backed site. Right now it's a ghost blog with some custom hacky handlebars helpers. Moving it over to keystone.js will give me a lot more control.

Next on the agenda is adding:

-resources

-a forum where people can ask and answer questions

-a newsletter

Hope I can get all this done by the end of february!

I'm working on a scratch-my-own-itch project right now to find Online Arbitrage items discounted on sites (Walmart, Target etc) that can be resold on Amazon. There are a few out there already but they cost too much for the entry-level person so I think I can carve out a little spot for myself.

Will probably be digging into FB Ads by myself.

Used a freelancer for a while, but not happy with the results and the costs of depending on another person for it outweigh the opportunity for me to learn and be independent + less costs, which is always good 😊

I actually published a public Product Roadmap for BigMailer.io (https://www.bigmailer.io/whats-new-and-product-roadmap/) page to keep a commitment on record :-)

Big plans this month:

1. Add API documentation, using beautiful ReadMe.io

2. Add hosted images and upgrade email template editing UI with template selection and pre-coded modules

3. Enable promo codes, so I can post one for IH community instead of manually adding them in Stripe based on customer inquires

I'm working on some affiliate sites and Spreat - a newsletter for makers (https://www.getrevue.co/profile/spreat) ... the first issue will be out tomorrow :)

This month I've switched back my focus on Nucleus (https://nucleus.sh), an analytics and licensing platform (SaaS) for Electron apps I started a few months ago.

I've had a few sign-ups but only one paying user.

After working a while on the 'tech' side I'm cold emailing potential clients but without significant results except some feedback.

Now I don't know if I should keep improving the product or focus on bringing users and wait for confirmation (more sales).

If anyone was in the same boat (or has feedback) please let me know 🙏

Working on the next big version of Web Maker (http://webmakerapp.com/) - v3.0! It will be a whole new experience with several enhancements and limitations removed. Ask for a preview invite on twitter -> https://twitter.com/webmakerapp

Hey all! Relatively new to IH and eager to join the conversation and talk about what I'm working on. I didn't really understand Channing's reference to another thread for new user intros, so please excuse if I'm off base posting here.

I've got two related projects that I am working on full time and hope to make some major progress in February.

The first project is a SaaS still in the research phase called Two Factor Buddy (2FB). 2FB is a two factor authentication (2FA) manager that helps keep users secure, productive, and informed while logging into their third party web services. The Chrome/FF browser extension helps prevent users from falling victim to phishing attacks, automates the entry of 2FA codes during the login flow (no more manual entry!), and notifies users which of their third party services actually offer 2FA so that they can enable it.

Goal for 2FB for February:

1. Drastically improve the website with educational information about the problem that 2FB is solving. Right now, the site is... sparse.

2. Have 5+ conversations with potential customers to make sure I am building something that people want.

The second project is called All Things Auth (ATA). ATA is a community and collection of resources to help service providers and end-users work together to solve authentication ("who are you?") and authorization ("what are you allowed to do?") challenges online. 2FB is solving a specific authentication problem which is a subset of the much larger topic of auth. I started ATA to have somewhere that I can write about the bigger picture and also cross promote 2FB in the process (where appropriate). ATA currently has a blog with a few published posts and many more in the pipeline. It also has a screencast that I am co-hosting with a buddy where we do a teardown of a new third party service each episode reviewing their security UX. Down the road, I would love to also launch a podcast to interview some of the huge number of people working on interesting challenges in the auth space, but I have zero time to fit that in right now.

Goals for ATA for February:

1. Release the first episode of the screencast, featuring Zapier.

2. Write and release the companion blog post series to the Zapier episode that will include much more information than we could fit into a single screencast.

3. Write a series of blog posts on multi factor authentication (MFA) in preparation for a talk that I will be giving in March at SecureWorld Philly.

I would seriously love any and all feedback so that I can improve the value of content on ATA and move 2FB in the right direction. I'm always happy to chat, so don't hesitate to reply and/or reach out directly!

My goal for February is to get my AWS Lambda (aka. serverless) monitoring tool to a public format. I've done a few PoC's, so now I just need to get the basic/minimum features in to a version that's usable.

I threw a landing page together, but it's pretty light on details: http://dashboardless.com/

If anyone else out there is using serverless for their stack, let's connect! Especially if you're interested in trying out a monitoring/visualisation tool for your serverless application... 😀

Hi Channing & Indie Hackers, I'm working on https://gitpitch.com and I've just launched a public beta for GitPitch Pro which is my first step turning a 20+ month side project into a SaaS business.

GitPitch is a markdown presentation service on Git. You can create public, private, and password-protected slideshow presentations using just Markdown and Git.

If you use GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket you should check it out. Any and all feedback on the website or service very welcome.

Still working on Wings Flight Club - previously posted about it here.

Hit big milestone in January - our first paid customer! We also launched in LA and soon SF which is exciting. Big goal for this month is getting more focused on marketing. Spent most of January on product and getting paid setup, but now that it's out of the way I'm excited to start spending most of my time on trying to get people to use it.

Another big goal is getting more feedback from users - we started offering free months for anyone whose willing to talk to us on the phone about their experience which has been helpful to get a more qualitative feel of people's perceptions of the app / our pricing etc. Alongside that we're about to start sending out NPS surveys to new users after 14 days to provide a more quantitative metric we can benchmark our selves on going forward.

Something we're struggling with is how to introduce a free version of the product. Most of our early customers will have their free trial period end this month, so we're thinking of ways to keep them engaged with a free version of what we offer. Finding the right level of value to provide in the free version is tricky.

Love what's going on in the Indie Hackers forum, would like to participant more in the community this month.

Hey there 👋, great question, right time. I've been following Indie Hacker for couple months now (newsletter is awesome) and decided to reply to this thread.

🛠 👨‍💻 Me and my two friends started working on meetemu.com - the simple app which allows you to connect with people you've met recently with just one click. We've managed to launch landing page with demonstration of its basic functionality.

🚀 I am really excited with what's coming and I'm planning to post a bit more about our idea pretty soon. :)

Working on shipping an open beta of TrapFi.com this month. I'd love any feedback on the concept!

Hello Stevo here! I am working on a patient check-in application for medical practices. I have the appointment check-in form, annual wellness form and the medical history forms coded. The app works with one EMR provider only atm. So far only loading data into the app so that the user doesn't have to fill in the same personal info over and over again for every doctor visit.

I have to diagram the solution for approval with the EMR partner and code the POSTing of the check-in form. After that I will release in one practice for testing. Fingers crossed.

I NEED HELP WITH DESIGN! If there are designers here that might have some scrap UI laying around for medical forms.... please let me know.

Thanks!

I'm working on several products helping myself and my friends. However, I'm currently building a crypto community revolving around referrals and I have a basic product out since December. My biggest goal for this month is to revamp and rebuild the product so it's built as a modern web look and feel. If anyone is interested, I'm happy to share.

VisaOk.io

a visa sponsored jobs board

for the entire world :)

February is going to be 100% devoted to consuming and practicing some basic coding skills.

After the amazing response on my thread earlier this week, I got some amazing feedback and defined some clear objectives and a path to get there.

I've decided that I want to learn to develop, and thanks to this community, I'm going to learn HTML, CSS, and Javascript this month with a variety of articles, youtube playlists and tutorials, and Udemy courses.

I'm going to stop thinking about the products I want to build for a sec and actually start working on how to build them. So this month is devoted to learning development.

Big v7.0 update to Strides, and hopefully launching a new app, SummitDayPlanner.com!

Working on Data Hackers - , a Brazilian data community, with focus on helping professionals to change their careers, spreading knowledge about Data Engineering, Analytics, and Data Science disciplines and best practices.

For now, we have a newsletter which we choose the most relevant news and posts about data with more than 1.1k subscribers. We are planning to launch the forum this month.

Whatup! I partnered up with a lawyer to allow people to build will and testament documents for free. It takes 8 minutes and can be doing on your phone. It's Canada only for now and we're launching next week!

Feedback welcome! http://www.willowbee.ca

I'm working on launching www.actioned.com soon.

It's an app to help individuals and teams work more productively together. It's based on the simple idea of;

• planning your day deliberately

• checking off what you actually get completed

• making that information transparent across your team to give some accountability

Think of iDoneThis meets Trello. Currently looking for Beta users if anyone is interested.

Also keen for feedback on the website :)

February is shaping up to be focused on two things– getting cozy with the early users, and getting cozier with industry influencers.

Guestboard.co is a forum-based messaging platform that allows wedding guests to interact before a wedding. They can coordinate transportation, post flight deals, privately plan bachelorette parties, etc.

With the earliest stage of development ready in a few days, we're about to "open the doors" to a select group of engaged couples on the list, so I'm nervous and excited.

The other half of my time will continue to be spent getting in front of wedding planners and influencers in the industry, which is where the bulk of our go-to-market strategy lies.

This month I am planning to launch my side project SIGBUILD.

SIGBUILD is a simple plugin for different programming IDEs which notifies you when a build terminates. It also aggregates and visualizes statistics of past builds.

I created it because when working on big projects building can take a long time. Having something that notifies you when a build is done allows you to do whatever you want in the meanwhile without having to check the IDE every 10 seconds.

I started an initial closed beta (few friends and colleagues) this week.

In the following weeks I am planning to:

• test 2 or 3 landing pages

• extend the closed beta to other people

• collect feedback and plan new features

• create the website

• launch

It doesn't help that February has only 28 days, but I hope I will manage to do everything in that list.

In January, I finished the website for my consulting practice (www.betterproduct.co)

In February, I'm launching Enscope (www.enscope.io), a SaaS for guiding founders and product teams through the start of a new project (or new phase of an existing project.)

I'm also starting to talk to potential sponsors and partners for a bananas idea I have (mvplabs.io) to help unfunded, non-technical founders think about and build their MVPs.

I'm working on https://www.atlaseasy.com, it's travel search for people who aren't so set on a destination but still need to budget. I'm the target user and I really just built it to scratch an itch.

This month I'll be focusing properly on traction, I think this kind of product might be a difficult one to get regular users with but I'm going to give it my all throughout February.

https://signl.uk and trying to improve growth and user contribution but its hard

Still working on my Rad Dad Podcast. It's surprisingly demanding to crate a good sounding podcast that is interesting to listen to, but my guests are making it really easy - they are all fairly different and all have something to bring to the table.

The goal for this month is to get to 1,000 subscribers. I've hit 1,000 downloads in the first month, and I am pretty sure not all of those were my mom, so I am excited. Ideally I'd get a few relevant advertisers as well. Money has never hurt anyone.

Got tips and tricks for growing your audience? I am all ears!

Are you a Rad Dad ? Send me a message on the site and let's connect, I'd love to feature your story!

I am still working on WhatIDoNow after clocking 164 hours. Though I enjoy using it to keep track of my project updates, a few potential users haven't really adopted the flow yet.

• Probably need to email them and find out more why they didn't continue

• Maybe blog about my experience in using my own product

The next thing I probably like to work on is "project todo + time tracking", something I use daily. Product like Trello is nice but it lack one critical feature which is time tracking, and third party plugins isn't very nice. As a solo indie, I like to keep track of time spent with good reporting. I am interested to find out if others have similar interest in such product, will post a design draft soon to ask for feedback.

Working on adding additional traffic to Sendovernightmail.com!!

Hi Indie Hackers,

This month I'm planning to restart the work on one of my side-projects (https://www.iosapptemplates.com). I'll be writing a couple of open-source projects for iOS, in Swift (mostly around e-commerce and woocommerce apps). Hopefully I'll find the energy to code even more, after coding at work the whole day, haha :)

I've started working on an MVP for something I'm calling Impulsieve atm. Basically, it's a way of tracking your impulses/urges/cravings throughout the day. Based loosely around the mindfulness idea of acknowledging your cravings but not caving to them, I just wanna get a better picture of what my mental day looks like. Lots of far off features in mind but the MVP is just some simple counters and a very basic visualisation of the daily data. Tried to keep it lean as I'm pretty bad at sticking with stuff, hence the app lol. Also using this to learn Android.

Hey there,

I am working on polecat.io -- A service that allows you to easily expose services on your laptop/computer or within a private network using SSH. It's also designed with companies in mind - I am offering the ability to whitelabel / host your own version of the code in order to allow your users to expose their private services to your applications without the data going through a third party.

Recently I have been revamping the landing page to try to say what the product is. My goal this month is to launch it more widely - product hunt / hacker news / etc.

A friend and I are building Fold Beacon - super simple way to inject advanced email analytics into any html email.

1 Upload your template (or select it from Mailchimp, Constant Contact, etc.)

2. click on every interaction you want to track

3. download your template, but now with tracking added.

4. Go to your dashboard to compare different versions of emails, see how you're doing, etc.

User filled out 3/4 of your form then stopped?

User hovered your hero image?

User clicked a link to an external site (e.g. social media)

Duration user stayed below/above the fold?

Here's a short gif to give you a better idea of how it works!

http://www.giphy.com/gifs/l4pTr76K5iE9a6AO4

Hi! I've been working on HV Talentbase (hvtalentbase.com) for a few months, and this month I'm focusing on getting the word out and getting more users.

Talentbase is an online creative community for my part of the world, the Hudson Valley corridor that stretches between NYC and Albany. There's a huge creative scene here, but it's hard to find for those who aren't "in the know," so I'm building a network to make it easier for people to find interesting people and interesting projects nearby.

Anyone with a local zip code can create a profile, upload stuff they're working on, and find collaborators. I've even heard of a few freelancers getting job offers already.

It's had some interest from local economic development organizations already, and I'm eager to see what happens next. It all hinges on getting lots of creatives onboard, and making sure it doesn't just bounce around the local tech scene.

I'm working on Forte Chat, a market place for experts and enthusiasts to sell help and advice over video chat. It handles payment processing, scheduling, and video chat all on the site for you.

It's still in development and I'm a bad indie hacker so I've done roughly zero promotion and haven't even put up a landing page for it, but if you'd like to check out it's current state you can go to dev.forte.chat. Heads up, it could be potentially broken at any time since that's a dev server and not by any means a live product.

It's built in elixir and I'm using Phoenix for the web stuff. Webrtc for video chat and potentially more later, no real front end framework at the moment, maybe later. I chose this project to learn elixir and it's been a blast, so even if it never makes a dollar I'm happy.

I'm looking to get an explainer video done and I'm currently rethinking the browse by category way of doing things, since it's hard to have a pre defined set of categories and sub categories that works for everyone.