What are you working on this month? (March 2018)
It's already March! And with every new month comes a new chance to talk about what you're working on and meet your fellow maker. 😉 Here's what you should do to join the discussion:
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First, respond to someone else who's commented, just to say hello or leave them some feedback!
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Next, leave your own comment describing what you're working on (or aspiring to work on), and your biggest goal for March.
That's it! Can't wait to hear from everyone and see what you're working on!
Robin here.
February 2018 was the craziest month of my life in terms of business. We made $50k in revenue for Manypixels (https://www.manypixels.co) -- the month before we were around $15k MRR. We got featured on Product Hunt but also got on the first page of HN which gave us 200 customers in two weeks. Sounds super cheesy but we were smooth sailing and we had to build a speedboat overnight.
This is my focus for March 2018: Focus less on growth but make sure all customers are happy and that our service delivery / project management is perfect.
My goal for March 2018: Being able to handle all customer inquiries within less than 12 hours by the end of the month.
🙆♀️ 🙌When are you signing up to do an Indie Hackers interview??
Done!
Replies to interview questions sent!
So speedy!
Wow, must be hard to keep up with all of that.
Looking forward to trying Manypixels this month. Your service seems really promising and I really appreciated your kind message on Twitter DMs ;)
That's awesome, @Vinrob - well done!
Want to share any insights on churn and how you scaled to handle that demand so fast with a service product?
I will make a post but honestly it was just an excel spreadsheet + Front (Emails) + Skype (for our designers) + Slack (Clients) + Typeform (Get client brief) + Wetransfer (to share larger deliverables with clients). It was a Frankenstein solution to be honest!
We are now using only one tool: JarHQ to handle all requests and all production managers / designers / clients communicate there.
We just started today so customers are still experiencing some delays but the quality is still super high!
Churn: I do not know it yet since it has been a few months only but will create a live public dashboard with all our metrics (with live data pulled from Stripe and other sources).
Wooow, congrats @Vinrob ! Hard work pays off!
Rooting for Manypixels 👍!
Thanks, Julian!
@Vinrob that is awesome, congratulations. I'm a newb what does HN stand for?
Wow, awesome. Nice goals there! :)
@Vinrob ManyPixels looks awesome. Nice work!
I was curious if you could elaborate on the "struggle" of dealing with customer demands on your designs? In particular, given the "unlimited design requests" nature of your plans, do you end up getting really hammered by some clients?
I'm thinking about adding a similar service to my new site https://chad.thiele.com -- where I would turn member's photos into my style of artwork for them -- for a monthly fee.
Is there any limits you set to prevent some clients from stealing all your resources?
I could probably come up with a million questions for you. I better stop here. :)
Thanks in advance!
we signed up after your interview here on IH, like the service so far, but after the Product Hunt launch we saw delays with getting results. Hope you sort out things and keep up with increased demand. :)
Checking this today!
Very well done and i kinda like your goal setting .. good luck
Looks awesome. I will be trying you out.
Im seeing lot of unhappy customers in product hunt, pleople that paid and they had no response in weeks, i see your overhead, but what do you plan to do?
Hey Fabrizio! After our PH launch we had to deal with about 1000 emails per day. I had planned well enough designers to handle the tasks (about 2 to 3 tasks per client per week) but what caused delays was us answering thousands of emails relating to questions or to a brief that was incomplete, etc etc. This has now changed since we have moved to JarHQ which is a creative production management tool which will speed up things considerably :) We have learned from it, built a better system and still produce high quality designs.
Awesome! I may have to try out your service with one of my new projects.
Congrats Robin.
Glad to see your hard work getting you results.
jz
Congratulations!
Félicitations ! Great service I'd like to test with my current company.
Hello Robin, congratz on the achievement, I hope to be as successful as you one day.
This is just so awesome to hear! And yes! Cater to those customers!!! Nurture them! Having brand loyalty is just as important as growth for any company!
Wow, this is insane, $259 for custom design work? Incredible. I'm not surprised that you're hitting $50k/mo!
Seriously, great job on this!
@Vinrob Wow! Really nice. Seems that Customer Service is something that became a happy problem when you are getting such good response from the customers/potential customers. Congrats and hopefully you will reach your march goals.
Hey Congrats! Keep the spirits up! All the best.
That's impressive Robin, good luck!
Congrats! How are you handling inquiries? Do you use email, or a tool like front?
Email (Front)!
It goes like this:
Customer pays on website.
Gets an introduction email from our project manager (Hey, I am X, feel free to ask me questions about X, Y, Z)
Gets invited to Jar (production management tool for creative agencies)
Submits request(s) -- requests are assigned to designers
We do the work -- and submit deliverables ASAP to clients
Our competitor use it (and actually build it for themselves), so I guessed it was the best way to handle the service delivery: Look at what your competitors do and kind of do what seems to work with them, and improve after if necessary :)
I guess you’re a bit busy now with the new sign ups - I signed up last week and replied to the intro email Monday but im yet to hear back. How long does it usually take?
That's very inspiring. Congrats.
Thanks!
I'm bringing back the IH podcast this month, after a hiatus that went much longer than I initially planned.
I've also got tons of code to write. Some big things I'd like to get to:
open up product pages so all of you can create one
make it so following people and products actually does something
add a Q&A feature, so you can ask each other whatever you want, and see what other people are asking
I'm particularly excited about the Q&A stuff! It should be super helpful to be able to filter to find the exact companies you want to learn from, then ask the founders a question. And it should help me out with SEO, too, which so far I've been horrible at with IH.
Hi Courtland,
The Q&A feature sounds really fun and valuable. Can't wait to check it out.
I have only recently started using IH and I'm enjoying the community here. You have done such a great job. Thanks for creating IH.
@csallen I've listened to the @levelsio podcast like 3 times already. So much awesome knowledge that I'm trying to implement into BotList.
@csallen I just listend to podcast #001. It was absolutely fantastic. I'm an old (59 on March 23rd) desktop programmer dinosaur and I love the enthusiasm you and Grishkoff bring. You are setting an incredible example. Keep it up! 👏👍
Thank you! I'm always embarrassed about the early episodes.
Need any help? Id be willing to invest some of my engineering time.
I'm looking forward to the Q&A feature as well! Just starting a new product and I am excited to have a community to learn from and to share what I learn.
Haven't seen the QA feature. Stoked about that one.
Really missing the IH podcast, I check every day for a new episode! Looking forward to listening to the next one 🙌
You can stop checking and just wait until next week :-D
Hey,
After a year, I finally began to work on a version 2 of https://notepin.co and I'm hoping to launch next week on Product Hunt.
My goal for March is to reach $100 in ARR 🙌
Love the minimalism and simplicity of the design, great job.
Are you storing the edits users are making to their notes? I bet you could use that data to make some really interesting insights and perhaps monetize it once you have enough volume.
Hi Ryan,
Thanks a lot! :)
I don't store edits made to notes as I aim to only keep just what is needed to get the platform running.
As for monetisation, this all comes through the optional Upgrade that users can go through to gain additional features for their notebook. It currently generates a small amount of revenue though I am to switch to a yearly fee and offer a lot more features.
That is pretty nice. I like the elegance and simplicity of it.
YES! You are right, but really the best detail was the ambiental sound. Was FANTASTIC when I click the headphones and sound the water falling.
Thank you! 😀
Great product. I have been looking for something like this to take detailed notes and notepin looks very promising. It would be nice to have the note name/id box move up a little bit, it took me a bit to click on the check mark. Hope this helps. Good luck!
Thank you! I will definitely try and make it more clear. Thanks for checking out the product :)
Hi Oz, you might want to change the font to something like Open Sans - checkout fonts that are more readable on the net, also increase the font size slightly maybe to about 14 depending on the font you choose.
Also maybe the default notes could be shorter and the demarcation between 2 notes can be clearer?
Lastly like Brian mentioned, perhaps the form where you set your note name/id can be at the top and be explicit or maybe it can be generated automatically from the title the user enters?
Good luck with your PH post! :)
Awesome! I've gone back to traditional pen and paper for note taking. While I love services like Notepin, pen and paper is much easier for me to use when I need to take notes or write down an idea.
Same here
This is really brilliant! From the on-boarding down to the small details like ambient sounds -- there are at least 3 LittleBigDetails I spotted!
Other than the PH launch I think that you should also target platforms such as Reddit. I think that one use-case Notepin has is facilitating Penpals. Another use-case is collaborative story-writing. I think that Reddit would allow you to successfully target people interested in those use-cases.
The one problem I had is that when I go to delete my notebook it stays on the screen with the 'hold on' text but never deletes my notebook.
Hey @ato26, will definitely explore those areas, thank you! :D
As for the bug, thanks for pointing it out, will look into it! 🙌
You will achieve the 100$ @Oz I'm sure :D
Thanks a lot! 🙌 @kik_e
Hey! Love the idea. Will be a user.. Only suggestion - is maybe you could reduce the amount of text in the beginning. Arjun
Thanks Arjun! :) - Will look into this
Your page looks very clean and nice, I like it a lot.
I checked Notepin on Producthunt and it says your product was #1 Product of the day - amazing. I wonder if PH allows featured products to become featured again. Can you still get featured? Good luck!
Hey Rashid,
Thank you!
You're allowed to re-launch on Product Hunt providing that the new update to your service is significant. The link I shared is actually for V1 of Notepin though I am aiming have a V2 ready for next week.
Ooh I love the simplicity and the water sound is mindblowing! Dont know if I'll be using it more but I love the concept.
Thank you! :) @SN
Very cool product. How are you planning on making money with it?
Hey George,
Glad you like the product!
What you see is actually the old version of Notepin which charges a one-time fee of $11 (was previously $5) in return for additional features such as Password Protection and Themes.
This currently generates a small amount of revenue but I plan to switch to a yearly fee in exchange for a lot more features.
@Oz if you gonna make an mobile apps this would work pretty well, because it's very straight forward. Also try to use imgur for images, they have API, and they like to collaborate with small startups.
Pretty interesting! Might use it myself.
Thank you! Glad to hear that :)
Heya Oz, could I suggest you tweak the onboarding a bit? It's unclear what's supposed to happen after I click "Get Started".
Hey Brian, will definitely address this, thank you!
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Sukhada here,
I'm working on Knowledge Trybe https://knowledgetrybe.com/ it's a place to read and share intellectually stimulating articles. My focus is on introducing comments.
Looks kind of like hackernews for science/learning? I like the idea!
You'll definitely need a voting system on your site, sure the UI will be like all the other link sites but those are about the content, not the UI.
I gotta admit, I don't like the name much, it's too complicated.
Thanks for your feedback Felix. That helps a lot. It is like HN for science/learning and I'm working on a voting system and comments, will introduce it soon. Any recommendation for a name?
How is knowledge trybe different to, say, reddit?
The focus at Knowledge Trybe is on psychology, history, neuroscience, creativity, culture, biology, and learning. The articles tend to be detailed and something that users can learn from. Let me know if you have any feedback on improving Knowledge Trybe.
This is cool but voting would definitely be helpful in sorting out what people have found interesting. However, it would be cool to have a non-vote driven place to see what people find interesting without being influenced/prompted by what other people think.
If you go the no-vote route, then you'd have info of what people find interesting based on outbound clicks. Based on these clicks, I think sending out a weekly newsletter (or setting up a weekly column on the website) would be a good way to showcase the top stories ppl found interesting.
Thanks for your feedback 😀Great idea on sending out a weekly newsletter or setting up a column. I have been thinking about the newsletter for a while now. I will taken in all your feedback and work on it. Thank you so much!
Your user base seems to be people that want longform and carefully-considered content.
What are you doing to cater to that?
Hi Ben, thanks for your question. I'm moderating the site to make sure relevant content is visible to the users.
I personally submit articles that are interesting and relevant along with a few other users. I'm hoping to add moderators as the site grows and hope that helps with the curation.
Let me know if you have any feedback on how I can improve Knowledge Trybe. Thanks.
Hey this sound interesting. .. Keep it up. I'll check it out and let you know what I think. :)
Thanks SN 😀 Look forward to your feedback.
how you intend to monetize?
Heyyyyyy I like it very much. If you can reduce the space between articles, it would be great. We could see about 10 articles at a glance :D
Thanks for your feedback. I reduced the space between the articles a little, will experiment and see how it goes. Thanks!
To you, Good Luck!
Channing here!
Last month was busy: among many other things, we hosted a number of AMAs with amazing makers and shipped a new product directory.
This month we'll keep going. One big goal — though I won't put a hard date on it — will be to open up the product pages to everyone in the community.
Looking forward to the product page changes!
By the way, great work on the timeline UI for those, super intuitive and fluent experience when updating and adding events on it. Also the icon selection UI is 11/10 👍
Keep it up @channingallen stay focus in your objective!
I am really looking forward to see the product page! Will it be possible to also follow products to receive updates on them / special offers?
Random question on a random thread, but how easy/hard is it to fined apartment space in San Francisco /LA, assuming that's where youare.
Been 6 months in dev, but super eager to properly launch Fluxguard maybe next week? It monitors and alerts design and code changes on Web sites/apps. Think uptime monitor, but we add context/design change monitoring, too.
I had hoped to launch earlier, but I got some early beta-testers, and DynamoDB is just killing me. So difficult to work with. It all seems fine, but it's tricky to scale. At least for me.
It's to the point where I am thinking of a late-in-the-game swap from Dynamo to Aurora/MySQL. Sigh.
Here are reasons why I would advise against DynamoDB for new projects:
No joins. Knew this going in, but it's a real time killer as you effectively have to do the "joins" in code.
DAX is a caching layer for Dynamo. But it requires VPC (virtual private cloud). So if you're using AWS Lambda like me, it means you have to move your Lambda functions into VPC, and this introduces a massive headache with EIN management.
Dynamo has a unique pricing structure. They charge by read/write workers. This is fine in theory, but it means re-thinking your whole approach to common DB design. If you go over threshold, you will be rate-limited. So let's say someone deletes 100 items. Simple in MySQL. In Dynamo, that's 100 discrete "writes" which requires 100 workers. But they will be sitting inactive for most of the time... but you have to account for that 100 delete at once or else you will error out. OR... as we are probably going to do, you need to rearchitect deletes to use SQS or something else.
Dynamo has auto-scaling, but, as they state, it's only for "predictable" load increases. It can't handle spikes of activity, like the delete I mentioned. So it's more or less not useful.
Want a database backup? Get ready to write your own custom Data Pipeline to spin up a Hadoop cluster. Or to manually login and do it from console. Or to write a Lambda function to make AWS CLI calls. (I did both 1 and 3.)
I am using CloudFormation, and DynamoDB and CF don't play nicely together. You can't easily add auto-scaling via CF, so I did it manually. But then when you re-deploy a CF template, guess what? Well, you will get in a weird state that will take 12+ hours to resolve before it rolls back.
Probably a bunch more stuff once I am fully in PROD.
/Rant. As you can tell, I'm still deep on dev mode.
When you say properly launch, what do you mean? It looks like you could solve real problems with this, especially if it's actually usable.
EDIT: I noticed on your pricing page you refer to credits, and you state that 1 page = 1 credit. Why not just say pages instead? For example, up to 75 pages = $0 / month, 1,000 pages = $25 / month. I'm assuming that 75 pages means that's a monthly limit, right?
Also, I would suggest looking at reducing the number of payment plans. If you're serious about testing the market for this, just stick with 1 or 2 plans to start with and then see how people are using the product. They might not even go above 10,000 pages a month. So you can save yourself a lot of work by just testing it first.
Think about simplifying the plan names, as they're cool but not necessarily that clear. Hit me up with any questions or show me the updated version! :)
Thanks very much for the feedback.
Properly launch means ... when all the bugs are ironed out enough to let a larger group see it. There are still a few key things to fix. But we're close.
As for credits vs pages, that's a good suggestion, and would make sense right now. However, we may ultimately charge more credits for additional actions on the same page. For example, we allow monitoring of single-page apps: and right now conceivably you could monitor an entire app with clicks/etc but just be charged 1 credit. We likely will change it so that clicks on a page that result in a view change (but not necessarily a URL change) will cost another credit.
Yeah, we had a lot of debate with the names and pricing. As you note, the names are kinda cool... all scopes. But they don't particularly convey much meaning (beyond "examining things"), or help customers self-select into a particular plan.
Send an email to me, or msg on Intercom on the site and we will send you an invite code! Would love a few more beta-testers poking around!
(Anyone else reading this... also feel free to reach out for an invite code.)
If the bugs are so that most people will not see them, don't worry too much. Get the product in front of users and see what they think.
In terms of credits, it's fine if in future you might change it, but right now it works nicely as pages :) when you make the change later on, grandfather your existing customers (or provide a limited time extension). But you never know, you might decide to go another way with different features. So only solve the problems you have now :)
Happy to beta test and will ping you! Best of luck :)
I'm working on my ecommerce arbitrage software, Dojo Arbitrage. Planning to reach MVP this month. Will post a link once I have MVP.
Here's an example of the products the software finds:
Product on Amazon: $54.90 https://www.amazon.com/ueFone-Button-Senior-Unlocked-Phone/dp/B01NCOBD8H/
Product on Ebay: avg sales price $89 https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=97855123152&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.X769471827751.TRS0&_nkw=769471827751&_sacat=0
If you'd buy on Amazon and resell on ebay, you'd make good money:
The net proceeds from selling on ebay at $89 would be $72.09 (81%, I recommend deducting 19% for fees and sales taxes)
The net profit is $72..09 - $54.90 = $17.19
The ROI is $17.19 / $54.90 = 31.3%
ROI of 31% is unheard of in retail. Just saying... ;)
Have you thought about connecting it to Alibaba/ Aliexpress? You normally get better margins from those sites.
Yes, that is planned. After MVP which will be only amazon->ebay.
I'm satisfied. Later of this, I will follow you.
I was like 15 minutes reading the calculation xD. I was doing the operation for my own but I was deducting the 19% from the 89-54.90=34.1 and not from the reselling product (89) I don´t know why hahaha
Heh, that's OK. Stuff-ups happen
Dude collect emails now. I want to try it out. :)
Yeahh me too xD
Thanks @joshdance! I'll set up something and ask Channing or Courtland whether I can put a link to the page here.
You could use Carrd (started by a fellow IH'r) to setup a quick landing page to collect emails.
Thanks, good suggestion + helping a fellow IH'r ;)
Love it! Hey I see that you are in Portland, would you be up for coffee?
@simook no I'm in San Francisco bay area, not Portland. Weird... where did you get that info from? Anyways feel free to connect with me on FB or via email warrior joe 118 all in one word on gmale
This sounds incredible man, I'm definitely interested in trying it out when you launch. I would recommend checking out Omni as another marketplace you can add for arbitrage.
Omni lets you store and rent out items. The founders were on a podcast discussing arbitrage opportunities their users were finding which surprised them.
Thanks @ato26 interesting site! Will check out how to interface/integrate!
We're currently building Prumio.com ($7.5k MRR) and hope to scale to about $12k MRR in March. We're a team of 2 so we'll be paying ourselves a small $$ by the end of March hopefully.
We're also working on another PR product - it's a DIY product aimed at getting more 'face-time' in front of journalists. It's super cool and should be ready in about 3 weeks hopefully!
Another candidate for an interview on here, I'm wagering. @channingallen ?
Hey James, is there a reason why you are ignoring your customers?
Really cool concept. Also, I really like your site - what tools did you use?
Thanks!
Front-end was all built by a UX/UI designer in Webflow.com.
I would love to get my hands on PR product .. please keep me posted raghavendra.philkana@gmail.com
Somehow, this year has been great for us so far. But we have one crucial problem: our team gets so deep into product it's hard to dig ourselves out. We're completely aware of it and yet we always find some feature to build.
This month, we are dedicating ourselves to marketing.
Beefing up ads efforts
Releasing (at least) two content pieces
Exploring other channels for growth
Marketing March, let's do this.
Heyyyy @sarah Well, you really could take advantage of this publication to advertise your product xD. By putting a discrete URL, nobody can say it is spam. Give me a URL I want to see your work :D
Hah! Since you asked, we're building Canny.
Hey @sarah ! I saw a Canny ad in YouTube. The marketing work it's going pretty well!
Hah! We'll definitely see once we have some data.
Yeah I'm sure
Love the design. Especially the small details like the blinking characters and hovering logos!
Thanks! We're okay with the design but the text needs work heh
Which parts do you think? Happy to take a look!
That is what I meant haha
Best of luck to you! I experience this on a smaller scale. I love to build but for now, I'm focused on building my own audience and brand.
Hey Ryan, what are you doing?
I've been working on Pull Reminders (https://pullreminders.com) which provides automated Slack reminders for open GitHub pull requests. It helps development teams cut down their code review and merge times.
I got my first couple paying customers last month, and hope to land at least a dozen more this month!
Ryan of Base11 Studios here. We just released the latest version of our app CaliCalo(https://calicalo.base11studios.com). We were excited to try out subscriptions, but of course Apple is making that difficult. So our month is starting out trying to get our IAPs working again.
We're also beginning work on a client management site for a local trainer. We're going to build it on AWS with an angular front end. I'm super excited to take a break from mobile and do some work for a customer.
Personally I'm really excited to start building my own brand and audience. This is my first IH "What are you working on this month?", so hurray me!
Nice job with the app and welcome :)
The Special Gift - we're looking to validate whether there's market for the website-as-a-gift service we're currently offering.
It's just of a few internal BetaPeak experiments we've been tinkering with, so stay tuned - we'd be launching a few more mini-services in the following weeks.
This is really cool! Just congratulated a friend to his birthday today. Linked on Facebook)
Please, if you can, let us know what your friend's thoughts/reactions were.
The Special Gift is a great idea -- it's one that I had been thinking about as a way to monetize one of my projects. The standard, generic ways that the social platforms handle birthdays makes them feel obligatory and not special.
I also think that the business-model for The Special Gift is ingenious! I do think that the price-point is a bit too high especially for younger people who are the most probable to use the service. I think that a price-point of between $10-$20 for creation would be great. However, I'm speculating and you have tangible numbers.
Thanks for the feedback ato! I agree the price point is debatable at this point, we're trying to get a feel for the cost/benefit equilibrium spot, but we're still figuring it out.
Main difficulty for lowering the price comes from the fixed costs we have to accept, which are buying the domain from an official registrar and then also paying per hosted zone in AWS to manage the DNS records automatically. Having a $20 price based on these costs renders the profit pretty thin :(
I was going to suggest what @sarwech suggested.
On your Q&A you have that the domain is active for 12 months after the date the confirmation message is sent. The price I suggested was for creation but then there's the maintenance/archival aspect of it. I was thinking of giving the birthday person a 1-month (1 week after their birthday date) grace period in which to decide whether they want to archive/maintain the website. If they do then maybe there's an opportunity to charge them for facilitating that.
Yeah, hosting costs is a good suggestion, particularly if there's information or content posted on there that could hold sentimental value (surely that exists for digital products).
Why not pass the cost of the domain onto the customer? That way you can generate more predictable revenue.
Adding new features to Martial Arts on Rails, based on user feedback. Improved notifications for promotions, billing analytics, bug fixes and more.
Hi all! Jake here.
I just launched Remotely in the App Store (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/remotely-job-search/id1349523816). A job board for the remote workforce.
My plan in March is to try this growth hacking thing out. I'm setting a goal of 30 remote jobs posted and to have 200 remote job seekers by the end of the month.
well done, I'm sure you will beat your goals, app looks great!
Thanks, Francesco !
Looks great Jake. Awesome job doing all the hard work and being able hitting that release button 🎉
Thanks, Luke !
I'm building a framework for other iOS developers that's a lot like a UIImagePickerController - except instead of choosing a photo from your camera roll you can browse/search photos from Unsplash.com. I plan on open sourcing it soon.
I'm also looking for a job, which is somehow more challenging.
That sounds very cool. UnsplashImage picker. Any way we can be notified when it is done?
I released it today! https://github.com/jim-rhoades/DivingBoard
My goal for this month is to add a "How to get this software for free" section to my credit card math product. http://www.zilchworks.com/credit-card-math.asp
I'm planning on adding a link to the sidebar which takes the user to a share page. I will ask them to share a to either fb, twitter, g+, linkedin, or pintrest and then give me their email address. I will then send them a download link where they can download a free copy of Credit Card Math.
Hi, I'm Charlie!
My March goal is to finish the first draft of my middle grade children's novel. It's a blend of sci-fi, adventure, family drama, and introductory computer science topics.
I've never written a book before - I'm a self-taught software engineer, and this book is my self improvement project for fiction writing.
I've been working on the novel since National Novel Writing Month this past November, and I'm just about at the 50k word mark (which was supposed to be the goal for just the month of November - oh, well!).
I'd like to get to 75k words (which is the length of the first Harry Potter book) and also actually finish the story/plot by the end of the month.
See ya around!!
Charlie
I'm still working on Alchemist Camp. I had a pretty bad experience with an OS update and was set back in my recording schedule, and missed my goal of getting to 1,000 youtube subscribers.
I did get some earlybird signups for my premium offering (essentially pre-sales), and made the following progress:
I really dig the simplicity of your site - no marketing b.s. I love that!
I followed you on twitter. Would love to talk about promotion/sponsorship possibilities.
I'm definitely open to talking. My email is in my profile here, and that's probably a better place for it than twitter :)
I have so many "ideas" that I want to follow but
a) Don't know which idea to start with.
and
b) Don't know where to even start with an idea.
Do you just go with a landing page and gauge interest first, then build? Do you MVP then landing page?
I've heard the landing page first spouted a lot, but how do you know the difference between a product people actually want, and a product which you happened to get lucky with momentum timing with?
Either way, these are the things I've started planning and hope to at least start one this month:
Referral sharer/profiles, where you submit your referral links and can get a random referral link on demand.
Cash gift registry - accept cash gifts for events like weddings. "No boxed gifts"
Draft reminder chrome addin - reminds you if you have unsent drafts. This is a more personal project because I often start writing an email, get distracted and then forget that I didn't hit send. This is extremely common with those with ADHD and something I've heard requested a lot.
Personal statically generated "now" page - single static profile showing what you're currently reading/tweeting/doing/writing/listening to. This may just be open source.
We've all been there :) Hope not, but actually plan to work on something, as little as it is! To whittle down your ideas, something like the Meat Grinder by Tyler Tringas is a good starting point.
If you're just looking to jump in, I would prioritise something that you can build an MVP of within 1 week. Then test that, learn, and decide if you can continue or move on.
Of course it's not simple and especially very foggy at this point. But once you've done the first few actions it becomes a lot clearer :)
I will prepare the launch of https://www.planify.fr (only french) : last bug fixes for the alpha version and starting a local area marketing plan as I'd like to grow locally first.
Is it inspired by an English-language site or is it a new take on the market (at least for you)?
@alchemist I created it on my own from a need of real persons (my neighbour is a beautician). I am striving not to look at competitors until the launch. I wonder if I market it for a niche (beauticians for example) or as the competitors do (conquest to the world ;))
Any advices ?
Not really, except to go full speed and not worry about the language.
I have a number of French and Spanish-speaking friends who have worried about ever being able to get a following in English if they started with their own language first. In pretty much every case, the following/SEO/business knowledge gained in their own language market makes it much easier to expand into English a year or two later.
make something by trial and error
Hey Mido here, my goal this month is to get the 3.0 version of Foodzilla.io out of the door. Essentially a major redesign of the App and upgrading existing libraries and tools.
Late to the party but here goes!
I actually have two sites to work on this month. I don't make any money from them so right now they're passion project to keep learning.
First off it's https://www.heelsvsfaces.com. The basic idea here is you create your own pro wrestling company and sign up various free agents. Then you can book shows with your roster while trying to make make your company popular with fans and not go bankrupt.
So the bigs things I want to work are...
Clean up the UI of the roster page. It's been ignored for way too long so it needs some love.
Work on the logic for generating segment ratings. They're ok but need to be looked over. There's a few instances where you'll get a low match rating even if you have awesome wrestlers.
Second, its https://www.thedailysmark.com. This is a pro wrestling news aggregator. It's pretty nice but I'm really loving how simple it is. I only made this because there are so many wrestling news sites but I wanted one spot to read them all. This month I want to fix some of the PWA caching. It's too strong right now. I also want to add in trending tags to make it easier to find other news.
So is HvS a game like fantasy football? Or can you actually create a real wrestling company?
For Daily Smark, why did you prioritise PWA caching as the issue to work on? Did this come from any users?
Just wondering :)
Nope it's not like fantasy football at all. It all centered around making your own company.
As for your question about the PWA. Frankly it's coming from me. I've noticed as a PWA the site will still not look for a new content and instead deliver the cached page. Not so good when it should be showing up to date news. So that's why I prioritized it.
Oh OK, so customers can get help with starting their own wrestling company.
Interesting, not sure how big of a need that is, but good luck!
Ah now that I re-read your initial question I partially misunderstood. This is not a tool to make your own real life wrestling company. Now this is different from fantasy football because usually you choose real life players and hope week to week you get the most points. This is more about creating your own fantasy company and booking various shows, feuds and roster.
As far as a big need? I don't think there's a huge need but it's a lot of fun to build. A lot to learn and experiment.
That makes sense, and it's cool that you're making something fun that you enjoy. Do share updates as I'm sure people will be interested in your progress :)
I'm designing and prototyping custom computer cases, for a mini PC market. These are meant to be low volume boutique quality cases for users that want something that stands out from most other small cases.
This will be my first business venture based on a physical product. The most challenging part right now is ensuring good margins.
"designing and prototyping custom computer cases"
That's interesting, do you have photos?
Here is a teaser photo of a mock computer build inside my prototype case: https://i.imgur.com/XMUnuN6.jpg
And yes, that is an expansion graphics card sitting inside the case :) I'm designing this case to be very portable but still versatile for many applications.
yes photos please.
Hey, hey, hey! Happy March 1st, everybody.
In March we are hoping to roll out our Beta version of our Relationship Management tool called Considerit (Considerit.co).
I know what you are thinking "Oh great another Personal CRM!"
Not so quick. Leveraging Machine Learning and AI we are providing a better way to stay engaged and connect with the people that matter in your life. Let's face it, we don't keep in touch with the people that we care about enough.
I would love to get feedback from the community or even have you sign up for our Beta to give it a try. Thanks for the read. Here's to a productive March!
Hey Eddie, nothing wrong with trying to go into what might be considered a crowded market, as long as what you offer is compelling!
What led you to want to work on this? Also, it seems to be a broad audience/range of problems that you're looking to solve, as the site mentions it helps to keep in touch with friends, family members and coworkers. Have you thought about a specific group that is most in need of something like this?
Hi @sarwech
Thank you for the note!
I wanted to work on this for a few reasons:
One, since starting a family and focusing on my career, I found myself losing touch with friends that I had known for years. I would remember that I needed to call, text, or email, but would get distracted and forget about it, until something would remind me and the cycle would repeat itself. As a result, I ended up losing touch with a lot of good friends.
Second, I noticed that any free time I had was spent scrolling through social media feeds and that wasn't healthy. It was also not meaningful. The thing about Social Media is that we can be "friends" with so many people, but it's at a very superficial level, so I wanted to change that dynamic.
Third, I strongly believe that we are social creatures and we should make the most of the time we have here on earth. Therefore, our time should be spent with the people that we care about or want to know better, so if I could create something that promotes that, it would be pretty cool.
In terms of our market, and the who needs this. We are targeting professionals that need a better way to stay on top of the relationships in their lives. Calendars are very labor intensive and tedious to set up. They are also not very smart. CRM's are business oriented, not relationship oriented. Most Personal Relationship Manager or PRM tools are not innovative. They are just a CRM but marketed as a PRM.
As a result of all of this, you get Considerit.
Great story :) It shows this is a genuine issue you had, which you weren't satisfied with and you wanted to find a solution. You should really express this on the website more as it shows authenticity.
Saying that, since you're targeting professionals, I would update all of your copy to focus purely on that. For example, under 'Use cases' you have a section for Personal, which will confuse things. It also seems harder to find people if this was a B2C model.
Compare that with you having to look for companies with salespeople, lawyers, and other professionals who need to keep on track of appointments - which I would think is an easier audience to go after. You could even just narrow down on one set of professionals and solve their problem first, then broaden from there.
If you want to do that, I would recommend:
Updating your copy. Nowadays, people and businesses want specificity, because it saves them time and requires less thinking. It's tough and took me a while to figure it out. You can see what I mean on my site FinMod, where I try to be as clear and deliberate as possible. It works :)
The hero section text is too large and vague.
Try something like 'Keep track of your meetings so you win more sales'.
Then in the smaller text below it you could say 'AI assistant that reminds you exactly when to send that email' etc.
I would follow this up with the 'Product' section, then move the 'Our Vision' to the bottom.
I don't think 'Game Changer' is compelling enough.
As mentioned, 'Use Cases' needs work. You might even just replace it with specific examples of how one of those professionals will benefit (ie your target).
'Why Now' is great but too vague and doesn't really apply to either Personal or Professionals.
Unless you're a service based business, you don't really need the 'Get In Touch' box, just an email link at the bottom will do.
Instead, you want another CTA here to drive people to sign up.
Good luck! If you want to talk more, feel free to message on here it might be better to email me :)
Alonso here, working on http://www.budgetwise.io.
March will be spent completing the main app and getting it ready for beta testing. I also need to integrate payments and start getting ready for deployment so that's on the board as well! Currently sitting at a little over 2,000 early access email signups so the pressure is on to complete this in time.
Hi Alonso,
I like the layout on the landing page. Very clean and easy to read. Curious, how you managed to collect 2000 emails? Any cold calls(emails) to get to 2000?
Hi Arjun, thanks for the kind words! I actually didn't do much work to get the emails - I built a landing page with one screenshot, a signup form, and a few short paragraphs describing the product. The page you see now is the finished landing page before launch.
A few people saw the link on Reddit when I posted it in /r/Startups I think, and then they posted links to the page in a few competitors subreddits. Since then I've been getting a steady 30-40 signups a day and happy to say that more people are starting to spread the word so it's all word of mouth.
I send everyone a personalized welcome email, and talk openly with them either through Reddit or email, and it's good to show people you are a human, not a faceless corporation! I think that's been helping me build the culture I want around the app right from the beginning, even before launch
So earlier this month I launched Procedur.al, which is a wall art store where every artwork printed is uniquely generated by an algorithm.
I soft-launched it in Designer News and Hacker News, where it got picked up by a moderator and was on the front page for a while. That resulted in some sales—I'm at 10 total orders and $340 on revenue—with some customers ordering again after receiving their prints!
This month I'm gonna focus on designing more prints and trying out ways to get traffic to the site.
Cool artworks! Are the examples on the front page uniquely generated as well, or do you generate them after someone makes an order?
February was my first five-figure month. It was the third month of my business, and the focus was on building scalable fulfilment processes (My biz is a tech-driven physical-products subscription service).
This month is about scaling product development so that I can expand from one niche to a lot of niches very quickly. That should help me get to six figure monthly revenue by the end of the year (at least that's the plan - LOL).
5-figure revenue in just 3 months is awesome man. Keep it up! All the very best.
March will be dedicated to improving User activation for https://www.botletter.com I just released a brand new onboarding after 3 iterations and I think this one will be way more efficient. My goal is that people have a Wow effect within 1min after sign up.
The bottom line goal is to double the MRR by the end of April.
If by any chance you try the onboarding, please let me know if you have any recommendations or feedback! ;)
I'm James, and I'm new here.
For the past year I've been building a personal finance system Actual. I wrote a post explaining why I'm building this.
March is going to be a big month for me. I'm going to launch a closed beta by sending out the app to everyone signed up on the list. It'll be the first time it's exposed to a large number of users, which is really exciting and scary. So that's my goal for March: soft launch!
I've been using ledger for a long time, and I'm looking for something in the GUI.
This looks fascinating. Subscribed! :)
Thanks! I'd love any feedback once you try the app!
Wish you luck, you'll definitely need it.
I'm a finance guy, 10+ years in derivatives and looking to start my own hedge fund. Initially, self-financed account, then if all goes well, managing additional capital.
It's hard and with 10 years I'm neither a beginner not a huge success story. (99.9% of the quants / traders employed in the industry wouldn't make s**t on their own). So I'm mid-path, possibly looking for associates to speed this up.
You know Paul Graham's equity equation. If we split equity in two, together we must make 4x what I do alone. Same goes for further division.
I'm not entirely sure we're in the same market. My app is a personal finance app for the average consumer, to help them budget and track their money over time. It's not really focused on investment.
Still, it's a hard market and I think I will need all the luck I can get.
My advice to customers for long-term investments will be simple index funds.
Looking to launch Laravel Startup (https://www.producthunt.com/upcoming/laravel-startup) this month.
Hoping to make it much easier for Laravel Developers to put a great looking website together.
I'd love that, the Laravel community has been in need for some visual tools for quite some time. Nicely focused!
That's interesting, are you going to just do one theme or this is the first of many? I'm a Laravel developer and it can take some time to 'convert' themes and get everything in the right place. Good luck with the launch.
Thanks!
Will launch with one theme aimed at SaaS type apps (marketing page, etc). The 2nd one will more of an admin (or backend) theme.
Not sure about after that, will depend on the demand :)
My main goal is to validate my product VidLeads (https://vidleads.co) which I've spent entirely too much time on without putting it in front of people.
I've got a call this week with a business that runs a service pro marketplace for plumbers/remodelers/whatnot that might be a potential collaborator, so fingers crossed that it goes well!
You'd benefit by narrowing your focus to video portfolio for plumbers/ remodelers / "whatnot". Maybe even allow testimonials from their clients.
Not sure if that's the direction you're organically headed for, but good luck!
Yea I'm just trying to find who is actually willing to pay for this thing. If it's the vertical you describe then I am totally for narrowing focus.
Are you using Cameratag? Ziggeo?
Neither; I'm using zencoder for encoding videos and Rackspace for hosting. It's not WebRTC either; I've tried working with it a bit with opentok but quality is pretty low and cross-platform video publishing compatibility is funky.
So you use flash? Or javascript?
Interesting idea, first I was thinking of screen recordings for digital tasks but @bibhas has apoint here - might even make more sense for a mobile user to record a video with his smartphone and talking...
You've nailed the product exactly. Mobile users record and send videos with their smartphone while talking, right on a company's website.
Hi Brian,
This sounds pretty neat. It could also be a new way to provide Customer Support in lieu of using the chat on the left hand window to describe your problem or wait on the phone for 30 minutes only to talk to a rep that has to transfer me 6 times.
One other thing, on your site in the "How It Works" #3, you have a spelling error: You get an email notification and can watch the video in your VidLeads dashboard. Then you can contact the visitor by their preferred method: phone or emai" <---
Hey thanks for catching that.
Yea live video chat for customer support something that has a few vendors out there. VidLeads is more async, send a video then get a reply. But live video is certainly an option down the road.
Trying to sprint on the mobile app for https://everydaycheck.com :) I'm gonna go kamikaze and try to have a saas mobile app. Anyone else who wants to try to make me change my mind? :P
A mobile app seems logical for the tool you've made. Do you have enough validation to warrant the time investment?
When I started, I realized there were already quite a few habit trackers both for iOS and android out there, while none really modern for the web. My hypothesis was right and there is a demand for web too. However, the mobile app is still the most requested thing, and the possibility to have synched data between mobile and web would be a huge plus. The web app works well on mobile, but it's not ideal. I'm sure the time investment is worth it, what I'm not so sure about is if I should market the mobile app as the main product or just as a feature of the web app because of the mentality of customers towards mobile apps. Also, I know very little of the mobile app world, and especially, mobile app marketing... So a few things to break through for me :)
Yea, I understand. Since you already have the mobile app done, a PWA may be an alternative depending on your estimated timetable to complete an actual mobile app and what features you need.
Well, I'm still working on it hehe! I considered the PWA but preferred to go for a native app. I am using React Native, so it's quite similar to React, which I used for the mobile app. And also, I can 'reuse' some code :) Ahh, so many possibilities!
Sweet. Having used Ionic for an app here at work, I wish to high Heaven that we had used React Native.
I've also been doing some React Native this year. Let us know how much code you manage to reuse.
I am also building a SaaS mobile app! It's more or less B2B though (it's for personal trainers) so I will initially be doing direct sales rather than relying on app store discoverability. Good luck and keep us posted!
Cool! I was wondering how you'd go about your payment system, do you plan to automate it in the future or you want to keep with direct sales? :)
Definitely going to automate it. If this thing takes off, I will probably rely on a combination of inbound marketing and an affiliate program (but of course I'll try lots of things and see what works).
Hey sorry, I meant the payment system :P Do you plan to use Stripe? Will you also have a web app or it will be a mobile app alone? :)
Just a tip. I think you would get much more profit if you would offer a free version, and then create a business/teams version for like $9/mo/user. I understand your logic on your pricing page, but I would go ahead and try to catch an attention of as many people as possible first since (I assume it is true) your cost of running are mostly flat, meaning you would need a serious bump in user numbers to notice it cost-wise.
so you are basically saying that I should move from b2c to b2b. I had thought of having team plans before but I'm not sure if businesses would see any use? Got 0 interest in that direction so far but I never really marketed it as such either...
Not really business as it is. A lot of people, power users, will sign up as a business to support small developers. They usually can claim most of that sum as an expense anyways, so it cost nothing to them. By opening up, you will be able to market to a bigger audience in my opinion. I would create following:
-create a business account for like $9/mo
-create an enterprise account, that will have sub-user capabilities. Pricing can start at something like $49/mo and then $9/mo per user added
I assume you would be able to outpace your current revenue numbers within 2-3 months actually and it would be easier to grow organically.
It is quite easy to convert users from such an app to business users. Imagine users going to their bosses, telling them about this amazing app that help people track performance etc.
The app is great, and to be honest, if there would be a business account, I would probably get it in near future.
edit: You do not need to market this as "business" account, but premium. Avoiding free users is right direction, when it cost you money to have more users. Afaik, this is not the case really, besides server resources, that are cheap these days.
Interesting insights you share there... hmm
I'm not sure why opening it up would make me able to market to a bigger audience? I mean, the app is already free to try for 30 days. The idea of having a free trial vs a freemium model is that I already know that the users who signup have at least the intention to pay something if the app helps them. The only benefit I see from opening it up is that I might have many more free users who might spread the word.
I had the idea of, in the future, have more advanced features for a pro account, I wonder if I could think of really valuable features thought for companies. Right now I see it as a personal tool... thanks for the thoughts!
Mobile app stores are beyond crowded so it's tough to drive traffic through that channel. Also it's a few more steps towards onboarding so you might lose some conversion along the way.
Other than that, if your value prop is high enough I can't see why the platform itself will make or break the idea.
yeah, I just consider them as an extra channel, I don't even think I'm gonna prioritize them at all, but I'll wait til I have a good first version to see how I go about it!
I'm still working on Ipdata.co, except now my focus is on selling, selling, selling. I'm writing guides to ensure my users get the most value out of the API, I'm looking at writing a chrome extension and perhaps a couple of wordpress plugins and shopify apps eg. a shopify store currency converter. I'm looking at Adwords.
And I'm also looking at starting a blog and sharing my journey to $10k MRR.
What approaches are you using to sell?
Hey Ramy, I'm starting with content marketing, writing guides specific to my app, blogging about the process etc that kind of thing
Very cool- will be interested to hear about your progress. I'm in a similar position this month- need to market! Content marketing is also the first approach I'm going to take. We'll see!
Right on! Good luck Ben :)
I hope we both make it :), if I make any significant progress I'll probably post it here or on twitter @jonathan_trev
I will try my darnest best to launch ScreenTime (screen sharing plugin for FaceTime)
https://tryscreentime.com
yes
High five! :D
That's really cool! Have you been able to validate a market yet? It seems like tools like zoom.us would make it difficult to get people to pay for something this.
I'd definitely try it out once you launch. :)
I will be focusing on digging deeper into FB and Instagram ads, creating some sequential targeting, based on website visitor lookalike audiences.
Another thing on the agenda is to either create a piece of content (pdf, ebook etc.) to incentivize email signups or figure out a way to provide value on a weekly basis (lessons learned, tactics), for folks that sign up.
Website traffic and email collection will be the priorities for this month 👍
Do you have a plan for creating your piece of content? i.e. size/length, amount of time you'll allocate, specific topic, etc.?
From the things you mentioned, only the topic is somewhat clear.
It should be some lessons, or documentation about my process while building my company, that can benefit people who are thinking about, or starting their own.
This month I'm continuing to work on my gardening project. From a technical standpoint I would like to:
Complete my UX for error handling within the app
Add geospatial features to my DB
From a customer discovery standpoint I would like to start connecting with gardening communities and learn about their pain points. I have a hypothesis that my app solves presumed pain points but now I have to go in there and really confirm it.
I've been blogging at www.gunnargissel.com and trying to build my mailing list. I'd like to go in the direction of releasing an educational product, but I don't think I've built up enough of an audience yet, so I'm still just writing and participating in forums.
My goal is to get into double digits on my mailing list :)
This month I'm focused on finding ways to market CoinRecap (https://www.coinrecap.io), an automated daily newsletter analyzing the cryptocurrency markets. After pre and post-launch Reddit posts, we have a few hundred subscribers and really solid daily open rates and low unsubscribe rates. It seems we've built something people like, but now the challenge is finding more of those people on a shoestring budget.
Unfortunately, those Reddit posts were the extent of our marketing plan until now. Typical engineers! We're thinking we'll start with some content marketing efforts and go from there.
First time poster, long time lerker. My Co-founder/husband and I are working on our final app feature prior to submission to the app store, both android and apple. Our product is called SitePatterns (https://www.sitepatterns.com). We created a real-time safety, daily, and incident reporting software for the commercial construction industry. Basically the ability to complete required jobsite safety documentation using your mobile device. I’ve used my experience to create the app while running the functionality and features past an industry focus group made up of my contacts.
Would love some feedback on others experience in submitting their app to the Apple store. I hear turnaround is much quicker and less intensive from android.
I've been working on PageDash from July to Dec last year (https://www.pagedash.com), but revenue isn't great so I'm back to a full time job this year. It's essentially a personal web scrapbook/archive, hosted in the cloud. I'm still developing PageDash on the side, albeit at a slower pace.
This month, I just "launched" https://stackdesigntalk.com as a forum for software architecture and design discussions. It's just a Discourse forum.
I'm currently mulling working on a general purpose Kanban tool with built in automation and work-in-progress limits, although I'm not too sure if I should given the market saturation. I'm hoping it would be general-purpose enough to give support, sales, and other specific tools a run for their money. Thoughts on this?
Hi guys! Klavs here. Happy to join IH. Product im working on this month is Pixel Panic. Responsive library for most popular Facebook assets (cover image, profile image, single image ad, event, post with image - horizontal, vertical, square)
Key things:
design asset in Sketch and see how it looks on desktop or mobile real-time
design decisions driven by real web/app environment (text size, copy, color)
get up-to-date asset sizes
easy asset export (Sketch App based)
If anyone is interested to test it out or have suggestions, it would really help.
In march i will publish my first project, now i finish prototype on vue.js and need to write it with server side rendering. My small project it's dream-book (book where you can look what means dreams your see at the night).
Still work on my view of AI. Some hardware parts and coding. Have in plan write other publication about "how to count minimum data for classification". But have not enough materials for it yet.
Http://www.fatracoon.com
Hi,
This month I'm starting to building a game. Is just a prototype, that will take me around 3 months. Is a 2D platformer, a mix of Spelunky, Diablo, NEO Scavanger, rogue, pixel like game.
Currently just trying some options, experimenting with some sprites sizes and the best way to achieve what I need, not carrying to much about style, just trying to get some movement and logic in place.
Me and the Zeroqode team are working on breathing new life in Zenify meditation app (https://zenifyapp.com) - on 7-th of March we are going to launch Zenify bot for Telegram - the first mindfulness and focus training bot for Telegram. Later we will launch the sam bot for Slack. Bots are of course built without code as everything else we build :) Here is the upcoming page - https://www.producthunt.com/upcoming/zenify-for-telegram
Still working on (http://cryptomenow.com) , which is a go to source for getting the latest updates on crypto and anything related to it in an easy to understand and non-boring way.
We also launched http://insider.cryptomenow.com for free guides and interviews etc. on crypto as apart of our content.
Hi All
My name is Ibrahim and for the past 4 months, I have been working on https://www.ottomon.net
It's a object tagger that allows you to communicate with the owner.
I built it especially for cars, to be able to contact the owner of a car blocking the way, wrongly parked, about to get towed or get a ticket. However along the way I realized that it can be used for a number of things other then cars.
By the end of March I will open it publicly. For now I am testing it locally in my neighborhood.
If you are in Los Angeles, feel free to sign up to be the part of the beta. If you are not, well sign up and we will let you know when it is ready :)
Thank you
My goal for this month is to provide Aspiring Entrepreneurs, Idea Persons, and Startup Founders with a simple and easy to use solution to build a strong foundation for their idea(s) / startup(s).
There are so many free articles & videos, paid programs, accelerators and expensive bootcamps/workshops.
Based on short discussions and a couple of surveys, I intend to provide a solution with startup basics, a step-by-step approach, where the users not only learn but start working on their ideas at the same time.
The startup basics are as below (I've designed a canvas connecting the basic building blocks for any startup or small business):
a) Customer profiling
b) Understanding customers
c) Problem-Solution fit and value propositions
d) Business Model Development
e) Brand creation and promotion
f) Story telling (Pitch presentations)
g) Business planing with a twist (not the traditional approach)
This is where I need help from all of you:
Please let me know which option or approach sounds better or would you be more inclined to use, if at all you do.
Approach 1:
Website where registered users can work on their ideas using the step-by-step wizards for each building block (listed above). Easy to share with others and get feedback or promote startups/ideas.
Approach 2:
Reusable startup flash cards which the users can use anywhere and anytime. Easy to discuss or brainstorm with team members, present it to anyone (like an investor or mentor or at meetups) and get instant feedback.
PS: Sorry for the lengthy post (first timer here) and thank you for your time.
I have got first few paying customers for Enpointer (https://www.enpointer.com ), will be listening closely to their feedback and rolling out more features + squashing critical bugs.
Also will be working on writing code for Olert (http://www.olert.io) and surveying it's initial product hunt subscribers ( https://www.producthunt.com/upcoming/olert) to understand their requirements better.
Ersun here.
Launched https://epycly.com/ last month offering the first cloud hosted AMD EPYC virtual machines.
Been working with a bunch of developer entrepreneurs to promote and test the service.
Got our first unsolicited paying customer a couple days ago :)
Goal for this month is to launch a 1-Click Kubernetes offering that will let anyone spin up a completely configured kube cluster and deploy hundreds of open source apps on it using helm.
If you would like to try our service just let me know and I can provide you with some free credit.
Hi everyone I am newbie and I am working on integration of mailchimp subscription into a WordPress and automating the blog post to send out email to followers. And also working on a membership website.
I was thinking on starting a wordpress theme, different from all seen at the current day.
This is a difficult to market to break into. Even with a really unique design, you'll still be one theme among thousands. Have you thought about how you'll market the theme or find customers yet?
(I've built a number of free themes for WordPress.org and also run my own tiny theme shop. Marketing is definitely something I didn't consider enough at the outset).
Putting it out on theme forest, and then see where it goes? it really is different from anything seen already, and i see a lot
Since the beginning of 2018, I have been focusing most of my time on All Things Auth, which is a community and collection of resources aimed at helping service providers and end-users work together to solve authentication ("who are you?") and authorization ("what are you allowed to do?") challenges online.
I have been doing a large amount of research and writing over the past few weeks. This is both necessary and useful, but it can be really challenging that there are no publicly viewable signs of progress.
February was an exciting month where all of the work I have been doing behind the scenes has started to roll out publicly. We published 3 substantial articles, taking our total from 1 to 4 pieces of content.
This included kicking off an article series on two factor authentication (2FA), which will have at least 6 more articles in the coming weeks.
We have also decided to create a recurring theme in our content by featuring a new third party service provider each month and taking a close look at their security and user experience. Yesterday, on March 1, we kicked off Zapier month by launching our first screencast episode and 2 associated articles. This brought our published content count up to 7. This series will have 3 more articles published throughout March.
Much of this effort is foundational work for a presentation that I am giving on 2FA at a security conference in Philly at the end of the month. My goal is to nail that presentation and to continue publishing high quality content well into 2018.
Marko here,
I am working on a site where you can easily track all your workouts with completed workouts automatically added to a calendar displaying the sessions you completed and the metrics of the session.
No signups, no landing pages, just select a pre-existing template or create a new one and enter the workouts.
Goal for this month is to finalize some presentational components and add some stock workout templates ie. Starting strength, 5x5 program, Maximus Body program , Crossfit style etc.
Initially I just wanted to use it for myself and my brother as we keep sending each other results and adding them to a spreadsheet but now I decided to put it online, I'm sure others are having the same problem.
This is month 27 of my journey into writing an app full time (though I freelance for about 3 hours a day). It's animation software, and exports to video and also can export html+js+css interactive, animated websites, like online flip books, scrolling tours, sliders, logos, little featurettes, etc.
I hope to launch mid to late 2018. Sign up for launch updates at http://schuwing.com
Cheers!
I'm working on a my side project, https://peapods.com This is something I am very excited about because I can't wait to use it myself! I love the idea of an "Instagram for events" app that lets you see what all of your friends are up to.
Wow, looks like a busy March for everyone here :)
I'm doubling down on FinMod and will focus on releasing a beta version in the coming weeks.
In the meantime, I'm continuing to learn from the MVP having found my first few customers, will look for a few more, and see how I can deliver the most value when the SaaS beta launches. In particular, I'm looking at sending weekly/monthly progress updates to customers to help them keep track. Let me know if you have any feedback/thoughts :)
Last month I finished the historical Twitter charts for https://cryptoboard.tech, besides some other stuff.
This month I will try to give visitors some explanation about the data that's shown by creating dialogs, because not everything is clear at first sight. I will also work out some ideas on what to show on a landing page and what kind of content I can deliver to subscribing users in the future.
Playing around with Xamarin and MvvmCross for our next app (language learning). It's quite good so far...
I'm working on Author Support Desk for Envato Authors. My goal for this month is to finish the design and make it ready for development.
I'm working on two new projects this month.
My main project is a tool for ecommerce stores. It automatically turns customers into brand ambassadors/micro-influencers. The results are better retention of current customers, fewer negative reviews, and more sales. After starting last week, I have 10 customers signed up and hoping to reach the $5k MRR mark by the end of the month. Landing page will be up by the beginning of next week, so check back then!
A free newsletter I'm writing, inspired mainly by the kinds of repeat questions that pop up every day on IH. Once a week, I'll send you actionable, concise advice on a specific subject most founders mess up or overthink. Only what you need to know, in five minutes, with examples. Landing page and first article (on pricing) coming next week as well!
I will focus on porting canSnippet (https://www.cansnippet.com) to Linux and Windows. At the moment it is only available for MacOS, as it is my primary OS, but it would be bad not to make it available for other OSes (even more that it is Electron based and should run easily on other OSes).
In a few months canSnippet will become my main project as I am leaving my job. I am really looking forward to working full time on it :)
How much traction has the project gotten so far among developers? Have you talked to many other devs who said this would solve a problem for them?
Targeting developers was not easy. I got some traction at the beginning and then it slowed down until I realised that I was maybe not targeting the right "group". To explain a bit more: I developed canSnippet because I needed it on my everyday job as a bioinformatician. Compared to "normal" software developers, we are mostly used to stay on the command line and use tools for data analysis (as well as usual grep/awk commands), so snippets are very useful. I am now targeting bioinformaticians and I can see more interest from them for such a tool. I will therefore focus on the bioinformaticians niche for the moment :)
Good idea to focus on a niche like that. I am a software developer and don't think I would use canSnippet, which is why I asked.
Good luck talking to customers and learning what they want!
I am a bit late for this, but better late than never...
This month I am going to (re)launch C++ JOBS, a curated online job board dedicated to C/C++ jobs only.
I created it in 2016 and launched the first time in 2017, but I had to put it on hold because of my day job went crazy and didn't allow me to work on anything else (and that's one of the reasons why I quit it).
Hopefully this time things will go better... :-)
A website for my SAAS client. The SAAS facilitates promotional outreach to webmasters, and I'm coding the UX
Hi! This month i'm working on my side project https://trailcams.io
A youtube-like portal for trail camera users - scientists, wildlife lovers, tourists, hunters etc.
Unfortunately i'm still the only user there, but i've been using this portal in order to monitor any activity in my remote bee hive and it perfectly suits my own needs.
Hey all,
I'm working on Bimact - http://www.bimact.com/v1 a housing website for rental seekers and home buyers. This project has been a passion project I have worked on after my full time job for a while now. I initially launched 2krentals.com which was a site focused on providing a portal for housing priced under $2,000. I quickly moved away from that project after completion though as I wasn't satisfied with the site design or the business concept and scope.
The site Bimact is in development and will likely remain in development as I work in my mind maps to come up with functionality to make the site stand out from the leading housing marketplace websites or additional features that provide the site members (agents) with significant value to justify a monthly subscription tier.
I definitely have a problem launching a MVP, so we'll see if this site ever sees the light of day.
What is your main obstacle with launching the MVP? Is it trying to think of how to stand out?
Yeah, before I can put marketing and advertising dollars behind the project launch I feel like it has to be competitive product. The features being developed now are somewhat competitive but I'm always left with the feeling that there needs to be more. I know at the startup/pre-launch phase having access to the MLS databases isn't really an option so the task at hand in my mind is figuring out how to offer something of value which housing sites like Zillow, Trulia, Zumper, etc. don't currently offer.
I also have a QA background so not only do I need to develop the functionality but I also have a long list of issues to be resolved. I work toward a 1.0 base polished product rather than a beta/MVP which is the root cause of endless development.
From the looks of your v1, you've already got a product that looks like something more established companies have built. The only thing you're missing now is the core functionality, it seems. Can I give you some advise? When you're building a marketplace like this, the focus should be on ensuring there is enough supply and demand. Keep the buyers happy with enough properties, and keep the sellers happy with sufficient traffic from buyers.
Here's another thing: you're competing with large companies like Zillow and Trulia, who have offices of people working on their product. As it seems you're working on this on your own, don't try to beat them at that game. Focus on a specific problem and solve that.
For example, with my project FinMod, I could target any kind of company. But that would be too much work and deliver a poor user experience, so I focus purely on early stage, small SaaS businesses.
In your case, you're trying to cater for both the renting and buying markets, not just in one town but in cities across the world. Focus on one city to begin with either doing rental or buying/selling, get supply and demand solved, make some people happy through the platform and only then look at growing.
Good luck and feel free to shoot me a message here or an email if you'd like to discuss more.
I am going to try to get my chrome extension published in the app store this month. It allows you to sync video between 1 host and and 0 or more "watchers". Works on Youtube, Netflix, and Amazon (well, and localhost).
Trying to think of a good name. Don't have any business idea about how to use it, just doing it for the challenge of developing chrome extensions in clojurescript.
Arjun here.
This month I will get 3000 signups on the landing page from businesses that have outsourced their SEO to agencies. Cold calls, cold emails and niche forums are what I am going to focus on to get the leads.
Once I have 1000 signups, I will open the platform to them to see response.
I started prototyping what I'm going to call a "crud-as-a-service" / "bring-your-own-spreadsheets web app" concept. I don't know where it will go but I know a few people lately who have needed something like this. I have literally zero idea how to market it. If this intrigues you here's a beta signup form: https://goo.gl/forms/Qr5UO6ZViVSgHnkN2
I'm also noodling how to revive a dormant project I had around time tracking - mostly because I've been picking up a few freelance projects to fund myself.
Josh here.
This month we doubled our YouTube subscribers.
My brother and I find, test, and post no copyright (well technically creative commons) music you can use in any video or stream.
If you make YouTube videos, give us a sub for high quality free music that won't get you copyright strikes.
Here is the video we posted today - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqWjh-rAfWQ
I'm working on blit: https://blitapp.com (automated screenshots to your inbox). Right now we're at about $100/mo in revenue. I'm currently working on experimenting with different ways to grow. Check it out. I'd love to get your feedback.
Hi all, Francesco here.
This month target will be adding as many requested features as possible in my side project app Bitfolio (http://www.timelabs.io/bitfolio).
I'm hoping to be able to deliver a big update by the end of the month so I can start investigate server side coding in Swift and provide a better service in the future.
Very cool! Out of curiosity, how are you tracking and prioritising the requested features?
Thank you!
Mostly by how many people requested the feature and if it's aligned with the product idea. So far feature requested were mostly already planned so it's just a matter of priorities.
I use a trello board for tracking all the progress, features, bugs and roadmap.
Hello everyone, I am working on overcoming the hurdles that are in my way when creating my first mobile app. There is a steep learning curve because I've never done it before. Plus there are some bugs in the frameworks and tools I'm trying to use to pull this off. I've been trying the forums to get some helpful answers, and stackoverflow.com seems to be the best one.
Thats the right of passage my friend. Keep plugging away, no effort is wasted you will always come away with something.
not exactly for-profit, but I am working on a federated OStatus/ActivityPub crosspost gateway for Chinese social media.
Since the censorship is PITA. There's desperate need for Chinese users to find a safe place to talk online while not losing much of the domestic generated content
Hey guys,
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.
The Goal of this month is to move it to beta stage and focus on marketing more.
https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/marketing-guidance-for-our-first-saas-like-offering-cd729c70af
I like this a lot, it's got real potential for people like me.
Thanks @Josh_Barker We will keep you updated.
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Hey IH, after about a year of being in the crypto scene and running BotList, we were approached by Shipchain to build them a Telegram bot that would help them automate their community.
Since it's been crushing it from about 5k users to now 37k Telegram users, we decided to turn it into a SaaS product called https://cryptomod.io/ 🔥 🔥 🔥
So in March, we are trying to onboard more customers and charging a yearly subscription. Looking to get paid in BTC or ETH or even negotiate token trade for ICO's.
🙌 It's going to be a great month.
Hey there,
March goals:
To build an iteration 2 of our budgeting app - richiesimple.com which are all based on our user's feedback.
Concentrating on Social Media Marketing and SEO
This March I will publish "lite" version of my Sciter Engine (HTML/CSS/script ) https://sciter.com .
The lite version is meant to be used on devices: mobiles, IoT (like Raspberry), etc. - when the engine spans whole (or almost whole) device screen.
It will also support "kiosk" mode when used on desktop alike environments.
This month I'm becoming familiar with PyTorch. It's really nice.
I'm working on procedural generation of fantasy settings. Not maps, mind you; I'm talking about generating narrationally-presented fictional worlds based on iterative graph theory.
5 years in, it's time to refactor the code of https://taskclone.com to take advantage of new frameworks and PHP7 speed. I've got others helping on that as the precursor to a new service and corresponding front-end update sometime this year. For March, I'm personally focusing my time on marketing: creating the content that will hopefully drive traffic to the existing and upcoming service.
Thanks so much for the inspiration here at IH.
Luke here, finally signed up for an account after lurking for months.
Last month I was able to finish a 2.0 of my app Optimise Space (https://optimise.space). Yesterday I finally got to hit the 'release this version' button (so satisfying) and roll out the update.
This Month is all about marketing, getting it in the hands of new users, getting feedback from current user base and some minor updates / bug fixes
You might want to quote/italicize "measure twice cut once" in that first paragraph - it took me a few passes to parse the sentence!
Also agree with the "better explainer" comment - the above sentence was the first real content I read and it didn't help any.
Cool looking project - I helped a guy with a circle packing app once so I know how painful this stuff is...
Hey Jeremy,
Thanks so much for taking the time, I really appreciate it. All great feedback, ill definitely be working towards this tomorrow.
Hey man, just wanted to warn you about a typo on the homepage:
Also, maybe I'm dumb, but I honestly don't know what your app is for. Is it an app to make sure furniture will fit in the room before buying it?
Thank you so much. Thats a silly mistake.
Nah you aren't dumb. The page needs a better explainer / value proposition. I rely on most people finding it through the App Store and haven't put much time into the website. So they have context when searching, but its unclear if they are just coming from the web.
The app is for craftspeople, say you have some timber that you want to divvy up and cut out for a cupboard. Input all your cuts / measurements and the app will take it into account and put them in the best place, so hopefully you use less material.
https://beta.fitloop.co - Bodywight fitness made simple.
Working on a full re-write of fitloop.co, with some new features in mind to ease people into learning bodyweight fitness.. I put up the mmmvp online at beta.fitloop.co, so I could get something up and focus on iteration.
Site looks good on mobile, what is your plan for monetization?
Combination of amazon referral + subscription model for more in-depth / habit forming features.
and sms tool for marketing https://wip.chat/products/653
This month I am working on a way to simplify publishing multiple AWS projects through Microsoft TFS for cross-functional projects that might possibly have related dependencies amongst them!
I've just launched my side project - search for the data in your cloud apps, https://getctx.io - with paid tiers, and I'm trying out different channels (HN, reddit, LinkedIn etc)
Aiming to get some revenue this month :-)
I finally released a v0.1 of outsidelist.com for the month of Feb. Definitely have a lot of work to do and I have a lot of plans, but I figured I'd put it out there and see if anyone cares to see the kernel of an idea.
This month I'm working on a "badge as a service" website/js snippet, similar to what you see on nomad list in the bottom right. I think it's such a good idea to build trust with your audience by showing them your name + face when you make a bunch of different websites, especially when you're doing side project marketing, hopefully I can get it done this month and get some traction!
Going to finalize the infrastructure setup of memobot.net (WhatsApp bot for voice memos, notes and ideas) and hope to go all in on promoting it by the end of march.
Luke here.
This month my goal is to release a new product based on the product I launched with a friend last month (https://stadiamaps.com).
We want to make it dead-simple for businesses with many physical locations to put them all on a map on their website via a small JS code. We're targeting chains like restaurants, and hope to build features on from there.
Our process will take less than 10 minutes and cost $10 / month (to start). Any physical business owners out there want to take a spin when it's working?
I'm working on a few side projects in parallel, and my focus for the month is to narrow down my focus. I'd really like to figure out which project I should be spending my time and effort on, based on which is most useful to potential users.
Here they are:
ServeIt [https://ryanlee.io/serveit/]: open source library to serve ML models through a RESTful API in as little as one line of code; works across frameworks (Scikit-Learn, Keras currently supported) and domains (regression predictions, image classification, etc.)
404Sentry [https://404sentry.com]: a scheduled website scanner to ensure your links are always up-to-date, even when the sites you've linked to change their content
Seseame Talent [https://sesametalent.io]: service that combs through open source code contributions, projects, and public competitions to find top engineers and scientists for recruiters and hiring managers
Any constructive feedback would be very much appreciated!
Hey Folks,
Last month I worked on wireframing a product for personal knowledge management. This month I am hoping to take it to production.
I am also looking to conduct some user interviews. So anyone interested in personal knowledge management please leave a message.
Thanks!
What's your definition of "personal knowledge management"? Something like a personal wikipedia?
Something that would be a must for me: add to it from anywhere, quickly. My ideation / thinking through process happens in so many different situations, something like this would require seamless additions, or I'll just keep using my brain. :)
The idea is to keep it simple and seamless, and easy to run through.
I am launching my side project this month! I haven't settled on a name yet, but it's an app to help personal trainers track their clients' fitness progress. Progress so far is having conversations with potential customers; their feedback is that existing apps for this are buggy and/or not user-friendly. I'll keep you guys posted as I move forward 😊
Hey Franky here 😊
March: Move hosting for toepoke.co.uk to Azure
2018 (in no particular order):
Try some marketing schizzle
Add online payments
Depending on outcomes of 1) and 2) ... rewrite!
Ruben here 👋
My goal for March is launch my 4th project! I'm building tools for freelancers. I feel like there aren't many good tools for freelancer.
My first goal to ease freelancers pain is to build a tool help them organize their sub-contracting tasks. It can get really hectic when you have many accounts to keep a track of.
Right now I have a name for my project (TUFT short for The Ultimate Freelance Tool) 😜
I'm currently on building mode and hope I can share with a couple features in the upcoming weeks.
We would love to take a look :)
Stay tuned :P
Pushing final changes and looking for feedback from Salesforce Admins on my Salesforce Field Analyzer. Includes a Salesforce app + chrome extension for the magic ;)
Free for now!
I'll be working on my landing page generator after seeing, and giving feedback on many landing pages on here. I'll be releasing a first beta this month!
If you want to sign up for updates, there's a link in my profile.
I'm working on new ad-tech features for my product Social Opinion and trying to get first customers! Also got an idea for an aggregated cryptocurrency dashboard surfaces buy/sell signals!
After some really helpful feedback from the community here, I'm almost ready to launch DayRemote (https://dayremote.com) - a directory for remote freelancers.
Profiles with interview style questions and answers so clients can get to know who you are and how you work, also links to your portfolio, social media and more.
The idea is to filter out clients who are just looking for someone cheap, and to get quality freelancers on board who can show they are worth what they charge.
The main problem I have right now is how (and where) to get beta testers to add a few profiles before launch, thinking of inviting people to a private beta. Launching with no profiles on there doesn't really feel like a good plan. Anyone can help with that I'd love to hear your ideas.
Cool idea! What are your plans for monetization?
Thanks Jake :)
At this stage my focus is on growing the platform and getting people on board on the freelancer side. I'm sure there will be a lot of opportunities for revenue in connecting potential clients and their particular projects to people who are well suited to delivering them.
The obvious one is offering paid job listings from clients and mailing freelancers who have opted in to receive those job details and also displaying them on the site.
My aim here is to provide something that provides value on both sides, if I get that right then money will come later I'm sure. I don't plan to ever charge freelancers to join though - that should remain free I think.
Do you have any ideas on how to monetize a platform like this, Jake?
One thing you could do while you don't have a lot of freelancers signed up is to make it "invite only" and make your landing page a bit more mysterious. While I'm usually not a fan of that, it might work for this kind of project.
Since you want to position dayremote as something rather premium, exclusivity plays well into it. Not everybody can sign up, only the best freelancers, and only vetted clients.
You really have to sell to two audiences: to the freelancers and the clients. I'd start with the freelancers, you need to convince them that they'll find great clients through your platform and that won't be easy because the good ones will already have some pretty good clients.
Then you have to convince the potential clients that you have the best freelancers on your site.
I think I'd start with trying to get a solid group of freelancers on your page. They won't mind if you tell them that it's still starting out and they might not get any clients through the platform for a few weeks.
Once you have a good group on there, you can try to find some clients by reaching out directly, and then connect them to the freelancers on your platform.
Thanks, Felix. I see what you mean about making it exclusive, I'll give that some thought.
So far I've had mostly positive responses from both freelancers and clients who can see value in it on both sides.
Now it's just a case of finding the 'right' people and asking them to join, any recommendations regarding where to find them and how to approach them?
I'm working on pushing my small SaaS app www.dronefinder.co.uk which helps reunite lost/crashed drones with their owners. I've done very little marketing but I have managed to pull in a few recurring customers which is nice.
Hi Steve, that's pretty cool. I'm working with something similar but not for drones. How long have you been running it?
Hi!
My name is WWWillems, I'm currently working on TeamHut. My main goal for March is finding out if pivoting to a more onboarding-focused experience would make more sense than the current model.
I'm doing the 12 project 12 months, and on month 1.
I'm working on DiscoverHighlights https://lit-meadow-62391.herokuapp.com/ which is a site to find books via Kindle highlights. Its inspired by Hackernewsbooks. I also built a chrome extension along with it to allow users to get their own kindle highlights in text format and to share with the site. Any comments appreciated.
My co-founder and I were literally talking about the 12/12 thing earlier today! Power to you.
Would be cool to filter down the highlights. First thought is by genre. I don't see myself reading highlight after highlight unless they're all relevant.
Thanks for the suggestion. noted!
Working on my site Catapolt for making and participating in really large polls (i.e. with many poll options): https://catapolt.co/welcome. I even tried running some FB ads this week. Actually got a number of clicks, but not much engagement.
One thing I've noticed is that when people do sign up and engage with a poll they really go crazy. On a couple of polls I'm seeing 50-100 votes per user (in a "Choose-A-or-B") style. So I have to figure out how to get more content that people will want to engage with.
I've been working super hard on DEVY.IO
We provide unlimited Web and App Development for a small fixed monthly fee.
We've launched two weeks ago and work hasn't stopped. I'm super excited. I'd appreciate any feedback I can get.
Do you work with Appdrag? Could you do custom coding for an Appdrag site?
Yes, you absolutely can. Every element added on the AppDrag page builder has a source code editor, besides the fact that you can drop into your page blocks of HTML/CSS/JS/JQuery code, and on top of it all, you have access to the actual source code of your site, so the root folder with all the pages.
Probably! Message me on the site and I'll confirm it.
Cool idea! I went to Lisbon 2 years ago and loved it! Good luck!
Hey there Sandro, welcome! ;-)
I relaunched one of my older side-projects (https://userflowpro.com) after changing a few tiny things up and it's doing so well it's become my full-time focus.
It's been less than a month and it's already pulled in more than $1,000.
It's a low priced service at $29 per year, so it's all about getting volume now.
The product is user flow patterns for product people. I have ideas of what I need to do to grow it, so I just need to keep executing.
wow Ramy, this is a great idea! Finding out how others solve tricky design challanges is very valuable but can be so time consuming. I signed up, looking forward to seeing it improve!
Awesome - thanks, Felix! Just emailed you.
I really like the idea of a pattern library made out of what other people are doing. I've put a couple together out of apps at my day job, but that's pretty limited compared to what you have here!
Thanks! Have you kept your library to yourself, or are you publishing it?
Since it is for my day job, I have no choice but to keep it under wraps.
Huh, this is a really interesting idea. I did not have a clear idea of what you meant by "user flow patterns for product people", but I had some guesses so I clicked through. I can definitely see the value of this for a team of designers trying to consider different approaches to UX.
The only price/plan button I see is all the way at the bottom after a few scrolls. I initially looked for it in the nav bar and then the menu and was surprised when it was not there.
On the plan pricing page itself, it would be nice if the corresponding features of each plan were in the same row so that I can more easily see the differences between plans.
Is there a team plan? Can I share my account with a teammate, or do they need to buy their own plan?
Good luck with everything! You've given me some ideas to potentially do something similar in the security realm.
Thanks for the feedback - very helpful ideas.
The landing /plan pages were very rushed, I need to put more time into them. I've spent most of my time building up the library, but now's the time to make improvements like some you mentioned.
A team plan sounds like a great idea! I haven't fully thought through how it should work between team members, but certainly worth building something for it.
Something in the security space could be super interesting!
Working on idea validation for a service to help Podcast and YouTube creators get original music for their shows. Been reading Giff Constable’s book "Talking to Humans" to figure how to collect useful information from user interviews. (shout out to the IH community for turning me on to a ton of awesome resources that have motivated me to get serious about validating, building and shipping the myriad of side projects that have been sitting on my laptop for the past year!)
Working on a new sample for fizz, exploring the e.coli chromosome (got the data from http://www.ecogene.org/). I have no idea what I'm doing but it's a large data set so a good way to stress the runtime ...
Desmond here :)
I am 3rd month in my quest to launch 12 apps in 12 months.
Last month I work on WhatIDoKnow to keep track of projects and updates for my challenge.
This month I went a bit overboard by trying to do too many things. I design FlowRabbit as kanban board with Pomodoro timer for solo maker. I posted twice on IH with 10 signups and little feedback, not sure if I should proceed with this idea.
While waiting on product validation for FlowRabbit, I am learning Kotlin and Android Architecture Components and plan to build a Secure Offline Password Keeper as practice for the newly learned skill.
nice! Its cool that your last project is a project in itself but helps you out with your current project.
Thanks. FlowRabbit is also meant to be a productivity tool to help me finish the projects 😜
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NSFW. Also, I have no idea what this is...
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