What are you working on this month? (October 2018)
How is it October already? 😓 The upside is that we get another chance to talk shop and meet other founders. Here's how you can 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 October.
And that's all! Excited to hear from everyone and see what you're working on!
I'm chugging away with http://pullreminders.com.
This month I'm doing a lot of speaking, including at GitHub's conference on October 17. I'm new to public speaking so I'm doing a lot of preparation!
I'm also trying to spin-off a new product from Pull Reminders and launch the MVP this month.
this is super awesome. I am no developer but I can see how this is actually super useful!
Hey Abi - if you need any help preparing for your big talk, check out www.talkprep.io. It's my friends project and something I've used in the past to practice for a presentation!
I signed up but am waiting for a response.
Best of luck! Great idea, great product. Curious to know about the spinoff
Good luck with your talk! I'm also giving a first-time conference talk next weekend :D
Pretty cool @abinoda
Oh, that is cool. Best of luck for the conference. Looking forward to hearing from you.
Is that your first talk? Wow, I'm impressed! I'd try to give it at a local group or company (maybe the conf. organizers can help you find someplace) before going up for that one.
Yep – I'm doing at least 3 talks prior to the one at the GitHub conference!
Good stuff @abinoda can't wait to see the new product, and good luck at GH Conf that's amazing!
Thanks Colin!
I'll go first =)
This week, we are re-launching Tribe of Five (www.tribefive.me) and will finally have both an iPhone and Android app.
We got lots of great feedback from fellow Indie Hackers about what works and what doesn't from a prior beta test. Have finally incorporated those changes and am excited to see if / how that improves engagement throughout our 30 day habit challenges!
After launch (and for the rest of the month), I'll be finding beta testers and getting feedback.
If you think you'd benefit from a daily dose of accountability to read more, write more, or code more...come check it out!
This is neat idea, I signed up for the Android waiting list. I feel like there is a lot of these types of things out there right now, but I still haven't found one I enjoy. So ill be interested to try this out and see if it works for me.
Hey Kyle - thanks for signing up. I think we're FINALLY getting Android launched today, and I'll let you know as soon as it does. Would love to get your feedback along the way!
I could give it a try once you publish the Android version, but I will have a hard time selecting the goal to follow.
I'm not sure if it makes it easier...but we only have three goals to choose from at the moment (reading, writing, and coding).
If one of those are high priority for you, I encourage you to give it a try. My goal is to help you try out something new and to give it a real shot during the 30 day challenge.
Afterwards, you'll have a much better understanding if it is a healthy habit you want to incorporate into your daily routine!
I love this idea! I signed up for the Android Waiting List. I often thought about having such a small master mind group. What features does this include? Only "communication" or even more such as gamification?
Hey Tobias - thanks for signing up! I like the comparison to a small mastermind group.
On Tribe of Five, the goal is to help you take action every day and put in the time to either read, or write, or code (and soon...other daily habits).
So for whatever one is highest priority to you, we'll find you a group of like-minded accountability buddies who have that same goal.
And then through a 30 day challenge, you'll have an easy way to work together with your tribe to hold each other accountable to get sh*t done =)
Hope that helps. I'll let you know as soon as the Android version is available!
Very cool, I'm really excited about testing it out! :)
Looks awesome! Downloaded it and I am up for a challenge!
Awesome, thanks for giving it a try. We have 3 different challenges right now (reading, writing, and coding). Let me know which one you decide to join!
Already signed up for the writing challenge :)
Awesome! We just went live on Android last night so you are officially one of the first people to see it in action. Woohoo!
Now just hang tight...you'll get a push notification when your tribe is full (ie. 5 people).
If you happen to know any other Indie Hacker who want to write more just like you, I'd be eternally grateful if you forwarded Tribe of Five to them.
Cheers!
Jonathan
Awesome! I'm on iOS though. Yeah, waiting for the 5th person now :)
love the name it give sit a more fun feel instead of work!! Signing up now!
Great to have you on board!
That's very cool. Same story with Twitter, although I'm trying to substitute it with IH lately :) Would definitely try it if only you had an Android version for us ex-hippies.
Haha, yes...Android version should be coming out today! I encourage you to sign up for the waitlist (if you haven't already) so that I can let you know as soon as it's available.
It’s a good idea and something I’ve been thinking about for quite a bit as well. Would be interested to sign up.
Are you on iOS or Android? You can download the iOS app right now (www.tribefive.me)...and Android should launch today too.
Would love to get your feedback.
Very neat idea. Love the design, super simple and clear!
Thanks for the kind words. Would love to get your feedback on it!
Hey everyone!
I am currently working on the Beta version of Soccercruit (https://soccercruit.com) and am hoping to finish most of the core functionality this month. My goal is to launch by the end of the year (ideally by December 1) so that I can run the Beta for a few months before deciding on how to move forward with new features and paid plans.
I have been having a hard time this fall getting enough time to work on Soccercruit due to starting a new FT job and Grad school for Computer Science but I have been waking up at 4AM most weekday mornings to work on school and my project!
This is awesome @colin_mcatee. I respect that hustle for sure! It seems like a definite niche market you can tap into. You must be building a lot! resume builder? crm? search? How's it all going?
It's going! I am moving slow and steady due to having limited time to work on it with work/grad school. I am trying to launch the beta by the end of this year and will include whatever I have completed thus far but I am hoping everything but the CRM tool which was a new idea I added that I think it unique to the market.
The reason I ask is I'm working on a job board site called Employbl (https://employbl.com/) out of Laravel and am jealous of all that functionality! Is it all going to be part of the beta or is there a mvp with the core functionality out there?
I'm using Laravel too and I absolutely love it. Favorite web framework ever :)
Good luck man! Just a huge soccer fan and player.
Thanks @mskr - I see you are from SD. I actually grew up there!
We're getting ready to launch the new and improved PostPerk with several customers this month!
I'm playing around with a small side project to help men who've been through a breakup to recover quicker. Early stages but feedback/thoughts welcome!
I'm doing a very small bit of consulting/contracting to keep my runway for PostPerk healthy. Pretty booked up, but reach out if you could really use my help :)
Looks like an interesting idea. A nice alternative to the more traditional paid ads options. Curious to see how it works out, good luck!
Love the business model, good to find folks coming up with interesting alternatives to traditional advertising!
What's the men project? Do you have something to share - I can help with feedback/thoughts :)
Thanks!
Here's a link to the post where I go into a bit more detail. Look forward to your inputs...
https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/feedback-needed-breakup-support-app-for-men-415dbdbc28
Great work Louis, glad to hear you're still making progress with PostPerk.
Has PostPerk pivoted from the original concept or has the landing page/copy changed from what it originally was?
Hi Ben, thanks for the kind words.
Yes, we've pivoted slightly (still solving the same problem, just a different approach to solving it).
What was the reason for the pivot?
A few different ones.
Instagram are making lots of changes to their product right now and it felt shaky building a business on it.
Because there's no clear attribution path, it's hard to convince some brands of the full value of the original product.
It's quite a lot of manual work per client
We felt the new product pivot did a better job of solving the problem we care about
Cool idea, love the business model too. How hard is it to convince brands to collaborate with their competitors? I assume it's a good tool for small brands who need more exposure, correct? My hunch is that collaborating can be more financially beneficial than competing , but that goes against the ego's natural choice.
We don't actually have brands compete with their competitors (so if brand A and brand B both sell shoes, for example, they won't be paired together). It's more like Brand A sells handmade shirts, Brand B sells handmade shoes...
Sort of an Outbrain to products.
Best of luck with PostPerk! Let us know how it goes :)
Thanks Luke - the sooner we get that revenue rolling in, the sooner we can put Raaft to the test ;)
Interesting, does your partnerships also includes teaching relations?
Thanks, what do you mean by teaching relations exactly?
Do you have partnerships with school teachers or tutors for kids?
Don't really have anything yet, but tbh I wasn't really thinking about aiming the product at teachers/teens - more males aged 20-45 (at a guess).
Last month we introduced 'Get Feedback' by Draftss.com for founders to fetch constructive feedback for their landing page.
URL: http://draftss.com/feedback.html
After receiving good response over it, we are working on 2 more projects this month that would be helpful for the development of the IH community.
interesting best of luck Junaid, will give it a try when my landing page is ready :)
I sat down last night and tried to layout what my plans are for my app Harvy (https://harvy.app). I received some great feedback at the end of this past month so that has given me momentum going forward.
New designs coming out
Adding users slowly to test out while in beta!
That's pretty cool! You could even change the music based on other things like weather conditions, time of year (e.g. spring vs fall), holidays, or even what's happening in the news in that area, like local events etc.
Here's an idea.. maybe even allow local events (like music concerts or whatever) to influence the playlist, for a fee, as a form of advertising.
Oh snap! That is some great feedback! Those are things I haven't thought about but would be great features to add - thanks for the suggestions! Added to the list
That's pretty cool. Do you mind sharing the tech stack you are using?
Yeah! Right now I'm using React for my website which I learned this past summer. My "backend" uses Google Cloud Functions so it's very simple and very small at this point - I utilized Cloud Functions, Firebase Database, Firebase Authentication, and Firebase hosting for all of my needs.
Before I switch to being solely Google, I was running 2 servers on Heroku and it was costing me $14 a month...I just got my bill from Google for last month, it was $0.04. I'm not mad about that!
Trying to capitalise on the several thousand visitors we've had since landing on the HN front page last week with https://trolley.link
Lots of great comments - here and HN - and I've managed to implement a load of them already.
Writing the first in a series of blogs posts too...
Ha! Stripe claimed they're the easiest to setup, and now somebody found the easiest way to setup Stripe!
Hi @artem
Yes, I suppose so :)
Stripe have always been about maximising the developer experience, so they prioritise speed to start, but also control, flexibility and power.
Trolley is about the entrepreneur experience and making it as fast as possible to get something up and taking payments. It's simplicity-first.
Rory
This looks really useful. I have always thought there should be an easier way to launch and test projects with payments integrated.
Thanks Samir!
That's awesome! Waiting for your blog posts :)
I've been working 200% on PDFShift, an API that converts HTML documents to PDF with a single POST request.
My biggest plan for october is to reach 1k MRR. I'm almost closing on 3 clients at 99$, I hope they will convert :)
Cyril, this is a cool idea! Have you tested any of these pdfs on a kindle?
No, I haven't thought of that (and don't have a Kindle). Why do you ask?
congrats @cnicodeme , how you get client for your projects ? thanks
I talk about it, write things on social networks (Reddit, HN, IH Twitter, and Facebook). It takes a lot of time! :)
Great👍
Good luck!
Thanks!!! :)
peapods.com : Event-based social network. Beta is launching soon!
this is awesome we are in very similar space as well seeking to enable more face to face interactions! Would love to try the beta out!
Landing page is slow to load. But it's worth the wait for the animation alone.
Love the mission. Really interesting.
loved your landing page.. and the concept.. look forward and all the best!
@mikestaub Can you share the person who did the animation? Would love to give them some work :-)
Gladly, http://beresnev.design
Your cartoon on the landing page is awesome. Was browsing when the wife walked by and commented how cute they were.
Thanks, I'm trying to really put a lot of effort into the branding and UX.
I really like the look of the site.
wow! I loved the landing page.
At this point, I have three different projects in flight.
My most recent launch is https://www.parler.io/, a service to automatically convert blog posts into audio translations. This is still very early days as this is just the alpha release at this point. However, I would love any feedback/ideas/comments on what you like/dislike or would like to see from a project like this. Give me a shout on Twitter or here if you want to chat more.
I have my weekly curated newsletter, https://www.kylegalbraith.com/learn-by-doing/ that is approaching 1k subscribers mark. It has been great to get off the ground and gather feedback on, but I still need to figure out how/if this can be monetized. Has anyone had any luck with monetizing newsletters? So far the small profit I have made has been on sponsorships but I need to figure out how I feed that machine.
My book, Learn AWS By Using It (https://www.kylegalbraith.com/learn-aws), is still clicking along. I have noticed that my work on the other two projects has definitely pulled me away from consistently marketing this project. I continue to feed the content marketing machine for this, but I only did 4 sales last month. My plan is to enhance my email marketing for this so that I can have multiple touch points with my potential customers.
Today I have started my first project:
A case study going from zero to profitable business in the next months. The plan is to share every single detail, every up and down with you.
This is the initial post (https://medium.com/lyghthaus/from-zero-to-profitable-business-in-3-months-follow-my-journey-c9d484ba7d33) or here on IH (https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/case-study-from-zero-to-profitable-business-in-3-months-9411409923).
I was surprised how long it can take to write such a blog post.
Would love to get some feedback from you! What would you like to see in such a case study?
This is epic. The 24h launches start to look like get-rich-fast schemes. Your approach is much more serious. Definitely following.
Haha! Certainly, these 24-hour challenges are problematic in some ways, and I criticised them a little bit in my post for exactly this. In 24 hours you can build a rough prototype or a simple CRUD app (which is what they are doing mostly in these 24-hour challenges), but this is neither a startup nor a business yet.
That's the reason why I want to expand this in a much more detailed case study.
I think it would be awesome to livestream this on Twitch. :)
Thanks for the feedback! It's definitely on my "ideas" list, so I'll see if I will try it out and if it's working out well I can plan out regular live stream schedules :)
Good luck dude!
This is a great idea! Look forward to reading about your journey.
Good article @lyghthaus. Good luck and look forward to following your journey.
This month, I'll be adding more resources to https://founderstuff.xyz (a curated list of resources for founders). In addition to this, I'll try to monetize the site through affiliate links and add more verticals.
Also, I'll try and cover some more early-stage projects for earlystageblog.com
founderstuff.xyz is very helpful, thanks for putting it together! Maybe you could add small summary lines to the blog links, so that readers have more knowledge about where to go from there.
I'm glad you found it to be helpful :)
That's on top of my to-do list for Founder Stuff
Thanks for the feedback 🙏
We'll be working on expanding the feature set of Site Tap (https://sitetap.co) for our Premium users (and potentially new features for our free users as well).
We've been spitballing some ideas including notification groups and keyword analysis but haven't found a winner yet. We might send out a survey and leave it up to our users!
Either way, we're excited for the direction Site Tap is heading.
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Our mistake! It appears NGINX had some trouble restarting last night. It's back up now!
I'm building a Zapier integration for Raaft.io so that customers can build interesting automations when a customer cancels (or even just considers it).
did you use the CLI or the old-school way to build out the Zapier integration?
Oh that's a solid idea! Good luck
We are building Orchestra (http://orchestrahq.com), a platform for companies and developers to embed AI/machine learning to their apps much faster through APIs. We are also a consultancy and can help build models for specific purposes. We recently built a model to identify invoices from PDF files with an 90% accuracy.
Our belief is that AI should be accessible to everyone to help make their companies smarter.
Damn, I mean, wow, I was going to build a PDF-to-invoice app myself!
It's actually a very useful thing since most of the time accountants spend entering data from invoices and payment receipts into their apps. Automate this, and you can cut your bookkeeping costs, like, 10x.
Happy to let you have a go at it and you can easily embed the model in your app yourself :)
We want to enable AI-related businesses so I'm encouraged to hear your comments!
Great landing page and nice proposition. Most of my ML models require at least 8GB RAM to run and are pretty CPU intensive, so I’d be interested to try it out. Presumably there are code architecture requirements (e.g. must use Flask, Gunicorn)?
Thanks. We absolutely want you to try it out as you're our first intensive use case! We want to see how we can manage the computational resources automatically while also giving users the option to boost it if needed.
No code architecture requirements - the only requirements is that you have a function that wraps around your main modelling code.
I'm looking into various ways of how we can make it easier to upload model (i.e. serialized models). So far, you can upload code and select a Git repository to clone from.
I think starting this month, I'll also try the 12 startups in 12 months challenge.
I've been iterating on my landing page for https://getartemis.app and it seems like I'm getting all these new suggestions of what other people want, but in actuality, I started this project to focus on my own productivity, so while these outside ideas are great, I realized I've been losing track of what exactly I want to build.
Because of that, I'm going to start building a simple todo list with time estimates of each task, and hook into calendar APIs in order to schedule out my day based on those tasks.
I like your landing page, good luck!
Thanks! Anything in particular you like?
Bizarrely, we have an internal project management system called Artemis at my regular job. Looks interesting so far
Haha yeah it's not an original name, but it sounds cool
I'm going to be working on integrating Amplitude into my business to start tracking my funnel a little bit better. Hopefully that will give me some visibility into conversion problem areas.
Thanks @denvercoder9 for sharing. Never heard of Amplitude and will look to integrate in one of our products as well.
Myself and other founder are working on our side project, the Members Portal (https://membersportal.co), a membership and event management system for all types of organisation.
We're changing tact in October, scaling back development to around 20% of our time, and looking at more outgoing sales, marketing, and improving our public site and blog.
The 20% dev time is focusing on automating some parts of our web app that still require developer help.
All feedback welcome!
FYI, the pricing area on your website does not layout well on my phone.
What size orgs are you targeting? Curious what experience you have with larger vs. smaller orgs
Really excited you're shifting from development to customer focus. Often we get stuck in the making part, not the awareness part. Look forward to hearing you share updates later this month.
What is your strategy for outgoing sales?
We are targeting the categories of our existing customer list. For example, on the Members Portal we currently have hockey (field hockey in the US), tennis, and rugby clubs, as well as language schools, so we find all the other teams in their leagues, or similar language schools.
From there we've setup a quick easy email template page to run through email lists, linked to our CRM, but are limiting ourselves to around 20 per day initially to avoid getting snowed under.
Ideally I'd like to follow up with phone calls but this isn't possible as it's a side project.
I'd suggest reading "Predictive Revenue" as a great book for setting up outgoing/outbound sales strategy.
I want to validate the idea behind www.champgen.com , see if someone could be interested in having automatic generation of brackets for competitions.
Actually, I am recycling some code that I have alredy written from a site that I had (and that had no traction at all).
E-sports tournament's could use this. I've seen people on twitch.tv holding online tournaments and its very hard to organize the brackets.
I think the idea is good. Iv'e never seen a heavy duty tournament bracket generator. Saying that, I think you need to find a market segment, i.e Fantasy Football and focus all your marketing and landing page on the benefits to the community. I know how developers tend to get bogged down in the tech. And that is both a benefit of the product but it's actually an aside to the main message. I suffered through the same thing with my products even though I knew this in the back of my mind. Somehow I still made it to "techy". But after feedback, I was able to get it back on track.
Thanks for the feedback. I've started looking for comunities that would be interested (currently Brazilian Jiu Jitsu), but I think I will try to get more feedback from other sports, like Judo. At some point I thought I could target federations instead of directly organizers.
Hi,
Been finding tutors for my learning platform for kids (https://www.mijjimo.com). I hope to get some up and running soon.
Meanwhile, I'm on my way building my second project (taking my time) which is a platform where people can view products based on the niche they follow (like Twitter but selling/buying products).
Hi Azhan,
I couldn't find any courses (not sure if you have any available yet), perhaps include a suggestion in your search box placeholder text? If you don't have live results yet, maybe do like Netflix and suggest alternatives if none are found.
Hi there,
It's a new platform and I'm at the moment waiting for teachers to upload their courses. I hope to get them soon. Sort of solving the chicken and egg problem.
I could do your suggestion mentioned. Perhaps I might need to do some advertisements on social media (e.g Facebook & Twitter).
If you got any suggestion, let me know.
I started my 12 startup in 12 months challenge just starting from October. I was working on a landing page listing website and I'm almost done with the MVP, just need to add some stuff before launching. It's online right now: https://landub.com
Any feedback would be welcome.
I've been working on an MVP admin backend UI for .NET Core web apps. Specifically, this is targeted to ".NET Core Indie Saas Creators".
I have an open source project - Coravel - and this is (for now) termed "Coravel Pro" - a paid extension of Coravel.
The MVP will have a beautiful dashboard that's easy to configure, ability to run Coravel "Jobs" from the UI and Schedule Jobs from the UI.
I just put up a landing page with MailChimp (hey - it's free!) at https://mailchi.mp/2ab47aaa76c9/coravelpro
The open source project, if anyone is interested, is at https://github.com/jamesmh/coravel
It's been a lot of work, but I'm gonna keep chugging away at it!
Hey Indie Hackers, my goal for this month (being my birthday month:) ) is to start generating revenue from my company Graam (https://www.graam.co)
Things are definitely tight for me and I'll have to start freelancing/get a gig to support myself if I don't hit my targets by the end of this month.
The more time I spend in IH the more I love the community!
Currently I am spending most of my time on https://nighteye.app/. Couple of weeks ago we launched the version for Edge and it was well received by the Edge community. The launch got covered in 8-10 different websites without any contact with us, which was awesome. In October we are pushing to launch the Safari version, which already has more than 500 people signed up for it.
I did't do much writing on September, although SEO is bringing a lot of new users and I need to push more posts on our blog.
Have you ever needed a phone charger in Starbucks? Wondering who would split that buy1 get1 free Frappuccino with you?
We can help by letting you broadcast quick in-person helps you need to those in the same space. Those that can help can then reach out & you get to say thanks and give them a fist bump after.
This month we finally have our app on the App Store called Mayo http://www.heymayo.com — Android will be coming in a few days.
The ultimate goal is to enable in-person micro-interactions with you and those around you. This creates a more friendly and and trusting environment, and also gets you a little time off of your screens.
Next up for us is focusing on getting adoption in co-working spaces like Wework and getting feedback on it!
if you have any questions / thoughts feel free to let us know!
This month I'm working on https://formico.io/
We're a software agency focused on helping startups launch ideas quickly and scale their architecture.
I'd like to find a more specific niche to focus on and I'm struggling to built a consistent marketing/lead generation system. So far every potential project we've had come in has been through a different source.
(About a dozen leads -> half a dozen calls -> 4 projects spec'd -> 1 project completed).
Open to suggestions/feedback/advice on anything, thanks for checking us out :D
Clean up my code so that I can release interstatehq.com for beta testing, it should launch in Sep but has been delayed.
Joined the #30daystartup and launch another product in Oct.
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I work on small widget for your social networks, which help you will be able to tell more about you from the social side
https://multipassport.me/
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I just released an initial version of https://www.pasteur.cc/, a tool for generating shareable, trippy videos from your music.
I have a variety of goals for this project and I'm not quite sure which ones to focus on. I think the highest priority is allowing for song/track overlays on the video and adding some kind of minimal pasteur branding, as this feels like a good way to drive traffic back to the site. Another major goal is to move all of the rendering out of the browser and onto the server, which will allow for higher resolution renders and will relax the requirement for WebGL 2 to use the site (right now it only works in desktop Chrome and Firefox.) Some additional project goals are listed in the about section on the site.
This month I'm working on Employbl: https://employbl.com/ It's a site where job seekers can find companies in the Bay Area and create a hiring profile.
This month my goal is to finish the job seeker onboarding so job seekers can put in all of their information and do a couple blog posts to the Medium channel as well
I am working on https://podflix.app a podcast search and recommendation engine
Hi, very nice idea. How is it different from other podcast platforms, like Castbox, for example? Very curious to learn more about your project and good luck! :)
Channing, I finally got back to working on a new project since the new baby came in July. I only get 2-3 hours a week now. I am building a course for parents to teach their kids how to program using Scratch 3.0. I have only posted a few videos on Youtube, but the course will eventually live on https://nextlesson.com
Tyson
I started working on https://bestresume.io at the end of last month.
Now that a basic landing page is live, my idea is to continue the work on it while I try to collect as much feedback as possible and deal with legal terms.
In the meantime I am testing the service on some early users resumes, to see if the review is satisfying and gives the value they expect.
If you are interested and want to know more, check it out and join the waiting list! ;-)
That's a very interesting service! I've hired people for some of the companies I've worked for and finding a nice cv was pretty much impossible. I remember this guy who applied for a communications role who had a 33-page cv. Thirty-three. I also read them all, because I was very curious about how you can fill 33 pages with working experiences. He even included 1-day jobs and every single school he attended, starting from kindergarten.
Working on https://ww.idiopage.com.
Starting to make some real progress with outbound sales. Need to create and maintain a steady feedback loop of sales calls + writing code.
I'm working on growing www.shellvault.io, a SSH client on the web.
The MVP launched a couple of weeks ago, and after a break, I'm doing my best to market and get more customers.
I'm spending my free time on https://httpslocalhost.com : The fastest way to get https on your dev. machine.
Over the past few months, Chrome and other browsers aggressively pushed for https support. Letsencrypt made https free. This is all good for the end user's privacy, but sometimes causes trouble for developers (like me). There is no simple way to get https working locally, hence you can't test some https only features. I also added support for prettier local domains. Let me know how you feel about it.
Working on the next release of the Scholarcy web app (app.scholarcy.com) that provides Word export and a new summarisation API that returns the key highlights of a document.
This will create a platform that will read any document and then write up the key points for you.
I'm working on automatically extracting screenshots with the pricing of all saas products. Then you'd be able to use the pricing information when comparing software on www.saashub.com
Status: WIP
Continue work on my pet project https://mochiboard.com/
My biggest goal for Oct is to collect all the feedback I've received and work on re-vamping the messaging on the landing page to more clearly articulate the product.
I'm planning to use Mochiboard as a project for students in a product design and marketing bootcamp I'll be involved with the next 3 months, so I'll be getting those projects together (eg. user research, visual branding re-vamp, refining the feature set to make a kick-ass user experience, and of course... making the app more useful and fun :)
If you'd got a spare few mins and want to try it out I'd love to get your feedback in this round!
ps. It's usable on mobile but best on desktop at the moment...
I want to launch my new product
roastMe(https://roastme.xyz): a feedback marketplace where makers, founders, designers, etc. can ask for opinions, reviews and feedback for their products, ideas, websites, etc.I found a lot of people looking for feedback for their products (for instance, in this page there are 25 people asking for feedback) and I decided to build a platform for sharing it. You can buy expert reviews or become an expert and get money helping others.
Now I'm in the last part of building the MVP, after 3 weeks working on it! Hope you like it! (it's still beta)
This is a cool idea! I assume part of the goal with "roast me" is to get people to leave more honest feedback, since people might want to be nice at the expense of being honest.
One idea: an easier way to see a sample roast. Right now, if I'm curious about what a "roast" entails, the only obvious entree is "View all roasts" which feels intimidating if I just want to see what the product is about. You could remove the generic graphic in the right side of the hero and replace it with a sample post?
Nice work!
Hi Mark, thanks for your words. Yes, this is the main goal, to provide honest feedback for everybody.
Thanks for the idea, just now I was thinking either change it for an image/example of roast or a video... With your advice I will surely do it!
Hi there! End of September we shyly released our https://kwiki.io into the wild... It's a documentation tool aimed at SMBs and startups that need simple and effective tool for both internal and external documentation. Built out of our own need, one year after starting it as a side-project in my IT company, here we are!
If anyone is interested in giving it a go, I'd be thrilled if you would head over to https://kwiki.io sign up and let me know! I'd be happy to give business plan in exchange for feedback and testing :)
Have an awesome October IH!
I'm going to try and figure out what to do next with:
http://www.weakbackbuilder.com/
Been applying some of my theory to myself again as my back has been playing up!
This month will be a difficult month for Vualala (https://www.indiehackers.com/product/vualala), so working hard there.
I'm going to work on getting more consistent traffic to hotsuto.com
Had a soft launch, so PH is coming next. I've gotten decent traffic, but haven't gotten any affiliate sales. Hopefully that changes!
I have plans to launch the first full version JobRoz.com this month.
My aim is to reach 1000 profiles listed on the website. I am very much near to that figure.
I am a digital marketer, So right now my goal for this month is to increase signups for our product & spread word about our product.
All these recent Google algorithm updates have sent my site (https://howtomakemyblog.com/) on a bigger roller coaster over the last month or so.
Now my goal for October is to fully focus on content creation/upgrades and marketing in order to give it a boost again.
When Google is your largest traffic source, you (sometimes) have to be reactive to changes they make and take action. Let's see how it works out!
See, this is what I was saying, our website(https://www.slickaccount.com/profitability/index) is receiving less traffic. What are you going to do about it?
Good way to start is by looking to do a content audit and figure out what content works, what doesn't, what can be updated, improved etc
Thank you.Will check That:)
I'm working on a tool that will allow people to keep their image folders automatically organized. The tool uses deep learning, and all you have to do is plug in the categories of images that you are interested in sorting. I take care of all the neural network training, and you don't even need a fancy GPU. Basically I'm trying to bring deep learning to everyone's local image folders!
The name of the tool is Stowbots. I don't have a website up yet, but I hope to have a demo video and website up in the next two weeks!
Working to improve https://feedmo.io
This month we will probably focus mostly on different marketing strategies.
What kind of marketing strategies to you use to promote your product?
I finally started paid plans for my website auditor browser extension (https://www.checkbot.io/) over a month ago and made some sales. 😄
I'm currently focusing on bringing in more traffic to the website and optimising the sales funnel.
I'm working on https://lesspie.com/ which is an opinionated Scrum focused management tool. I've been dealing with Jira for a while and I know there's many alternative but felt compelled enough to compete in the space as I've noticed Agile is not that common even though it's been around for some time
I am working on lynks.in
It allows users to curate bunch of links on internet and create custom resource library on the fly. Also users can search, collaborate and share resources with others.
For. e.g I have curated links of some of the best YC resources ( blogs, AMA, podcast, videos).
https://lynks.in/folder/ycombinator
Still working on https://www.phpjobs.app.
Since my last post I have added my blog, added job editing, written a launch post, launched on Twitter, had one "customer" (currently posts are free), and one person sign up for my newsletter.
I try and bounce around from development to business/marketing so that I don't get bored and feel stuck in any one area.
Lately I've been working on updating my code for auto tagging and then working on my individual job landing page.
As far as business, I've jotted down a few ideas I got from feedback on Reddit.
And with marketing, I'm trying to do some very specific blogging to help drive traffic to the site (maybe one article a week or every other week).
Any feedback is welcome 🤙
Launching my project. Profitabilly.com job costing software for services based business.
I'm launching https://presskite.com in beta. Press Kite is the easiest way to create a press kit for your startup and start gaining press coverage.
Open to feedback, if anyone has any. Register for a (free!) account here and try it out. https://presskite.com/register
@ChrisFrantz have you talked to @matthenderson? He's in the PR for startup space and might have some feedback for your app.
Hey Vanessa, I haven't spoken with him, but he is on our waitlist! If @ notifications work, maybe he'll appear in this thread. :)
Interesting, what's your monetization plan for this? Are you offering ways to get press coverage as well?
By the way, I think the first link has a typo and should be presskite.com.
Thanks for the heads up!
Regarding monetization, we're offering a free plan with an option to upgrade to $9/month with no caps on image uploads, no Press Kite branding on the kit and a custom URL (ie press.yourdomain.com)
Have you had a chance to create a kit and try out the free plan? Feedback would be much appreciated.
This month is going to be a big month for Codemason.
On the technical side of things:
I'm making some big changes to improve how we handle firing off all the jobs required to keep multiple systems that power Codemason in sync.
It's a little bit more tricky because in a couple of places Service B can only do what it needs to do when Service A has finished. Fortunately, I've got it mostly figured out and now it's just a process of doing it, testing it and deploying it
On the marketing side of things:
I'm very excited about this one! I'm going to be finishing a feature called: Blueprints. Blueprints will let you easily spin up app architectures and start building on them in minutes. So if an app needs Nginx, MySQL and Redis etc instead of having to worry about setting all that up, it's all done automatically.
When blueprints are ready, I intend to write a blog post or two demonstrating how to use it with a few frameworks which can have quite complex architectures
I'm working on marketing pulseproduct.com more.
I've been building and building without focusing on selling, but I really need to shift focus.
We are picking up customers and implementing features they ask for, to ensure we give them all an exceptional experience.
Over the next few weeks I plan to work on shifting to a more transparent type of marketing, where we share what our metrics and plans are. People are telling me they like supporting the underdog, and I think if they knew the inner workings of our company then it could help them get in behind and support us.
What statergies do you use for promoting your product?
Outbrain, Facebook Ads, Facebook Retargeting, Content, Paid Search.
A mix of everything while I determine what works.
Do you cover why a user should trust you? Also any larger brands or shops where you can show improvements on key metrics?
Duolingo for math:
https://www.brighthike.com
This month it'll soft launch in beta, selling the very first memberships.
I'll probably be boring for these: just one project month after month ;-D
I have finally started learning how to program. I have a background and expertise in economics, finance, strategy, business development, sales, product management. The only piece of the puzzle left was programming and building a program from scratch. So now I am on it!
Why do you need to learn coding?
Fulfilling curiosity and learning purposes.
Two things on Voicepods.com:
We wrapped up our most asked for feature: an Editor to annotate text so that you can tune parts of the voice as you want. Find more on the marketing page: https://www.voicepods.com/editor
We're in the process of our first few pilots of running custom voices through our AI model. Hopefully this will bring us a step closer to productizing that aspect of the business.
Mostly working on a lot of calls to sign up more customers.
This month I'm working on invitemember.com, bot platform/paywall for Telegram channels and groups.
The development part is more or less over, now it's time to focus more on marketing and launch.
Late to the party:
I'm working on getting more customers onto TinyVoicemail (https://tinyvoicemail.com) and adding more integrations. There's little search volume for any keyword I could possibly rank for so I'm outsourcing content for that while I work on the hard stuff. I figure that being on partner channels will give me a small enough boost to keep my momentum going.
Working on my new card game: https://playcryptocards.com/
Been working on this since July. The gameplay, designs, testing the game and dealing with printing companies is mostly behind me. Cards are in print and should arrive to Amazon (FBA) in late October. Fingers crossed :)
I'm working on pipegears.com and have recently opened it up for beta. Over the last couple weeks I've gotten several signups and have received great feedback.
My main focus this month is to validate my product market fit and find my ideal early adopters.
Cool, what stack is behind it?
Thanks! The backend is built with Java and MariaDB, with the frontend using the Vue.js framework
Add the final few features I think I need for the MVP of Albert (www.albertrm.com)
It's a long time coming - been mucking around building this for a few years but only got serious about it in the last month. I think there's a need here and I'm hoping it works out.
At the very least, I know I'll use it, lol
Final development sprint (bug squashing) to v1.0 of Block Lab, a WordPress plugin for easily building custom Gutenberg Blocks.
Hoping to get it in to the hands of WordPress devs for feedback at least a couple of months before the release (core merge) of the the new WordPress Editor.
Still working on https://squadpanel.com
For this month we have the plan of add lazy image loading and CDN support for our user images.
Smooth image loading is an important part of our application but we are thinking in more things to implement like the "questions" feature. This will allow to ask periodical questions to your organization members.
Wish us luck!🤞
So many good products and ideas. Congrats to all of you.
I'm working with an entrepeneur on a new marketplace called IconTummy (anagram of community). We both use Upwork and hate the site so we want to build a community where high-value customers can work with freelancers in a more condusive environment plus allow freelancers to collaborate with each other on a project without the huge fees.
We spent September planning and brainstorming the various aspects of Upwork, LinkedIn and other competitor sites to see how to stand out and provide better value and this month we want to develop an MVP and validate the idea as quickly as possible. Any advice/suggestions is much appreciated.
I'm working on a project to help people find room shares in Brooklyn without going through a broker. It's somewhat curated from Craigslist ads, but without the need to sort through all the BS listings on there. I'd love to have a landing page up and running by the end of the month, but I'm not very technical, even the free website builders give me trouble.. I've mostly been a sales guy. Feel free to reach out if you'd be interested in designing something very basic, either on launchaco or something similar.
Late to the show? 🤓
I'm hustling towards getting the first paying customers for Chartbrew. On the features side, we should have support for MySQL, PostgreSQL and maybe Firebase as well.
Excited to see what the new month will bring 🚀
Currently working on the Beta for https://www.backendlab.app. I have about 50 users signed up for the public beta so far. Alongside various bug fixes, I'm also trying to decide how long the beta needs to last until the "real" launch
We're going to launch Blog Reader feature on https://www.gonevis.com
This will let all the bloggers on GoNevis.com to read all the published posts from the blogs they're following from the dashboard.
This will make our blogging platform a much better place to discovers, read and follow favorite blogs.
Hi guys 👋 I’ll be working on https://www.gitarchive.com. It’s already been a few weeks that I’m coding it and the challenge is quite huge! Basically, it’s WebArchive.org on steroids and git-powered. Will talk more about it soon :)
Hi guys 👋 I’ll be working on https://www.gitarchive.com. It’s already been a few weeks that I’m coding it and the challenge is quite huge! Basically, it’s WebArchive.org on steroids and git-powered. Will talk more about it soon :)
I used to play with the wayback machine all the time, so interesting to see how far we've come..can't wait to see what you build!
This month am working on http://leadsbot.xyz an interactive chat widget that collects data from your website visitors by asking questions you have scripted - 24/7, fully on auto-pilot. You get an email alert or a web hook when a user completes the questions.The best part: Leadsbot.xyz is 100% free during Beta period of 1 month, subscribe to get this chatbot
DevFlight on-boards your open-source projects to cloud marketplaces with ease. Think Stripe Atlas for cloud marketplaces.
Hi all, I'm working on wwww.FitMyTime.com - a marketplace for online live 1:1 fitness & yoga classes.
The supply side (fitness & yoga instructors) is solid.
Next step is to create a solid demand side (trainees) without using paid advertising.
Would appreciate your feedback and some inspiration for growth hacking ideas :)
My main focus this month is on building an iOS app for creating music out of images. I have just put out a rough demo for this on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/292517633
The core target of users focuses on pro music producers and synth heads, and that's why it will feature stuff like Ableton Link support, Audiobus support and a slew of synth and sequencer options, etc.
I got some interesting feedback lately about also creating a more 'popular' version that non-pro users can use / can have a more immediate and gratifying result out of, though I'm not sure how to pursue this front without potentially alienating the core group.
We're building BetterBase (www.betterbase.io) - which allows users to create custom dev checklists. We were finding that our features and updates often shipped with bugs or overlooked QA items that would then require fixes and additional deployments. We're hoping that BetterBase helps to solve this by allowing users to create projects and link them with rules that they can use as checklists before deploying to production (i.e. add analytics tracking, check for cross-browser compatibility in "x" version of "y" browser, etc.). We'd love to hear if you have ANY feedback (good or bad). Thanks!
This is an interesting space. I'll be interested to hear how this progresses.
This month I'm working on the next step up from my MVP for BlueDash: Learner Squads for freeCodeCamp.
More specifically, I'll be working with a designer to create wireframes and prototypes for a platform to set up and manage Learner Squads beyond freeCodeCamp, for courses on Coursera, Udacity, and Udemy.
We have 4 squads and 23 learners already signed up, and I'll be looking for their feedback to create something truly amazing – hopefully!
Hey, this is really cool! I like your landing page a lot as well. Let me know if you need help finding a designer.
Hopefully I can make some progress with my book https://vpsformakers.com/.
Hey, this looks really cool! I love the yellow and black design. It simultaneously feels sys-adminny and is pleasing to look at. As someone who frequently uses cheap VPSes, this book looks like it's up my alley.
One thing you might consider adding (perhaps another bullet point in the "Are you a maker, web developer, aspiring sysadmin..." box?) is a reference to why someone would use a VPS over other hosting options, like shared, dedicated, or static site hosting.
Thanks a lot for the feedback!
I originally started a section explaining why VPS and not XYZ, however, it was not polished enough and I wanted to make the landing page online so I will add it a bit later.
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