What are you working on this weekend?
Some get President's Day off. Could be a 3 days weekend for some.
What are you working on? What help do you need?
Some get President's Day off. Could be a 3 days weekend for some.
What are you working on? What help do you need?
Still working on the product directory for Indie Hackers. It works now, but it's super slow, because Firebase's Real-Time Database (RTD) only lets you sort/filter by one thing at a time. I'm looking into transitioning the "products" node of the database to the new Firestore database, which does allow for advanced sorting and filtering. But tbh I'm not sure it's even possible to do, because Firestore's rules and permissions can't talk to RTD. We'll see!
Really looking forward to that feature! :) The filters look promising - UI-wise as well as in terms of how they'll allow browsing through the products.
love the screenshot. I have looked at using Firebase for a project but don't know anything about it.
I'm a freelance web developer but trying to setup this blog where I channel all of my experiences working in Japan for more than 10 years to help others looking for work in Japan or for people who just want to know more about Japanese work life. I'm struggling with writing articles since I do not have much experience and since I'm not a native english speaker. Working on getting my first 10 articles up, have so much stuff in my head that I want to output in through this blog. https://getworkjapan.com/
Good stuff. As a former editor (coincidentally also in Japan), I'd actually advise you not to worry too much about not being a native speaker or having your writing perfect. Your posts seem to have a genuine voice, so that's all you need.
Maybe keep a long term vision for what else you might do with all your blog posts. Could this be a book after 30 posts or so? It might be a good exercise to write out a list of topics you hope to cover/check off if you haven't already.
In any case, nice work!
Thank you for your kind words, that's great advice, would love to turn it into a book of some sort in the future
Oh god! I’ve been in Japan for 4 times. Once i cycled the length of Japan by bicycle from Wakkanaibto Kagoshima. My dream is to live there for a couple of years and I don’t know how to do make it happen. Would love to read about that
Thanks for your feedback! That is a far stretch on a bicycle! Good Job! Will work on getting more practical information out there in the upcoming blogs :)
Very cool! I would just start by writing tiny articles. Like pick a small topic, answer it, post it.
I find if I am struggling with an article, I am trying to do too much.
That's actually really good advice, thanks! :)
Keep up the good work! I just checked out the blog and it has a nice feel too it. I've always wanted to get into this lifestyle, but have no idea how. I'd really enjoy a piece about how you think others could get started living in Japan.
Thanks for your feedback! I've come to realize that we need to write more about practical stuff so will focus on that in the upcoming articles
Top of the notch photo on your who-am-i blog post, gent.
I'd put that front and center somewhere. It is human.
As a man, I immediately identify with that photo and find myself wanting to be there. The Kimono (is that what it is, I'm uneducated in this regard), your beautiful Japanese wife, the backdrop - it all pulls me in to the romance and excitement of working in Japan.
Your other photos are reasonably emotionally gripping as well. Unsolicited advice, but I'd love to see more prominent display of the photos on the site.
Thanks for your feedback! I will look into how we can create a better balance between the contents and the photos :)
Everything is going on @ plainflow.com
We're refining our workflow editor and adding some UX improvements. (👀 sneak preview https://i.imgur.com/h7Q9OUR.png)
Working on a new essay on the blog (coming out next Tuesday)
Working out a "solutions section" with lots of workflow examples (end of this month)
Refining our customer interview framework
Improving SEO indexing for our internal documentation (plainflow.com/docs)
A new set of private beta will be sent out this week. 📬
Plainflow looks sweet. Signed up.
It took me a while to work out what your product does, but after understanding it sounds very handy – I wish you the best with it! :)
I would suggest some work on the homepage to really let the user know what problems and frustrations it solves, rather than just talking about what it does.
As a headline this didn't draw me in, the copy should be answering "why should I care?" as soon as possible for the reader, so that they can then subconsciously choose whether to carry on reading the rest of the page.
Good luck!
Hi,
I have never released anything on my own and in the spirit of at least trying I created a small tool I needed myself - https://serveractivitymonitor.com/
The tool allows you to get a quick view on the server load, think Windows's Task Manager or macOS's Activity Monitor, thus the name, but for a server. You only need SSH daemon running.
Why not SSH directly and run
ps? - you could do that, and I've been doing that for a while, but sometimes I just want to see what is going on without remembering all the required args.I also decided to do something very uncomfortable - try to see if there's an interest before actually making the final product.
Thoughts?
Really cool stuff! Would be nice to have notifications and charts.
I might add charts, but notifications - not sure yet. Perhaps some desktop notifications?
The way I see it, is that this tool doesn't replace the traditional monitoring, and one still needs a 24/7 solution.
Very cool. I think your head image is too big. Could use some of that space to show me the results. Show me why I want to download the tool now. The rest of the site is nice I think. Way to go!
Thanks for the feedback!
I'll try to see what else to put in the header, so far just used an unsplash image.
Just out of curiosity, was it clear what the tool does?
Seemed like it was an easy to install server monitoring tool.
I don't know exactly what it was monitoring. So maybe that could be something to add.
I am working on marketing the YouTube channel my brother and I started.
We collect and publish no copyright songs you can use in your YouTube videos and live streams.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KneNJqJEEyE
Working on getting to 100 subscribers.
For a newbe - and how do you do that (marketing a yt channel)?
Liked your music!
Thanks!
The biggest thing is try to provide value. So for example reach out to the Twitch subreddit and explain so principle of using creative commons music.
Reach out to groups that have a need, provide value.
Also try to optimize the search-ability of the videos. If someone is looking or googling for what we provide, we have to show up. So working on descriptions, tags etc can help.
Oh, good. So it's reddit, seo and the somehow misterious "reach out to groups" - Thank you.
I was asking because I wondered what it kight be and also because I'm about to search for my audience (amazon sellers) which I have no clue where to find...?
if you want specific advice, ask specific questions. ;)
If you are looking for Amazon sellers, I would start with Fb Groups. There are a bunch of them. Join them all, and see which have healthy conversations, which are tightly mod controlled etc. You could even ask in those groups, where else members hang out. There are probably some Slack groups that you could eventually get invited to as well. Good luck!
Working on our backend for Prumio.com. Also trying to justify pricing / improve pricing. Such a difficult issue to get right.
Justifying high prices with an unproven startup is difficult, but equally I don’t want to hike up the price when we are ‘proven’ and annoy existing customers.
Does anyone have experience with this?
When we change prices, we grandfather our existing clients in usual. Doesn't seem to be too big a deal for them.
I guess in that case we just need to make sure that the pricing is sustainable in that case. Thanks for the input Josh!
Doing some research for a brand new project related to the GDPR regulative.
This https://www.eugdpr.org/?
That's the one :)
My favourite link on the subject is this: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr
interesting topic! care to elaborate what the project is about? :)
I suppose that you're familiar with the GDPR - but - for all others, In a short, it's regulative from the EU "government" related to personal data privacy.
To be honest, I'm watching this topic for a while, and it seems interesting to me because of severe technical and organizational challenges and because there is no magic wand which will make any software (application) compliant.
Software developers will be, as usual, those who will have to implement actual changes to make their apps compliant.
And, again, as usual, devs are busy doing tons of other things and probably don't care about the GDPR; if they care, they probably don't know where to start.
I'm considering creating cookbook solution for developers, with ready-to-go source code in different languages/platforms, connected to the backend for all other GDPR requirements.
Do you work on some GDPR related stuff? Anyone else?
sounds like a great idea!
been reading up on the topic recently to get a better understanding of it and make sure my projects are compliant once GDPR is "live". very confusing, especially if you don't have a legal background.
what's the best way to stay updated on your project? :)
I'm super excited that you like the idea :)
Basically, we're a software company, but since we have application for, among other things, anti-money laundry, we need a lot of help from legal consultants. In the case of GDPR, we also have our own DPO, certified in London, which helps a lot with all these legal mumbo jumbo things.
Please be patient for a while; we're preparing last details in our development/marketing/launch plans. I will send you a notice once we publish first things. Thnx!
awesome, looking forward to it :)
We finally published our web site related to this new project: https://www.gdprhq.io/
If GDPR is still on your to-do list, you can subscribe there for a beta or to be notified in the future.
We've also published a beta release of the client SDK: https://github.com/gdprhq/GdprHq.Io.ClientSdk
This is great! I do a lot of work on the GDPR in the legal/admininstrative side -- but the intersection of the legal requirements with the technology is sorely missing. And, I find a lot of tech providers either are not aware of or do not understand how to comply with, the GDPR. Would love to hear more about your project!
Will let you know once the beta is out, I'm glad that you like the idea :)
If you're still interested, you can subscribe for a beta on our newly published website: https://www.gdprhq.io/
We've also published a beta release of the client SDK: https://github.com/gdprhq/GdprHq.Io.ClientSdk
updated my procject https://signl.uk to allow all dev & design tutorials
Planning to finish building out my travel planning and blogging app! http://youme.world
looks fun. What is left to finish?
This weekend my goal is to piece together image uploading with my Text editor component.
Now I'm integrating my backend with s3 for image uploading, my frontend is mainly done minus the polish.
I came up with an idea of a platform that will help aspiring makers/entrepreneurs discover tools and resources to validate, build, launch and promote their idea.
I launched a simple chatbot- LaunchingBoard on Messenger
http://bit.ly/2sCcXaL
Looks cool. I started using but was not sure what the end result would be so I gave up. Maybe help someone see what the value they are driving to is?
Hey Josh!
Thanks a lot for trying out LaunchingBoard :)
The main idea is to help aspiring makers/entrepreneurs discover tools and platforms that will help them build and launch their idea, all in one place (I know there are a lot of platforms/tools missing, which I'll add in the coming days).
I think you didn't find it as useful owing to the fact that you were already aware of these platforms :)
Thanks again for the feedback✌
I'm running some Meta Description (SEO) A/B testing while I come back to Barcelona by train (from Madrid). The idea is to get Meta Descriptions that improve CTR on Google SERPs for a new website I launched some months ago.
cool! What is your website that you launched?
Just launched a new homepage design for weardulo.com. Tonight, The Black Panther and tomorrow I get back on it, creating MailChimp email sequences for the welcome email and cart abandonment.
Nice looking dress shirts. What is the result of the advanced fabrics etc? More comfort? Less sweat?
Thanks for checking them out Josh!
Basically:
No ironing and all day wrinkle resistancy, instead of the cotton non-iron options, where there is a chemical finish involved that washes away.
4-way stretch, so it moves with you. Lift hands, tie shoes etc., stays tucked in :)
Antibacterial due to silver ions in the fabric, silver repels any bacterial, therefore no odors.
Breathable performance fabrics, that don't absorb moisture.
Machine washable, hang to dry and wear straight away.
The idea is to save those pockets of time that you need to take care of a normal dress shirt, ironing, dry cleaners etc + put it on and forget about it, it looks good throughout the day.
I'm trying to save some of the statistics that are shown on https://cryptoboard.tech, a dashboard I'm working on. Some of the data, such as tweets per hour about a subject (in this case blockchain projects) isn't saved yet. I think the value of the information shown could be improved a lot by creating historical charts.
I love historical charts, and appreciate when sites provide them. Very cool!
I’m working on outsidelist.com a list of the best outdoor places 😎🏖🌵
Great idea looking forward to the release!
Very cool. Signed up.
I'm in hotel, more than 8000km from home. So, I will make my own "Startup Weekend" and try something. I'm still looking on same ideas, but I stuck with one special regarding Supercommuters.
To help those frequent travellers find good ticket prices when buying multiple tickets for the same itinerary.
I've just decided to try create a Chrome Extension that I thought long time ago. Let's see if that will work. Starting my own Startup Weekend now ;)
Nice! Write up how it goes, that sounds like a fun story!
RESEARCH RESEARCH RESEARCH!
What are you researching?
Good work on your YouTube channel, btw. Apologies for not commenting on it in your thread.
I am researching the pain points of content creators on YouTube and other channels in regards to advertising/sponsorship. Edit: I am currently researching business contact info for notable content creators so I can ask them specific questions. I have already done general research in the area.
cool! I love YouTube and think there are a ton of opportunities around it.
I'll continue humming along my https://kaikoten.com . Hoping to reach some form of MVP to see if I can get somebody interested and/or excited. After that will focus on implementing user management and integrating with external system(s).
Looks cool. Retrospectives are pretty powerful. What have you done to get someone interested or excited?
To be frank, nothing just yet. I think I might be stuck into creators mode, the part which I already know. But my plan is to start by putting a proper Ask/Show IH post for feedback. After addressing it, I was planning to integrate into some other existing platform (like Github/Atlassian), which at least will give me some exposure into agile/dev teams. From that point on, its largely unclear, as this is my first attempt into marketing my own product.
I like that too! Followed you, be sure to let us know how "Show HN" and such worked out for you.
I tried that a few times (on HN) but no one really noticed. I tried it with an interesting product too I think - www.median.tech ...
Good plans. I would also see if you know any teams would would try it out. Maybe go to lunch with them and ask about how they do retrospectives. See if they would use it for free, just to try it out. Talking and find real customers is hard but an important part.
Focusing on Laravel Startup this weekend. Hoping to launch in March:
https://www.producthunt.com/upcoming/laravel-startup
Like the use of Ship. What is the biggest chunk of work left on the theme to do?
We (working on the project with a friend) have the core of the theme setup done. We're working on adding more "components" this weekend.
Then the documentation and support tools following that.
very cool. At my company I usually find the documentation to be the last step, and sometimes overlooked step. 😳I like that you identified that it still needs to be done.
Unfortunately I've had to use my share of products with little or no documentation, so I know how important good documentation is to ensuring a good experience for the user.
Finish setting up a blog for my startup https://Foodzilla.io
Awesome idea! I know some people who could benefit from this during their pre-lunch calorie calculations.
Thank you very much
Foodzilla looks very cool. What libraries are you using to calculate the calories?
Glad you like it. I built my own scraping nutrition websites and USDA. Portion estimation is done using my own algo based heuristics .
I'm working on trying to get into the groove of writing more! Anyone have tips on how to keep it going?
What are you trying to write more about? I usually write up what I learn. For example I learned an easy way to download images from Google Docs (which for some reason is super hard) so I wrote about it - https://medium.com/@joshdance/how-to-download-images-from-google-docs-the-easy-way-7dda0d7bbe64
That's an incredible idea! That should definitely keep me writing for days with the added benefit of helping someone out as well :) Thanks, Josh!
I started just writing a few hundred random words each day this year. I bought a book called 500 writing prompts and just work through it. It has random questions, thoughts to write about. The output isn't useful but the process is. I've also made use of http://writingexercises.co.uk/firstlinegenerator.php a few days too.
The plan is once I'm done to go back through the whole thing again and compare the first time with 500 days later.
incredible, thanks for this!
I'm writing a business process tool for my business partner and me to better score partnership possibilities based on where we can be most effective as our current process is very adhoc. Coding it in Phoenix/Elixir. I'm also hoping to finish my first scan through Modern Vim by pragprog.
Good luck! I have never used Elixir.
I really enjoy it switched all new web backend development to it about 2 years ago. I had used Erlang about 10 years ago to code an ad platform so I was already somewhat familiar with the ecosystem before switching from Ruby to Elixir. I don't see myself switching back anytime soon though I do miss the expansiveness of gems ruby has.
How would you compare phoenix/elixir to go?
I tried Go for a bit but never got to releasing a production app in it(I rewrote a few ad servers in it to see how it felt/performance(which was fantastic) but never released them into production) so my experience is limited as my opinion value low and out of date.
Initially I loved it but I quickly fell out of love with it. I was disappointed with the amount of boilerplate I felt I had to write into every function, lack of generics, and a tendency in the community at the time to spend more time complaining that something wasn't Idiomatic(see martini) than working to make it more accessible.
This was all a few years ago though and I haven't looked back since I switched to Elixir so all this could be out of date/fixed by now and I wouldn't have known.
Awesome, thanks, really appreciate it.
Awesome -- will do!
I'm trying to figure out a name for my startup/app see my profile for my qustion about "another naem for Polarsteps.
I am spending the whole weekend doing crunch for the bloody day job and I am pretty fed up with it.
It's not really because I have to work on a weekend, it's mostly because I can't work on my own stuff or do what I want.
I'm working on the landing page and copy of my new task management app, Linetime. I'd actually really appreciate any feedback on the copy right now, the mockup is up here:
https://www.figma.com/proto/GulSfNCoXPOp5lUnME2mmpR4/Untitled?node-id=1%3A2&scaling=min-zoom
Besides that I'm getting some core features into the app so it's ready for an alpha release.
The copy looks good. I would go harder on the psychology of time boxing, and show how your app makes it easy to try that technique.
I'm working on my side project Knowledge Trybe (https://knowledgetrybe.com)
It's a place to read & share intellectually stimulating articles with focus on psychology, history, creativity, biology, and learning.
My focus is on implementing comments and improving the signUp/login page. I have been debating if it needs comments for a while now, and I have feedback from a few users that it would be nice to be able to comment on the articles.
It is a three day weekend for me and I finally launched my first website theme over on ThemeLatte 👉https://www.themelatte.com/theme/apollo
It is a fantastic feeling to finally launch something. I plan on taking this weekend to plan out more themes and make improvements to the whole process.
My podcast player app. It's incredibly slow and needs work :)
https://podcasts-player.herokuapp.com/
Starting on the brand for my new online business.
Does it grip you?
https://twitter.com/GatLeon/status/964951347660558339
Working on collecting data for my site https://happyhourism.com I do leverage the Yelp API for some general information but Happy Hour specific data needs to be sourced. The plan is to be national and keep the data as up to date as possible, not exactly sure how to keep the content updated as it scales... Also need to work on SEO content
sourcing data is tough. Is Yelp the only option?
been pulling happy hour data from individual bars/restaurants websites, as I'm not finding any other way
Man love this idea. Next time I'm in Boulder I'll give it a go.
I do wish it just told me what the spots already were though. It already knows today is Saturday at XXX time from my browser. Just give me the details right up front.
I like that idea. I also think being able to search a different day / time is valuable. If it's noon on a Tuesday and you are planning your after work drink, you wouldn't see results since most happy hours are 4 - 6pm
Working on a few design changes to my blog www.julian.digital
Switch to mono font that looks nicer on mobile
Better responsiveness
RSS Feed + Newsletter sign-up form
I like the look. If I wanted to connect with you, couldn't find a way to do it.
good feedback. i'll add that to my to-do list! :)
Amazing URL.
thx :D
Best name ever 😄
Agreed :D
Preparing marketing for qdochat.com. I'm launching next week probably (if Slack App store approves the app), so I'm just trying to list all the sites and platforms that I should launch on.
Nice! Is it hard to get approved on the Slack app store?
I'm a designer who hase been learning Javascript this year. This weekend I'm trying to build something for the first time.
So I'm going to attempt to create a simple Q&A flow that helps you work out what the correct version number (based on Semantic Versioning) the next release of your app / software should be.
Good luck on your project! Learning JavaScript has been extremely useful in my career.
This, which I have just launched! https://getctx.io
I've been running in private beta for a while, but it's now open for anyone to sign up.
If you use a bunch of online tools (Slack, Trello, Drive, GitHub, JIRA etc) to manage your company, CTX is designed to help you find your data in all those systems easily (think "search across all my tools").
I'd love some feedback :-)
What about ServiceNow? Some big organizations use that platform
Thanks!
Next up at the moment are Confluence and ZenDesk - there's a never ending list , but I'll definitely add ServiceNow to it :-)
Site looks nice. I would put some use cases. Like 'I know someone sent me a Wordpress login, but I can't remember if it was email, Slack or Github.' etc.
Thanks!
That's a good idea. The marketing site is due a refresh as I've rolled out some new features - I'll definitely work some example use cases in there.
Guys, this week I missed buying the apartment of my dreams for a great price. Someone beat me by just a few hours.
I was thinking this wouldn't happen if I was scraping the "Apartments for Sale" website...
So I reopened my older idea - a Mac app which will let you scrape any website extremely easily.
I'm starting from scratch, and I wanna have something working today.
There is nothing your own itch to scratch to give your that super extra motivation.
That is a powerful back story. Good luck! Keep us updated!
Organizing all the feedback I’ve received from the beta users for a new app I’m working on https://www.outreachdashboard.com and putting together a plan on how to move forward with that feedback.
Outreach looks cool. Who is your target market on it?
Thanks! Targeting startups and small businesses that are working out of spreadsheets to manage their outreach. However, a few other niche users have found the product useful such as managing guests for a podcast. The product is still very early so a lot of work is needed in the next few months.
Nice. Very cool. I would try and even go one step more specific. SMB is a large market with different needs. If you targeted 'startups who launched on ProductHunt, who want more press' you could hone the message and build the features they need, get traction then expand. At least that is my unsolicited 2¢ :)
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Neat, good luck w/ the projects! Are waitlyst and collapsed running off an identical custom framework coded by you from scratch, or are you using a framework/backend that I could look into and use as well? I would love to find something relatively plug and play that looks like either of your projects (Waitlyst's custom username or Collapsed' Facebook/Twitter integration)
They're all built with Python/Django. If you become well versed in Django you can literally build entire web apps in days.
Ah cool, been there tried that man. Didn't have the discipline to get through Django tuts. I have experience with Python and have gone through Codecademy 100% for instance, but never found any good Django tutorials that really taught me what I needed to know to get an app up and running comfortably. I remember one in particular but it spent time trying to walk me through Google App Engine, and wasn't interested.
I pay for a Digital Ocean droplet and my my latest ventures just use Wordpress :/ I've heard good things about Laravel lately. Sorry I'm going off on a tangent now haha.
No worries, I'd say the best django tutorial is the tutorial within Django's documentation. At least that's how I started off.
I'd say try and pick an idea you like and try your best to implement it with Django. If you have any questions you can just tweet me and I should be free to check it out.
I don't have much knowledge about Laravel or Wordpress unfortunately, but at the end of the day, I'd say use something that allows you to easily implement your ideas.
Wow! Your projects are across all areas of the spectrum. Very cool. Which are you most excited about currently?
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