Any feedback? 👀 👉 Lyket, a tool to implement like buttons on a static site
Hi there! My name is Irene and I have been working part-time on this project for about 2 months. This is the first time I try to build something on my own from scratch, after 2 years working for the amazing DatoCMS.
I find the headless world deeply fascinating so I built a tool to let static site builders and JAMstack players easily add a like button/voting mechanism to their website. The idea came to me when I was importing a blog post to Medium and I thought “Why am I doing that!? The post should stay on my website!” but my site was lacking, for starters, a feedback system!
In the beginning I thought it was an easy challenge and that I could get away with a serverless function, but I found out that as simple as it may seem, implementing such a feature in a smooth and user-oriented way can pose a few issues such as:
- dealing with malicious users
- managing user voting without requiring a signup process
- providing statistics
- animating the icons with React
I imagined that not everybody wants to spend time developing a feature that seems easy at first but than keeps on leaking problems and security issues. So I decided to give it a try and make it a Saas!
Lyket is still work in progress and you cannot register at the moment, but you can still play around with it. If you leave your email in the form I will send you an API key!
I appreciate any kind of feedback. :D
