Anyone building something "new"?
New is subjective, but is anyone actually building anything that is not part of a pre-existing market fit?
Why is it different and why are you excited about it?
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New is subjective, but is anyone actually building anything that is not part of a pre-existing market fit?
Why is it different and why are you excited about it?
I built deha.io, where you can interact with data in plain English so you could do data exploration, analysis, cleaning, etc without needing code.
I read that Salesforce was doing something similar but other than that I think it was fairly new.
Sadly, I couldn't find product market fit (should have done validation before building :D)
No worries. lots of lessons learned right?
Yeah tons! It's just part of the process.
You know what would be an awesome "No Code" idea. Taking what you did with Deha most likely renaming it something like "mind code", and be able to build websites from plain English.
For example, you have a predefined template of logic that use to parse a Word Document or PDF and it automatically builds the website for the person.
Step 1: Validate it
Step 2: Market it
Step 3: Get Rich
Step 4: Repeat Step 3
lol
I can definitely see GPT-3 being used for something like that soon.
It'd be cool if there was a design AI that you could talk to and just design/build in sync with your stream of thoughts.
I've thought about the "stream of thoughts" idea so much. It's just the "how" that has not been figured out.
Same. Maybe GPT-3 + Neural Link can achieve the "how"?
Quite possibly, but GPT-3 (OpenAI) may be the safer solution with minimal Input to set up the gambits. The adoption rate for Neural Link hmmm. Even VR may be a possible solution for this, but then that's another set of challenges as well.
Yep, a robotics company with no competitors in the space and not even sure if I will achieve product market fit.... but I love it. Creativity to the max, hard problems worth solving though.
Sounds great. Usually, it's the process (documentation, courses, etc.) that is profitable more so than the actual product.
You are dead wrong, SpaceX doesn't sell courses. Courses are a scam industry for the most part
I am currently working neutrino, A customer communication app for slack which enable teams to communicate with customer over channels such as WA , SMS , Facebook, twitter right from slack!
https://neutrino.harishsg.me
You will find an audience with this, just don't forget you have to put in the work to market it.
I currently have it on the back burner, but I am working on sheet academy which is a set of interactive spreadsheet tutorials in the browser. Still to this day no one to my knowledge has even expressed any interest in building such a thing.
Me, my brother, and a friend are working on https://www.public-opinions.com/ , It's a web app for market sentiment analysis, stocks and crypto. It searches social media and news and shows the result along with the number of positive and negative mentions. What do you think?
I have just introduced marketemp.com, aimed adding a layer of relative metrics on top of your ordinary stock quote so investors get a more accurate sense of how their stocks and the market overall are performing.
My mission is for this view to become the standard and for these metrics to become part of the investopedia/CNBC vocabulary.
I have just released and am seeking feedback and product-market fit before promoting Marketemp more actively.
The idea seems legit, but the website comes off untrustworthy. I would need some level of social proof to believe that you can provide the "accuracy" you claim to give me better insights into my stock portfolio.
thanks Greg, as far as "untrustworthy" goes, should the language be toned down a notch or do you just not believe the numbers? We are just beginning to get eyes on it in order to build that social proof.
The credibility increases.
thanks again, it's currently framed as a data science tool and your comments help reinforce how it needs further guidance towards better understanding and context.
I consider at least part of my project "new".
CodeWrite is a browser extension, a blogging tool for developers. It consists of 2 parts.
One is a developer-friendly WYSIWYG editor, with minimalistic UI, Markdown and keyboard shortcuts, good Grammarly integration, and embedded code editor (Monaco Editor) and formatter (Prettier).
The other one is the "one-click publishing" system, which auto-fills your CodeWrite blogposts on supported platforms. Just jump to Medium, DEV, Hashnode, or your Ghost blog, click "Publish", and CodeWrite will "auto-fill" it. If any incompatibilities are detected, you'll be presented with available solutions (e.g. no syntax highlighting on Medium - convert to GitHub Gists, images too large - shrink them, strikethrough not supported - convert to bold, italic, code, etc.).
This provides users with great cross-posting capabilities, extending beyond what can be done through limited platform APIs and with better content quality than e.g. RSS feed while retaining good writing and publishing experience.
I like it. I frequent DEV and Medium a good bit. What would be nice is if this also served the purpose of serving up articles written by others based on say a "language" you want to learn or want to see if any tips and tricks pertaining to it you didn't know about it.
I send myself a list to my email of tips and tricks I discover and then organize them via Dropbox Paper as a compendium to review from time to time.
Yeah, for now, CodeWrite is only a writing tool for publishing elsewhere - not a platform on its own. This might change in the future, but nothing's planned right now.
Launched AI-based watermark removal saas
https://imagezerow.com/#/rmtext - so far a lot of challenges
Is this legal?
legal, as Photoshop
What is the ideal benefit this gives someone?
Denoise the images or get clean template from a banner
Perligo is a feedback tool that allows writers to write where they are comfortable writing, upload their work, then get feedback in the form of line notes and general conversation. It has filters to give the writer and reviewers control over what pieces of feedback they are viewing, and each line note has a dedicated section for additional conversation.
This sounds useful. This will be an incremental audience gainer. You should look to establish a Slack and LinkedIn group and pull in like-minded individuals and build your audience with the right core of users first.
I don't know if your an established writer yourself and offering your services, but an AI component can help this scale pretty easily.
Thanks! I am a writer myself. Most of the apps I build end up falling in the writing category :) I've definitely thought about adding in an AI component. However, the best part of feedback on most writing is the non-grammatical feedback. AI can surely help here, but humans are still better at this one.
I'm working on producter.co which is new generation product management tool. Producter is an all-in-one product management software for product-oriented companies. It offers teams a complete cycle between collecting feedback, managing tasks, tracking roadmap, and sharing updates. You can follow our journey on https://www.indiehackers.com/product/producter
So a Zoho Projects (Basecamp, etc.) meets Uncanny.
Not only task or project management for all product management steps, it is for product-oriented companies.
Agree with @sodux - That first description proly had enough "product" to kill a dead horse.
You seem to know who it's for... but usually that means you don't have them on board yet.
Have you pre-sold to them yet? If not, you run the risk of getting to the end and realizing that "product-oriented companies" might have the problem you're trying to solve, but don't like the solution you created...
Or worse, they want more features, but also want the final product for free.
I understood the first time what it was, rephrasing it does not change your features similar to the other companies mentioned.
Yes bro definetely :)
Building a platform for turning conversation into social proof, not new in idea itself but we mixed some cool stuff like integrating review sites and add reviews that can be embedded and also connecting to Facebook where you can get recommendations of you products. All this can be selectively added to wall for embedding anywhere with JS code and API. You can check www.clapup.me.
The name does not instantly register the goal, but the idea is pretty clear once you begin reading the landing page.
Thank for your valuable feedback, happy to see that you got it clear after going to the landing page, our goal is exactly same. Give clarity of what we are going to do.
Let me figure out the concept of name: clapping up is a way of giving an appreciation, testimonials and reviews are also a bye product of appreciation so we thought it would be ideal.
Plus the domain was available and name is small so that people wont forget it.
Yes, that's your definition, but clap up in other cultures has a lot of other meanings.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clap up#:~:text=%3A to imprison hastily they clapped the smugglers up without trial
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Clap up
Depending on your culture word combinations may be meaningless to you, but it's always best to try to be very clear in what your product is doing than coming up with word combos for your business name that may be vague.
Thank you for the insights, I think i need to be more clear on tagline so that people will understand it in search itself. So overwhelmed by the time you took to elaborate, thank you so much.
Plan to build analytics over the top to get a report on how you performs well in a given period of time!
I'm working on mini side projects. I made https://toptweets.co and a Twitter bot that publishes my book highlights (https://twitter.com/@_BookHighlights) from readwise. I have some other 'mini projects' in the pipeline that I'm trying to get out as well.
Trying to get MRR and building products is the ultimate goal of any Indiehacker but just working on side projects can be a lot of fun.
Agreed. If the ultimate goal is only MRR then people can just work a 9 to 5 while building with stability.
Side projects can teach us a lot and challenge us in ways we never thought.
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