🚨 Become our next Startup Of The Day! 🙌
In keeping with HackerStash's mission to support new projects and businesses, we're starting a series of tweets showcasing a 'Startup of the day' (each day, naturally).
If you'd like a shout out for your project on twitter, please complete the short form here: https://airtable.com/shrlB8CtpC9TNaYYo . The only real requirement is that you have some kind of URL we can point to, that could be a website or even just a publicly accessible notion page about your idea!
We haven't got a huge audience, but the other day I noticed something we'd tweeted about another company received around 1500 impressions and I thought it was pretty cool, and hopefully really helpful for them. Then it occurred to me that I should find more people that want a bit of free publicity 🥰
UPDATE: Thanks so much for sharing all your amazing projects, it's super inspiring to see what everyone is working on! I just wanted to say that we have about 5 weeks of submissions now (🙌 ) and whilst that's awesome, it does mean your project likely won't appear for a few weeks! It will happen though, I promise 😊
This is super nice!
Thank you so much. I just submitted Wicked Templates
Super thankful!
Nice one, thanks @Michael_Andreuzza! Another super fresh site 😍 A surprise side effect of this initiative is I'm discovering loads of amazing work people are doing 🙂
Yaay! I am glad you like it.
Oh,I can believe that's the best part, the discovery. I actually send a newsletter about that!
Makers are full surprise..is like a Kinder Egg
Great idea, Chris! We'd love to get Smithy a shout out. Going to be keeping an eye on HackerStash. It feels like it could successfully fill a niche similar to Github Sponsors.
Heh, I'm working on Keysmith and when I saw Smithy just now I felt like our products are cousins or something :).
The product sounds really useful! Some unsolicited feedback for ya:
Here's the part that convinced me:
I definitely resonate with that problem, and I suspect a lot of others will too.
One thing I was looking for was a screenshot / GIF / video to see it in action. I like it in theory, but I'd want to see it more concretely before I download.
Also, I was surprised to go to a pricing page and see that it's free. Consider mentioning that up front, like "Smithy is a free app for Slack ..."
Hope that's helpful. Good luck :).
Exactly!...we're aiming for Github-Sponsors meets Indiehackers sort of vibe. Smithy sounds super interesting - does it turn Slack into Threads, without the need for Threads?
In that ballpark, yeah. Still early days, improving and gathering feedback.
If you can pull it off there's a huge market out there, good luck! I saw this the other day, quite a nice illustration of the how our lines of communication grow in a growing businesses (let alone the fact that there's normally multiple channels!) - anything to help bring order to that chaos is worth it 🙂
I could use that generous offer Chris! Submitted the form and looking forward!
No problem @akhilmk ! Feel free to share the link to this article on twitter etc if you know anyone else who might benefit 😀
Sure!
Just submitted Preferr! Thanks for doing this.
Awesome, thanks Ellit! Love that pulsating light background thing that's happening on your website by the way, subtle and unusual, which makes it charming 🤓
Thanks!
took you up on the offer!
Thanks @watus - I love this 'Sales Engagement for the Fortune 5,000,000' by the way 🥰
Thanks! I just submitted privateequitylist.com.
I think that this service is very helpful for fresh founders to find the relevant financing and understand the financing process!
Chris, thanks for doing this. And good luck with HackerStash!
Brendan
Thanks Brendan, Expertscape looks like an incredibly valuable tool - do you manage to generate much revenue? I found it interesting that you were focusing your pricing on the expert side, rather than the people doing the searching 😊
Thanks Chris! And yes, we've decided to make it free to users. (If someone is coming to Expertscape to search for a specialist, their life is tough enough...)
And re revenue, we made a conscious commitment not to generate revenue until last year so that we could get the results right and get a lot of support (and scrutiny) from experts. Now it's really starting to take off, and we're getting ready to announce a strategic partnership that should get us a lot more visibility.
Amazing 😍, I love the ethical approach you're taking to growing it too!
Thanks!
Thanks for doing this. Just submitted Fake Filler to the list.
Looks sick, will probably try this one out myself soon! Do you also encourage people to write semantic HTML for their inputs etc?
I am confident that you will find it useful :) Yes, semantic HTML gives the extension more information to determine what to fill in inputs. However, it is not a requirement and that's where the customization features are really helpful.
Yeah, I was thinking it would be cool to encourage people to use semantic HTML simply because of the wins from an accessibility and UX perspective :)
I agree. One of the things I have started looking into is how I could use ARIA attributes as an additional source of information to determine what kind of fake data to generate for each input field.
I think that makes a lot of sense for most common field types
Thanks Chris! I've just submitted Metro Retro (metroretro.io) - it's a realtime whiteboard with tools focused on agile retrospectives. We'll be branching out to more general use as well - story mapping, backlogs, planning etc.
Oh nice, clever niche actually, I like the look of it. The UI feels a bit like Miro - if you haven't heard of them could be worth a look 😊
Thanks for that! Just added http://midnight.pub/ - best of luck!
Wow, this looks very intriguing! Thanks for adding yourself to the list 😊
Thanks so much for this @Chris. We'd love to have RemoteWorkly there.
Looking forward to this!
Nice, thanks @veebuv - better meetings/meetings management is like the number one need of every business I've ever worked for!
We think so too, here's hoping we can help these businesses!
Thanks again for doing this @blunicorn
Thanks so much, just submitted my Product!
Thanks Chris! Just submitted Keysmith.
And for anyone else who was looking, here's HackerStash's Twitter account: https://twitter.com/HackerStash
Thanks @dmoreh, Keysmith looks great! The recording feature is a really clever and novel way to manage to UX around defining your shortcut recipe 😀
Hey thanks, that's kind of you to say :)
Thanks a lot, I have filled your form. Looking forward to see OrgPad there.
This is awesome! Just submitted Relaax ! Thanks Chris!
Thanks @StuckInTheLoop - looks like a very worthwhile product. How long until launch? I feel like with the global pandemic it’s all the more urgent to have good tools like this to support mental health in the workplace!
You make a really good point @blunicorn and personally I wish something like this would've existed sooner. To answer your question we're going to be participating in the Startup School Sprint and aiming to launch in 3 weeks! (approximately by September 12th)
Awesome, good luck!
That is great! Thanks @blunicorn!
This is great! I just submitted our product Microtica and can't wait for the shout out! Thanks a lot for doing this :))
Microtica looks cool, really nice site too! I used the same illustration pack for an old (now dead) project https://codefree.me/ - I like the animations you added 😍
Thanks Chris! Why is this project dead though? Looks like a really interesting value proposition :)
I wrote a post recently where I talked a bit about what went wrong actually https://www.indiehackers.com/post/winning-pioneer-after-a-radical-change-of-direction-fbd0c4040a
TL;DR - we got stuck in a rut and found it becoming near-impossible to ship 😢I would love to revisit the concept one day though!
Nice read and unfortunately the real life of so many startups. We had the same experience ourselves working on a previous startup, tweaking, adding features, improving UI/UX. It is a great lesson learned though :)
I hope you're able to get back to it some day.
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Nice, we've followed you 😉
Also, I have a friend who runs call centres and is always having to clean up databases for duplications etc, I've forwarded him the link to flookup!
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Awesome! An AI fortune teller is a super fun idea 👏
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