Building a search engine for makers willing to help - useful for IH makers & lurkers?

November 28, 2018

Hey everyone! I'm a high school student aspiring to be an indie maker.

Currently, alongside Makers Up (twitter.com/makersup), I'm looking to build Klicc - a search engine for makers who are willing to help fellow makers out after office hours.

Klicc connects makers who are willing to help others, and those who need help to each other for small stuff after office hours. Klicc charges those who need help a low monthly price of $4, where 80% goes to makers listed on Klicc as tips for helping others.

At the moment, applications to get listed on Klicc and pre-orders to access Klicc are open! Perhaps check it out at https://klicc.herokuapp.com?

Access to Klicc is currently discounted 52% off lifetime, making it JUST $1.92 (less than a cup 'o coffee) per month for early adopters. Hope this is something that could interest the IH community!

Thanks so much!

Zachary Will Sy

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I made willing to hunt few weeks ago (top hunters willing to post your project on producthunt for you) https://hunter.tidily.io/

This might be a good list to find some helpful makers for your project :)

Biraj Ghosh

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Looks like a really cool idea - but I was a hesitant to reply because I am not sure what the product holds beyond your pitch. You may want to show some more information on your loading page.

Here are some questions I have had after landing on it:
1. How much mentors/people willing to help are they?
2. What are there expertise? - it might be more helpful to niche down a bit. For example if I knew if I signed up and I was connecting with experts in SAAS it would be easier for me to join. As well as you to grow more securely.
This again is the chicken and the egg problem. I think its a great idea, and if executed and communicated well can really take off.

Cheers

Menan
Menan

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  Hey Menan, appreciate you reaching out & for your interest in Klicc!
  
  First of all, thanks for your kind words and your comments - they’ll all be put into consideration.
  
  Secondly, to address your concerns, here are a few numbers / stats:
  
  1. I only shared the links yesterday evening, and since then, I’ve had 25 makers apply to be listed on a Klicc. They’re willing to help out and I can see the huge potential of the list growing much larger if I share it on a bigger scale! 2. These makers are people who signed-up voluntarily to get listed & include people like Ben Tossell, Colin Winhall, Anne-Laure Le Cunff, and more. I don’t approach makers, rather, they apply to be listed on the platform! 3. At the moment, aside from the regular full-stack web developers and designers, expertise of listed makers include but aren’t limited to product and SEO growth, marketing & management, Ruby / RoR, bots / AI, various JavaScript libraries, blockchain & token economics, and much more!
  
  Hope these answer your questions, but don’t hesitate to ask more if your wondering about anything else about Klicc. Looking forward to see you signed-up!
  
  Thanks so much and cheers!
  Zachary Will Sy
  
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    Thats great Zachary! I think it would be great if you added a small showcase of the makers + the expertise on the initial landing page!
    
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      Oh yeah, that's a great suggestion Menan! I'll actually do that.
      
      Thanks so much, cheers! :)
      
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      Hey Menan! Just wanted to offer an update that I just pushed a new "listed maker / who's willing to help" card feature on the Klicc landing page.
      
      Still fixing it to work on mobile, but thanks for the suggestion again!
      
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        Awesome
        
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Hey Zach, great idea and best of luck with it. I signed up!

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  Awesomeee, great to see you signed up! Thanks for the support Colin!
  
  Hope this could be something that the maker community would love. We'll be in contact soon via email, stay tuned!
  
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