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Describe your product in the most boring way possible

Sometimes it's great to step back and look at what our products really do, it can be too easy to always be promoting. Feel free to drop a link to your project as well.

Copied from this Twitter thread.

Some examples from that thread:

posted to Icon for group Growth
Growth
on July 9, 2020
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    Zero to Marketing - Annoying stuff you have to do to acquire customers

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    divjoy.com - pay me for code, but you still need to write some of the code yourself

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      this is good, love the idea. I too would love to see how it goes and updates

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      Cool! A few social media platforms being built on blockchain tech nowadays. Interested to see how this progresses

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    UptimeMate - yells at you when you messed up

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    https://purifycss.online css optimization tool that can break your site layout. But the buymeacoffee button works.

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      Cool idea!

      For portabella I got "0 Byte (NaN%) of your CSS is not used" though...

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        Thank you for pointing that out! It's fixed now.

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    https://themouseless.dev Build a Linux-based development environment

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    https://www.followchain.org - share your Instagram with others

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      Haha so nice. So basically CTRL+C / CTRL+V

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    I'm getting a kick out of reading all these 😂

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    https://MyVesselApp.com - your boat inventory and maintenance schedule in your pocket.

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      Nice! A friend of mine just bought a boat so I'm going to let him know about this.

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        Hi, Alex! Appreciate that :)

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    Colors....
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    1 file website templates
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    Have a g day.

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    Well...boring. How should I approach this...

    https://www.indiehackers.com/product/mindful-goals

    Goals is a cutting-edge best-of-breed ai-powered science-based software. Not only does it have hundreds of features such as entering text, tapping buttons, and changing colors, it also has hundreds of links you can open to learn more about the reasons why we built it. It took us months to create the documentation with thousands of pages so you can become a power user by yourself. It's designed for everyone on earth to help them solve their problems.

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    https://dogger.io - not what you think it is, and really not that impressive. Something with pull requests and Docker.

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    Hyphora.org helps you in school and stuff

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      Nice! Definitely would have loved this when I was a student.

      I have two nit picks that are unrelated to your product, but were just my first impressions:

      1. Landing page on mobile is a little off
      2. Relevancy of startup job titles aside, it's weird you have two CEOs
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    Site2Static - Copy paste website to your Netlify

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      This is a funny one. Even though I spend so much time on my phone I can't even remember the one I had 5 years ago.

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        Well, in my case, I had to put my mind muscles to work to remember all the phones with years.
        Wasted lot of time in nostalgia lol.

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      Cool! One thing I've written about before is wanting a platform where I can give a docker image (server) and a build directory (client) and have an auto scaling, load balanced service.

      Is that what your platform offers? I'll have to check it out.

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    offdesign - WordPress & design services in matter of time ( still under development )

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    https://productlistings.app - Create professional looking product listings in minutes

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      Nice!

      Just an FYI your website is hard to read on mobile... I don't know the best way to show the side by side view on mobile though

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        Thanks for the feedback!

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    Startup Groundwork: https://startupgroundwork.com/ - a place for entrepreneurs to do research on the software they will use.

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    https://www.meeta4e.com/ - we do your boring bookkeeping and tax work

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      that's actually a good description!

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    https://burpeehero.com - keep track of your reps of squats, push-ups, and sit-ups and burpees

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    https://leonagano.substack.com - Texts about my boring professional/personal life

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    you are right Alex. So, my uncompleted consulting website - still working on the kinks and editing - but I use my experience to turn curious clicks on websites and followers on socials to paying customers for small businesses. I dont know if that was a boring description, its not revolutionary but if it puts a smile on peoples face, I'm with it lol

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      Perfectly undersold!

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    check your IP or for your site and serve resources using https://www.monippro.online
    according to country

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    I've made a Glide app based on this thread! XD
    https://boring-products.glideapp.io/

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      very cool- i am just realising how powerful nocode is going to be...

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    StorageQuery - Analyze files in cloud you could have downloaded instead

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    https://www.leaguemixer.com - league management application launched right when COVID hit :(

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    Imagine writing a note about “Apples”, saving a web page about “Oranges”, and then linking the two together with the description “Fruit.”

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    https://www.pluckd.co - NPS for teams

    (another take: spam your teammates with invites to visit a site and click around)

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    https://seobuddy.com - The no AI/Automation way to improve your authority with just pure hard work.

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    stockalarm.io - finance calls that do stuff

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    https://decisiondonkey.com - make some important decisions as a team

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    https://mvpmaker.co/ Pay me and I give you a team to build your website(I don't know if is boring enough , it is a very hard task )

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    docdown.co - build a website using Google docs

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    https://usertrack.net - Look at the stats and numbers of your site

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    https://simple-web-analytics.com/ know how many people visit your website

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      Cool! We're slight competitors but there are hundreds of PM tools out there. Will check out peachyplan later

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      🤟🏻Sean from Opalstack! So great to find you here 👋🏻
      The best hosting for Python/Django --> Opalstack.com
      We host all our projects there!

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