Designer looking for a technical partner
I’m an ex-Facebook product design lead looking for a technical partner. I have built an MVP and looking to take it further. Product is built in Python and React. Have some initial traction and investor connections. With the right team I think it could go far. The product is like Pinterest for websites. Let me know if you’re interested to chat! www.tryprism.co
The website looks great but honestly, I can't imagine how it would make money. Do you have some ideas on it?
Pinterest makes money through ads and that is the idea here as well eventually. If not that then a freemium model.
Yeah, but it means the project should have huge traction...
Yep, it does! You can't know unless you try.
The MVP looks great, it definitely shows that you’re a designer. I don’t see any pricing info though, have you figured out a monetization strategy yet?
The pricing info is written in tiny letters below the main CTA. It's free! Yes, currently it's free. My goal is to build this into a free social network, very similar to Pinterest. It's a lofty goal that requires a lot of traction, so we'll see. I'll be looking to raise money, so also technically not an indie hacker. Am I still allowed here? :)
Also thanks!
Can you explain the concept a bit further? Are you "bookmarking" the main page or specific page? Frozen in time? What exactly is the problem you are trying to solve?
You can bookmark any page and the bookmark is represented as a screenshot, so you can see your bookmarks. This lets you browse many sites at once. I found that with other bookmarking tools the links weren’t descriptive enough and a single image doesn’t represent the page. So this way you can visually see all your bookmarks without opening them unless you want to view more. Also the bookmarks can in theory auto-update so you’re always viewing the latest site, or you can take a static screenshot. The auto-updating isn’t totally working right now though and needs help, but that’s the idea.
Also looking to add a feed so you can see what others are bookmarking. And you can share boards as resources for others.
The idea is to make bookmarking and discovering sites more visual.
Here’s my profile if you want to check it out. app.tryprism.co/user/VXNlclR5cGU6NDA=
This looks awesome! Great job. I would recommend looking for someone familiar with the various use cases for puppeteer. It is Google's open source library for headless processes. Took me a bit to wrap my head around what the heck it even was, but now it is basically the backend that powers my IH project. Sounds to me like the technical aspect of your bookmarking visuals, caching, content, etc is easily controlled and implemented with just that one library, which can run on serverless, scale, etc.
Isn't there a problem when you try to visit the actual page and it had changed in the meantime?
Or you are planning to save a copy of the HTML/content as well?
The bookmarks are screenshots. The idea is to update the screenshots to reflect the latest version of the sites.