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Explain your startup/side-project in under 10 words: November Edition

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Hello, Indie Hackers!

Tell us about your startup/side-project in 10 words or less. Be sure to add a link to your project!

It's a good exercise for every founder, and helps promote your work to the community.

Also add your project to 10words.io, a newsletter/browser extension inspired by this series 👋

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      hey @fakejson, is fakejson generate some revenue, I'm curious?

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      This is my favorite description so far 😂

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    https://colorlib.com/wp/themes
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      Hey! Your site came up on my Google Now feed! Your themes look great :). I left the tab open so I could think about replacing my theme with this:
      https://colorlib.com/wp/template/appru/

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        Not sure how I got into your feed but I feel honored :)

        Thank you for your feedback!
        Feel free to use this template. That's what we have made it for

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          Side question: Have you thought about adding a page builder to your site? That might be a way to make some money from your free templates.

          I built a simple page builder a long time ago and never released it. I called it "Template Chopper" - the idea was you could paste in a template, chop it into components, and then visitors could choose a template and build a page from it.

          It was pretty difficult to do the "chopping" part. But if you want to go in that direction, I'd be happy to dig up the code for you :)

          I think I've seen some paid services to run a page builder with your own templates as well.

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            That's one of the options I have considered. I don't think I'm ready to pull this off just yet but I will need to monetize this effort sooner or later.
            Have already followed you and will likely contact you soon. Thank you so much!

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      I love this! Thank you

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        Happy to hear that ;)

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    10words: Discover new apps and startups in 10 words or less

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    https://bursts.io

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    https://devsnap.io/

    All developer jobs in one place.

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    www.integrately.in - Try out SaaS Integrations locally without modifying your website.

    @luckybamboo I checked out your site 10words.io and it got me sucked in - From one product to another and so on.

    I have a couple of questions (as I usually do):-

    1. How do you select which apps are the hot picks? There is nothing like upvote etc on your site
    2. How many subscribers so far?
    3. Any sponsor for your newsletter otherwise emails twice a week could be a costly affair with good num of subscribers.
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      1. Hot picks are automatically generated from unique clicks from the newsletter/site/browser extension over the past week. I have a slightly custom algorithm to weight clicks based on who clicked it (their engagement, length of subscription, etc)

      2. 1100 active subscribers. I get a number of new subscribers per day, but seeing a fair amount of churn (people get burnt out), which is one of the problems I'm thinking about.

      3. Yes, submitters can sponsor a week to get primary placement on the website + guaranteed placement on the big friday newsletter. Also, for a small fee you can skip the queue/pick the day you are featured. These are available for approved projects.

      I built my own sending mechanism on top of SES, and I'm still within their free tier. Even if subscribers grow, the sending costs should be quite low. My biggest cost now is heroku+dbs for managing submissions, analytics, etc.

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        Thanks @luckybamboo for the answers. A couple of suggestions from top of my head -

        1. You could enable users to comment on a product
        2. You could have a dedicated UI/view for each product and users can upvote/downvote it
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          @luckybamboo Please let me know if you get a chance to look at Integrately and how is the landing page? Is it self-explanatory or any suggestions here?

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            Hey @sachinjain024 I took a look - and think it's a really clever service, but it took me quite some time to figure out exactly how it works. Tbh I just scrolled right past the MORE ABOUT INTEGRATELY section. It has the content I needed, but did not stand out nearly as much as the other sections, so I went right to them.

            My first impression was that you install an integrately script on the site - then you can configure 100+ products using your web dashboard without additional code loading.

            Leading with the client-side/chrome extension experience (or depicting it in the header graphic) may help convey exactly how it works.

            Once I realized, I liked the product more - but if you didn't ask, I would have bounced before understanding the product fully.

            Hope this helps :)

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              Thanks, @luckybamboo for the honest feedback and this is really helpful. This is actually what I am looking for from Indie Hackers community before actually going to the masses.

              You perfectly described the product. I think mentioning client-side/chrome-extension term makes more sense. I will work on it.

              I am working on an explainer video that should solve such problems in near future.

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      Some validation of your idea can be found in here I think.
      https://republic.co/balloonr

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        Awesome, I hadn't seen them --- that's really useful, thanks.

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    (This is so difficult! :-P)

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      I played a little in this space but gave up due to divorce. I'd love to hear more.

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    S3stat.com

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    https://frequently.io/

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      I saw this earlier - will it have its own hosting as a standalone site? Or do you get pages to insert into an existing site? Definitely curious - just subscribed :)

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        Thanks for subscribing! We will have v1 out this month :)

        It will be hosted by us on a .frequently.io subdomain (or on your own domain if you upgrade). Eventually we may add the ability to export it into your own site while still being able to use our CMS, stats, etc.

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      Just signed up - can't wait to try your service out.

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        Thanks Simon! Please let me know if you have any questions. All feedback appreciated! :)

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        Thanks. 😅Deploy glitch while tweaking the copy.

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    www.cartspark.com offers very useful storefront+back office for your Wholesale/B2B business

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      Where do you run? Have a link?

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        Hi Chris, I am working on the landing page still. I crafted the current version in about 15~ minutes. https://runnerapp.io/

        Keep an eye on us - big things coming.

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      So Evernote + Zapier + Quicken + AI?
      Looks very intriguing!!!

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      I like the idea! Please keep me informed.

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        Same here!