Feedback on my MVP? Reddit web app to track trends/ideas
Hi Indie Hackers! I'd like to ask for a little bit of your time to have a look at and review the MVP of my web app.
I've built a tool to allow users to track and save posts relevant to their product, idea, user group, or general subject of interest, as it appears on Reddit.
Take a look: https://piqued.cc/
It's still a work-in-progress, and only the first few steps towards where I'd like to eventually take it. Eventually, I want this tool to help entrepreneurs such as ourselves to track trends and ideas which could unlock new opportunities for us.
Next on the agenda are notifications and recommended searches (e.g. grouping DIY subreddits for idea/market validation), but I'm keen to find out in what other ways I could develop this tool to add value.
If you've got a couple of minutes, I'd love to know: what are the immediate question marks that come to your mind when using the tool, or the "right, this is here, but so what? What about X?" that springs to mind?
Would love any ideas or opinions on the road ahead, or even just general feedback/comments (no matter how positive or negative!). Thanks in advance!
Am I missing something or is there no way to click a result and go to the comment in the thread? It's hard to gain any value without knowing the context of the post/thread.
Hi, @stin23! There currently is, after the text is saved to 'Favourites', but not during the initial search. Upon reflection, this seems less than intuitive, so I’ll add this to the list.
Thanks for highlighting this to me!
@stin23, I made some updates! Links are now included in the search returns and, as per other comments here, I've made the search form accessible without signup/in.
Thank you again for highlighting this to me! I'm incredibly grateful that you took the time to check the app out!
Hi @terrylennon! Great idea! I was thinking to do something more niche for myself last few weeks to watch the trends in /r/wallstreetbets. If you don't mind, I would like to suggest to improve UX of the search form. First thing which made me feel confused was subreddit name format, do I have to add /r/ or not? - an example would already help a lot) . Score filter and num. returned also seem to be overlapping a bit(which one does what), maybe a better name would help.
To showcase better the search functionality, featured searches which show how it can be used would be helpful.
Good luck with it further, really cool project!
Thank you so much for the kind words, @dorumd! 🤩 Having examples in the search form makes a lot of sense, as well as renaming those two fields. I’ll get to it!
Couple things:
Thank you for taking the time to explore the site, Louis! In particular, I'm especially grateful for the points on meta keywords and the opt-out by default cookie notice - this hadn’t been on my radar until now.
I’ll dive into the changes as soon as possible!
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Hi @repartix, thanks for your comment! This makes a lot of sense to do - allowing free use of the tool without sign-up, then only prompting sign-up if the 'save' button is clicked. I hope that this is closer to what you have in mind.
I’ll add this to the list - thanks for the idea!
@repartix, I've added this in, with the recent updates I've made. Thank you again for suggesting this idea!