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Idea valuation: Dashboard for product- / feature-launches

Hi Indiehackers,

I am asking for feedback on a product idea I had a few days ago.
In the beginning I thought about simply building a knowledge base for the process of getting free press and publicity for your new side project that you just launched.
I was going to include case studies from well-known indie startups including metrics and perhaps interviews with the founders.

This idea has evolved into the idea of building a dashboard for all relevant metrics of getting your project out there, all openly accessible to anyone, with live metrics. At first I will basically create a redirection system, where you can put in a link to your site and it will give you a link to post to a specifically defined resource (reddit, HN, IH etc.), through which it then collects the CTR data and displays it. You can create multiple links and label them. That is the first step, other metrics and features will be added after (I have about 50+ feature ideas ^^).

Would this be something you could see yourself using? Why / Why not? Do you see any issues with it that I might not have considered?

This is supposed to be mainly a learning project, since I am learning to code in Javascript. So the question of how to monetise this is not relevant at this point.
Looking forward to your feedback!

Louis

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    Sounds interesting - when you are thinking about metrics for this dashboard, what kind of metrics are you envisioning being displayed? Google Analytics, upvotes on popular sites, etc.?

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      I was envisioning metrics like CTR, upvotes, word count of articles, press mentions, maybe build a script to integrate on the site to track actual conversions from that early traffic. What would you add?

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        Those all seem like good metrics. To be honest, the list is probably endless - different people will probably want different data. Maybe it could be nice to have a webhook to allow users to add in their own data source pretty quickly, but that may be a bit over the top depending on your goals.