Roast CodeDrifter
Hi!
So I expended a few days building codedrifter.co, and one feeling I have with my landing page, is that the value the product offer is not clear enough.
That thing apart, let me know what you think about CodeDrifter, and where do you think I can improve the product.
- Do you think the value is clear and enough to pay for it?
- Is the price too high?
- Would you still prefer to search for projects or configure them by yourself instead of using CodeDrifter?
Thanks!!
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"High quality boilerplates for your favourite JavaScript tech stack." makes perfect sense. The rest of it confused me completely. Too much white space.
The boilerplate idea is something I'd use, but not sure I'd pay for it. Definitely not a subscription.
What is the difference between "boilerplate" and a "theme" offered by lots of sites out there?
There may be something if you find a way to monetize free boilerplates.
Thinking, back end boilerplates may be an even better proposition because there is no visual component. E.g. a web scraper in Python using X, an S3 bucket clean up utility in Rust, etc.
If the above was of value feel free to give me feedback on https://stackmuncher.com/about/ for my product https://www.indiehackers.com/product/open-directory-of-software-developers
Interesting!!
Apparently I need to fix a lot of things haha.
You don't get templates weekly, we update them weekly, you pay once for them, get access forever.
We don't track dependencies on your side, we have an updated version with latest dependencies in case you want to use it.
Is not a suscription model, is a pay once model
A theme usually is based on a technology / framework (like wordpress, shopify...), a boilerplate contains all the code necessary to start a project with a set of technologies, the idea is to add multiple combinations, we have a automatized system to update each boilerplate
We donate to FOSS in exchange for using the technologies they maintain, notice we don't sell "simple" boilerplates, they always are a mix of technologies, you can get a NextJS + Supabase starter, but sometimes is not updated, or tested, we cover that + we provide more combinations + you have a centralized place to look for project starters
Backend and app boilerplates are on the roadmap already!
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Just took a look at https://stackmuncher.com/ and I noticed a few things:
The "What the world is working on ..." section looks too wide and the text is too small, is hard to read and it takes too much space, maybe you can use some kind of autocomplete component and list the most used words only?
I hire developers frequently for freelance projects, and the key things that I usually look at are not listed here, which are, price, availability and experience with each technology
A picture of the developer feels more human
I don't hire devs per amount of lines of code / comments, instead, a code snippet for example would be better
I'm not sure if it's a good idea to display the developer email, they can get spammed easily
Hope it helps you, and let me know if I can give you a hand with anything else!
@Pixo, you are the man! Can I bounce a few more questions off you? I'm on [email protected], skype@rimutaka, discord rimutaka#7722 or let me know the best way to contact you.
Sure, I'll drop you an email :)