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So what are you planning to build in July?

New month, new ideas, new projects.

What are you planning to work on in July?

I'll start,

I am thinking about building a small marketplace for Bookmarklets.

What are bookmarklets?
Read here - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/bookmarklets-perform-common-web-page-tasks

  1. 9

    Build a way to browse logos freely on logology. Been promising it for a while, July will be the month we finally ship it :)

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      The website looks fantastic. I love how you have the "rulers" present throughout the UI. Brilliant concept

      The landing page looks slick too

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        Thank you Rajat! That was the idea yeah, it makes heavy use of CSS grid to achieve it. I've seen you tweet some cool things lately, will keep an eye on you 👀

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          Thank you. Glad you're liking some of my content.

          All the best with logology. Please uodate us when you ship it.

          We'll be there to support you!

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    Working on a website that collects people's and businesses' problems/pains from Reddit, i.e. mentions in posts.

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      How do you search for and find these problems, if you don't mind my asking? I'm a software engineer and have been very interested in this sort of thing recently. Curious how it's done.

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        I fetch all the recent(and not only) posts from Reddit and filter them through the filtering algorithm.
        The algorithm is a set of a neural network model, some if-else stuff to exclude irrelevant text in title and irrelevant subreddits.
        The neural network model is trained on relevant posts from Reddit, it checks their description only. I update it regularly when I see some irrelevant matches and relevant ones too.
        The model checks text for these categories:

        • automation requests (I run a business and want to automate X)
        • problems (I hate doing X because ...)
        • software related(I'm looking for an app, could you recommend me something that does X)
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          That's awesome! Is this something you've been working on for a while? I'm guessing you decided a neural network algorithm was the best option from the start? I would be curious if GPT3 might be a good tool for that sort of thing. Could also group in some other online sources to build the data set.

          Great idea though. Definitely the sort of thing I'd love to browse. I need a problem to solve :)

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            Thanks. I work on it for several months. I'm not an ML person at all.

            I could go with "if-else" instead of natural language processing algorithms, but I wanted to try NLP because of curiosity and to build a more flexible system. "if-else" algorithms wouldn't filter cases I can't know yet. There was a library that helped, I used the Naive Bayes algorithm, then Logistic Regression. Both didn't work out well for my case. I guess this is because of the subtleties of understanding how they really work and what data need.
            I decided to go with a neural network, it gave me more flexibility(the library for NB and LR didn't provide full configuration over how to work with the algorithms). For all of that time working on the project, I collected the relevant data mostly and trained the model, which is far from perfect, it still needs more data.
            I presume the GPT-3 can classify text too. I believe it can be trained for a specific case.

            If you want to see updates, follow Olwi on the IH :)

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      This will be amazing. So many websites just list down ideas but gathering problems should be the first step.

      I am pretty sure it will help so many of us here at IH

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        Yes, the ideas collections don't help much, except for maybe a bit of inspiration. With problems, you may have a different view on a particular situation a person/business talks about. Then, gather more insights, dive deeper, and solve the real need.

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      Sounds interesting. Do let me know once you're done with it :)

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        It's hard to understand when I'm done because the filtering algorithm is always changing when I gather more data. I need initial feedback, so I'll share it soon.

  3. 3

    Just launched a fun free curated db of 101 top indiehackers building in public 👉https://www.producthunt.com/posts/101-indiehackers-building-in-public

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      🔥🔥🔥
      I follow a lot of these folks.
      The plan is to try to actively build in public and apply to be featured in this list soon 😇

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        Appreciate you checking it out! Lot of legends in here! Hoping this helps some early stage makers discover and find some inspirational mentors and folks to look up to!

  4. 3

    Building a Wikipedia for search queries - https://gooseler.com/
    To do list:

    • Collect and generate more queries
    • Dedicated link for edit and run queries
    • Make the page mobile friendly.
    • Planning to launch in Aug.
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      This is a nice little idea. I have seen such products do wonders just for searching on twitter

  5. 3

    Not really building but I'm going to double down on marketing for https://contentforge.ai. We've launched it this week and we need to grow grow grow!

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      This looks awesome. I have seen people utilizing AI based content creation so much.

      How do you plan to double down on marketing. Have you identified a channel that works for you?

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        We've had ads running this week and I can already see some places where we can optimize them.

        I've also added ContentForge to a lot of Saas comparison websites. I don't really expect a lot of traffic from there but I'll keep an eye on it next week.

        I'll probably prepare a launch over at AppSumo for major exposure. And maybe write a blog post about our launch or another relevant subject.

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          You should definitely list on Appsumo with a nicely curated deal.

          I'll keep an eye out for the blog post

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    Cool idea, Rajat. I hope you will a hyper-growth! Good luck with the idea.

    I'm working on a new version of my product FromNotion.com - a website builder for Notion Fans. We're building now a visual website builder that allows you to build a website with predesigned blocks in minutes and then manage a website from Notion. No code and no design skills required.

    1. 4

      Hey @shashcoffe

      FromNotion looks really cool and some of the sample websites are really amazing. I am also trying to build a business, based on Notion called NoCodeLetters that allows you to send your newsletters directly from Notion.
      I am looking for some feedback on my product. Will it be possible for you to share some thoughts around it?

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        Thank you, man. Sure, I will try your product and give you some feedback. I like the idea, cool. 💪🙌😀

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      I am a Notion fan and FromNotion looks like a great idea.

      I was about to ask you to add some demo sites to the landing page and realized that landing page was made using FromNotion. Now that is cool!!

      May I ask you how you decided on the pricing of the plans? I find Saas pricing very tricky and would love to know what process you adopted

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        Sure. Some demo sites:
        https://customdesk.fromnotion.com
        https://beeper.fromnotion.com
        https://stitch.fromnotion.com
        https://clack.fromnotion.com
        https://shashkoff.com

        And we're using simple pricing, based on the number of sites.
        1 site – $8 p/mo
        3 sites – $12 p/mo
        8 sites – $24 p/mo

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          The Beeper one looks really cool.

          The Stitch one uses a nav at the top that is always expanded in mobile view. Can that be collapsed into a button?

          This is looking really interesting to me. The amazing kind of products people are building on top of notion. I am going to sign up and play around over the weekend

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            Yeah, navbar can be collapsed into burger menu via custom code. We're working on a new version to improve product.

            Thx. It would be cool to get some feedback from you, Rajat. 🙂🙏

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              Having an option to quickly get that working could do wonders for your mobile conversion

              I would love to give more feedback. Followed you to keep an eye on future updates 😇

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    We're working on launching Cove Identity on ProductHunt next week! Extremely excited to share it with the community there :)

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      That looks like a solid suite of products!

      All the best with the PH launch.

      PS: (small brag) I just did a PH launch last week and ended my being #1 of the day. My project was extremely small as compared to Cove Identity. So hit me up with any questions that you might have. I might be able to help

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        Thanks, Rajat! That'll be very helpful, will connect with you soon :)

  8. 2

    Last month, my online community rebranded from Dad’s Club to become Parent’s Club.

    In July, we’re planning to build out our new marketing messaging to a new, broader audience.

    I’ve seen a lot more quizzes and free challenges being used for lead generation. So one of the campaigns we’re planning on shipping is a New Parent Challenge for soon-to-be parents.

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      New parent challenge sounds really cool.

      I have heard so many of my co-workers sharing parenting books and tips that I am sure this will help a lot of folks.

      Great job. And really novel idea 👌

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    We plan to onboard our first round of beta users for https//becomepeerless.com (just launched the site yesterday) in July, but much more to build before that. Is it already July 2?

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      Hey @jsewell! I went to check out your website and product and I loved it. I like the approach regarding helping people building healthy routine without polluting them with ads. It will help us to move forward with a clear mind! I joined the waitlist 🚀

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        Thanks so much @Trafalgar! I look forward to letting you take it for a spin.

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          I'm looking forward to try it out! We're also focus on privacy & users' data ownership if you wanna have a quick look and give any feedback, it would be greatly appreciated! https://www.telios.io/

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            Very interesting. I signed up. I like the idea of my email being more private, secured, and in my control away from prying eyes, but I'll be honest, it is not top of mind for me. I think your site could use an explanation of why I should worry about having private email.

            "For Everybody" is a pretty wide audience. With privacy, we either think that is a fundamental right and you're looking for people to join that movement, or there is a particular use case or specific reason I should want more private email than I'm using right now.

            Otherwise, the site and the email interface looks top notch and very professional. I also like the public roadmap!

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              Thank you for your feedback! We will start posting articles on the blog next week. Our first one is - teaser - "The Lost Word of Privacy". We present privacy under different perspective and why we should all care about it! But I agree with you, we should better justify the reason for a private & secure email on our landing page.

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    Hi Rajat

    I am planning to work on updates to the table's editor for:
    https://table.listws.com

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      Nice. What new features do you plan to add?

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        Edit the table content in place, add visual misc hints and improve the navigation between the table and the side editor

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          Sounds like a plan mate! Good luck

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    I'm working on finally having my landing page up for TurboNav.
    A chrome extension that finally manages active tab navigation and a neat never before seen feature of creating routines to finally manage that long list of saved articles.

    Here's a sneak peek https://turbonav.super.site/!
    I'm building the landing page using https://super.so/.
    So far I'm liking it!

    This is WIP and eventually it'll live in 👉 https://turbonav.com/

    peace ✌️

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      Hey Miguel

      Tab management is still a big issue for power users. The landing page on Super looks awesome as well

      Keep us informed of the launch, and please sign me up if you're looking for beta users

      All the best!!

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        Thanks looking forward to sharing it here in IndieHackers soon!

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    Preparing the launch of the alpha version of https://www.telios.io/, a private and secure peer to peer email. My goal is to have enough sign ups on the waitlist so once we release the alpha we have enough data points regarding the user experience and where to improve the product!

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      Hi Trafalgar,
      The logo is 🔥And so is the idea.

      Initial launch is a completely different ball game for products such as Telios. You need to start with audience so that you understand the UX painpoints.

      But if I understand correctly, for further growth the network effect kicks in

      All the best with Telios

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        Thanks @rajatkapoor! I agree with you, the initial launch is a different ball game. This is why we decide to have a step by step approach. By launching the alpha we are seeking to better understand our customers but also learn from the feedback to have our main launch with the beta version.

        Good luck on your project as well! Are you going to give feedback on its evolution (roadblocks that you encountered, present the product at the end of July...)?

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          Thanks you so much for your wishes

          I plan to post regular updates, but I have been really bad at it historically with Timely, Mockly, Clubhouseancestors, etc. I keep posting about it on twitter though if you are interested.

          But I plan to be more systematic with posting updates here on IH

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            I definitely am. I'll go check out your twitter!

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    I'll be working on blog and newsletter for foxyapps.co

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      Those are some beautiful apps ✨

      I have 2 questions for you:

      1. How did you make the 3d illustration on the right side of your landing page? It's looking crazy good. Is there are tool that helps you create that ?

      2. What do you plan to use for the newsletter?

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        Thanks! Appreciate that.

        1. I combined free assets from these two libraries
          https://www.figma.com/community/file/890095002328610853
          https://dribbble.com/shots/14392648-Free-3D-iPhone-Mockup

        2. I have zero idea. Never done a newsletter before. Do you have any recommendations?

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          Thanks for sharing those resources.

          Even I have not done newsletters.
          For personal newsletters, I keep on hearing substack and revue. But for a product like foxyapps, I would recommend having a look at convertkit.

          I am sure others here on IH can point you to better alternatives

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            Hey @catico
            Great landing page and designs

            For the newsletters, if you guys have not zeroed in on anything, and would want to send it directly from Notion, do try out NoCodeLetters. We just launched it last week in public beta.

            It is completely free in beta and I would love to see other indie hackers use it.

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              Thanks for suggestion! Will check that out.

  14. 2

    My Goals for July for https://SignalFlare.app :

    • 10 active users in prelaunch Beta
    • Get it into the Chrome Extension Store with the MVP
    • Invite sharing system
    • Add Stripe Payments and Quotas based on subscription plan
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      I can really see merit in this idea (as someone who works full time in a SAAS startup)

      Can this somehow sync these annotations around different tools?

      Maybe plugs into something like segment? (disregard if this sounds completely stupid :) )

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        Yes you have it right. Your annotations move with you no matter what tools you've adopted. We intend to support them all.

        Anywhere you see a time series chart, we'll make it easy to overlay your annotations.

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          Ohh man!! That is 🤯🤯

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    I'm Not sure but I am thinking to build an online store for my Father's grocery shop. But thinking about how will I achieve this.
    PS: I'm just in the learning phase.

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      That's amazing. Helping parents with tech is the best. They feel like their kid knows magic 🤣

  16. 2

    Finally launching my first project idea and doing less freelance work.

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      Sounds fun.

      Having a passive income stream from a product definitely beats freelance IMO

  17. 2

    Working on terrace.so, a course/membership site builder using Notion. We're close to launching!

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      I run a membership site—Parent’s Club—so I’m excited to follow how your product builds out!

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      Membership sites using notion!! Amazing

      Sign me up. (I just did myself :) )

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    Working on launching our own B2B Audio Social Network App. Hope all goes as planned.

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      OOOH!! 🔥

      When can we see it?

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        In few days maybe. The product is in its finishing stage so it wouldn't take too long.

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            Thanks. Good luck to you too.

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    A few days ago I broke ground on a new project I have been thinking about for months. Today I finally got nameea.com to usable MVP site where people can actually look and see the affordable brandable domain names. Even do some basic filtering of them.

    My to dos for July include:

    • improve the general UI
    • add basic search
    • create a simple blog to start writing articles for SEO
    • and of course write the first article :)
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      This is nice. I can already spot some really good names on there

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    Working on a productivity web app based on the concept of "architecture of choice" and the "paradox of too much choice" when it comes to the big question "What I should do now ?".
    The principle is simple, while I know I must do a lot of things to bootstrap something, I really feel overwhelmed when I look at my todo list in the morning. What I should do first ? In what order ? What can fit in my day ? So to remove that, the app just remove the needs to come up every day with a new plan by yourself : it just calculates 'the perfect plan' for you with time blocks that fill your day.
    This way I'm trying to remove decision fatigue by showing the only one best option (based on your criterias) at this critical moment of the day : starting something.

    July will be do or die for this idea !

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      Sign me up.

      I face this problem everyday. AND nothing helps.

      If you can build what you intend to build, it will be no less than magic for me

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        Thanks Rajat ! Out of curiosity, do you have a top of mind apps that you tried (that didn't help) ?

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          I have tried numerous todo apps: todoist, wunderlist, microsoft todo(stuck to this for a long time), Notion(used this for long again)

          Now I use TickTick for all sort of todos and planning my weeks. I think I have found a good fit with TickTick being my todo app, but when it comes to planning, I cannot seem to make it work for my needs.

          I will be happy to provide you some early feedback with your app when it's ready for a beta 🙏

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            Oh it seems that I tried all the same apps, except TickTick. I'll check that, thx for the hint.

            Sure thing about testing an early version. I'm currently using a prototype, but it's still pretty rough. I plan to come up with something in a few weeks. I'll keep you posted !

            Hey btw nice post you did there ! It's really great seeing all those people working on something too !

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              Definitely check TickTick

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    I'm working to move Notabase into beta!

    I recently added full-text search of notes. Next up: being able to import notes, performance improvements, Stripe + pricing, and making the landing page better.

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      I have seen people derive so much benefit out of these "graph-based" note taking tools. I am still stuck at using Notion

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        Notion's great! I took a lot of inspiration from it while building Notabase, mainly around how easy it is to use.

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          Notabase looks great too!! :)

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      Nice idea.

      One feedback though: adding some sort of social proof or case studies of your customers who found success with https://provedirect.com could do wonders for you.

      Success stories attract success

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    Just revamped Hyperjump.co's website. Updated copy, new images, added more frequently asked questions, moved from a subscription-based system to credits. Going to run it by a few "mentors." More changes probably coming.

    Planning on launching garyveefollowme.com. "Pitch Yourself to Gary Vaynerchuck!
    Upload a short video telling him why he should follow you." A fun, growth hacky project. Looking to have Gary follow me, of course!

    Similarly, working on mrbeastfanideas.com. "Help MrBeast keep producing high-quality, entertaining videos by tweeting your own video ideas and suggestions.
    Launching Sunday, August 1, 2021." Hope to get his radar as well.

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      These are all amazing.

      I really love the other 2. There is a huge potential for virality

      I have a similar "virality focused" project which I never launched.
      You can check it out here if you like: https://clubhouseancestors.vercel.app/

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        Why not launch it? Too buggy?

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          Ahh, not at all. The app is not buggy

          As clubhouse does not have an API, it uses a workaround to get the data on the backend. I am not sure how people would feel about that

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            Makes sense. Plus there isn't as much buzz around Clubhouse anymore. Site looks nice though!

  23. 1

    I'm developing a React UI KIT based 100% on Tailwind

    https://windy-docs.vercel.app/

    Windy was designed from the ground up to be easily installed and used to get your UI up and running quickly.

    I'm waiting for tour feedback 🙏😊

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      This looks pretty.

      And I love tailwind, but I usually end up using Chakra-UI for all my projects because it is built on the principle of "accessibility first". It has a solid set of components as well.

      I have no actionable feedback at this point. The current set of components looks good and I am assuming you are in the process of adding more components. You can check out Chakra UI and RadixUI to find a robust offering that will attract devs to use it.

      That said, I will happy to give it a try with a side project once it is ready 👌
      I might have some real feedback for you then

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    My knowledge! 🧠

    I’m planning to learn and build on my skills of the React and Node ecosystem.

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      Amazing. knowledge building never get's old

      And so good to see you here again 👋
      (You were always here, while I took a break from IH for a while)

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        Thanks so much! Good to see you back making content! 👋

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          So good to be back 🕺🕺

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    Adding the final touches to https://www.shoppingtracker.app/ to finally start with open beta testing before updating the landing page (Much needed).

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      Sweet. Looking forward to it

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    Grow my business socials following on Twitter and Instagram,.

    Then finally launch a newsletter this month.

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      Maybe sent up a simple landing page to start collecting emails pre-launch? Just a suggestion.

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        Thank you that is a very good idea

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      Twitter is so tough. I am myself trying my best to grow on twitter.

      I am loving all these twitter tools, ilo.so, feedhive, hypefury, tweetastic and typefully.app. All of these are really helpful for analyzing your twitter

      (I am associated with none of these, but just use all of these for different purposes)

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    I'm building Boilerp to help people practice coding skills and build a portfolio, without building projects from scratch.

    It finds you an open-source project that has skills you want to learn, creates a fork for you, and removes pieces of code to turn the project into a series of fill-in-the-blank puzzles that scale with your skill level.

    The idea is that it lets you understand big real-world projects, finish them up, and even add your own ideas to them, all without building from scratch, because building a calculator to learn a new tech stack isn't that fun :)

    I'm planning to build the MVP this month and hopefully get some feedback and some users.

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      That is such an interesting idea.

      Practical work is so much better than learning via tutorials

  28. 1

    Continue to finish the final pieces of the ultimate email marketing guide for Indie Creators. Been working on it since mid-May. I've written about it in this IH post.

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      Please share with us @wellymulia once it's ready

      I am also looking forward to trying Birdsend soon 😃

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    https://botmenot.com/

    Started working on this anti-bot protection test. The idea is to use our knowledge and experience from Price2Spy which basically works as a bot and create a tool that will test your website and show you your bot protection score.

    1. 1

      The price2spy story is so inspiring. Are you still running it actively? or does it run in passive mode.

      I'm very keen to see how you repeat the growth with botmenot.com

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        Thank you – Price2Spy is still very active, with nearly 110 FTEs working on it.

        However, I have decided to decrease my involvement in it, because for 2 reasons:

        A) Younger ones should show their leadership skills

        B) I would like to kick off several new projects, Botmenot.com being one of these

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          That is amazing!

          Looking forward to follow the journey of Botmenot.com and others!

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    Website: just-sell.online

    After our MVP, we plan to generate an Product-Landing Page for our SaaS.
    We still have one for the niche "gastronomy" on https://gastro.just-sell.online, now we need one for our whole service.

    1. 1

      This is fantastic. Catering to specific niches can do wonders.

      (It definitely worked for me)

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    rolling out my simplest every creation a sales app of founders for founders and their businesses

    1. 1

      Nice idea. Ship it. You never know how a simple idea could help so many people!

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        www.maxcalling.com may be review it. App for iPhone and android awaiting a user count increase in my db

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    Working on our marketing strategy for ZenOutreach !

    1. 1

      Amazing.
      Do you have some targets in mind that you want to achieve?

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    1. 1

      The website design looks fab. I love the color scheme.

      What do you plan to use for creating and recording product videos? I use Jitter and tella.tv but keen to know what you use.

      And it looks like you have a busy July

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