Validating Idea: Jump-start Your Indie Hacking Journey with a Trusted List of Tools
Hello Fellow Hackers!
I'm validating an idea
There are an overwhelming number of tools out there. Intimidating to new Indie Hackers like me.
What if you could jump-start your Indie Hacking journey with a trusted list of tools to help you choose the right tech stack for your product?
Would you find value in a site like this?
MVP
I built a MVP called Hacker Tools to help the validation process. Would love any and all feedback:
With Hacker Tools you can quickly search for tools by categories and find those trusted by the larger community based on upvotes. If you love a tool, feel free to upvote it yourself!
NOTE: I could use help from the community to suggest tools! If you sign up, there will be an option to suggest a tool on the site.
Inspiration
I mentioned in a previous post that I am beginning my Indie Hacking journey and found myself deep in Twitter threads learning what Tech Stack people are using. I'd personally love to know what tools are most popular to de-risk my tech stack selection.
Tech stack used for Hacker Tools
If the solution is context driven, then it is super helpful.
I have been using gpt4 to provide the flat tech stack info, and when it is not available, https://www.wappalyzer.com/lookup/ that was mentioned on your last post. It takes time to gather the context.
if it was attached the IH product page, then that is context.
I have been going thru the Developer group posts etc of all the unanswered tech stack related questions by fellow indies.
Like:
Thank you for the feedback!
By context do you mean show which tools are used by specific indie hacking projects? Or more broad context as your examples mention: “what tool does X the best?”
Which context would be most valuable to you?
In the other post it seemed like there was at least some hesitancy of indie hackers spilling their secret sauce and exposing the tech stack for their products. Do you think people would be willing to share these details?
Forgot to mention, Hacker Tools means something very different to me. Hacker as in hacker. Hacker and Indie are very different in my world. I would be disappointed if I was hunting for hacker tools to discover mainstream tools used by indies.
This thought crossed my mind, but in the interest of getting an MVP out there quickly for validation, I carried on.
If the tool garners more interest, I’ll consider changing the name as I make it more production ready. Any suggestions?
will ponder
I saw the secret sauce dialogue. It did not make sense to me as we can obtain tech stacks using https://www.wappalyzer.com/lookup/
I could not work out what was sooo secret. The take away fm was, if an app/solution regards their tech stack as a 'secret sauce', then it is most likely not an app I am interested in. Its an ethos thing fm.
Excellent clarifying question. Thankyou.
With this context you could also answer the sample post questions I included with , see what others IH done (insert the direct link with comparison from your tool)
For another need, less urgent for me at the mo, but important.
There was another post today/yesterday on tech stacks, no-code and collaborative learning. There is cross-over I felt to that idea and your idea.
Thank you again for your thoughtful feedback. Apologies for the delayed response.
I also think there is value in more analytics. Seeing trends over time, etc. That would be something I’d consider if Hacker Tools passed the validation stage.
I’m wondering if the next incremental step here is to allow for users to publish information about their products / projects including a list of tools they are using to provide some context. With this information (and my current tech stack) it would be pretty straightforward to provide similar view of indie hacker products.
I’ll try to find the post you were referring to about tech stacks and no-code.
Any thoughts on other communities I could share this idea with to further validate? As of now I’ve only had one person signup - which is an indicator to me that I should move on to other ideas.
If the tech stack info exists somewhere already and you can data-set it from there (e.g. the wappalyzer.com/lookup/ site). This would open up the ability to launch as dashboard trending analytics first. With a QnA bot, That would be a great test of need in my experience.
Within a large organisation, we often deploy the outcome first. This is especially good when we know the app will change behaviours. Rather than sell the app and all the benefits of that, but deliver the outcome first. This can be done if it is a report or dashboard. It means I clunk together the data-sets and publish a report if I cannot do a dashboard. Better if dashboard and even better if an interactive dashboard.
When we provide a source of interaction, then we can test idea. If we provide interaction with feedback loop (a bot), then we can truelly idea validate.
FYI: I never signup to 'early start' or something like that. I rarely sign up to anything. Signup means your information is even more out there on internet. I sign-up when I get repeatable solid value for signing up that cannot be received without signup. I still watch alot. I wonder if I am an outlier or there could be others similar.
I appreciate here on IH use signups as an indicator of idea validation. However fm, many of what I am seeing here on IH in area of ideas validation are not really indicators of ideas validation. Traffic does not equal sales. Traffic is traffic. Traffic does not even equal interest. For me this using traffic to idea validate has been built over time by marketing guff. Its akin to foot traffic passing the shopfront store as people walk by your shopfront. They just seeing the shopfront window. Nothing more. Sure it is an idea validation when the numbers are extreme e.g. 75,000 signups in 1 day like dropbox got on their launch. But not even 10,000 would tell me as a seasoned business coach it means idea validation.
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