Very early MVP, looking for feedback.
Hey everyone,
Long time lurker, but this is one of my first posts. I'm hesitating posting this at all as it's still very early days, but I could use some feedback.
I've been working on a new side project. Dedolist.com, pronounced (Day, Doh).
I was frustrated every time I went looking for some sort of public data, it was scattered all over the web. I'm trying to collect, organize and make accessible the worlds public information. Ambitious perhaps, but I think a worthy goal.
The site itself is really bare bones right now but usable. I plan to get a designers touch on it soon, but loading it up with great data is more important right now.
I guess, I'm just looking for some early feedback.
Do you see this being useful?
Would you use the API access I have provided?
How would you monetize it?
I have a ton of ideas for it, but right now I just want to see if I can get any traction. Check out the About page, if you want to find out how I'm building it and more.
Hi @dgavey, I checked out your profile after your comment on my post in this weeks growth thread and found this. I actually made a project that combined a few sources of stop words and then could filter them out of arbitrary phrases (the goal was to make better automatic branch names from the names of features in a project) so this is really cool!
To that end I think two things would make me use this:
I think the easier to use this while prototyping (sample data in a frontend perhaps), the better. Tout the benefit of using a real api vs local mock data to test asynchronous UI, maybe even allow to simulate latency. I've seen some sites that host a fake API for you with similar endpoints but I haven't used them because the API format is a hassle to make work out of the box with Ember.js (so maybe that's an opportunity? framework specific endpoints?)
My friend is building Golden.com to catalogue all the worlds knowledge, he is someone you could talk to about public datasets. ML datasets are a huge business now.
Monetization-wise you either need to specialize the data somehow (something difficult to get or cumbersome to aggregate) for a particular customer or give faster/better access to a large dataset available somewhere else.
Thank you so much for your feedback. Also high fives for being an Ember.js developer. That's my day job too. I just love Ember... anyway.
I was considering doing a JSON:API as well, I never thought about GraphQL, but that makes a lot of sense too. I think that would help, along with specific helper libraries for individual frameworks to make integration easier would be great some time too.
Golden.com looks really cool, pretty neat concept. I'm purposely avoiding large ML data sets, that market seems to be well handled. I really wanted to make something more open-source and could help a broader community of developers. Looking at JAM Stack and No-code style sites to have the most benefit from this. I'll probably start targeting those audiences a bit closer soon.
As far as monetization is concerned, right now I'm all in on growing audience. Not too worried about making money off of it. I have lots of ideas, but my first concern is actually making something helpful to the web community in general.
Thanks so much for your comments, I really appreciate it! I'm on the ember Discord if you are ever on there as "dgavey"
I'll bet making Covid data available in an easy to use format would make you very popular. (The way things are going now it could even be long term popular - yes vaccines are on the way but there could be mutations or a new virus.)
Thanks for the reply. Yeah the Covid data would be good. I think some one might already have that, but worth looking into. I'm not set up very well for large data sets yet. Mostly focusing on small sets right now.
Hey, I like the concept. It can be useful for Data Scientists, Big Data users or people in similar fields. Having an API access will help multitude of people, for sure.
About monetizing, you can have a section where you sell them more curated, or specific data? A lot of things you can do.
Thanks for taking a look. I do intend on getting some big data sets in place for data scientists, but big data sets are expensive to host, so focusing on small ones. That being said it's one place where you could up sell fairly easily I would think.
Sure, you can do that. Also, you can take some inspiration from this website called Kaggle .
I know they are way-bigger but it might help you with some ideas.