What Actually Made you Start your Project? + Drop the link

I’ve spent a lot of time gathering resources about SaaS - stuff like idea validation, launch, tools needed, books, etc.

I had a long document filled with useful information and advice, so I decided to tweak it and publish it on GitHub, in hope that someone will find it useful 😁

https://github.com/nicolas-racchi/SaaS4Devs

As a maker who lost faith and failed on his first few projects, I decided to create a product that will at least benefit someone (myself at least) which gives me the motivation to keep pushing until it's done. That's how Open Tree Style Tab was born.

Users of my previous prokect not converting because the interface was too complicated for them

https://kompassify.com

I am a developer and I keep building new projects. For me, writing website codes again and again was an issue. I love tailwindcss and couldn't find any pre-built react UI component blocks built on tailwindcss apart from tailwindUI - which I personnally don't like to copy paste the snippets. I was looking for a pre-built solution.

This became a huge slowdown especially when I wanted to build interfaces for one of my project - PrivJs. So, I decided to work on Reactwind - a clean UI component library for ReactJs. I havent built the landing page yet, for now please use my twitter handle as the landing page, I'll be posting updates over there - https://twitter.com/reactwind

I was bored out of my skull at my day job and needed a change, so I moved to Africa and started a no-code BPO agency, from virtual assistants to web design, WhatAspp influencer marketing bot and soon content creation.
Without no-code this wouldn't have been possible, I wouldn't have had the courage to take the leap.
I love being part of the makers after feeling left out for so long:)

When we start a new global project we needed to translate our app language into nearly 20 languages. Managing 20 + languages at once is difficult, and I've created a simple but powerful app to help me manage all my app languages.
https://trylang.net
TryLang has a free subscription, try it for free.

I started Letterbase because I couldn't find a simple, lightweight, and privacy-friendly customer support tool that worked exactly the way I wanted.

The problems I encountered:

• Why do I need to fiddle around with a bloated app to respond to my customers?
• Why do I need to pay so much money?
• Why is it so hard to tweak settings so that the messenger looks exactly how I want it to?
• Why is the messenger slowing down my website?
• Why is everything so privacy-invasive?

Letterbase is the solution that I built to solve these problems.

I started ZenMaid because I wanted lifestyle freedom after reading the 4 Hour Work Week (it's since turned into more and I love working with our industry)

While running ZenMaid we implemented a neat little tool to manage our exit flow and I kept asking myself why none of my SaaS friends were using something similar - it's such a quick easy win

That's why I went out and acquired BurnChurn.io which we're currently revamping before doing a small release to my friends :-)

With https://tablericons.com I wanted SVG icons site where I can customize the size, stroke, and color. And also needed the ability to copy them directly to the clipboard instead of downloading them.

I've built Chartloop as I got tired of creating companies orgcharts manually during my time in consulting and sales.
It started as a side project but went viral when I shared it on Reddit. This inspired me to work on it and fully build out the product.
https://www.chartloop.com/

I want more privacy preserving tools. I'm sick of being the product, having my data sold and abused. Portabella is my attempt at an end-to-end encrypted future. A project management platform is my first attempt at helping the world with this issue.

We recently created shape divider web app - https://www.shapedivider.app/ We created this free web app to let designers & developers quickly export nice pre-made SVG shape dividers with customised code based on their project requirements.

I see so many people trying to write copywriting. And often people don't spend a lot of attention to it, while it can easily DOUBLE your sales. That's why I came with the copywriting editor. It's called https://targetaudience.app😃

I always forgot what I achieved in the last 6 months at work and could not create a proper Self-Review. Even though I could track stuff I did in notion or any other note tracking software. Problem is that I would still need to sort/group notes and do all of the usual stuff. Also, I do not get motivated to write down notes all the time. Be it email reminders or streaks to write stuff down.

That's why I created https://getworkrecognized.com/

During quarantine, I challenge my self to create a complete project from scratch, that is, A Web Site, A Dashboard, A GraphQL API, Documentation, Integrations (React Library, JS Vanilla and a Rest API), Payments Integration. A full-stack app.

Another reason was to create a product for internal use in personal projects and professional work to help launch features with the support of feature flags

With this was born https://www.upstamps.com

The need to help founders and Small businesses understand their legal rights.

www.affordablelaw.ng

For me it was the need to monitor some server metrics without adding extra infrastructure, I wanted something simple that I could just script and so I created https://grapiture.com to push metrics to Slack.

The frustration after spending 4-6 hours Googling, figuring out why I could not solve a 'simple' IT issue. I realized that there is a big asymmetrical relationship between how much you know about a subject and how good your search results when using Google.

My co-founder and I, were the same!

I actually wrote 2 articles at the time of the release of my co-founder and I's side project about what made us start and also our solution. Given our niche (Server Authorization), we felt it important to be as open as possible about how we're doing it to try and reduces any fears of "why should I let your app manage my servers authorization?"

I wrote a post on Medium detailing more the reasoning why we've built it https://medium.com/serverauth/managing-your-teams-server-access-while-staying-gdpr-compliant-e4e7c62506cc and then a post on dev.to for the more technical people about the actual implementation we came up with https://dev.to/serverauth/managing-server-access-ssh-keys-and-our-solution-2ie3

Our actual project can be found at https://serverauth.com

Being a forum user and smartphone freak, I've started this side project for generating forum signatures with a timeline that represents mobile devices owned in time. That was in 2012. It was made by passion. Even if it's not about the money, it's about the personal growth, I had the chance to play with tech like React, Redux, Framer Motion, PHP Falcon etc.

Then I keep updating the project with new features and couple of redesigns over its lifetime. Currently there are over 16k users registered.

I just want the project be a tool for:
a) users passionated about mobile phones
b) mobile phone history & stats
c) hot smartphones recommendations

The project:
https://mowned.com/

I wanted to read all the awesome articles from blogs over the Internet.
Made-> pipfeed.com

During the COVID-19 crisis I was looking for ways to stay motivated working out at home (while gyms are closed) with mostly bodyweight exercises - I discovered HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training), was unsatisfied with available products and created my own. 🤓
Any feedback concerning the AppStore presence or landing page is highly appreciated. If you want to join my Testflight list for future test builds, just let me know.
Pre-order (it's free):
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/burnd-hiit-trainer-timer/id1515030728?ls=1

I come across a site which provides similar service but I didn't like it's UI, being perfectionist I immediately decided that I have to build Pinger.

Also I really wanted to make my product, in the way how I see that, not in the way my boss at my full-time job sees how products should be done.

That's cool! Have you heard of BannerBear - I've been using that to (kinda) automate the creation of social media content - you might find it interesting.

I run an online coffee brand called Pot Head Coffee. I always struggle to find the time (or creativity) to capture great photos of my products to share on social media. However, I noticed my customers did.

Therefore I created Ugenly. Customers now submit me photos to Ugenly through a link on our brand's Instagram, where I can purchase the rights to the photo off them.

https://ugenly.com/for-brands

Honestly? I just looked at sheet2site.com and was like "woah, why can't I make it using Airtable and also sprinkle some website-builder UX"

And Tazzo.app was born

I started working on Tracktions when a friend of mine approached me with an idea of this project. At this time I was curious about React Native and decided to join.

Now I am the only person who stands behind this project and my main motivation is the possibility to get experience by trying to find a market and customers.
This set of skills is very hard to get for a developer during a full-time job.

I created MENTORIGHT because of the lack of Mentorship available to people, and the wastage of human resources and knowledge because people who could be mentors don't have an effective way to communicate with mentees.

FB page link: https://www.facebook.com/VMentoRight/

I did https://www.writenext.io/ - it's a tool to help you turn writing into a daily habit. I wanted to write more often, but I couldn't find an app that looks good, works fine, and keeps me engaged to write. It's free and I hope it will help you write more too.

I build and launched a couple of products in the past and they all seemed to be missing something, it's the inability of customers to give ideas on how the product should go.

I tired making google forms, but people didn't fill it very well. Then using no code I made the first version of https://www.featuremonkey.com/, to be part of a job board I was working on at that time.

The idea got a lot of popularity. In the end I got more visits to my no code part than the real code counterpart. Hence I am building feature monkey now. Atleast I know it solved my problems .

I was applying for jobs and I wanted a PDF resume and a web resume that looked modern and similar. I also didn't want to have to update PDF and website separately every time I made a changed.

I tried a bunch of existing solutions but ultimately decided to team up with two designer friends and build Standard Resume, primarily for myself. A very early version of it was posted on Product Hunt and ended up as the #2 product of the week. It's been growing organically since then, but I just recently started working on it full time.

The url is https://standardresume.co

I started Stackprint as a result of a previous venture with a partner where we failed to deliver a product after 2 years.

Going through my time logs of that project I noticed that I spent a lot of time implementing very basic functionality like CRUD APIs, permission checks and matching client code for our web application.

I started building libraries to facilitate these things for future projects and eventually started putting them together into a platform to generate RESTful APIs.

When a had to "manage" some projects I feel I waste time searching for the correct link to jira/asana/trello dashboard, design link, and other stuffs, so I decided to build something to not waste time by opening the correct link with no effort.

A week ago I launch Pau http://pauapp.com a chrome extension tab manager, you can check it out if you want

Hey, I have been a Facebook Ads marketer since 6 years & running my agency since last two years. This covid thing led me to work on a side project & I launched an in-depth webinar course on 'Facebook Ads Targeting'. Do check it out. I am pretty sure it helps.

Link: https://gum.co/aZmeh

Cheers!

I was working with an open source project and we were looking for somewhere to host our documentation. We wanted something appealing and useful. So I created MyloDocs
https://mylodocs.com. Also just wanted to see if I could make myself ship something.

I had (and still have) a lot of personal projects and project ideas that I didn't launch because there was a lot to do to get them to serve public traffic. My projects are usually either APIs, crawlers, scripts, etc, usually more complex than a static webpage or something that can be launched in a managed way (such as wordpress).

In addition, at most of my old jobs, deploying internal services again was a pain, to not say that most of the time we were severely lacking logging, monitoring and alerting infrastructure and were relying on written file logs on certain machines, manually checking daily the status of the scripts and projects and getting spammed with status emails from those services and scripts.

So I started working on Amethyst Platform (https://amethystplatform.com) to make deploying services and scripts easier (that run in docker containers).

https://www.pokernow.club I just wanted some place to play poker with my friends without the whole hassle to download an app and create an account. Besides it, in that time I always found the current poker apps interface too clumsy, so I tried to do a "simple interface" :D

I have experienced how much benefit a company can get by automating tasks, and making sure that each person has the right information to do their job. I have also experienced how much of a pain it is to work with all the different tools, do data sync etc. The goal with QueryBoost is to make this workflow automation and logic easier to handle.

I've always tinkered with automation and some small business ideas. Never got to complete any or even get them to a level where I could call them launched.

Then I got liquidated in bitmex. Lost all my bitcoin and decided I need to put those ideas to work and recover those Bitcoins and make even more than I lost. Plus I don't like working for other ppl haha

Well... I have one product close to launch (just settling the legal crap) and hopefully it will work out :)

This post made me start Fifty

I have always wanted to run my own business and am passionate about helping creators and other entrepreneurs do the same. This innate desire led to the creation of Startup Sanctuary.

I am also looking forward to seeing your Beta version of Spread Tech @LouTromans

I wanted to write a book to help developers become better content creators. I originally pitched a publishing house that rejected it, leading me to self-publish. I self-published The Developer's Guide to Content Creation (developersguidetocontent.com) in late January and followed up with the Developer's Guide to Book Publishing (bit.ly/DGTBP) in May. What started out as a desire to write books became a productized business. It's been an amazing journey so far!

I have been in the creative business since 2013. I also have been running my agency working with various enterprises. But I always observed the need for great creative service for startups and small businesses. In the quest of solving the problem, I've launched an unlimited design productized service Engagebound (https://www.engagebound.com/).

We are also launching an unlimited content writing service besides design.
My personal motivation is to create a company which is scalable .

I am an investor, I have investments on different platforms (Vanguard, Freetrade, Coinbase, etc.) and keepin track of everything and setting target allocations in a spreadsheet turns out to be a nightmare! I built Portfollow as webapp that aims to solve those pain points: https://www.portfollow.io/

It's really hard to start a company and make it succeed. But it seems that all the stories published on social media are from successful startups, which makes no sense. Where are the stories about people who tried and failed? Aren't all the learnings from failed experiences valuable enough? Are successful stories the only ones that can teach us how to start a company?

That's why I started working on Phoenix Down to showcase real stories from failed projects to help other makers like us to succeed.

In my case, it has been always difficult to find brand names for my projects, websites, etc. I tend to spend a lot of time thinking about cool and catchy names. So, I though this can be somehow better done. The online tools I tested did not help much.

This is the reason I am working on Randator - https://randator.com, a one-step brand generator (I do not want to fill like and endless form to get some suggestions).

It is not perfect I know, some names do not make any sense, but some of them are really great :-). In fact, Randator itself generated its name with the keywords: brand, name and generator. I was surprised that one of the suggestions was Randator, I liked it and chose it as the official name :-).

Currently, I am supporting English and Spanish, there is still a lot of work to do to improve it, but I can get some cool names. It seems to work better with 2 short keywords so I have work to do to improve it with longer words.

It also check social media username and domain availability. It ranks domain names with different extensions.

Give it a try and I wish it helps you with brand names or at least give you some inspiration :-).

Hey Louis! 🤟

For me it was lockdown, I started my blog https://daily-dev-tips.com/ when the lockdown started to keep me sane.

Also, I didn't have to commute to work so I had some time left and wanted to improve as a developer.

I've thought about starting a blog and have a different travel like blog, but this one just came to me, build it and so far sticking to it.

I've always looked to level up my growth game or keep a collection of great growth strategies and tactics, so I repurposed a Notion doc of the best growth content into a curated database.

Growth Roadmap Database

This way people can find solid growth content in one place.

I have been working remotely for the last 3 years. In fact I have only worked in a real office for 4 months as a Inter and Jr. Dev. Now I see a lot of people have been forced to work from home and most don't feel productive or like working from home. So I decided to create a newsletter to serve them useful content that would help people work remotely.

Just realeased the 2nd issue yesterday, check it out https://remoteletter.com/post/remoteletter-2

And my website https://remoteletter.com/

No link yet, but Jamfony started out as an idea about year ago and i'm now MVPing it as a bachelor project for my CS degree.