What are you working on this month?
🎉 Happy New Year everyone! 🎉
With every new month comes a new chance to talk about what you're working on and meet other founders. Here's how you can join the discussion:
- First, respond to someone else who's commented, just to say hello or leave them some feedback!
- Next, leave your own comment describing what you're working on (or aspiring to work on), and your biggest goal for January.
That's it!
Excited to hear from everyone and see what you're working on!
Hi,
The biggest goal for this month is to launch nocodery.com.
I've been working on this for a couple of weeks with a friend of mine and we've been getting great feedback from nocoders.
There is some work to be done on the crawlers but I'm confident that we're going to be able to launch.
Hi, here's a couple pieces of unsolicited feedback for your site (take it or leave it).
Anyway, have a great day!
Thanks a lot, I love unsolicited feedback, it means you care :)
I'll take that into consideration and improve the page.
Have a great day too.
This is a great idea @Gonelf I've just today twitted (https://twitter.com/tair/status/1212703363395141632) about nocode for 2020, seems like this space is booming and I'd love to see more such resources.
Awesome I'll check it out.
love the idea
Thanks :)
This is a great idea, I definitely see a niche for nocode jobs. The main places I see them posted right now are on the support forums for each tool... so definitely a need for a single home for it all :)
Do you have any examples of those forums that you can share?
A good one is the Freelance section on Bubble... https://forum.bubble.io/c/freelance/13
thanks :)
Good luck looks like you have quite a few jobs posed already which is a great start, what has your strategy being up to how to find these?
Thanks :)
For now, we're searching for specific software and index it.
Our strategy to get better listings will pass through blacklisting some phrases that contain a nocode software name but with a different meaning.
We will also git the change for anyone to report a bad listing.
My goal for this month is to launch my project artbuffer.com. It lets you take your favorite photos and create beautiful generative paintings from them using programmable brushes.
I'm a little freaked out as I just got done with my PhD thesis (like a week ago), and will have to make a decision on whether I want to pursue this full-time or take a job and try to work at it on the side. Bootstrapping it all by myself is just plain scary.
Currently there's just a landing page for people to show interest. And though there is still tons of little stuff left to do, the MVP has been coming along nicely. I think I'll be able to launch in a week or two.
If you're reading this and you find it interesting, do signup for the mailing list; it'll help me gauge interest, and definitely help with making a decision at the end of this month! :-)
Hi, like the idea! Also, congratulations on your PhD! :)
Thanks! :-)
Plan: new features to https://guesstheproduct.com based on the great feedback I got.
Goal for this month: 100 users (currently 20), 30 uploaded landing pages (currently 12)
That was pretty fun to play along! I love the concept. Good luck with this!
This is a brilliant idea, very useful to get some feedback on a new idea. Good luck
Thank you.
Your landing page is really good, I love the illustrations and overall text/space ratio. Maybe add a 'demo' video or make it easier to find how to submit a New Landing, but in overall, great work!
Great feedback, thanks.
My goal for January is to launch two features for plausible.io:
I'll also be talking to a content marketer about strategies to grow the project. I'm hoping that she can connect me with writers and marketers. It can be difficult to find a marketer who cares about open source and digital privacy issues.
I love the layout of your landing page, so clean :)
It's a bit unclear what "100% data ownership" means, could you elaborate?
Also, what are you using for your roadmap/feedback (https://feedback.plausible.io/) ? It looks cool, is it a custom-made solution?
LE: I found it: https://nolt.io/
Thanks :)
The idea with data ownership is that Plausible obtains no rights to your visitors' data. Simply, I cannot turn around and sell the data to third parties or monetize it in any other way.
Google Analytics, on the other hand, is designed to capture as much data about your visitors as possible so they can monetize it through advertising.
Currently '100% data ownership' is the spirit of my user agreement, but when I can afford legal help I will make sure this is included in the actual terms of service.
Your product looks great.
I think you could try to change the section that highlights how your product differs from your alternatives.
When I read "Plausible is a lightweight, fully open-source alternative to Google Analytics" my first thought was "But how does it differ". Then I saw your differentiators but wished for something easier to scan than text.
A table with the most popular alternatives and your USP's might be a good alternative or maybe have both. (like a TL:DR)
This looks great!
The pricing looks much better than similar options, so I may have to give this a try.
Cheers!
Hi Everyone!
Thanks for posting this @rosiesherry
This month was our official go-live for Blook.io. We help US and Foreign entrepreneurs setup their business in the U.S. I'm super excited to build traction and continue to get customers :)
At this point we're focusing on the sales and marketing and finding the best channels to go after. Does anyone have any recommendations?
Looking forward to another great year indiehacking and reading and working with other entrepreneurs!
Search for anyone stressing out about things like VAT Moss? :D
Happy New Year IndieHackers! 🎆
I've just launched https://www.indiehackers.com/product/snipy - still waiting for it to be approved, but in a nutshell, it's a central place for all your team's code snippets. I've shared my experiences building Snipy with Dark here https://medium.com/@tair/snipy-built-with-dark-no-code-no-servers-no-deploys-e5b02c961723 and it's definitely a platform to try if you want to get something out quickly, without worrying much about backend and infra.
My goal for January is to get early customers and build a slick desktop app. Still thinking about the tech stack and leaning towards React/Next/Electron. Does anybody have experience building desktop apps here? What's your preferred tech stack?
Cheers and happy shipping in 2020 ✌️
My goal for January is to get 5 potential customers on the phone to do some problem discovery in a prospective niche. I want to target owners of small gyms that don't use POS software of any kind. I have noticed that martial arts & personal training gyms commonly fit this description, so that's where I'm planning to start.
Goal is to have every game on exploregames.io to have an image to it and have all basic filters around price and rating, and the ability to fuzzy search!
Content. Made a bunch of features over the last month - time to switch gears to marketing for a while. I'll be writing blog posts for Closet Tools.
Also, planning. It's the beginning of the year, and as the product matures I have to make some more concrete decisions about the future of it. Feature roadmaps, new products, and research in the niche.
Excited for 2020!
Nice! I like the look of your landing page a lot! I think you've articulated the goals of your product really well ("A browser extension that helps you make more sales, get more followers, and automatically share items on Poshmark"), but I am a little bit confused about who your target customers are. Maybe you can add some copy that explains who you are targeting so potential customers know more immediately if it is a fit for them.
What kinds of content are you planning to create this month? do you have a goal of how many blog posts you want to write?
Hey! Target customer is someone selling items on Poshmark that wants to save time and not spend all day sharing their items.
I wrote a blog post yesterday - mostly smaller low-competition SEO traffic building articles.
I think over the next two months I'd like to have 15 - 20 new blog posts up. Some will be shorter, and others will be massive.
Sounds like a great goal!
Happy New Year Rosie and everyone! 🌟
This month, I'll mainly be focusing on the marketing for my Startup Marketing product www.immerj.io
After lots of months developing the product, it's now time to shift gears and ramp up the marketing (ironically my area of expertise that I haven't had time to do yet!).
It's an integrated, multi-channel approach covering paid and organic social media, email marketing and good old networking.
As well as the product, there's also a Free Startup Marketing course that I'm just putting the finishing touches to - https://mailchi.mp/immerj/startupmarketingcourse
Oh, and that's as well as having to do UK jury duty too (so annoying!).
Oh, UK jury duty. Interesting, hoping I'll never have to do that! I signed up to your marketing course :)
Thanks Rosie. Any feedback you have along the way, would love to hear it! :)
Happy new year! 🎉
I just launched typehut.com so I'm gonna be working on adding some missing features to it and launching the Pro plan.
I love this, what stack is this built on? So simple and clean.
Thanks David! The stack is just Rails for the backend and part of the frontend (public page and sites) and Vue for the editor/sites dashboard. Nothing fancy, but it allowed me to launch fairly quickly 🤓
Looks really good, I signed up and am excited to see where it goes.
Ha, that looks kinda cool, interesting mobile-esque design on desktop.
Thanks! ✌️
Keep working with my new projects: dArray.org & remoteplanet.io and make them grow, add new features and the more important goal for me, build a community around it!
remoteplanet.com seems down. dArray seems like an interesting concept. Quick feedback: consider adding a privacy policy + terms of service to your site.
True! I made a typo and it's remoteplanet.io :P
I will take your feedback and do it right now, thanks!
:) i checked remoteplanet. Really nice idea. Consider showing some highlighted entries from the categories you provide below the fold. If i'm interested in a category I'll click into it. But it is much more appealing to me if I can see some interesting items. For logged in users you could show interesting entries based on their location, browse history, etc.
Thanks for your feedback, nice ones! I will add them to the roadmap! :D
I'm looking to scale down the number of different projects I'm working on to have more focus on a single one.
Right now I'm working on validating a new idea I've been thinking about which is supporting people who work remotely to be more active and improve their wellbeing.
V1 will focus on tracking progress and accountability, with weekly checkups and personalised video messages from a PT.
I'm running a survey at the moment to collect people's experiences and want to post the results along with a beta homepage within the next week or so!
Focus is definitely best - good luck! 💪
Can you share the idea / link to the survey?
Sure it's here, grateful for any responses! 🙌
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfuO5ysj8Q6K5ErfDvCHvlWEj1askysmJXuUZzrKAyAtUneOw/viewform
I am working on adding a Premium section to www.bubblinglab.com. I am going to start with a one time fixed amount (around $30) this will give Premium users access to additional views (Mobile, Tablet etc)
On top of this I am also looking for ways to add categories to the site so users can find ideas specific to their business.
I think your home page is a bit dull (excuse my honesty)
I only understood the value of your business after entering one of the categories.
You could add the top 3 examples for each category on the home page in a section each maybe in a carousel, that would make it more appealing to me.
Hi @Gonelf following on from your advise yesterday I redesigned the Home Page to hopefully describe better what the site does. Would be great to get your feedback.
Thanks
www.bubblinglab.com
It's way better. Congrats.
You could improve the copy a bit, "Page design ideas and inspiration from successful online companies." is too big and confusing. Try to get a big company name and use it, something like "Get inspiration from Google and Apple page design."
Brilliant thank you honesty is the best policy I will definitely take all of this onboard Than you for your feedback
Yes I agree with this, love the concept but would be awesome to see more real examples on the homepage. I usually end up googling for these kind of examples so would be great to have a service that collected and curated them.
Hi @jamesdevonport following on from your points I have added some real page views to the home page would love to hear your feedback.
Many thanks
Thank you I am definitely going to look to improve the home page and try to make it a lot clearer as to what the site offers.
Nice! Yeah looks tons better and like how things are categorised 💯
A knowledge base/organization tool for files, urls, and notes.
Hi,
I'm currently working on https://cert-alert.me/ a service that helps people to keep the SSL certificates of their website secure and up to date.
The goal for this month is to launch closed beta of the service, to validate the idea and gain early insights. There is still some coding left to do, but I optimistic that the beat will launch this month.
I'm always looking for more people to test the service. If you're interested, feel free to drop your email address at https://cert-alert.me/ to be invited to the beta.
Best
Panzki
I built a collection of mental models (heuristics) which are easy and concise to digest. I custom wrote the code for the landing page and the blog but decided to give webflow a shot so I could focus on the blogging content and generate revenue by selling the cards. I re-platformed the home page and blog over the Christmas break.
I personally feel very strong about independent thinking because it truly matters for everyone but especially for the future generation of this world. For 2020, I plan on publishing in-depth content for each model. I don't have any expectations to turn this into anything big. If it does, great. If it doesn't, I learned deeply about independent thinking and shared with others the importance of it.
Here is the link to the project www.wisecharlie.com.
Cheers to all and wish you the best on your projects in 2020!
Oh, I like this.
I'm giving some time to learn about mental models, it's been on my wish list for a while.
@rosiesherry I am curious how you are spending your time to learn this models. I would be happy to send you these deck of cards if you are willing to pay for the shipping. Please send me a message! :)
Ah, cool, I'll take up that offer. DM me on Twitter?
We launched the most effective way for startup founders to get PR (http://presshunt.co) and have a ton of new features we're rolling out. Stoked!
PS we are including promo codes from anyone that comes from Indie Hackers to give back to everyone cuz we're Indie Hackers too! So, just message us on chat if that's how you find us. Thanks!
Happy New Year! 🎉 @rosiesherry
This cold January I am working on releasing userTrack.net version 3.
The actual work that I have to do is rewrite the entire front-end of the application and replace all the jQuery spaghetti code with a clean TypeScript + React (hooks) + Material UI + Redux beauty.
I feel like the hardest part has already passed: decide on what frameworks to use, setup the dev environment (parcel is 100x better than webpack imo), create the folder structure of the project and create the basic UI layout/elements.
I am so excited to release the update, as I know it will be something big and provide a lot of value for many webmasters around the world!
Hey everyone,
This month we are working on a brand new design for our entire product (knowyourteam.com). This is phase 1 of 3 phases project to introduce some new features that our customers have been asking for a long long time. We are on track to ship Phase 1 before end of the month :)
Oh, interesting. It would be super interesting to get updates on this, maybe consider getting a Know Your Team product page set up? :)
Hey,
I just started a new project so this month I want to build an MVP for https://productpanda.io and launch a closed test phase.
I also want to polish the initial landing page, because at the moment it does not become clear whats the product offering.
If anyone has advice I would greatly appreciate it.
Great to see you asking and getting feedback on your page. 👍
Trying to figure out if there is a use case for Talkative (meettalkative.com) for salespeople. Right now all of our customers are founders / PMs, but we use it for sales (meta, I know), so other people might be able to as well!
Hi there,
My goal for this month is to hard launch https://pagecheck.app.
pagecheck monitors front-end performance and alerts you if anything changes. (time to first paint, time to interactive, time to load event, etc)
I want to acquire my first customer and get feedback on the product this month as well as validating the idea (something I want to do before investing too much more time building).
Getting at least one more paying customer for ottofield.io
Currently trying to validate the market more before spending dollars on ads. I have 2 customers so far.
I'm doing cold outreach this month using personalized videos via vidyard to try and book some demo meetings.
What other tools are you using for outreach? Any tips?
I plan on doing some.
I'm using airtable to make sure to stay on top of cold outreach followup. I can tell if someone has viewed the vidyard video and update that in airtable. After X amount of time I'll reach back out to them. most people don't buy on the first interaction.
Also versoly is what I used to build my landing page. Great stuff 👍🏼
Very cool sales stack.
How are the results of cold email?
Yeah I noticed after commenting. You're self hosting right?
Yeah I'm self hosting via Netlify. I like being able to check in the code to a repo and use a pipeline to deploy it when I make changes.
So far there haven't been any conversions to paying customers yet but I just started this week. Hoping it works to get at least another customer or two though
I have a hard requirement to launch private beta of App Metrics no later than mid January. I've spent too long on it and it needs to start being used.
App looks cool, even though there are a lot of performance monitoring apps out there, most of them are too pricy for the average developer. The list of features is a bit unclear, can you track real-time performance such as page load times, custom metris or CPU usage on the servers? Is it for the client or server, or both?
Right now it's mainly built around running Google's Lighthouse on your pages and keeps track of the data with notifications, budgets, etc. So client side right now. I do have plans down the road to implement more performance monitoring systems such as for GraphQL queries/mutations, etc.
I am working on and plan on launching devol.io, an open and welcoming community for devs. I'm really excited about this project and plan on open-sourcing it if there is enough interest :).
I am also working on the amazing Google CodeIn
It's nice to see all the cool projects other people are working on!
Content content content. Not even for SEO or marketing but just for process. Getting a user on the platform and well informed enough to manage expectations requires a lot more than expected. https://www.wethecooks.com is however coming a long nicely with some test lessons in the bag already and 2 great instructors on the way
I've been working on https://craftcode.design last year while working on 9-5 job.
This month my plan is to publish a new theme and a youtube video. Also some styling fixes in some pages.
Hi! This month I will be working on two things:
Adding more content to roadtoml.carrd.co, a collection of fundamental Machine Learning papers
Validating and researching an idea about a product, a website/browser extension keeping track about visited research papers from using your browser history and automatically categorizing these papers.
Happy New Year everyone!
Feedback. Loads and loads of it for Newseon App.
Plan is to launch on ProductHunt by the end of the month.
We've been personally giving out UI/UX reviews on product landing pages in exchange for some feedback. Slowly and steadily - it is working.
Working on https://burst.gg/, got offered some cash for http://www.ssbu-counters.com/, although I'm not sure I want to take it.
Also doing some work on a Library-as-a-service, hopefully I'll be ready to launch that in a few weeks. However, as their is so much logistics involved, I think I need to find a local cofounder, if you're in amsterdam, let me know!
Signed up and tried https://burst.gg service. I really love the way the form is split up into categories - had no problem/fatigue filling out all the necessary details.
Ran into a bit of a hiccup when I clicked the social button, directed me to https://preview.burst.gg/facebook.com/newseonapp. My guess is it's navigating relative to the web app address when it should be the absolute URL.
first offer? talk about good start to the new year!
I'll be working on subscription for Typing Hero https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sen.typinghero.
Once that's done, more premium features will follow.
Happy New Year!
I'm working on a new 4 week anti-procrastination program:
https://www.deprocrastination.co/program
We've created a browser extension for blocking out distractions and wrote a handbook about overcoming procrastination, but this is our first behavioral program.
The aim is to get the initial cohort and help them make progress and procrastinate less in any way we can.
That way we'll test techniques we've found through research and tested on ourselves with more people.
Btw, if you'd be interested in signing up, contact me to get 50% off.
This sounds like fun - I can definitely see people needing and using this! :)
Thanks!
This month for Monitoro will be focused on improving the product's visibility and work on content marketing.
I already have 5 articles in the pipeline, with one almost done. I am writing about how Monitoro can be used in practical cases, such as sending website changes to IFTTT, Zapier etc..
I'd get a few more examples of how it can be used other than just price changes. Also, try to get some real testimonials of people that use it in specific ways. Good luck
building a way for groups to collect funds at https://awesomeorgs.com
made a commitment to work one day a week on https://wisdomcurated.com
This comment was deleted 4 years ago
This comment was deleted 6 years ago
This comment was deleted 7 years ago