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Who has a side project?
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David Bensemoun
or has an idea for a side project but doesn't have the time to work on it?
Currently working on One Word Domains! Revenue growth has been surprisingly good so far but I'm still trying out various different business models to see which sticks and if I can create a sustainable full-time business out of this!
wonderful idea! how the revenue grow ? could you explain in a medium post for example ? It will help a lot of fellow entrepreneurs like me :)
Great idea! I'll let you know when that happens ;)
I actually wrote a Hackernoon article about how I built and launched One Word Domains two months ago and got it to #2 on PH and the front page of Hacker News. If you're interested, here it is:
https://hackernoon.com/how-a-week-long-project-took-me-to-2-on-product-hunt-and-the-front-page-of-hacker-news-2ir3y16
My primary focus in on growing T.LY, a link shortener with custom domains, API, and extension. If you are building an app that needs to shorten links, you can't get any shorter than T.LY!
This is incredible! Bookmarking this for sure! How did you get a one-letter .LY domain? It's really impressive! :D
Thank you! The domain is great. It’s a Bit shorter than the competition 😁
Definitely! How much did you purchase the one-letter .LY for, if you don't mind me asking? :D
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Currently running 3 side projects. I am devoting most of my time at Virtual Mojito, because it's fun and timely :) @Davidbensemoun30
I have 37 ideas in my list of side projects 😅 but I'm currently focused on building theLIFEBOARD, which is in early access already
btw, the lifeboard looks great! is there some notifications or something? For the reminders I mean
Currently, just email notifications at the end of each week so users remember to do a review and plan the next one.
😂 share some with us, I'm sure this beautiful community could help
Some of them are very old, but for example, one of the things I have to do every time I build a website is to compress all the images using Squoos. I was planning to build a site in which you enter a URL and it will automatically download and compress all the images for you 😉
very good idea Antonio, I will be the first user!
check devondemand.co if you need a quick website we can help
David, this is my life in one sentence/question
😂😂😂
I have both. I'm in fact looking to sell this one if that's interesting to you: MySavings.Fund
My current side project is https://midnight.pub - it's been lots of fun so far.
Just asked to join the alpha :)
Been working on Chartbrew for a while 😃 I'm splitting the work between this project and my part-time job at the moment.
Cool!
https://gitspo.com – I was developing sort of Google Alerts for developers.
Nowadays it sits collecting data that I find of value for recruitment purposes in my startup.
In my ideal scenario, I will find someone to take it over from me in exchange for an advisory share in the business.
The problem is that it is pretty complex project with hundreds of data tables and pretty expensive upkeep cost.
That being said, with a bit of work put into it, it would be a great recruitment tool and you could easily charge USD 100-300/ month per recruiter seat.
I think you have something strong here, which profile are you looking for to make this idea grow ?
If you are searching for ideas, Why not search for problems to solve instead?
I have a problem validation platform - needgap where people post the problem they have, for startups to solve. You might find a problem which resonates with you and try to solve that; Perhaps it could become a viable startup idea.
Did you make needgap? That's sick!!!!!
Thank you, glad that you like needgap.
More about why I had to create needgap here - Startup ideas vs Problems.
I guess it makes sense that people on here would end up writing similar pieces: How To Find SaaS Ideas ;)
Love the Joe Gebbia tidbit you mention!
needgap is a decent idea but only indiehackers are using it... Which mean its only addressing problem that indiehacker meet, not other industries, Am I wrong ?
Good question.
needgap being a problem validation platform, posts are dominated by general consumers and comments are dominated by problem solvers which include indiehackers.
Problems vary from wide range of industries from e.g. Identifying letter O from 0 and vice versa, Challenge platform for non tech graduates to Make me breathe properly.
hm but im still wondering why a general consumer would go on that kind of plateform at the first place. Unless they know about marketing/startup a bit,,,
Because everyone has some problem and they search for getting it solved 😊.
Abishek, I love the approach and the fact that you took it the other way around. You should still work on the UI
I really imagine something like Product Hunt for needgap
Thank you.
Anything in specific?
The thing which might need addressing is that the aesthetics are different for those who haven't signed-in, those who have and those who have enough karma to upvote; As the upvote buttons change color when enabled and they are enabled according to the karma.
But then again, needgap needs to be a karma rigid platform in order to avoid spam and posts on startup ideas instead of problems.
I have a paid newsletter about community building as a side project - http://rosieland.substack.com/
Just read your latest post on IH, it's amazing
awesome, I will definitely check this. Do you have example of posted articles ?
I have lots of ideas for information products I'm collecting and thinking about.
let us know Paolo :) maybe we could help
Thanks but I actually think I don't need help right now. Collecting ideas is part of my product development process.
Cool