Have you started working on or launched something new?
Share it in this thread for the chance to show it off and get feedback!
I recently launched https://app.spare.gives, a way for people to make truly direct charitable gifts and support UBI, and also https://spare.gives that let's developers build their own applications for direct charity. This month we developed a beta to bring it into the "tangible world" as well.
I work with @jplaces on Spare. We're actually looking for developers willing to take a look at our initial API documentation and give us feedback (what parts are clear? What are confusing? Does anything not work if you test it out?). Anyone here willing to do so?
The site above doesn't provide the full documentation yet, but we can get you a PDF version of the full documentation. Just email us at spare@busaracenter.org so we know how to reach you.
Finally shipped the MVP of https://wrenches.io , a panel-guide for making good products and starting new businesses.
Most of the detailed guide pages still link to my Notion, since that's where I shaped the content up, but generally it's up, it's working and I'll use it myself from now on when working on products.
Wonder if the website is confusing or not? Will really appreciate advice
There are two steps to reach the content, and they are both unnecessary friction. I would remove them.
Thanks a lot Luqa! I agree with you.
I think the main dillemma for me is how to make it easy for the user to grasp the main structure and don't drown in content right away, at the same time not making the user go extra steps...
I launched season 2 of the Sales for Founders podcast!
There are two great episodes available so far...
A lot more awesome episodes to come soon as well. Should be very useful if you're trying to get from $0-10k in MRR for the first time.
Cool. Would you be open to transcribing your podcasts? It'd be great for SEO and for those times when I don't have time to listen to a podcast.. reading is faster :)
I should do this yes, but it hasn't been a priority so far.
If anyone knows of a cheap and reliable service for this, I'd be in the market.
Started one new project this month https://twitter.com/AnthonyCastrio/status/1169816898822799361
It helps you find a cafe to work out of based on factors like the fastest wifi and good tables.
I launched https://sets.app, a minimalist workout app free of clutter, ads, up-sells and distractions. There are a million workout apps out there, but surprisingly few without the above. I pushed it to the app store last week and it was #4 for paid workout apps (in Canada, I think) yesterday!
What does #4 equate to in revenue? I'm curious to see how much of an impact it makes. Also, may have bought it myself :)
Great work mate
Published my first interview of the month(link below). This month, I have about 12 businesses already lined up for an interview. Excited :)
https://womenhustlers.com/dox-design-puppy-paws/
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Thanks @lionzoo
StarterStory has been a bigger part of my inspiration :)
I have started to build https://www.teami.io/ with another cofounder. At the moment just coding a lot of hours and doing user interviews and market research πͺ
Hi everyone! I just built an MVP for Project List: reddit like board where you can add and vote ideas for side projects. I really appreciate any feedback: https://projectlist.threadbase.io/. Thanks a lot!
My wife and I launched a new side project - chef-curated restaurant guides in our favorite food cities! Made our first sale within an hour π
https://travelfood.guide
Oh nice, would love to see updates of that on IH, love seeing low tech ways of making money.
Just rolled out http://www.happymonday.com/ which is a free & lightweight hiring platform for small businesses. Excited to see where it takes us. :)
I really like the landing page. But I think you should consider adding some kind of screenshot of the dashboard or some feature users can look at without having to create an account.
great call -- working on it!
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Thanks very much. Here's our tech stack: https://stackshare.io/happy-monday/happy-monday
Finished the @growthhacklist forum today - i added subcategories for
etc.
https://growthhacklist.com/forum
I see 'unlock' under each discussion, is that a bug?
I would consider making the descriptions of each category more useful and try to direct users in what kind of things are discussed.
Also, forums are hard to get off the ground, you need to find a way to create more discussions and interactions going on.
Overall, looks nice tho :)
Thanks - yeah need to fix/improve this. Any category you would add/is missing?
The categories are fine, what you need to be careful of is having too many and not enough discussions happening within each of them.
I'm working on Zlappo -- https://zlappo.com.
It's a Twitter marketing automation tool that fits specifically the needs of the Twitter power user. Stuff like scheduling Twitter threads (Buffer and Threadreaderapp cross-over), auto-retweeting past popular/evergreen tweets, optionally auto-adding a promotional tweet to each scheduled tweet/thread, etc.
It's all in the works!
Two days ago, we have just launched our side project Balsa - open source, secure knowledgebase, tasks and wiki for growing teams:
https://getbalsa.com
The source code is also available on Github:
https://github.com/balsa-team/balsa
Feel free to follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/getbalsa).
I launched https://www.bitcompare.net which is a comparison site for crypto interest accounts. For now it's interest accounts, but will expand to things like crypto debit cards, loans and more if it gains traction.
Great idea! Makes sense with the rapid growth in DeFi right now.
Working on a fitness related web app https://www.fitnesshuddlers.com/ . I hope to get the MVP done by the end of this year. I have many ideas on how to make it unique but gotta start with MVP.
I launched the logo game. Itβs a fun, easy to play logo trivia game that tells you fun facts about the company when you guess the logo!
Technically, it's a side project I've been working on and off in spare time, but I just launched the Pro plan for my managed key-value database https://kvdb.io and starting to get a tiny bit of traction (no conversions yet!). It's exciting, going to focus on marketing only (and try to stay away from code) for the next couple of months!
I started working on an app on Friday and submitted it to Google Play yesterday (pending approval). It helped to motivate my efforts that it's related to the launch of a new train line here in Ottawa, where the service fully switches over in a few days. It's solving a very narrow use case of deciding which bus stop to go to when transferring at one of the major transfer points for people such as myself who have multiple options and they have to commit to one. Apparently I get so annoyed at having to wait an extra 5 minutes if I choose the wrong stop that I went and spent several hours building an app.
It's currently published to Expo if anyone wants to poke at it: https://expo.io/@lgaud/OcTrainsfer, and my work in progress page: https://lgaud.github.io/OCTrainsfer/
I keep hearing the best way to get better at building things is to actually go and build something so this will hopefully help with getting moving on one of my more marketable ideas!
I'm struggling to try to launch https://tarefando.com this month. The idea is to video record the accomplishment of the tasks and each production part of a new project.
I recently got off of the Upwork hamster wheel and looking for product validation for an email automation service. I am working on starting 1 on 1 conversations in Twitter and Reddit. Any helpful tips of suggestions?
What kind of email automation? Any specific things it is trying to solve?
Just "launched" http://www.trychapter.com, a platform for serialized story telling. Subscibe to stories for a monthly fee, get paid for your subscribers if you're an author.
Curious to see how this one develops. Particularly thinking of how my 8 year old just wrote a chapter of a book, and could we publish something like that to help keep him going. Many of the attempts at writing don't go anywhere.
Sure! I'm trying to make it easy for all users to keep up with their writing projects. Still a ton of work to do on the app, but I think I'll have to ship it to the general public first, which is frankly, terrifying :)
Nice, I really like to minimalist layout.
I started working on http://www.tryAdora.com (hosted on Heroku free plan so allow a few seconds to load :-))
A curated list of questions and exercises to get to know your partner better.
I tried the link but it didn't load in Brave Browser or Chrome...
I fixed it. Try it again :-)
Hey thanks, I am aware of this. Must be some kind of development code causing this.
Working now :)
https://japanesecomplete.com/ Online Interactive Japanese Textbook!
Arigato gozaimasu. Katakana has been kicking my behind
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I recently launched https://www.everscript.co which is a content creation service providing businesses with unlimited content requests on a monthly basis for $299 per month.
I like it! How did you validate the idea and get your first customers?
Just a lot of hustling and cold emails. I shared the idea on Reddit, in Facebook groups, and indie hackers and have reached out to a lot of businesses via cold email. Thank you!
How long did it take to get your first 10 customers?
I just released http://www.socialintents.com/teams-live-chat.jsp, live chat for Microsoft Teams that lets you chat with website visitors right from Teams. This is a nice addition to the Live Chat for Slack product that has been doing well.
I have launched AXSAR Solo.
AXSAR Solo is a CRM and all-one-one workspace for small teams.
AXSAR Solo provides the following features in a well integrated single solution for small teams so that they can save on multiple subscriptions costs and run their small business using one solution:
CRM : Accounts, Contacts, Sales Pipeline Management, Help Desk management
Project Management: Projects, Tasks Management, Time sheets
Business Management: Invoices, Proposals
Productivity: Notes, To do lists, Files, & Diagrams
Here is the video demo demonstrating AXSAR Solo functionality.
https://www.loom.com/share/8044e4e3755d450591ce41de337e73f8
I am looking forward to the community feedback, and will give six months of free access who joins AXSAR Solo this week.
After sign up, just drop an email to info@axsar.com with 'IndieHackers' in the subject line. Your first six months are on us. All we ask in return is a constructive feedback.
https://www.axsar.com/axsar-solo.html
Started curating a list of developers and agencies focused on helping founders. https://www.startupdevelopers.io
Would get asked a lot who I knew in the area that would be good to help someone with their mvp or project so felt like I should start putting something together.
Long term I'd like to expand into other cities. Just gotta figure out how best to do that while keeping the quality high.
I launched https://learnjamstack.com/migrate-a-reactjs-project-to-gatsby. It's my first ever big course and hopefully will be released soon
I launched https://www.competitorzoom.com to help businesses win more deals over their competitors. CompetitorZoom provides a monthly report with data on your competitor's pricing, product or service features, and a market positioning chart.
I am getting ready to launch Lunar, a closed freelance network that connects employees from top tech companies that want to moonlight with startups that need part time help.
Debating whether to focus on designers, or keep to cross discipline. Would love to hear feedback.
https://lunarjobs.io
I just "launched" LOGOPOLLS.com - a polling service for logo designers who are on the fence about the final version. It's free at the moment, has 0 traffic since I made the first post to IG 2 hours ago and won't make money for a while.... :) also, it's a pretty bad MVP, nothing's automated..
Well I started a few weeks ago, and been working on it on and off, but I am working on a tool that I will use to create educational resources (printable worksheets, etc.) for my educational online store.
Right now it can be used to make word search puzzles and the design step is still buggy, but I will fix that and then add more different types of generators like word scramble, crossword, etc. and design templates.
BTW so far I have been using canva and while I like canva usually, it took me hours to make the resources I have uploaded so far, so my goal is definitely to make that process faster.
Yes. Something light hearted coming tomorrow (if I get off Indie Hackers and finish it) haha. Stay tuned.
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Safe to say it still hasn't materialised.
I launched a simple interface to create a scalable JSON REST API hosted on AWS resources. It's a work in progress, but I'd love to get feedback on what challenges you have setting up a backend for your web/mobile app. https://burstware.com
Just came up with a new web based app idea. I'm going to start with a landing page this time to see if it's something people would be into. I'm going to build quite a both of it for my own use anyway so hopefully by the time it comes to build for real a lot of the building blocks will be done.
I launched https://www.joinsecret.com/ to help entrepreneurs save up to $30k on the best softwareΒ (AWS, Airtable, Pipedrive, etc.). It's 100% free!
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Hey Steve do you have the product done? would love to try it
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