Emoji Maker
Create customized emojis
I'm really happy for selling this little project of mine. At first, I didn't think that anyone would be interested in such a tool, but it seems that I was wrong 😊
Sure, it wasn't sold for much, but I think it's enough for me to focus on other bigger projects, starting with SpacedLeet 🧠, which I just launched on the Chrome Web Store (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/spacedleet/dfhagjnahejiapmfkmmbkheikldoahch)
After the huge number of visitors and feedback for Emoji Maker, I decided to list it for sale in order to fund my other projects 😊
It can become profitable, especially if it's integrated with a mobile keyword, but I don't have the time to do it.
I did list it on 1KProjects (https://1kprojects.com/project/emoji-maker), however, the $19 fee paid through Paypal makes it impossible to sell it there since Paypal doesn't support my country.
So far, I got a $250 offer on 1KProjects. I'm not sure where am I going to list it next, but if you'd like to buy it, you can contact me at hello@jamstack.studio 😀
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I would like to also mention that I'm open to making custom X-makers using React. This can be another SVG avatars maker or even an HTML website builder. 😊
I noticed some weird spike in traffic to my website today, but I couldn't understand where was it coming from (Google Analytics is kinda complicated to understand).
Once I figured it out though, I was shocked to find out that Emoji Maker is featured on LifeHacker 😮.
BTW, the LifeHacker login system seems broken and I couldn't reply to users' feedback there 😥
https://lifehacker.com/quickly-create-your-own-custom-emojis-with-this-website-1840114297
The last design of Emoji Maker was not that good. Even if I tried to make it more mobile-friendly, it didn't look good at all for me. The icons where all over the place, the page was too long and many features were missing.
Furthermore, 70% of visitors used their mobile devices and they clearly didn't like the experience (most people spent around 20s on the website).
The new design looks like a mobile app 🧯. Please try it and give me your honest feedback! 😊
I noticed that 70% of visitors actually visited the site from their mobiles, so I thought that making it a little bit more usable for mobile users would make them a little bit happier.
What I've done is reducing the size of emojis templates, reducing the white space, and using CSS Flex for better alignments.
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Damn this is a really original idea. Very cool.
Some question on tech, did you use any backend for downloads (svg, png) or all frontend? What did you use?
file-savernpm package?Also your projects listing on your website looks full of cool projects, also big fan of jamstack!
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Thank you 😊
There is no backend at all. It's all done on the frontend :) Yup, I'm usingfile-saverto trigger downloads once an image is generated.Many projects, no revenue 😂
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Just maybe if I can give my opinion, for revenue I would keep working on jamstack.studio
Jamstack is going to blow up very soon, especially Gatsby. I'm also thinkering about creating a service for premium gatsby templates/starters. Even now, you can see people selling templates on envato market.
Also (i saw your twitter desc) you are too talented to be working for another company.
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I do see the potential for Jamstack too, but I don't really like making templates 🥱. I will be working on a product related to Jamstack though.
By the way, I update https://jamstack.studio/emoji, what do you think 🙏
As for working for other people, I tried it, and yup, I didn't like it ._.
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Thank you 😊
The emoji is the title is not made by me though. It's an actual emoji. I suppose macOS didn't add support for it yet?
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During this weekend, I decided to make an emoji generator using only React and SVG.
I wanted to make this project in order to test out how far can I depend on React, React DOM, and SVG for building and generating things while preparing for my upcoming projects.
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Kudos! Would be interested in how you sold it and how you found your buyer.
Thanks Carl :)
I posted it on 1KProjects and SideProjectors. I got some offers on 1KProjects but I didn't have a Paypal account in order to pay the fee, so eventually, I posted it on SideProjectors, which is free (for now). And that's where I got a really great offer.
Then we discussed the details, I made an invoice for the customer, they paid me and then I transferred everything to them.
Thanks, that's awesome! Just discovered SideProjectors thanks to your comment. Another question maybe: how did you come up with a price ? Related to the MRR? Was it an exit b/c you wanted to focus on something else, or was it just a really good opportunity? I'm not interested in the price itself, but the process you had to reach the conclusion: what would be the price I'm going to sell?
I really liked to use my hourly rate to price the product, but that would make it too expensive.
At the same time, I needed to get some money in order to launch some other products, so I just calculated how much I needed and I asked for that price.
I kept getting higher bids until someone gave the highest bid so I contacted them, asked for a bit more, they accepted, and we closed the deal :)
In the future, however, I will take into consideration the income (I had none with this project), clients, and maybe Twitter followers. For this project, I only had backlinks from sites like LifeHacker.
PS. If you're trying to sell LinuxJobs, a common recommendation that I'm seeing these days is multiplying the monthly income 20~30 times.
Thanks a lot for your feedback! I also think next time you should define prices for your assets like Twitter followers, newsletter subscribers, etc and add this price to your final price because the assets of a side project can be very interesting by themselves.
I'm not actively trying to sell LinuxJobs, just taking information with more experienced indie hackers if I had an opportunity in 2020 ;)
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