Good Here

An open database of social impact projects and funding

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September 15, 2020 101 email subscribers

It’s been one week since we pushed Good Here (https://goodhere.org) out into the world.

Some stats:

2,716 visits to the website
256 upvotes on Product Hunt
101 subscribers to the newsletter
12 new social impact startup projects added

Does this mean that there’s a need?

I think so.

Do you?

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September 8, 2020 Launched on Product Hunt, help the good guys win

We're live on Product Hunt today!

Take a look at our new product and comment on what you like and what we can improve: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/good-here

Stats as I wake up this morning: 3 upvotes, 2 comments (0 from people not on the Good Here team).

Will see how this goes...

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    Hey! Congratulations 👏👏
    You have a large and interesting selection!

    I launched today too 😺

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September 5, 2020 Launched project blog and published first posts

Have gone ahead and set up a blog at https://blog.goodhere.org/

The blog is on the Jamstack, using Ghost as the CMS and hosted on Netlify, which means free hosting and lightning fast loading times - take a look at the site in web.dev to see what I mean: https://lighthouse-dot-webdotdevsite.appspot.com//lh/html?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.goodhere.org%2F

As part of publishing the blog, I needed to add a post that explained the project and the thinking behind it. That was a great exercise to make me think through the "why" of the project and outline some thinking about what will come beyond the MVP. The launch posts have been published here: https://blog.goodhere.org/introducing-good-here-find-social-impact-startups-and-funding/

Not worried about how many views the posts get, but good to use it as a place to note down progress of the project.

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August 16, 2020 Finished MVP

The GoodHere.org MVP has been finished!

Building on top of other open source projects, particularly climatescape.org, we've been able to build the initial open source database of social impact organisations and funding opportunities in just a few months.

The lockdown period during the Covid-19 pandemic has felt unproductive at times, but it feels good to get this project live.

There are a few bugs in the MVP that need to be fixed:

  1. Search results aren't working correctly
  2. Favourites button isn't working

Both of these (and a few more bugs) are live on GitHub if anyone can help fix them: https://github.com/goodhere/goodhere/issues

Next steps are to:

  1. Add more projects and funding to the database
  2. Start building the community pages
  3. Integrate the Airtable submission forms into the site
  4. Start promoting on social media
  5. Build an email list

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We created Good here to highlight the projects working to solve social issues. Our mission is to focus more attention on progress, directing support to teams on the front lines.