ILoveTrending

Yesterday we launched ILoveTrending.com on Hacker News and got to the front page! Overall it resulted in 6,000 pageviews and almost 100 new signups. Here are three lessons I learned:

1. Refine your website before launching. There were several typos and errors on my site that I could've fixed beforehand if I'd asked a few friends for their opinions.
2. Submit multiple times if you have to. This was my third time submitting attempt in two weeks. The first two didn't make it to the front page, but this one did.
3. Don't pay attention to the haters. There will always be some negative commenters. Ignore them, try not to take it personally, and focus on the positive.
   I'm excited for what comes next!

ILoveTrending

I ask a good friend to make that happen. I'm not a designer so I knew my limit. My friend came with this amazing design in just one week. Because, all data are pre-mixed and sorted in an external servers before we import them in the database, there is no need to make a very sophisticated website.

That was the hardest point in that project. How can we get relevant data every month ? After 3 month of hard labor, we finally came with a magical software to get all ingredients we need to create the perfect soup. Day after day, we come a bit closer to the MVP

I'm always looking for business idea for a side project. I didn't find any service showing me what is the actual trends. So my goal was to find a way to detect the new trending websites. I discuss about the project with some dev friends and there were very excited to see the result. That's how I came up with idea to make a public web service and called it ilovetrending.com