LinkSavr

Whipped up a nice-looking landing page (linksavr.com) using some simple, but awesome tools. See below for the tools I used and some quick notes on my experience with each one.

Next steps:

• Share with some close contacts + IH community
• Iterate on landing page based on feedback
• More larger distribution of landing -> drive more sign-ups
• Define features for MVP + start development

Tools used for landing page

Dorik.io : landing page builder
Amazing flexibility, very easy to use, had everything I needed and more - some incredible features include page animations, responsive web design (you can see and change many things specifically for mobile vs tablet vs desktop), button hover animation, video upload, etc. Bought the $60/yr plan (which is cheap compared to other stuff) to get access to custom domain connection + submission form, and bonus : includes 5 sites! No payments for now but is apparently coming soon. Will be using this as my go-to landing page builder from now on for sure. The free plan is good as well, but if you want to collect emails with the built-in integration or have a custom domain, you need to get the paid plan.

botsociety.io : simple animated Slack chat
Simple web tool I used to create the Slack window chat animation ("The Avengers" workspace). Simple and easy to use, but fairly limited in its capabilities - you create users + bot, and type stuff you want them to say in the right order. The bot stuff is super limited. For me it was good enough, but one thing to note : you only have 1 free video export, so any exports after that have to be screen recordings (a bit worse quality)

Chart Nert : embedded charts for Notion
chart-nerd.now.sh
Another web tool, this one lets you connect a Notion table and create simple graphs from it, then embed that back into Notion so that you can refresh the graph straight from there! Super cool in concept, but for me there's still a lot of room for improvement (there are a number of bugs and visual issues, and I would love to see the ability to do some simple calculations, to create pie charts that show percentages instead of instances for example). Also, the Chrome extension didn't work for me, but it's not at all necessary.

Slack Bot Kit builder : build slack bot UI/UX
app.slack.com/block-kit-builder
The Slack developper tool, allows you to create the Slack bot pop-up that I used in the video and in the screenshots. Easy to use, but you do need to know some simple code stuff in order to use it and get it the way you want. Really cool that you can send it to Slack and interact with it in semi real life (it doesn't do anything after you submit but at least you can have it pop up, input the stuff, and submit)

screely.com : create easy website mock-ups
Yet another web tool. Maybe the simplest but most rewarding tool I've ever used 🤩 Literally all you do is take a screenshot of a screen, import it, and choose 2 or 3 simple options for how you want it to look, then you download that and you're good to go. Note: I had an issue where you only get the good file the second time you download it, just a heads up.

Other stuff

• Affinity Designer for logo + screenshot manipulations
• Final Cut Pro for video splicing
• Mockupworld.co for iMac mockup
• Mailchimp for subscriber mgmt + automated welcome email
• Analytics : probably GA, but looking for something simpler and easier to use. All I care about is page views, time on page, button clicks for a few different buttons. Open to suggestions!

After a few weeks of daily lurking on IH, I've been inspired by the community to start my own side project as well!

I've got a few ideas in the pipe, but I decided to start with one that addresses a simple, specific problem that I myself have experienced many times. The potential solution is also something that is simple and easy to prototype and test out 😏

So what is this simple, specific problem?

The internet is full of awesome articles, blog posts, etc that we read and want to share with our colleagues, so what happens?

1. a link is pasted into the relevant Slack channel (hopefully in a post directly, but sometimes stuck in a thread 😱)
2. a few brief words are written to describe the theme or subject of the link (if you're feeling extra nice), and
3. boom it's shared!

But what happens next?

Maybe a few of your colleagues will get the notification, read the headline and click on the link to read the article, but most of your colleagues will just ignore it and even those who do read it, more or less forget about it soon after. In any case, this link will be all but impossible to re-find in a few days, and the interesting and potentially helpful information contained in it will be lost, never summarized or saved anywhere, until inevitably someone else finds the link and shares it again a few months or years later.

This frustrated me, and I actually started to create my own Notion table to manually try to save and store all of the links from one channel in Slack. I was seeing links fly by that I would have really loved to take a look at, but just didn't have the time at that exact moment to check out. The problem with this - the fact that it's not automatic means that it's hard for others to get in the habit of doing it...result : me doing it for everyone then giving up a few days later.

So that's where the idea for LinkSavr came from!

Why not create a simple tool that helps teams save and organize each link that is shared on Slack, so that they are all properly tagged and easily retrievable in a link library stored in Notion? Bonus benefit : it enforces the good habit of summarizing and pulling out the key takeaways, a great skill to help your teammates spend time only on what is relevant or interesting to them.

With LinkSavr, you can quickly find that article with 250 essential no-code tools shared inside a thread 3 weeks ago, and with a few clicks, you can also see the 5 key takeaways about launching on PH from a Medium article shared 2 months ago!

✅ Idea found
Next step : landing page + quick validation of need