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Show HN: My Side Project Rocks – Share and discover side projects
- pbronez 4y agoPretty neat! It's like Indie ProductHunt. Feedback: Login with Twitter uses an Oauth scope with more permissions that may be necessary. Do you really need to be able to read my private tweets? Identity should be sufficient. Also, Twitter was the right choice for identity provider for this kind of site. The first project I looked at [0] reports "[author]" has not shared the story of their project yet. Ask them in a comment " However, the sole comment on the project is by the original author, posting a project description. This suggests that the posting workflow is unclear. That project also has an associated Kickstarter [1]. As a reader/voter, it would be helpful to have pointers to the various websites that are associated with the project. Make it easy for my to find the official Kickstarter / GitHub / Indigogo / Shapeways / etc The site is relatively slow to load. [0] https://mysideproject.rocks/p/62a8b3c72ad7a70017ed0a0f https://mysideproject.rocks/p/62a8b3c72ad7a70017ed0a0f [1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/babyengineering/computer-engineering-for-babies/ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/babyengineering/compute...
- pbronez 4y agoFeedback: Should pull through the Twitter user pictures
- shafyy 4y agoCool, just posted my two side projects =)
- daltont 4y agoTricky thing about side-projects to me is they often start as "itches" that I scratch by developing something for my use. The something may be useful to others. However, to make it useful to others requires 10x the amount of effort to "productize" it. A site like this could be handy if minimally viable side projects could be get feedback to gauge interest in further development.
- scubakid 4y agoIn my experience, the most consistent way to get useful feedback on side projects or prototypes is to engage with people where they already are (Show HN posts for instance, or certain subreddits). My intuition is it would be hard for this kind of site to maintain enough traffic over the long-term for the average submission to actually get feedback. For OP's sake, I hope I'm wrong though!
- dividedbyzero 4y agoIf this were to take off, I could totally see myself use it to discover new shiny things. It's pretty difficult to discover novel gems among the vast amount of Github repos.
- al_borland 4y agoMy issue with following a site like this would be burn out from new products. I followed TechCrunch years ago and ended up signing up for so many start up sites. I'm sure 80% of them don't even exist anymore. When I look at cleaning up my password manager it just seems so daunting. I eventually had to remove it from my RSS reader so I could wait and see what might actually hit crucial mass before jumping on board.
- sideproject 4y agoWhich is why it's a perfect reason to post it on a place like SideProjectors - https://www.sideprojectors.com https://www.sideprojectors.com - for someone else to take it and productize it!
- kaycebasques 4y ago> side-projects to me is they often start as "itches" that I scratch by developing something for my use. The something may be useful to others. However, to make it useful to others requires 10x the amount of effort to "productize" it This mentality provided a breakthrough for me and has helped me follow through on a side project that I'm now using daily. I don't care at all whether it makes sense for other people. I know what all the buttons/fields/etc are for and it's serving its purpose for me.
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- onepunchmob 4y agoI’m working on a pre / early revenue MVP marketplace https://www.thriftmvp.com https://www.thriftmvp.com The success of these side projects is extremely low so people tend to create multiple of those. But the truth is that a lot of these have great value even if they don’t generate any revenue. It’s kind of like unused real estate. If anyone has any side projects they want to sell, you can reach out to us and we would be happy to help you find a buyer for them and get rewarded for your efforts even if you didn’t succeed the first time.
- metadat 4y agoWhat does this have to do with the posted link? Are you piling on your own (barely related) baby project? What does this add to the discussion?
- onepunchmob 4y agoI’ve been a serial builder myself. Just building things on weekends, on holidays, every downtime available. Part of the reason is because I just like developing stuff and testing out new tech, but the other reason is because I like living an indie life. Problem with this is that it is not sustainable, if you are coming from a somewhat wealthy / safe background you can pursue that with ease. But if you are a person with my background (little resources available) you can see that there are a lot of risks that come with that life. I know there are a lot of people that can relate to this and I also know a lot of people will be tempted to open and read this discussion. Now I will be unapologetic in the fact that I indeed plugged my own project here but I am also presenting an opportunity to people similar to me. People who are risk takers, people with skills that believe they can start small and make a change to the world from zero. I want to help and reward those people. If you are not one of them that’s fine but I would appreciate if you could keep your criticism more constructive less hostile.
- metadat 4y agoThanks for explaining. On HN there tend to be a lot of mindless, low-effort hucksters who paste their links without connecting it back to the discussion. As a reader, this is annoying.
- davidkuennen 4y agoPosted mine as well
- rhn_mk1 4y agoCaution, this web page will leak your emails. I just got access to an account of a random user as I tried to log in.
- modzu 4y agoyou should post a privacy policy.
- grepLeigh 4y agoThis is cool =) I submitted PrintNanny.ai, which started as a side-project but has grown into a full-time job for me.
- quickthrower2 4y agoI saw that. Neat idea.
- empressplay 4y agoNeeds tags and a search function
- boo-ga-ga 4y agoHave you added your side project to the side project list?:)
- mickael-kerjean 4y agomine is https://mysideproject.rocks/p/62a92acc2ad7a70017ed0dc5 https://mysideproject.rocks/p/62a92acc2ad7a70017ed0dc5 It would have never seen the light of the day without the infamous top comment from the Dropbox launch.
- kebsup 4y agoTried to post, but I don't have Twitter and registration failed with "Something went wrong, please try again later".
- tombrm 4y agoReminds me of an early version of Product Hunt.
- pkulak 4y agoJust as a heads up: I created an account and got logged in as someone else. https://mysideproject.rocks/p/62a906f02ad7a70017ed0d07 https://mysideproject.rocks/p/62a906f02ad7a70017ed0d07 Pretty sure I tried to sign up with "pkulak".
- Rodeoclash 4y agoSome feedback: I logged in using my Twitter profile, however when I go to the "profile" section, the fields appear to be read only? Not sure, but I couldn't seem to update my name. Otherwise seemed to work great :) https://mysideproject.rocks/p/62a90cdf2ad7a70017ed0d55 https://mysideproject.rocks/p/62a90cdf2ad7a70017ed0d55
- binwiederhier 4y agoI like the idea and started filling out everything for my side project, but then after I clicked submit I was told to sign up to continue. That is a dark pattern and leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Tell me upfront that I need to create an account. Not in small font, on the first page.
- hansword 4y agoFully agree. Just one thing like that ruins the enjoyment of the whole project for me. It moves from "oh, cool, someone wants to freely share the stuff hey like" to a suspicious attitude of "what is their real goal here"....
- samsquire 4y agoMy side project is to generate ideas for how I want computing to be and try implement algorithms that do so. My vision of computing is so far away from how computing works in this era, it's more like Xanadu and The Mother of All Demos. I am a DevOps engineer interested in parallel programming and distributed systems amongst other things, see my GitHub. I posted my idea pages. I figure they are sources of inspiration for this clique of software engineers and makers. https://mysideproject.rocks/p/62a947aaed8fdc00174a90f0 https://mysideproject.rocks/p/62a947aaed8fdc00174a90f0 https://mysideproject.rocks/p/62a94821ed8fdc00174a90f4 https://mysideproject.rocks/p/62a94821ed8fdc00174a90f4 https://mysideproject.rocks/p/62a94899ed8fdc00174a90f8 https://mysideproject.rocks/p/62a94899ed8fdc00174a90f8 https://github.com/samsquire/ideas https://github.com/samsquire/ideas https://github.com/samsquire/ideas2 https://github.com/samsquire/ideas2 https://github.com/samsquire/ideas3 https://github.com/samsquire/ideas3 https://github.com/samsquire/ideas4 https://github.com/samsquire/ideas4 (incomplete) Ideas4 is more data structure ideas and futuristic computing ideas and automated program synthesis.
- rschachte 4y agoLeft the second I had to sign up.
- jesperlang 4y agoI like the idea but what is a side-project really? Ideally I would not want to see commercial products or MVPs with start up intentions!
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- Drei01Matt 4y agoGreat idea! This could be the next Product Hunt (which has gone to the dogs AFAIC)
- davidajackson 4y agowhere is your localtime posted at coming from? mine was off. just use frontend localized?
- jack335 4y agoReally cool & Simple I've submitted mine :)