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Ask HN: Solo developer building a product? Show us your work and get feedback

17 points by mgl 2y ago

Are you an indie hacker building a product? Show your work, and we’ll share our initial feedback! Please, let’s make it a positive, constructive thread.

mtmail 2y ago
Solo developers, indie hackers: Submit your work to https://news.ycombinator.com/show https://news.ycombinator.com/show where other users can give feedback. (mgl: many already submitted projects await feedback)
AznHisoka 2y ago
I built a simple daily email that emails you the latest remote jobs for specific positions such as backend, front, devops, mobile and security engineers: https://bloomberry.com/remote-jobs/ https://bloomberry.com/remote-jobs/ At first, I wanted to build a full-fledged search engine but that endeavor was too ambitious, so for now it's just a simple daily email sent to your inbox every morning :)
- muzani 2y ago
  I'm probably the target market for this, but something about this feel shady. There seems to be a lot going on this page. Why is there a search or sidebar? The recent posts contain clickbait like "Why I threw away your resume (from the world’s crankiest recruiter)". Bloomberry feels a bit like a Bloomberg, it triggers that kind of 'be careful' response when clicking on the link, and it doesn't help that it has a screenshot of possible jobs instead of the actual jobs. The best way to get emails is to remove the distractions and not let people navigate all over the place. Anyway the fact you posted this on HN with the smiley and don't have a history of spamming makes it seem legit, so I'll sign up.
  - AznHisoka 2y ago
    Gotcha, I awkwardly wanted to combine a blog and a place to post jobs, and was too lazy to put up a separate site. Anyway hope you find it useful!
    - muzani 2y ago
      Yup, I'm surprised by the quality of the list too. Day 1: Autodesk, stripe (spain), zoom, but also plenty of junior roles, contracts paying $100+/hr. Lots of companies I never would have considered. Finding mobile jobs and hiring for mobile is also very difficult for many people, glad it's there. You might want to drop a donation box there too in case we find jobs.
- toldyouso2022 2y ago
  Are you still sending the emails? I have no antispam but I haven't received any
  - toldyouso2022 2y ago
    I'm now receiving them, adding this message to not hinder your site in case someone reads this still post. Great service btw
pull_my_finger 2y ago
I _hate_ that I'm so pessimistic and suspicious, and I know how important early feedback and quality technical feedback can be - BUT - I could never feel comfortable sharing a budding product in a forum full of serial founders, hungry entrepreneurs and developers that are likely in the same or overlapping spaces. The only exception would be if it was a dev tool or painkiller app where the readers here were likely the intended market. Kudos to the people that do though - these kinds of threads are very interesting to read.
- deleted 2y ago
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aliezsid 2y ago
Not exactly a "product" but yes, recently added an uptime notifier service in the sea of 1000s of these services. https://ping.tinytown.studio/ https://ping.tinytown.studio/ Trying to keep it simple and tiny for now, would like to know what others think
- muzani 2y ago
  I like it, nice and simple. I guess we could do a script ourselves, but $1 makes sense and I'd probably donate if it catches downtime a few times. It probably acts as a quick test too, in case we break something while pushing to production at 8 PM.
  - aliezsid 2y ago
    Oh definitely, it's a straightforward implementation with a few additions to avoid sending too many emails (both to not irritate the user and to save me from email sending costs)
- toldyouso2022 2y ago
  I wanted to build something like this, you managed to make the ux 10 times more awesome than I could have imagined, well done
  - aliezsid 2y ago
    Thanks! I'm glad you like it :)
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ciaovietnam 2y ago
It seems really hard to get feedback by using ShowHN, I tried a few times but didnt get any. Anyway, I build a cool platform that combines Shopify/Wordpress and Airtable features into one, it is at https://sitegui.com https://sitegui.com. I'd appreciate some feedbacks as we are new.
- rixed 2y ago
  Maybe HN could do something to incentivize giving feedback? Something like more karma for participation in "Show HN" thread (and a karma cost for contributing to political posts)? Because it is true that right now it is easy to forget that every HN users have some unstated duty to contribute feedback to shown projects. Just thinking out oud, but wouldn't it be useful if users also had some "field-of-interest/expertise" that ShowHN submitters could tag in their projects, that would somehow draw the attention of those potentially interrested in it? Because personnaly, one of the things that prevent me from browsing ShowHN more often is that most of the time I don't feel that I have anything of value to contribute ("Meh, your new javascript framework to automatize lense composition for svelte in amazon-lambda looks nice, but I noticed that typo in your homepage").
  - ciaovietnam 2y ago
    Unfortunately most Show HN threads are not shown on Show HN, they are shown in /shownew and /new for a short amount of time before other new threads arrive. To be shown in Show HN they must pass some unknown thresholds (upvotes???). I believe not many HNers visit /shownew and the chance to get upvotes on /new is quite slim due to the amount of new threads coming in. I know there must be some mechanism to prevent spamming but the current one also suppresses the exposure of Show HN threads and they are often buried in /shownew without much exposure/feedback.
    - FergusArgyll 2y ago
      I visit shownew a bunch but am always scared to upvote anything bec it might be a scam. There really is a decent amount of spamming there
anacrolix 2y ago
https://coveapp.info https://coveapp.info
rupestrecampos 2y ago
Brazil´s Farms, Rural Environmental Register data map. +300Gb data updated monthly, for $7 besides what was already at home (internet, hardware). ETL + Database + API in a raspberry pi 4. Frontend at Stremlit.io https://car-viewer.streamlit.app https://car-viewer.streamlit.app
fregonics 2y ago
I'm building a internal tools engine partially inspired by Interval (RIP). It will be completely open source from the start and support many languages other than JS. It is in the very early stage of development, but it would be nice to know if anyone other than me is interested, and if you have any tips on what bothered you in other similar tools or things you would want on it. https://github.com/luizgfranca/platformlab https://github.com/luizgfranca/platformlab
SeanAnderson 2y ago
It's not especially technical, but here's what I'm working on currently: https://www.howbazaar.gg/ https://www.howbazaar.gg/ It's a companion website for an upcoming game called The Bazaar, https://playthebazaar.com/ https://playthebazaar.com/ I'm hoping to become the wowhead for this game. Players use my website to theorycraft about the game both as they're playing and when they're idly musing. It took me about three weeks to build what you see linked above and I get ~12k tracked pageviews per day, trending slightly upward right now. A lot of the effort was being the first mover and marketing aggressively to Reddit/Discord/Twitch until it spread readily by word of mouth. It's not a very defensible moat aside from being a household name, at least at the moment. Crossing my fingers the traffic triples when the game exits beta, but who knows. I need to start running AdSense on it to recoup the Vercel costs, clean up the mobile UI, and implement some features that lesser known competitors have that I've been too lazy to follow up on. It's certainly the project I've been least passionate about and yet have had the most success with relative to amount of effort committed. Funny how that works.
ossforever1997 2y ago
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haidrali 2y ago
InvitePlus automate employee onboarding and offboarding with just one click https://getinviteplus.com https://getinviteplus.com
drellybochelly 2y ago
Just built Convoseek, a tool that allows users aggregate their chat messages across multiple platforms and search them using semantic search/AI. https://convoseek.com/ https://convoseek.com/
ddgflorida 2y ago
For fun, I made a Javascript library that implements most of the Date and String functions found in various SQL dialects. We have the home page https://www.ddginc-usa.com//dbFunctions.htm https://www.ddginc-usa.com//dbFunctions.htm and a Playground for play and Documentation. I posted this on Show HN about a week ago and received minimal response.
jakobbuis 2y ago
I'm building Provisor: situational awareness for event organizers. See your team on the map; and position & collaborate in real-time. Like ATAK, but much simpler to use. https://www.provisor.app https://www.provisor.app
ceritium 2y ago
Hi, I have been building https://babelfu.com https://babelfu.com, a translation service on top of Github; it fetches the translations from your GitHub repo and commits them back, so the source of truth of the translations is the repo itself. You can forget about sync tasks, collisions between branches, etc. In the end, if there are conflicts, you manage them on Git as the rest of your code. It is available in a very early open-source version, which I will update at some moment if I see someone interested in it. I would be very grateful if someone gave it a try to setup a project and provided some feedback.

17 points by mgl 2y ago

Are you an indie hacker building a product? Show your work, and we’ll share our initial feedback! Please, let’s make it a positive, constructive thread.

mtmail 2y ago

Solo developers, indie hackers: Submit your work to https://news.ycombinator.com/show https://news.ycombinator.com/show where other users can give feedback. (mgl: many already submitted projects await feedback)

AznHisoka 2y ago

I built a simple daily email that emails you the latest remote jobs for specific positions such as backend, front, devops, mobile and security engineers: https://bloomberry.com/remote-jobs/ https://bloomberry.com/remote-jobs/ At first, I wanted to build a full-fledged search engine but that endeavor was too ambitious, so for now it's just a simple daily email sent to your inbox every morning :)

muzani 2y ago
I'm probably the target market for this, but something about this feel shady. There seems to be a lot going on this page. Why is there a search or sidebar? The recent posts contain clickbait like "Why I threw away your resume (from the world’s crankiest recruiter)". Bloomberry feels a bit like a Bloomberg, it triggers that kind of 'be careful' response when clicking on the link, and it doesn't help that it has a screenshot of possible jobs instead of the actual jobs. The best way to get emails is to remove the distractions and not let people navigate all over the place. Anyway the fact you posted this on HN with the smiley and don't have a history of spamming makes it seem legit, so I'll sign up.
- AznHisoka 2y ago
  Gotcha, I awkwardly wanted to combine a blog and a place to post jobs, and was too lazy to put up a separate site. Anyway hope you find it useful!
  - muzani 2y ago
    Yup, I'm surprised by the quality of the list too. Day 1: Autodesk, stripe (spain), zoom, but also plenty of junior roles, contracts paying $100+/hr. Lots of companies I never would have considered. Finding mobile jobs and hiring for mobile is also very difficult for many people, glad it's there. You might want to drop a donation box there too in case we find jobs.
toldyouso2022 2y ago
Are you still sending the emails? I have no antispam but I haven't received any
- toldyouso2022 2y ago
  I'm now receiving them, adding this message to not hinder your site in case someone reads this still post. Great service btw

pull_my_finger 2y ago

I _hate_ that I'm so pessimistic and suspicious, and I know how important early feedback and quality technical feedback can be - BUT - I could never feel comfortable sharing a budding product in a forum full of serial founders, hungry entrepreneurs and developers that are likely in the same or overlapping spaces. The only exception would be if it was a dev tool or painkiller app where the readers here were likely the intended market. Kudos to the people that do though - these kinds of threads are very interesting to read.

deleted 2y ago
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aliezsid 2y ago

Not exactly a "product" but yes, recently added an uptime notifier service in the sea of 1000s of these services. https://ping.tinytown.studio/ https://ping.tinytown.studio/ Trying to keep it simple and tiny for now, would like to know what others think

muzani 2y ago
I like it, nice and simple. I guess we could do a script ourselves, but $1 makes sense and I'd probably donate if it catches downtime a few times. It probably acts as a quick test too, in case we break something while pushing to production at 8 PM.
- aliezsid 2y ago
  Oh definitely, it's a straightforward implementation with a few additions to avoid sending too many emails (both to not irritate the user and to save me from email sending costs)
toldyouso2022 2y ago
I wanted to build something like this, you managed to make the ux 10 times more awesome than I could have imagined, well done
- aliezsid 2y ago
  Thanks! I'm glad you like it :)

deleted 2y ago

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ciaovietnam 2y ago

It seems really hard to get feedback by using ShowHN, I tried a few times but didnt get any. Anyway, I build a cool platform that combines Shopify/Wordpress and Airtable features into one, it is at https://sitegui.com https://sitegui.com. I'd appreciate some feedbacks as we are new.

rixed 2y ago
Maybe HN could do something to incentivize giving feedback? Something like more karma for participation in "Show HN" thread (and a karma cost for contributing to political posts)? Because it is true that right now it is easy to forget that every HN users have some unstated duty to contribute feedback to shown projects. Just thinking out oud, but wouldn't it be useful if users also had some "field-of-interest/expertise" that ShowHN submitters could tag in their projects, that would somehow draw the attention of those potentially interrested in it? Because personnaly, one of the things that prevent me from browsing ShowHN more often is that most of the time I don't feel that I have anything of value to contribute ("Meh, your new javascript framework to automatize lense composition for svelte in amazon-lambda looks nice, but I noticed that typo in your homepage").
- ciaovietnam 2y ago
  Unfortunately most Show HN threads are not shown on Show HN, they are shown in /shownew and /new for a short amount of time before other new threads arrive. To be shown in Show HN they must pass some unknown thresholds (upvotes???). I believe not many HNers visit /shownew and the chance to get upvotes on /new is quite slim due to the amount of new threads coming in. I know there must be some mechanism to prevent spamming but the current one also suppresses the exposure of Show HN threads and they are often buried in /shownew without much exposure/feedback.
  - FergusArgyll 2y ago
    I visit shownew a bunch but am always scared to upvote anything bec it might be a scam. There really is a decent amount of spamming there

anacrolix 2y ago

https://coveapp.info https://coveapp.info

rupestrecampos 2y ago

Brazil´s Farms, Rural Environmental Register data map. +300Gb data updated monthly, for $7 besides what was already at home (internet, hardware). ETL + Database + API in a raspberry pi 4. Frontend at Stremlit.io https://car-viewer.streamlit.app https://car-viewer.streamlit.app

fregonics 2y ago

I'm building a internal tools engine partially inspired by Interval (RIP). It will be completely open source from the start and support many languages other than JS. It is in the very early stage of development, but it would be nice to know if anyone other than me is interested, and if you have any tips on what bothered you in other similar tools or things you would want on it. https://github.com/luizgfranca/platformlab https://github.com/luizgfranca/platformlab

SeanAnderson 2y ago

It's not especially technical, but here's what I'm working on currently: https://www.howbazaar.gg/ https://www.howbazaar.gg/ It's a companion website for an upcoming game called The Bazaar, https://playthebazaar.com/ https://playthebazaar.com/ I'm hoping to become the wowhead for this game. Players use my website to theorycraft about the game both as they're playing and when they're idly musing. It took me about three weeks to build what you see linked above and I get ~12k tracked pageviews per day, trending slightly upward right now. A lot of the effort was being the first mover and marketing aggressively to Reddit/Discord/Twitch until it spread readily by word of mouth. It's not a very defensible moat aside from being a household name, at least at the moment. Crossing my fingers the traffic triples when the game exits beta, but who knows. I need to start running AdSense on it to recoup the Vercel costs, clean up the mobile UI, and implement some features that lesser known competitors have that I've been too lazy to follow up on. It's certainly the project I've been least passionate about and yet have had the most success with relative to amount of effort committed. Funny how that works.

ossforever1997 2y ago

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haidrali 2y ago

InvitePlus automate employee onboarding and offboarding with just one click https://getinviteplus.com https://getinviteplus.com

drellybochelly 2y ago

Just built Convoseek, a tool that allows users aggregate their chat messages across multiple platforms and search them using semantic search/AI. https://convoseek.com/ https://convoseek.com/

ddgflorida 2y ago

For fun, I made a Javascript library that implements most of the Date and String functions found in various SQL dialects. We have the home page https://www.ddginc-usa.com//dbFunctions.htm https://www.ddginc-usa.com//dbFunctions.htm and a Playground for play and Documentation. I posted this on Show HN about a week ago and received minimal response.

jakobbuis 2y ago

I'm building Provisor: situational awareness for event organizers. See your team on the map; and position & collaborate in real-time. Like ATAK, but much simpler to use. https://www.provisor.app https://www.provisor.app

ceritium 2y ago

Hi, I have been building https://babelfu.com https://babelfu.com, a translation service on top of Github; it fetches the translations from your GitHub repo and commits them back, so the source of truth of the translations is the repo itself. You can forget about sync tasks, collisions between branches, etc. In the end, if there are conflicts, you manage them on Git as the rest of your code. It is available in a very early open-source version, which I will update at some moment if I see someone interested in it. I would be very grateful if someone gave it a try to setup a project and provided some feedback.