Ask HN: What did you build in 2019? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in 2019?

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Post by CoffeePython » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 6:38 PM UTC

jmstfv wrote: post #27

The biggest thing I have built this year is Hexadecimal ( https://tryhexadecimal.com ). It is my first SaaS business, so it is a pretty rough endeavor, both on the development and the business side. Built on the vanilla Rails stack. As boring as it could possibly get. I have described in some detail the tech behind it: https://runninginproduction.com/interviews/9-running-a-websi... Lessons learned: * If you'd like to…

This is cool. I'm curious about what your main marketing channels are. There is another project this reminds me of another project called Simple Analytics.

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in 2019?

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Post by CoffeePython » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 6:44 PM UTC

Ottofield ( https://www.ottofield.io/ )- Conversational Scheduling for Home Service businesses.

The idea came from being in the trades in my previous career. Companies in the trades spend a ton of money on advertising but fail to capitalize on a lot of their incoming leads. We use humans to answer incoming text, fb messenger, and webchat questions for people like electricians, hvac techs, plumbers, etc.

Long term idea is that as we get more data on how these conversations typically occur, we can build some ML systems to lower the cost of answering the questions.

It's still MVP stage right now. Got a few customers and planning on ramping up marketing in January.

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in 2019?

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Post by quickthrower2 » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 7:02 PM UTC

If your exercise plan includes stretches or weight training try out this unusual timer I built: https://stretchtimer.com

Source: https://github.com/mcapodici/stretch-timer

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in 2019?

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Post by rrrrrraul » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 7:04 PM UTC

fgBlox - an OSX Safari Extension. Prevents common ad-trackers from loading.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fgblox/id1460509929?mt=12

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in 2019?

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Post by bellwether » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 7:08 PM UTC

rozenmd wrote: post #72

I started building PerfBeacon - https://PerfBeacon.com an automated alternative to manually running Google Lighthouse tests. I couldn't find a service that could tell me if the latest deploy of my web app would make it slower, so I decided to build it.

Looks like a cool idea! If this worked like Pingdom, where I could start for free and then upgrade based on frequency of checks or number of sites / pages, I’d sign up :)

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in 2019?

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Post by matt_the_bass » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 7:18 PM UTC

I’ve been improving my production process for the wordclocks[0] I build. I’ve also just barely started to try some basic marketing of them. I sold 2 this year.

Part of my marketing effort is improving visibility on Etsy and so I’ve started selling much less expensive items on Etsy too[1]. They are not so much for the revenue as for the traffic, ratings, and learning how to best use Etsy. These secondary products are all based on things I’ve designed and made for/with my young kids.

Two observations:

- I’ve really enjoyed the path of developing better processes of how to fabricate things

- I’ve really enjoyed getting my kids involved with making. It’s fun to observe them thinking about how to make stuff and working with them to figure things out (they are 3 and 6).

[0] http://www.finewordclocks.com

[1] http://www.etsy.com/shop/FineWordclocks

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in 2019?

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Post by mrieck » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 7:38 PM UTC

SnipCSS (https://www.snipcss.com) -- webdev tool to copy styles of a portion of a webpage

SuperAnimo (https://www.superanimo.com) - free cartoon video maker I've been working on for years, recently made the publishing more user-friendly

Neither project has any traction or sales.

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in 2019?

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Post by snisarenko » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 7:50 PM UTC

I built: https://www.emailmynotes.com/

Its a simple hack, and a niche use case. But I enjoyed building it.

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in 2019?

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Post by lesquivemeau » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 7:56 PM UTC

heycesr wrote: post #66

Tomorrow I’ll be launching https://typehut.com , a super simple publishing platform for blogs, changelogs, newsletters, announcements, etc that I’ve been building during this last month.

Is this based on TipTap ? The text editor reminds me of it

Re: Ask HN: What did you build in 2019?

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Post by louisv » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 8:01 PM UTC

I built https://www.ecommerceranker.com in this last month.

It's an interactive database of the top 100 Shopify stores, with 19+ e-commerce data points available for each one.

I'm really happy that the average time spent on the website is over 4 minutes and 30 seconds - I never expected people to be this interested, so now I'm thinking of ways to expand this idea.