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

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Post by abrichr »

vinrob92 wrote: post #140
abrichr wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How did you go about building the community? Has it been worth the investment?

Totally! Building a community has helped me to know what customers wanted. How I did it: - Started a small Facebook group, added friends - Started connecting on FB with productized service entrepreneurs, added them to the group - Mentioned the group in various places (Twitter/Indie Hackers/...)

Interesting, thanks for the info! Did you create a separate account for your product, or did you just use your personal account? What sort of information do you post to the group? Thanks again!

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

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Post by greatatuin »

shakna wrote: post #60

SIXTEENmm ( https://sixteenmm.org ), a streaming site for old, hard to find and indie films. I've spent most of the year working on colourisation and recovery techniques. Colourisation is probably 70% of the way, but restoration is as hard as ever. The project isn't meant to be a unicorn. The tech stack is boring, and probably wouldn't scale. There's about 50 people on board, and about two or three videos streamed a…

This is great, my wife was looking for a site for old movies the other day. At the risk of offending could I suggest working on the design a bit to increase trust and look more established. If I stumbled upon your site I don't know I'd be willing to put my credit card details in with the current look and feel of the site.

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

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Post by RMPR »

While it's not mature yet, I started something I had in my mind during a long time, I called it atbswp (https://github.com/rmpr/atbswp), it basically allows you to record your mouse and keyboard moves and reproduce them at will. There's something similar called tinytask unfortunately it's neither multiplatform nor opensource. Back in time I used it to play automatically some games (asphalt, plant vs zombies, ...) but I think the usage can go far beyond that, for example you can use it to test software with a GUI, to present a demo at a conference, ... It's kinda usable but I need to polish things up (settings , language, ...)

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

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Post by shakna »

greatatuin wrote: post #142
shakna wrote: post #60

SIXTEENmm ( https://sixteenmm.org ), a streaming site for old, hard to find and indie films. I've spent most of the year working on colourisation and recovery techniques. Colourisation is probably 70% of the way, but restoration is as hard as ever. The project isn't meant to be a unicorn. The tech stack is boring, and probably wouldn't scale. There's about 50 people on board, and about two or three videos streamed a…

This is great, my wife was looking for a site for old movies the other day. At the risk of offending could I suggest working on the design a bit to increase trust and look more established. If I stumbled upon your site I don't know I'd be willing to put my credit card details in with the current look and feel of the site.

No risk of offense. Styles are not my best skill, though I have found people trust more when you throw things like pointless animation at them, which is something I'm specifically avoiding. (Part of the site design guidelines is that my highly autistic niece can use it without freaking out).

But, you don't have to put your CC in. Not until you've established a relationship.

I am always looking to improve the look, however.

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

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Post by mpurham »

I was productive this year and was able to build many software apps from dashboards to video apps.

I built: - Software at https://mattebot.co - Revamped https://marcell.me (native iOS, macOS development) - https://focuswindow.app (improves productivity by allowing you to focus on the task at hand).

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

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Post by jtap »

gangstertim wrote: post #102
jtap wrote: post #92

At the beginning half of this year I finished up an mvp of an idea that I had, took me a bit of time to build, where I could make it a bit easier for product managers to get analytics, and saas app feedback ( https://cruisedirector.io ). I was hoping to diversify my income a bit, but I've been pretty busy this year at my day job and haven't done any marketing or improvements. I have also redirected any potential cust…

Is the competition you're referring to Pendo? Your site looks nice. What did you use to build it?

Yes, Pendo. The site is just nodejs and a slightly modified html template that someone posted here a bit ago.
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