I created http://goalstribe.com (democratizing group coaching) and UserLove http://userlove.net/products/5 (Get video testimonials from your users).
Ask HN: What did you create in 2011?
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#32http://www.gemfury.com for hosting private Ruby Gems. I wanted a unified way to deploy software for another project and decided to use gems. First built it for myself, then figured it would benefit others.
Re: Ask HN: What did you create in 2011?
#33I made http://tweetcaddy.com a web-based tweet calendar scheduling software :)
Re: Ask HN: What did you create in 2011?
#34Two that I like the most (although not exactly side projects): http://getlocalne.ws (Global News Aggregator) and http://www.RapiDefs.com (Web 2.0 English Dictionary)
getlocalne.ws is a nice project. but it needs a facelift.
Re: Ask HN: What did you create in 2011?
#35Bison Ballistics: http://bisonballistics.com
Re: Ask HN: What did you create in 2011?
#36Two that I like the most (although not exactly side projects): http://getlocalne.ws (Global News Aggregator) and http://www.RapiDefs.com (Web 2.0 English Dictionary)
Wow, I live in a small town in Canada and it had a news feed. Nice. You might want to think about geolocating the user by IP address, and displaying their local news without having to select a city.
Thanks. The home page already has IP to geolocation to suggest country/city, using a free open db (so the city-level accuracy is not very high).
Re: Ask HN: What did you create in 2011?
#37Two that I like the most (although not exactly side projects): http://getlocalne.ws (Global News Aggregator) and http://www.RapiDefs.com (Web 2.0 English Dictionary)
getlocalne.ws is a nice project. but it needs a facelift.
Thanks. We're still hard at work stabilising/optimising the back-end to handle the constantly growing (organic) load/traffic efficiently. With almost 65 million headlines archived so far, and about 250k fresh ones getting added daily, all this continues to be a bit of a battle here. :) We've planned to work on polishing the front-end etc. once the back-end is sorted out satisfactorily.
Re: Ask HN: What did you create in 2011?
#38I created http://dudmail.com - a disposable email site that allows you to automatically forward emails, and permits attachments. It's not been as much of a success as I was hoping (currently 1200 registered users, with quite a large number more of unregistered users), but it was a project that I started and finished =)
For 1200 users, many entrepreneurs would cut out and sell their kidneys. Congratulations on shipping your project! I'd like to check it out, but seems down for the moment... EDIT: It's live actually. Looks like a problem on my end.
yeah, don't get me wrong - I'm (sorta) happy with that, but I don't think they're 1200 real users.
You don't need to register to use 90% of the sites functionality, so most people probably never register.
But it's free to register, so of those that do, probably only 10% come back and use the site regularly. Certainly it only seems to translate to about 100-200 uniques a day.
I'm still getting about 2-10 registrations a day, so hopefully (given a long enough period of time) that number will go up.
The big problem at the moment though is that I've submitted to all the app directories that I could find. This made a huge difference in google page rank for "disposable email" (made it up to page two at one point). Now though, with no new links I'm slowly sinking (now down to page four).