https://theothermail.com TheOtherMail generates throwaway email addresses so you can try new products and services with no risk. We deliver all emails from your generated accounts to your personal email address so you don't have to remember stupidly long emails. We spend a few dollars per month to run it, and we haven't made any money yet. Give it a try!
Have you thought about building the reverse application? A service that screens out all throwaway emails so only users who register with a real email address can use a service.
I built https://callmom.pro/ this year in anticipation of a Mother's day rush. The idea is that we'll call you and your mom once a week at a set day/time in such a way that your phones both ring and when you pick up, you're talking to each other. The site is janky AF because I'm still in the neophyte stages of front-end/css. I do still think it's a good a idea, so I'm planning a revamp of the sales site in time for a…
It is a great idea. I am not sure it can make money, but it is genius. Have you thought about making the ring time random rather than set?
I made Word Nazi, which is essentially just a dirty version of Taboo (in the same way that Cards Against Humanity is a dirty version of Apples to Apples) in app form. Lessons learned: * I should've paid someone to do some decent graphics, turns out "minimalist aesthetic" is not the same as "no effort put in to design" * Making it a free demo, with the full game available as an in-app-purchase, sounds like a good deal…
Shit I missed it. It says bandwidth exceeded. Can you bring the site back up....
Cursing myself for not checking hackernews more often...
I made Word Nazi, which is essentially just a dirty version of Taboo (in the same way that Cards Against Humanity is a dirty version of Apples to Apples) in app form. Lessons learned: * I should've paid someone to do some decent graphics, turns out "minimalist aesthetic" is not the same as "no effort put in to design" * Making it a free demo, with the full game available as an in-app-purchase, sounds like a good deal…
I really wanted to check out your website.
However, I think you just exceeded your hoster's bandwidth quota...(error message when I try to access it).
I built Dependabot ( https://dependabot.com ), a service that checks your dependencies are up-to-date every morning and creates pull requests for you if they're not. Intention was to make dependency management suck less, whilst also adding a bit of runway to a bigger startup I wanted to do. * Spent 2 months building it - much longer than I'd thought. The work required to get from a prototype (2 days) to a SaaS produc…
That's pretty cool, I have been thinking of building something similar, but for Python. How hard is it to add new languages?
You should consider integrating this visualization in a few third party applications with a significant database component. I'm thinking web frameworks (like WordPress) and CRMs (like SalesForce). Easy to comprehend visualization of business data is a lot more valuable than visualization of internal program data structures. If you can populate structures from 3rd party sources then you could have a valuable product.…
> Easy to comprehend visualization of business data is a lot more valuable than visualization of internal program data structures I agree that must be true in an absolute sense, but part of the reason I'm making this is that I find visualization of internal program data to be valuable. I have other things I want to use this to help me build. But it's definitely a gamble whether I'll be able to convince many other dev…
maybe try to see if your tool makes it easy to understand viruses, malwares, ransomwares, etc.. Usually there is a time-race to understand how they work in order to find protections quickly. Also the code path is usually convoluted to make them hard to understand. A visualisation could be helpful and have a lot of value for clients
I have a project which may never generate revenue, despite the fact I spent 2 months after hours working on it. I did a dumb thing and dove directly into the project without first finding a fit or customer base for it. More or less, it's a scheduling application that allows a user to set when they're open and allow anyone to book that time for however much the original scheduler valued that slot of their schedule. It…
Why not simply use google calendar, with permission open to public?
I built Dependabot ( https://dependabot.com ), a service that checks your dependencies are up-to-date every morning and creates pull requests for you if they're not. Intention was to make dependency management suck less, whilst also adding a bit of runway to a bigger startup I wanted to do. * Spent 2 months building it - much longer than I'd thought. The work required to get from a prototype (2 days) to a SaaS produc…
You might try marketing this to security teams, I know dependencies are a big concern for them.
https://zonewatcher.com After having multiple clients change their DNS settings without warning and then email us when shit hits the fan I knew I needed some type of warning system. This checks every X minutes and saves each version so you can see the revision history for all your DNS zones across many providers. I make ~$50 a month right now with it, which is enough to cover the hosting. I haven't really marketed it…
Signed up to paid plan, thanks. This is something I had looked for previously. Some suggestions (only because I really want you to succeed!): - Please consider the use case where I want to protect against a domain having its nameservers changed at the registrar. I don't think you currently handle that case, as e.g. pulling the NS records from Route53 will always show Route53 as the authoritative NS, which may not mat…
Thanks for the feedback. I’ll get those changes integrated :)
I built Dependabot ( https://dependabot.com ), a service that checks your dependencies are up-to-date every morning and creates pull requests for you if they're not. Intention was to make dependency management suck less, whilst also adding a bit of runway to a bigger startup I wanted to do. * Spent 2 months building it - much longer than I'd thought. The work required to get from a prototype (2 days) to a SaaS produc…
You might try marketing this to security teams, I know dependencies are a big concern for them.
Thanks for the advice! Security is definitely a big angle here - not only do dependency updates often include patches for known vulnerabilities, they're also the least likely to be affected by future vulnerabilities.