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

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Post by jtap »

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 customers, that I chatted with while building the app, to my competition. The competition is absolutely killing it in this space. Hopefully I can find some time this year to chat with some customers, maybe diversify a bit, and be able to do a bit of marketing.

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

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

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Post by richrichardsson »

whammywon wrote: post #89
richrichardsson wrote: post #82

Launched my audio plugins in July, averaged about $1k/month in sales (no idea if this is good or bad). https://bomshankamachin.es

That's awesome! I've always thought the idea of programming VSTs/VSTIs was interesting. Can you link to any resources you used in learning to build them?

I used the JUCE framework, which is free for personal/GPL usage (or you can pay for a closed source license) and gives you cross platform. The examples are pretty good for getting the basics, there is also The Audio Programmer YouTube channel that has a lot of content (the only bad thing I would say about it is that some of the early videos sometimes use bad concepts as it seems this was a sort of a documentary series for learning plugin programming for the channel owner). The JUCE community forum is really friendly and helpful (and there is also a discord channel for TAP). Otherwise search engines were my main source to learn (mostly to refresh my C++ knowledge), and I managed to land myself a day job programming a plugin that helped a lot just by looking at the existing code, but that obviously a very rare occurrence!
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