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Re: Ask HN: How did you find your great side project idea?

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Post by teleclimber »

quickthrower2 wrote: post #68
teleclimber wrote: post #65

Like many others I got the idea because of an itch I had with work. I run a small SaaS and I found myself constantly creating and updating HTML pages of various types: help and documentation for users, landing pages, product description, in-app content etc... There are myriad solutions for each of these, but none really nailed the use-case to me so I imagined what I really wanted and started building it. It's taken a…

Can it be summarised as React for static sites?

There is a similarity with React (and Vue, etc...) in that it's based on the idea of components. But the similarity ends there (and the project is not based on React). The core capability is to interact with your page directly as you build it, something that is not within React's scope.

Re: Ask HN: How did you find your great side project idea?

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Post by olkid »

jmduke wrote: post #43

This is a cliché but honest answer — I was using a similar tool and thought to myself “man, I could make something better than this.” I have this impulse a lot, and usually I stop myself from actually following through (there is always so much complication hiding below the surface!) but I kept coming back to it. Eventually, I set a deadline for myself; I said if, six months later, I couldn’t scratch the itch to make…

"Basic email analytics: opens" I'm curious. Have you figured out an accurate method? I've seen various flawed attempts (like an embedded image). Nice and clean website.

Re: Ask HN: How did you find your great side project idea?

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Post by nitramm »

When I was going through Wikipedia I have discovered that there is so many different prime types - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_numbers#Lists_...

So I have decided to put all this info on single place - https://prime-numbers.info - but there is lot of them so I am at C now. :)

Re: Ask HN: How did you find your great side project idea?

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Post by olkid »

Yabood wrote: post #23

For us, the idea came from working at a startup doing something completely different. We were developing a software to leverage the Cloud as primary storage. At the time I joined, I wanted to understand the space better and how our competitors were positioning themselves. I looked for tools that can show top performing content across blogs and social media networks, I wanted to see what type of messaging was resonati…

A friend just asked me about a service like this; I will share your platform with them. (btw, the number of channels stated in your blog post does not match the numbers on your pricing page.)

Re: Ask HN: How did you find your great side project idea?

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Post by laktek »

teleclimber wrote: post #65

Like many others I got the idea because of an itch I had with work. I run a small SaaS and I found myself constantly creating and updating HTML pages of various types: help and documentation for users, landing pages, product description, in-app content etc... There are myriad solutions for each of these, but none really nailed the use-case to me so I imagined what I really wanted and started building it. It's taken a…

Nice! Looks pretty similar to what I'm building at https://pragma.build (if you like to try Pragma send me a DM on Twitter @pragmaApp)

Re: Ask HN: How did you find your great side project idea?

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Post by WorksOfBarry »

My first long term project (greatest yet) started in January this year. It's an extension to Notepad++ which makes into a lightweight IDE - sort of.

The reason it was created is because the only stable option for developing on this specific platform was to buy an IDE from IBM. My goal is to provide a free option to developers.

This project only started because I couldn't afford the IBM product.

Re: Ask HN: How did you find your great side project idea?

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gschier wrote: post #79
computerex wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://insomnia.rest/eula/ > You agree that Floating Keyboard Software may collect and use information gathered in any manner as part of the product support services provided to you, if any, related to Insomnia REST Client. Floating Keyboard Software may also use this information to provide notices to you which may be of use or interest to you. Wait what? I guess I won't be going anywhere near this thing.

I'm not quite sure why this worries you but I can tell you what it means. Information collected is generic app usage data like number of launches, most used features, etc. The notices include help tips, feature suggestions, and prompts to upgrade to a Plus plan. The app is completely open source, and you can see everything it's doing here: http://github.com/getinsomnia/insomnia

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Re: Ask HN: How did you find your great side project idea?

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Post by niosus »

I code mostly in c++ on Linux and I don't like big IDEs. I wanted to have a plugin that would complete my code and show the errors. Oh, and it should work with CMake.

To be fair, there was a number of plugins out there that did it in various text editors, but I was too dumb to be able to use them. None worked out of the box. So I contributed a bit to one project that looked promising and then quickly branched off to create EasyClangComplete for Sublime Text. I've been working on it on weekends and nights for over a year now and it is an important tool in my workflow. Also, I feel inspired by approx. 9000 people who have installed it throughout the time it existed.

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