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Ask HN: How did you find your great side project idea?
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#122Back when I was streaming games on Twitch I cared a lot about my followers count. When you only have 10 followers and all of a sudden someone unfollows it's kind of a big deal, especially if you're trying to grow your followership.
I usually spent some time checking my followers list to find out _who_ unfollowed me.
To save me the hassle I developed Unfollow (https://www.unfollow.io). You sign up, connect your Twitch account and it starts tracking your unfollowers and notifies you.
I didn't develop this because I want to encourage people to care about their unfollowers. It's about curiousity. The curiosity about this person who's not following you anymore. I hope the tool can help people satisfy this curiosity.
Re: Ask HN: How did you find your great side project idea?
#123I missed turntable.fm and I found the current alternatives lacking so I built a better one: https://www.jqbx.fm if you're interested. IMO there's no shame in working on your own derivation of an existing idea (take FB as one example). Sometimes a tweak here or there can be the difference between a good idea and game-changing one. Also it gives you the chance to 'edit' an existing product which is both a fun and thoug…
Hey! Nice job I really like the idea and how it works. One thing I have noticed that sort-of breaks the experience for me is that every song change, room change, or anything else that stops music automatically changes my current device on spotify to the incorrect device. So constantly change it back to my work computer rather than my home computer it a huge pain currently.
Are you changing it via Spotify or via the app? If you do it through the app it should save a cookie and stick with the device you selected from that point forward (the way to change devices is by clicking on the 'desktop' icon on the top right of the header next to your username). If that doesn't do the trick- let me know so I can look into it more. Thanks!
Re: Ask HN: How did you find your great side project idea?
#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
You need to have a premium account- was that the issue or is it something else I should look into? You can also try the 'click here to retry' button which should do the trick if you do in fact have Spotify premium.
Nope. I have a premium account. I retried multiple times as well :\
Sorry to hear that! I'll look into it and hopefully get it resolved asap
Re: Ask HN: How did you find your great side project idea?
#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey! Nice job I really like the idea and how it works. One thing I have noticed that sort-of breaks the experience for me is that every song change, room change, or anything else that stops music automatically changes my current device on spotify to the incorrect device. So constantly change it back to my work computer rather than my home computer it a huge pain currently.
Are you changing it via Spotify or via the app? If you do it through the app it should save a cookie and stick with the device you selected from that point forward (the way to change devices is by clicking on the 'desktop' icon on the top right of the header next to your username). If that doesn't do the trick- let me know so I can look into it more. Thanks!
I was changing rooms via the app, and just sitting and letting the songs play while in a room, and the only way to hear them would be to manually change it on my Spotify app.
Re: Ask HN: How did you find your great side project idea?
#126I did a bunch of ~$100 jobs as a freelancer on UpWork. It was the same work over and over again. I decided I needed to automate the work, and, long story short, I ended with an online tool that allowed customers to do the work themselves. It's cheaper for them and more profitable for me now.
Unrelated tip: beware trying to make money targeting developers. We are a bunch of cheap asses, and we expect everything to be free. Target consumers and/or businesses instead.
Re: Ask HN: How did you find your great side project idea?
#127Solve your own problem. If you have no problems it means you don't experience enough about life. Travel more, invest in new experience and learn.
Write down those problems and apply a design thinking process, so you don't invest time in them if they aren't worth it. :)
Re: Ask HN: How did you find your great side project idea?
#128I built CTX - https://getctx.io - to help me find stuff in all my cloud services.
Years of leading agency and consultancy projects for other people and never being able to remember whether stuff was in a Trello card, a Slack message, a Drive file, an email etc meant I was scratching my own itch.
It's now in private beta with a couple of companies here in the UK and I'm planning for a wider launch in a month or so (here's hoping)
Re: Ask HN: How did you find your great side project idea?
#129So it's like- I kept looking for software projects leads in facebook groups for my software services company http://inteliheads.com and one day I wrote a script which does it automatically and other day I made it public with name http://keywordsonar.com It's around 2 months for this product and right now 197 users are using it.
Re: Ask HN: How did you find your great side project idea?
#130So it's like- I kept looking for software projects leads in facebook groups for my software services company http://inteliheads.com and one day I wrote a script which does it automatically and other day I made it public with name http://keywordsonar.com It's around 2 months for this product and right now users that are using product are 197.