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I'm developing a knowledge graph for Marketing case studies and examples. I work in the Digital Marketing field and every time I want to take a look at what other brands are doing is always a mess to find good examples. The idea is to have everything in one central place where you can check for brands by industry and region and then learn how they are approaching a topic i.e. e-commerce for EU companies in China, social media case studies for TitTok, etc. Still no domain registered, should be up next week or so.

Re: Ask HN: What (side-)project are you working on?

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Working on a person focused task list/note taking app for me to be less forgetful.. Personal itch, but though others might like it. https://150people.app

I'm interested, but without your text here I'd have no idea this was a task list/note taking app. There's not a single mention of that on the site, if I were discovering this for the first time I'd think it was a "mindful" exclusive social media site.

I get that. Currently trying to nail down the messaging and this landing was my first pass at getting _something_ up. This week I'm going to rework the site to make it more clear what the app is.

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I'm working on a project I'm calling TripMix. It lets you build travel guides for your friends. Copying my explanation from a recent thread :) My girlfriend and I really enjoy good food and travel. We spend a lot of our time cooking, eating, and going to breweries and wineries. We have a few favorite cities near us, like Charlottesville and the surrounding wine country in Virginia, and Portland, Maine. We've been the…

This is a great idea. I personally over-optimize my travel planning. Being able to reference peer recommendations with tags would be a significant improvement over travel sites and Google searches.

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I filled my own need with https://howsyourblank.com . I have a minor, but chronic medical condition I am trying to get in check, and I just wanted something incredibly simple to identify good and bad days. I was inspired by "year in pixels" calendars. And I took the opportunity to try out Userbase[0] and build something with a secure backend and no tracking, considering the potentially sensitive nature of it. No plan…

I think this needs a demo page/account showing how it looks. Looks interesting, but I don't want to create account just to see how it works.

Agreed! I've added a couple screenshoots of the main views within the app. I know more can be done around this, but hopefully this is a good start. Thanks for the feedback!

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That is awesome to hear! Website looks great. Did it take some time to gain traction/users?

Yup it’s a slow steady stream, landing page has been up for a year collecting emails even though it only launched last month.

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I've been building FastComments: https://fastcomments.com For the past year or so. I'm also building an MMO game, and you can read the technical details/build thread here: https://jvm-gaming.org/t/tdworld-development-thread/69948/10...

Oh wow I love it! Love the simplicity of installation — it's definitely a trend that's going up lately, but I'm surprised to see that, since Stripe made it mainstream back in the previous decade, it's... not very very common to have products that are installable with a code embed 1) Can you talk a bit more (to a non-technical person) about how the code embed works 2) As a suggestion, I think you'd do well in no/low-c…

Thank you!

Low-code communities/products makes up a good portion of our existing userbase indeed (Wordpress, Webflow, the like). Webflow, Zendesk, Shopify, Salesforce plugins are planned. We currently have an awesome WP plugin.

The other half of our customers are using tools like Gatsby.

Here's a blog post from the first month of building the product. Over a year later, lots has changed (I'm also a better writer, sorry!): https://blog.winricklabs.com/(1-24-2020)-how-fastcomments-wa...

Re: Ask HN: What (side-)project are you working on?

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I'm working on a project I'm calling TripMix. It lets you build travel guides for your friends. Copying my explanation from a recent thread :) My girlfriend and I really enjoy good food and travel. We spend a lot of our time cooking, eating, and going to breweries and wineries. We have a few favorite cities near us, like Charlottesville and the surrounding wine country in Virginia, and Portland, Maine. We've been the…

This is a great idea. I personally over-optimize my travel planning. Being able to reference peer recommendations with tags would be a significant improvement over travel sites and Google searches.

Glad to hear! I agree, and almost always reach out to several other traveling friends for their recommendations whenever we go places. I envision a lot of value being delivered from sort of formalizing the FB Recommendations engine into its own social network and interface.

Feel free to drop me some feature suggestions if you have them: adamp319@gmail.com :)

Re: Ask HN: What (side-)project are you working on?

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Oh wow I love it! Love the simplicity of installation — it's definitely a trend that's going up lately, but I'm surprised to see that, since Stripe made it mainstream back in the previous decade, it's... not very very common to have products that are installable with a code embed 1) Can you talk a bit more (to a non-technical person) about how the code embed works 2) As a suggestion, I think you'd do well in no/low-c…

Thank you! Low-code communities/products makes up a good portion of our existing userbase indeed (Wordpress, Webflow, the like). Webflow, Zendesk, Shopify, Salesforce plugins are planned. We currently have an awesome WP plugin. The other half of our customers are using tools like Gatsby. Here's a blog post from the first month of building the product. Over a year later, lots has changed (I'm also a better writer, sor…

Nice! Glad to hear that! Why don't you get yourself in here? https://university.webflow.com/integrations

Will read the link you've added. Feedback for feedback? https://bychgroup.com/price-unlock/

Re: Ask HN: What (side-)project are you working on?

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I’ve been working on a space telescope constellation. No website or anything yet since marketing is the least of my concerns, there’s so much hardware stuff to work out the feasibility of first. It’s entirely COTS and I’m building the software stack on top of KubOS and Major Tom https://www.kubos.com , and using RPi and Pine64 hardware. LimeSDR hardware and getting the local jurisdiction RF permits to begin work on t…

Cool!
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