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Re: Ask HN: Who needs beta testers?

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Post by udit99 »

www.M93.org

Project Description: M93 is a personal dashboard that's equal parts habit tracker, progress tracker and life logger. Conceptually, it takes the UI concept of a Github-style contribution graph, adds interactivity to it and makes it the centerpiece of the dashboard.

What do you want to be tested:

1. I want to test if its valuable. Will you use these features? What would you use it for? 1a. What other features would you want from it? 2. What do you think of the UI? Is it intuitive? Easy to use? Which part is confusing? 3. Did the landing page make sense? What didn't make sense? 4. Did the signup tour do an adequate job of explaining how to use the app?

Thanks in advance

Re: Ask HN: Who needs beta testers?

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Post by davvid »

https://github.com/davvid/garden

Project Description: Garden is a git multi-repo powertool. Garden lets you define custom workflows over arbitrary collections of git trees.

If you find yourself running bespoke commands across a smattering of git repositories then Garden can be a big improvement over a big pile o' scripts and repos.

What do you want to be tested: Test the documented feature-set and new-user onboarding experience. Give feedback on its usefulness as a development/testing aid.

Contact Info: Open an issue on the project page

Re: Ask HN: Who needs beta testers?

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Post by t_christensen »

https://gorace.run

Requirements: Testers will need to be runners (at least some times) and have a Strava account.

Project Description: Challenge friends/family/colleagues for who will run X kilometers first. Integrates with Strava to track the progress and keep the leaderboard for the challenge up-to-date.

Contact Info: contact@gorace.run

Re: Ask HN: Who needs beta testers?

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Post by romanhn »

romanhn wrote: post #29

http://rolepad.com Project description: Whenever I've applied for jobs, I found myself with a mess of emails and spreadsheets. It sort of worked, but also felt like it could have been better. The initial goal of Rolepad is helping job seekers manage their search process. Think an Applicant Tracking System but for the other side. You can also visualize your progress with a Sankey diagram and share it anonymously. Gett…

Figured I'd give an example of what a visual of your job stats might look like: https://app.rolepad.com/metrics/7daF423lPxbEViZUP28NZS

Re: Ask HN: Who needs beta testers?

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Post by folli »

jerz wrote: post #55
folli wrote: post #53

https://CubeTrek.com I'm building an app to track hiking, mountaineering, mountainbiking, trailrunning and skiing activities , including 3D visualization (I live in Switzerland, so it's usually always either up or down and that's hard to visualize on a 2D map) and easy comparison of past efforts on the same track. It currently integrates Garmin and Polar devices. Here's an example of what it looks like: https://cubet…

That's very cool. The 3D visualisation is great. Going skiing soon, I will try it out

Thanks! let me know how it goes.

Re: Ask HN: Who needs beta testers?

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Post by orbanlevi »

t_christensen wrote: post #64

https://gorace.run Requirements: Testers will need to be runners (at least some times) and have a Strava account. Project Description: Challenge friends/family/colleagues for who will run X kilometers first. Integrates with Strava to track the progress and keep the leaderboard for the challenge up-to-date. Contact Info: contact@gorace.run

Wow, I love the concept but why is this different from creating a group on Strava and check members in it?

Re: Ask HN: Who needs beta testers?

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Post by ilaksh »

notlukesky wrote: post #57
ilaksh wrote: post #21

https://aidev.codes Project Description: This is an AI-powered programming tool that creates and updates simple web pages and applications based on natural language instructions. Its applying ChatGPT-like models (e.g. text-davinci-003/code-davinci-002 from OpenAI) for programming with the admittedly ambitious goal of trying to help users who are technical but non-programmers. It has preliminary knowledgebase support,…

Perhaps mention the benefits of using your service more and less on how you create the "magic". Like the classic do more with less.

I guess you mean in my comment here on HN? Because there is no marketing copy on the website that talks about how it works. There is a Help page which right now needs to be pretty technical.

If you mean in the HN comment, I deliberately did not create an advertisement here but rather a technical request for beta testers since that is what this thread is about.

But in general that's great to have the reminder to make some marketing copy and put it on the website at some point. Right now just trying to make the basic concept actually work which is one of the hardest tasks that anyone on the planet has taken up with LLMs.

Re: Ask HN: Who needs beta testers?

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Post by lovasoa »

https://github.com/lovasoa/SQLpage

Project Description: A website builder that uses only SQL. A single binary that renders .sql files as web pages. Lets data analysts turn any database into a custom CRUD website.

What do you want to be tested: I want to know how easy it is to get familiar with the concept and build a website. Try to build a small website in 15 minutes and tell me if you encountered any roadblock. I'm planning to make Show HN shortly and would like to polish the dev experience first. Also, english is not my native tongue; let me know if there is any grammar mistake in the readme or the website.

Contact Info: contact@ophir.dev https://github.com/lovasoa/SQLpage/issues

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