[HN Gopher] Show HN: My Side Project Rocks - Share and discover ...
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Show HN: My Side Project Rocks - Share and discover side projects
Author : scastiel
Score : 129 points
Date : 2022-06-14 15:35 UTC (7 hours ago)
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| boo-ga-ga wrote:
| Have you added your side project to the side project list?:)
| shafyy wrote:
| Cool, just posted my two side projects =)
| daltont wrote:
| Tricky thing about side-projects to me is they often start as
| "itches" that I scratch by developing something for my use. The
| something may be useful to others. However, to make it useful to
| others requires 10x the amount of effort to "productize" it. A
| site like this could be handy if minimally viable side projects
| could be get feedback to gauge interest in further development.
| scubakid wrote:
| In my experience, the most consistent way to get useful
| feedback on side projects or prototypes is to engage with
| people where they already are (Show HN posts for instance, or
| certain subreddits). My intuition is it would be hard for this
| kind of site to maintain enough traffic over the long-term for
| the average submission to actually get feedback. For OP's sake,
| I hope I'm wrong though!
| dividedbyzero wrote:
| _If_ this were to take off, I could totally see myself use it
| to discover new shiny things. It 's pretty difficult to
| discover novel gems among the vast amount of Github repos.
| sideproject wrote:
| Which is why it's a perfect reason to post it on a place like
| SideProjectors - https://www.sideprojectors.com - for someone
| else to take it and productize it!
| grepLeigh wrote:
| This is cool =) I submitted PrintNanny.ai, which started as a
| side-project but has grown into a full-time job for me.
| Rodeoclash wrote:
| Some feedback:
|
| I logged in using my Twitter profile, however when I go to the
| "profile" section, the fields appear to be read only? Not sure,
| but I couldn't seem to update my name.
|
| Otherwise seemed to work great :)
|
| https://mysideproject.rocks/p/62a90cdf2ad7a70017ed0d55
| kebsup wrote:
| Tried to post, but I don't have Twitter and registration failed
| with "Something went wrong, please try again later".
| onepunchmob wrote:
| I'm working on a pre / early revenue MVP marketplace
| https://www.thriftmvp.com
|
| The success of these side projects is extremely low so people
| tend to create multiple of those. But the truth is that a lot of
| these have great value even if they don't generate any revenue.
| It's kind of like unused real estate.
|
| If anyone has any side projects they want to sell, you can reach
| out to us and we would be happy to help you find a buyer for them
| and get rewarded for your efforts even if you didn't succeed the
| first time.
| metadat wrote:
| What does this have to do with the posted link? Are you piling
| on your own (barely related) baby project? What does this add
| to the discussion?
| onepunchmob wrote:
| I've been a serial builder myself. Just building things on
| weekends, on holidays, every downtime available. Part of the
| reason is because I just like developing stuff and testing
| out new tech, but the other reason is because I like living
| an indie life.
|
| Problem with this is that it is not sustainable, if you are
| coming from a somewhat wealthy / safe background you can
| pursue that with ease. But if you are a person with my
| background (little resources available) you can see that
| there are a lot of risks that come with that life. I know
| there are a lot of people that can relate to this and I also
| know a lot of people will be tempted to open and read this
| discussion.
|
| Now I will be unapologetic in the fact that I indeed plugged
| my own project here but I am also presenting an opportunity
| to people similar to me. People who are risk takers, people
| with skills that believe they can start small and make a
| change to the world from zero. I want to help and reward
| those people.
|
| If you are not one of them that's fine but I would appreciate
| if you could keep your criticism more constructive less
| hostile.
| metadat wrote:
| Thanks for explaining. On HN there tend to be a lot of
| mindless, low-effort hucksters who paste their links
| without connecting it back to the discussion. As a reader,
| this is annoying.
| onepunchmob wrote:
| No worries friend, I totally get where you are coming
| from. Thanks for letting me explain myself!
| metadat wrote:
| Best wishes :) love your positive attitude!
| nominusllc wrote:
| You could have made a mean response to 'snap back' but
| you really turned it into an opportunity that made me
| want to check out your site. Thanks for that, I hope it
| works out for you.
| onepunchmob wrote:
| Thanks dude, reading that really meant a lot :)
| sideproject wrote:
| How are you differentiating? https://www.sideprojectors.com :)
| onepunchmob wrote:
| Awesome seeing you here, I remember checking out your site
| when I was doing R&D before I actually started building!
|
| We heavily focus on the tech of the products and actively
| hunt the ones with great code quality. That's also the reason
| we have a few people that do code reviews and generally stay
| away from no code stuff or outdated projects. So we try to
| keep things low quantity but high quality. That makes us
| pretty niche.
|
| The buyers we want to attract will most likely be people that
| want to save development time and costs by buying existing
| products and iterating on them with their own team (or
| themselves)
|
| Another thing is, we actively go out of our way to attract
| buyers for our sellers. We use all our available channels to
| find a buyer that might fit a project. This is pretty hard to
| do but we are doing our best.
|
| Hope that answers your question!
| davidkuennen wrote:
| Posted mine as well
| [deleted]
| pkulak wrote:
| Just as a heads up: I created an account and got logged in as
| someone else.
|
| https://mysideproject.rocks/p/62a906f02ad7a70017ed0d07
|
| Pretty sure I tried to sign up with "pkulak".
| tombrm wrote:
| Reminds me of an early version of Product Hunt.
| bspear wrote:
| Same!
| abnerhorn wrote:
| I was coming to comment the very same thing :)
| pbronez wrote:
| Pretty neat! It's like Indie ProductHunt.
|
| Feedback:
|
| Login with Twitter uses an Oauth scope with more permissions that
| may be necessary. Do you really need to be able to read my
| private tweets? Identity should be sufficient. Also, Twitter was
| the right choice for identity provider for this kind of site.
|
| The first project I looked at [0] reports "[author]" has not
| shared the story of their project yet. Ask them in a comment "
| However, the sole comment on the project is by the original
| author, posting a project description. This suggests that the
| posting workflow is unclear.
|
| That project also has an associated Kickstarter [1]. As a
| reader/voter, it would be helpful to have pointers to the various
| websites that are associated with the project. Make it easy for
| my to find the official Kickstarter / GitHub / Indigogo /
| Shapeways / etc
|
| The site is relatively slow to load.
|
| [0] https://mysideproject.rocks/p/62a8b3c72ad7a70017ed0a0f
|
| [1]
| https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/babyengineering/compute...
| pbronez wrote:
| Feedback:
|
| Should pull through the Twitter user pictures
| empressplay wrote:
| Needs tags and a search function
| rhn_mk1 wrote:
| Caution, this web page will leak your emails. I just got access
| to an account of a random user as I tried to log in.
| scubakid wrote:
| Any idea what happened under the hood there? Do you think you
| just accidentally guessed an existing username/password combo?
| Or something more troubling?
| rhn_mk1 wrote:
| All I did was try to register.
| modzu wrote:
| you should post a privacy policy.
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