Share your product here to get support, feedback, users (w/c 18th of May)
Aaron O'Leary
166 replies
Hi Makers! This thread is dedicated to you if you are:
(1) launching soon or recently launched
(2) looking for beta users
(3) asking for feedback on a landing page
First, start by helping out another maker. You can check out their launch, give their product a review or share a comment on their launch post.
Once you've helped someone else out, share your product link here and BE SPECIFIC about who your target audience is and how we can help. 😊
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Chris Woelk@redbeed
CentralBoard
Hello there,
Im sharing with you the my new project Centralboard.app:
The last week i designed and developed CentralBoard, a Customisable dashboard service for your Pi, Smart-Mirror and Browser, and...
Website: https://www.centralboard.app
Producthunt 🐱: https://www.producthunt.com/post...
Short Medium Post: https://medium.com/@hello_48809/...
I put our focus in this service on simple things, like reusability, simplicity and usability.
I already developed some widgets, like an iCloud Photo and Google Photo, or JSON widget.
What do you think about my project?
Any suggestions?
Share
@redbeed Hey, Chris!
This is awesome! I've toyed with an idea like this myself. I've worked at a few different companies as a software engineer and we've always built our dashboards custom. They make good side projects for bored developers at big companies.
Have you thought about your target audience? Is it developers? Product managers? Have you thought about overcoming the rejection of people saying they can just build their own dashboard?
I think your landing page could benefit from being a bit more focused. You have a feature section for each of your big use cases. As I scroll, it makes it kinda confusing to know what it's for. I think you should focus the whole landing page in on one of those use cases - whether it's a personal dashboard, family board, team board, or the mirror displays. Choose whichever is most promising.
A lot of websites follow a model of having a main landing page, then in the footer have "for" links. Like "for bloggers", "for teams", "for journalists". This allows each of those pages to be a landing page focused on each target audience.
Cheers,
CentralBoard
@ryan_wilson6 Hey Ryan, first thanks for your excellent suggestion.
The idea is created because I had an "old" monitor, that is now hanging on my office wall. I basically use it to see the next meetings and calls in my calendar and the weather.
So the widgets, that are currently available are based on this (my own) use case.
You are right, the landing page, at the moment, is a simple "one" pager, where a customer needs to find his own "example" why to use centralboard, but I will split it into different sub landing pages. The goal is to make it easy for the customer and for google to get a picture what the service can do.
Currently, the audience is currently the "basic" customer with only a few simple interests.
I plan, and have already begun, to develop widgets for specific interest groups, e.g. Google Analytics, Simple Analytics, Spotify, Philips Hue or JIRA.
Also, some more basic widgets for everyone like a Note, Checklist and Mail overview widget.
So I think, at the moment, the audience is more the personal user and not product managers or owners. But in the near future I hope to deliver widgets for more groups like I mentioned before.
Thanks, Chris
@redbeed This sounds like a good plan. I recently unmounted my second monitor because it was taking up space and I didn't use it much. This sounds like a great use case for it! I might have to set it back up to try your product out.
I think focusing the landing page on the personal dashboard will help you gain some initial users in that group. Initial personal users might help you break into the enterprise world with customers if they love it enough they want to use it at their company. Other than just enterprise integrations like Analytics and Jira, I could see team access control features being a popular feature to have when the time comes.
I saw in your medium post's intro video, that JSON is a supported widget(?) Have you considered creating an open-source plugin system that would allow a community to build dashboard plugins?
CentralBoard
@ryan_wilson6 Oh yes, you should give centralboard a try. At the moment I didn't write any "how tos" for setting up a Pi with centralboard or anything like that, but if you need help while setting it up or build widgets please reach out to me here or at twitter.
Also, if you want to, please tell me about your experience while building a dashboard and about the performance.
Yes I build a JSON Widget for the more experienced user - you type in the endpoint to the JSON and then you can build your own "widget layout" with mustache. A marketplace for widgets is on my todo-list, but first I wanted to focus on widgets that are built by me.
The plan is, that you can set up the layout, the config variables and a simple data "parser" maybe, so you, e.g. can parse the data that's incoming before displaying it on the custom widget.
@hello_48809 @redbeed
Hey Chris,
This is actually really cool. I'm going to be honest: I wasn't super clear on what the product was exactly until I read some of these comments, and really dug into the site.
To @ryan_wilson6 point, I think you could really benefit from focus. I would choose one direction (i.e. target business teams, families, personal use, etc).
Focusing on one direction will make it much easier to sell (since you have a clear idea of your user), and market (since you can just talk about the features that appeal to that target market).
I think the imagery on the site could use a bit of love too. For instance, instead of showing a family, you may want to show a visual of the product. Right now, it's kind of hard to get a sense for what the product's actually like.
Overall I think it's a really cool idea though! Keep pushing. I could see this turning into something really great.
AI or VA?
G'day from Australia!
I'd started https://www.producthunt.com/post... as a way to keep track of what software companies are launching affiliate programs.
I wanted a place where I could compare the best programs and know when some software program I love started their program. Now you can see what's live and what's the best fit for your business.
Cheers
Rich
Chapp
Hello there Makers,
First of its kind messenger to seamlessly separate your work & personal messages. Control your distractions whether you are at the office or at home. It's time we manage the information overload era and put boundaries for colleagues, friends and families alike.
The messenger revolution
Feedback appreciated, we just launched now on PH
https://www.producthunt.com/post...
Hello there guys!
Since corona-virus outbreak, I lost my consulting projects, and all of a sudden was left with a lot of free time. Fortunately for me I have a good support system, but I realised that many people are not so fortunate. So I decided to offer my expertise 'for-free' to couple of individuals who are impacted financially in the current scenario and have dependents.
Past couple of weeks I worked with 2 individuals who lost their jobs and one startup, helping them restart. In the process I realised I can easily spend 20-25% of my worktime helping others with my expertise. And I love the experience to be honest :-).
Since past couple of weeks I also realised that there can be more people who have time on hand, and can help others. So I decided to put together a simple not-for-profit platform. I intend to continue to evolve it, for ex: Offer for free use already paid subscriptions, softwares and extensions that are not used by me. And I have a few of them!
Here is my not-for-profit - https://vikat.org
I am still refining it, and look forward to your views and feedback. As I mentioned, the intention is not to make it complicated.
And If you'd like to join me, please let me know. More the merrier.
Cheers,
AJ
BlackPepper
Hello!
Would love to get feedback on https://subdex.co.
It's a passion project I've been working on for 3 years. Hoping to release on PH sometime in the next week.
It's a platform dedicated to finding, sharing, rating and discussing the best links on the internet.
Is that idea conveyed on the landing page? Has anyone wanted to find the most essential media in a subject vetted by real people in that domain?
@oznekenzo Hey! Congrats on the project! It's looking really cool. I think that the community will really drive the concept though, so I'd suggest launching ASAP!
As of right now you're kind of competing with Google because the community isn't there yet...
Cool idea overall though!
Story Creator
(3) asking for feedback on a landing page
Would love to learn how my product makes you feel https://storycreatorapp.com/
I am about to launch on Product Hunt soon and I am wondering after experiencing it. Do you feel it's ready?
Also I almost have 10 paying customers. Which groups/communities do you think I could engage with to find my next set of customers?
Best,
Michael Aubry
@michael_joseph_aubry Looks great - clear and very polished. I'm struggling to find anything negative to say, so yes, absolutely looks ready to go. As an audience for your product - I guess small indie brands on Insta. Particularly lifestyle / fashion if you can give them a nice aesthetic that makes them stand out against whatever product everyone else uses.
Hello there,
I am ready to launch a 'Facebook Ads Targeting 101' PDF+Video Ebook & its up for preorder. Would love for any kind of feedback out there. Do check it out.
Pre-order Link: https://gum.co/aZmeh
Regards,
Saajan Jain
Instaz
Hello Hunters!
Hope you are doing well 🙌
I've made stories and photo editor for iPhone that create fully edited photos with just one swipe.
I am just at the beginning of these exiting journey and look forward to receive your feedback at https://www.producthunt.com/post...
Cheers,
Ivan
Hello PH! 👋
I'm working on a product for teams with a UX mindset called Betting Poker. It helps them evaluate the potential of ideas to generate value in relation to their cost.
You can sign up for our beta here:
https://www.producthunt.com/upco...
I would love to get some feedback on the idea from PMs and UX designers who might be interested in using this 🐱🐱
at.market
Hello PH,
when I was making serverless.cam, I decided to go with a fully neumorphic design. However, there weren't many premade assets and I had to style all of the divs, buttons, and text myself. I think I spent half of my time on this fiddling (including coding)!
I'm currently working on a free neumorphic design generator that comes with presets, customization and text support. If you've had a similar experience that would inform my generator design, or have an idea of what I should add, please let me know!
Website Deck
Hi all!
We launched Focus Book here today:
https://www.producthunt.com/post...
Focus Book is a 13 week habit and priority tracking notebook. It's designed to help you get stuff done, especially as many of us face new work-from-home challenges. While many of us use some form of to-do app, having those key items on paper, and on your desk, makes sure they won't be forgotten. The pocket-sized notebook comes in a 2-pack and is printed in the U.S. on 100% recycled paper.
Appreciate you checking it out and any feedback... thanks!
Hey PH community!
We're building financial tools to help landlords and tenants deal with missed rent and security deposits during C19.
Our team is getting ready for a private beta roll-out in July.
If you are a:
- landlord that wants to help tenants pay their rent during C19
or a
- tenant that needs more flexibility to pay rent during the pandemic
sing up to get early access: www.xspaced.com.
P.S. would love to hear if anyone here is having difficulties or wold like to have more flexibility paying rent or rental security deposits.
Thanks!
Dip Social
Covid19worldchat is a place for people all across the world to chat about their experiences and activities in quarantine.
https://www.producthunt.com/post...
https://covid19worldchat.com
Word Dose
Hello there :)
I recently launched NearBeat app to share your music while listening from any platform and meet new people who has same music taste.
I would appreciated, if you guys check it out and give some feedbacks.
https://www.producthunt.com/post...
Cheers,
Aytek.
Be Conteur
Hey there,
I have created a storytelling app for Android named Be Conteur, Please let me know your ideas about this app
Be Conteur
G’day from Sydney, 🇦🇺
I’m launching Chrome extension that saves Google Meet captions to help you stay focused during meetings by reducing the time spent on note taking. We all started to have substantially more video calls and having all conversations saved in the text format provides you with the backup.
https://www.producthunt.com/post...
The goal is to make powerful meeting minutes without typing anything. I'd love to get some feedback around the tool and also ask you if you'd use tags to highlight important parts of the conversation during the meeting.
Stay safe🐱
finuprise
@ksenia_svechnikova Looks pretty handy! As a user, I would definitely appreciate being able to use tags based on the topic, but also add personal notes later on. As concerns, I would be worried about accuracy, and especially about privacy. Hope this is useful!
Hi @gaialiciabalossi, thanks for your feedback. Super helpful!
Since Tactiq saves the transcript provided by Google Meet it has pretty good accuracy, especially for native speakers. Not so good for non-native unfortunately.
Users' privacy is at the core of the decision making, for this reason app don't store the transcription neither in text not in audio format. During the meeting transcript is temporary save in browser tab and when you choose to export it, Tactiq securely send it to Google Docs (or any place that you've chosen).
Hope this help with some of the concerns you may have.😌
Reslash Virtual Party
@ksenia_svechnikova This looks really cool! We do a lot of meetings on Google Meet so I can see it being useful. If there a way to save recording and the .srt file for it and have the video play with captions at a later date?
@ksenia_svechnikova solid, if people can learn to rely on the transcription then its a totally invaluable tool for people that need the notes but want to stay engaged
Thanks for sharing @kalradivyanshu Yes, actually .srt export is under investigation :) Could you share for what types of meeting you need .srt?
Hello Hunters,
I am building an online tool which helps you in saving your time in marketing for social media by - creating social media content for you, in bulk!
http://www.designtack.com
I would love to know your thoughts and it would mean everything if you do get onboard the beta community.
Cheers,
@realdesigntack Sounds very useful, joined your beta. I'd suggest having someone go over your copy though. I see several awkward phrases and misspellings ("customatizations").
TAG : Next-Gen Social Network
@realdesigntack I signed up for the beta version. I am curious how this is different from other social media content scheduling apps out there?
@realdesigntack i can see this as a really helpful tool folks that already know their voice and Just need filler content, i recall buffer trying to do this with headline matching recommendations
@realdesigntack Hey Vaibhav, Cool idea! I think this is one of those products where you really need to show some example content, to prove (or at least start to prove) that your product can deliver on the promise. It's a relatively bold claim, so you'll want to give some quick validation.
Overall the site's good! Maybe not the most beautiful, but certainly one of the clearest sites I've seen... and that's what matters. Bravo!
Cardanti Smart Business Card
Hello PH🐱
Today we launched our smart business card on Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/post...
The second link takes you to a Cardanti profile, the one that appears on the smartphone when using the Card. I'd love you to access it on mobile and save contact, tell me if everything is all right.
Cheers!
Cardanti Smart Business Card
@jack_wright1 Thanks for the feedback! Indeed many people think its a credit card because of the form factor, but we can try to solve that with COPY, clearer but less brandy (for the begining atleast). The data is saved in your profile, just like on facebook, the card only holds a link to the said profile :) Thanks for the kind words
@andrei_popa33 Great work. As soon as the crisis will go away we will definitely use it! saved your project to our must have list. ! :)
@andrei_popa33 looks slick - maybe a .vcf version? what do you think is the major advantage against a stack of cards that never get lost? or LI contact sharing when you always have your phone?
Cardanti Smart Business Card
@george_dy It is a VCF, you can save the contact in your phone. The stack of cards may not be lost by you, but they will surely end up in the drawer of your meeting partner. The LI contact sharing is a bit strange for me, nobody I met uses the proximity feature, so you end up typing your name on a stranger's smartphone, not ideal. Basically its a better business card, you still have a physical product that you pull out of your wallet, its just that you only need one so maybe your wallet will look a lot better :)
@andrei_popa33 Hey! Ok, when I first went to your site, I that this was a business (credit) card. Human error on my end, but maybe something to be cognisant of!
I think this is pretty cool. I think this is one of those ideas that people have been waiting to get right.
Everything seems clear on your site, but you may want to give extra emphasis to where the information is saved. That's not super clear to me.
All in all really cool stuff though. Congrats!
J
Hey everyone! We launched runme.io today! It's a button that you can add to your GitHub repo to easily run you app. What do you think about it? https://www.producthunt.com/post...
FunApéro
Hello Hunters 😻
How/where do you have online AfterWork sessions?
We are launching a new place to have online afterworks and have fun with coworkers and friends. We'd really like to get your feedback on if you'd use this or not in your company and what you think about the product: https://funapero.com
It was built in 4 weeks, so we still are in beta, but it seems to 🚀
If you like it, support us here FunApéro