HACKER Q&A
📣 mgl

Solo developer building a product? Show us your work and get feedback


Are you an indie hacker building a product?

Show your work, and we’ll share our initial feedback!

Please, let’s make it a positive, constructive thread.


  👤 pull_my_finger Accepted Answer ✓
I _hate_ that I'm so pessimistic and suspicious, and I know how important early feedback and quality technical feedback can be - BUT - I could never feel comfortable sharing a budding product in a forum full of serial founders, hungry entrepreneurs and developers that are likely in the same or overlapping spaces. The only exception would be if it was a dev tool or painkiller app where the readers here were likely the intended market.

Kudos to the people that do though - these kinds of threads are very interesting to read.


👤 aliezsid
Not exactly a "product" but yes, recently added an uptime notifier service in the sea of 1000s of these services.

https://ping.tinytown.studio/

Trying to keep it simple and tiny for now, would like to know what others think


👤 rupestrecampos
Brazil´s Farms, Rural Environmental Register data map.

+300Gb data updated monthly, for $7 besides what was already at home (internet, hardware).

ETL + Database + API in a raspberry pi 4. Frontend at Stremlit.io

https://car-viewer.streamlit.app


👤 ceritium
Hi, I have been building https://babelfu.com, a translation service on top of Github; it fetches the translations from your GitHub repo and commits them back, so the source of truth of the translations is the repo itself. You can forget about sync tasks, collisions between branches, etc. In the end, if there are conflicts, you manage them on Git as the rest of your code.

It is available in a very early open-source version, which I will update at some moment if I see someone interested in it.

I would be very grateful if someone gave it a try to setup a project and provided some feedback.


👤 SeanAnderson
It's not especially technical, but here's what I'm working on currently: https://www.howbazaar.gg/

It's a companion website for an upcoming game called The Bazaar, https://playthebazaar.com/

I'm hoping to become the wowhead for this game. Players use my website to theorycraft about the game both as they're playing and when they're idly musing.

It took me about three weeks to build what you see linked above and I get ~12k tracked pageviews per day, trending slightly upward right now. A lot of the effort was being the first mover and marketing aggressively to Reddit/Discord/Twitch until it spread readily by word of mouth. It's not a very defensible moat aside from being a household name, at least at the moment.

Crossing my fingers the traffic triples when the game exits beta, but who knows. I need to start running AdSense on it to recoup the Vercel costs, clean up the mobile UI, and implement some features that lesser known competitors have that I've been too lazy to follow up on.

It's certainly the project I've been least passionate about and yet have had the most success with relative to amount of effort committed. Funny how that works.


👤 ddgflorida
For fun, I made a Javascript library that implements most of the Date and String functions found in various SQL dialects. We have the home page https://www.ddginc-usa.com//dbFunctions.htm and a Playground for play and Documentation. I posted this on Show HN about a week ago and received minimal response.

👤 mtmail
Solo developers, indie hackers: Submit your work to https://news.ycombinator.com/show where other users can give feedback. (mgl: many already submitted projects await feedback)

👤 jakobbuis
I'm building Provisor: situational awareness for event organizers. See your team on the map; and position & collaborate in real-time. Like ATAK, but much simpler to use.

https://www.provisor.app


👤 fregonics
I'm building a internal tools engine partially inspired by Interval (RIP).

It will be completely open source from the start and support many languages other than JS.

It is in the very early stage of development, but it would be nice to know if anyone other than me is interested, and if you have any tips on what bothered you in other similar tools or things you would want on it.

https://github.com/luizgfranca/platformlab


👤 AznHisoka
I built a simple daily email that emails you the latest remote jobs for specific positions such as backend, front, devops, mobile and security engineers: https://bloomberry.com/remote-jobs/

At first, I wanted to build a full-fledged search engine but that endeavor was too ambitious, so for now it's just a simple daily email sent to your inbox every morning :)


👤 drellybochelly
Just built Convoseek, a tool that allows users aggregate their chat messages across multiple platforms and search them using semantic search/AI.

https://convoseek.com/


👤 ciaovietnam
It seems really hard to get feedback by using ShowHN, I tried a few times but didnt get any. Anyway, I build a cool platform that combines Shopify/Wordpress and Airtable features into one, it is at https://sitegui.com. I'd appreciate some feedbacks as we are new.

👤 haidrali
InvitePlus automate employee onboarding and offboarding with just one click

https://getinviteplus.com


👤 anacrolix