Side Project

In 2020, we sold our first SaaS product. During its growth phase, we collaborated with an agency to create an animated marketing video for our landing page. We were pleased with the outcome, but it sparked an idea: could this process be automated for small businesses and startups? Now, we're excited to introduce our new product - Pixigon.

In brief, Pixigon is designed to swiftly assist small business owners and SaaS startups in creating animated marketing videos for their landing pages, digital ads (like Google Ads), or social media. You can generate a first draft simply by entering your website URL or providing Pixigon with a brief description of your product or service.

We'd love to hear your feedback. As a token of our appreciation, if you create a video and decide to use it, it will be yours for free. Looking forward to your thoughts!

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Reply with

- The name of your SaaS

- What you do in one sentence

- Your SaaS URL

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And I'll provide you with an interactive product demo that you can distribute through a link or embed into your landing page, product blog, support documents, and more.

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I hope this interactive demo helps increase awareness and speeds up the growth of your startup!

It all started when my wife sent me this photo in January of 2022

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She asked if i can turn this into an app for her. I said yeah sure thing babe! I'll be done in a week. 😅

Well... 10 months later, and i kept procrastinating until December of 2022 when i eventually started design and development of the app.

It was my first build in public product. You can follow the journey on X . When i started i didn't expect anything really it was a FREE app. But People following my journey loved the app and the idea behind it. So i kept posting and updating my audience.

A couple months after i launched, people started asking for premium features like cross platform support, sync / backup, rich text formatting, image attachment etc.

I quickly added those and added a paywall as well. I had to go down this path, since these features would require a server for them to work.

Fast forward 11 months later someone made this post about the app on X and it went viral. Generating 400k+ views, 400+ quotes in one day.

24hrs after the app went viral:

23 Purchases

$222 Revenue

1,061 Installs

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This blew my mind. I didn't imagine the app to go viral or generate this much revenue in a single day.

I guess what they say is true. Just build something useful and people would come.

!The app is called Obim - Which means my heart in my native language.!<

!Available for download on iOS and Android!<

This extension allows devs to get the explanation of a piece of code on sites like Github, Codesandbox, Stackoverflow, etc. It can basically work on any site.

The extension is fully complete by itself and lives on the Chrome web store with very few users. It lacks some marketing from my side.

It supports streaming, code highlighting, markdown rendering, etc.

If you have the energy and knowledge about how to market it to the dev crowd, (which I clearly lack) there is a potential.

Asking price: $5000

If you are interested, please let me know. Thanks.

Launched my mvp of web monitoring tool - sitestability

The tool monitors webpage and alerts the user if it detects if the site is down. Besides the usual http status codes it also runs a hourly check against major visual changes and alerts users if it is detected (greater than 50% but that value may change)

Last week one of our wordpress sites was hacked and random code was inserted and main page was changed to say under maintanence but still up and running. We had no idea how long it had been down and neither did the marketing agency in charge of it. So I created http://sitestability.com

Would love feedback - I’m looking to add more features and appreciate to find out what you would look for in such tool.

SMS and other integrations are coming soon. My tool has no limits on number of emails or users to receive alerts nor will it for sms.

The idea of my tool is to set it and forget it. It’s not meant to be logged into constantly to view stats. Instead it’s meant for you to go about your day and know that the tool will alert and notify you of issues detected.

Try it out 14 day free trial no credit card required. I would love to hear what features or extras you would want in such tool and if it would be beneficial to you.

Meet my new SP, Heystak. Source ad inspiration, save ads from Facebook, Instagram & TikTok, craft storyboards, team up for collaboration, and supercharge your advertising game.

Let me know what you think.

Hello everyone!

I have been working on quizzynow.com since 2021. I began working on it as a senior in high school, and now with the near dawn of 2024 on our horizon, I'm looking for ways to market it towards the hands of young people.

Quizzy is a flashcard creation app that combines cooperative education with the best studying techniques, and gives detailed analytics on your studying.

I've been coding for most of my life, but with marketing, I'm not very good.

I've tried instagram helpful studying posts, tiktoks on helpful studying, and even showcasing the app itself. It seems that they just like the post and scroll onward, instead of giving it a try.

Currently, I'm making blog posts on it and learning about SEO to give it a shot.

If you can try it out and reply with things you like about the site and maybe some areas of improvement, and how it can be marketed, that would be great. I really appreciate your help.

Would you use the site yourself? Does it have a good appeal to it? Does it work?

If you can help, that would be great. Thanks so much.

Hey Reddit fam! 🌟 I'm thrilled to share my journey with ShipThat.App, the rollercoaster ride it's been, and yes, there's a happy dance involved at the end!

🚀 The Journey Begins It all started on September 14th when I stumbled upon Shipfa.st. Fast forward to September 23rd, and boom – inspiration struck! I had this brilliant idea to help iOS developers ship their apps faster. I even managed to snag a cool domain: shipthat.app!

🔧 The Building Phase By October 1st, I was ready to give the world a glimpse of my project with a landing page. I even gathered a waitlist of 24 interested iOS developers! Coding officially started a week later – my git log can vouch for that 😅. I had this straightforward plan in my Apple notes, all set to bring my ideas to life.

⏱️ Racing Against Time My goal was to hit Product Hunt by October 24th. I had three intense weeks to build and launch. However, life had other plans – a hiccup with Product Hunt over app ownership and email domain issues 🤪. So, I rescheduled the launch to October 30th.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Life’s Balancing Act Balancing this project with my 9 to 5 job, family time (storytelling sessions with my 5-year-old daughter are precious!), and late-night coding sessions was no joke. I remember finalizing things on a train from Venice to Rome during our family holiday in Italy. That moment deserved a snapshot! 📸

🎉 Launch Day I stepped up my marketing for the October 30th launch. I checked everything off my launch list, engaged with about 70 followers, emailed my waitlist, and focused on visuals. Launch day was buzzing with positive feedback on Product Hunt – though, oops, I forgot to share it on ProductHunters' Reddit. 🤦

🍰 The Sweet Success But here’s the best part: after returning from Italy, on a Friday evening, I got my first sale notification! 🥳 That moment was pure joy – I was literally dancing around my living room! 🕺 Plus, I got tons of valuable feedback which led to some quick bug fixes.

🛍️ Black Friday Surprise And guess what? During Black Friday, I made another 5 sales! I was over the moon! 🌙 Each sale felt like a validation of all the hard work and late nights.

🔜 What’s Next? Now, my focus is all about marketing this time-saving tool to fellow developers. It's not just a product; it's a solution that saves over 50 hours of development time.

Thanks for reading my story! I'm eager to hear any thoughts or suggestions from this amazing community! 🙏

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Hi everyone,

I always enjoy a good blog post but I only keep up to date with a couple blogs and it takes time or luck to stumble across a new blog that I'd subscribe to in an RSS reader. So I built https://lxi.ai to ingest thousands of blogs and recommend me new articles based on ones I've interacted with before (kinda like youtube's algorithm).

Features include:

• Personal recommendations
• Bookmark articles
• Follow blogs
• Search across tens of thousands of articles

These initial blogs were found by scraping a couple hacker news threads so the content is mostly geared towards the tech industry so if there are any blogs you'd like to have included just let me know in the comments!

Check it out: https://lxi.ai

How do you get ideas, evaluate them, and decide how much to commit to this, re-evaluate it through the process, iterate, improve and eventually monetize it? Would love to hear stories from the community as I want to find a side project to work on. I have a full time job so my weekly commitment would be 8 hours at most.

Yea that’s really all it does. It’s called pfpresizer.com

Would love any feedback.

Hello All,

I have an idea that I’d like to turn into an app for iOS and Android. However, I lack coding experience. What is the safest approach to connect with a developer on freelancing websites without risking the theft of my idea?

My side project had changed so much that I needed a new demo video for the homepage.

It took me 2 days to make this new 2-minute video in ScreenFlow, from script to upload. I hired a professional speaker on Fiverr to speak the voice over.

I’d love to get some feedback from you, let me know what you think about it.

I'm a backender and my main headache is design and front end. I've always focused on what the program "does" rather than how it "looks". But with experience I've realized that this is so-so and if I want (and I do) to show my designs to someone other than my cat, I'd better make the app look pretty.

Do you have similar problems? If you have, share how you solved them =)

Hi Fellow Users,

After working for 4 Months, I launched my SaaS Send2M on Product Hunt today.

Send2M is a Contact Form Builder that makes it easier to build and setup Contact Forms on your Website.

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/send2m-2

Hello to everyone!

We have been working for months trying to build this website: www.sutatoclothing.com. We are offering a large catalogue of gaming inspired clothing & accessories! We would really love to hear your opinions!

Thanks for your time!

Our three-month-old AI-based Design tool - VisualizeAI was acquired for $30K in July this year.

VisualizeAI is a tool that helps Architects and interior Designers visualize their sketches, prototypes, and designs better and faster with AI.

⚡️Here's the Story 👇🏻

I have been tinkering around with Generative AI ever since I got my hands on text-to-image models last year. In an attempt to understand the space better and become a better early-stage investor, I started building projects to get some skin in the game.

Earlier this year, I came across something called ControlNet and was amazed by what it could do.

My co-founder I have been building products for quite some time now. My co-founder, being an Architect, instantly saw potential use cases of Controlnet in the field of Architecture and Interior Design. We dug deeper into the workflows of these domains and found a great use case that could help speed up the ideation process. We ended up with the idea of VisualizeAI.

We built out the first version in 5 days and got our first paying customer in the next couple of days.

This gave us early validation and we immediately jumped onto growth. We remained committed to enhancing the app based on user feedback while concurrently updating our AI models as needed.

In three months, We got 🔥
✅ 22k+ Visitors
✅ 7K+ Users
✅ $1500 in Revenue & $500 in MRR
All without spending a single $ on marketing

In June '22, we were approached by an upcoming Canada-based estate tech Startup that was interested in a potential collaboration or an acquisition.

Through our discussions, we realized that they were placed to take the project to the next level given that we had a lot more products to focus on.

We deliberated and agreed on the sale. It took us 3 weeks for us to complete the transfer.

This marks my second generative AI product sale. Sweet Small Wins ✨

For now, I am focusing on growing www.Audionotes.app and www.Podnotes.app, We have done ~40K in the last three months, but this is just the start 🚀

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It is so annoying. It is like everyone is after easy money by just creating OpenAI wrappers. I was just going through PH and it feels like you cannot release an app if it does not include AI in its name. So frustrating.

What are your thoughts on that?

I built the simplest tool to download contacts from Linkedin Sales Navigator, clean the data and find the verified B2B email and phone number.

As it works well (around 95% accuracy, 85% accuracy on catch-up emails), I had the idea of launching this tool as a side project.

First, I decided to open up my tool to a few friends/private beta users (agency owner, account executive, BDR, etc.) We got the green light!

Secondly (current phase), I want to test the market to see if there's any interest. So I'm launching pre-sales. This is your chance to get the best price on the market (lifetime deal).

Demo available on voilalead.com

Are you intrigued or sceptical? Leave a comment below.

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As a founder building a new project, the first thing on your to-do list (after releasing an MVP) should be finding funding.

And the best way to do this is to describe the business plan as thoroughly as possible. The more statistics you publish, the more exposure you will receive and the higher the chances you will attract seed funding.

Or at least that's the theory.

In fact, writing a business plan can be a real pain. You should track all your metrics, keep an eye on your competitors, and constantly update your traction to see if your product is actually interesting to investors.

That's where I found myself when we launched bablo.biz!

This pain provided the perfect opportunity to test our own product and see how useful it would be to help its founder get an investor interested.

To provide more context, with bablo.biz you can make a business plan based on any idea.

Here is a list of the key things I wanted in the business plan:

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• - Market statistics
• - List of my competitors
• - Technology stack
• - Launch time and return on investment
• - Numbers from a piece of pie :)

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The most interesting thing was that I could easily personalize the business plan based on public data about each of the investors.

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That’s how I found my first business angel, who simply sent me the first $5,000 and good luck. Yes, this is very modest, but this money is enough for me to pay for hosting and OpenAI API for the next year.

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This tool really helped raise the first finances... So maybe it will help your project too!

I have a SaaS idea, but its from another developer. I mean, he is charging $199; I can do it and even sell it for $10. But feels odd to just copy his idea.

He made around $10K+. Its a SaaS starter template. All the features are just basic features, he just made a wrapper around everything.

PS: The code and everything, I can do it on my own.