HACKER Q&A
📣 wantfeedback

Who wants project feedback? (July 2021)


This is a monthly thread to give and get feedback on HNers side projects.

Post a comment with instructions on how we can try your project. When someone responds with feedback, return the favor by finding their top level comment and trying out their project.

If you want to just give feedback thats also great.


  👤 XCSme Accepted Answer ✓
I am working on a self-hosted analytics platform with more advanced features (heatmaps, session recordings, user segments, A/B tests, etc.):

https://www.usertrack.net

EDIT: My hosting provider is having some issues now so you might not be able to try the demo, you can check out the status here: https://status.usertrack.net/


👤 makeee
My project is https://divjoy.com, a React codebase generator that gives you a complete web app with UI, auth, database, subscription payments, and many other small details that are annoying to build yourself.

You can customize your tech stack and play around with the built-in "low code" editor by clicking a template on the homepage (no login needed).

Feedback much appreciated!


👤 asdev
I am working on an app to solve the issue of making friends and meeting like-minded people.

https://www.trypoppin.com

If anyone is interested in co-founding and located in NYC, let me know. Ideally with front-end or mobile experience and design oriented.


👤 giantg2
Really conflicted if I should even post this, but I think my curiousity of what the feedback would be has gotten the better of me.

I know the interface could probably be more flashy and maybe some tweaks to make it more intuitive. I also plan to add better metric/English options, translations, and better output on the party half (how many bottles, cases, etc) as well as another input on what balance of drink type is preferred by attendees, like a spider chart (or whatever those web shaped charts are) of beer v wine v liquor.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blogspot.t...


👤 escot
My project is a fast flowchart editor with a UX optimized for keyboard shortcuts.

Go to https://www.knotend.com and try making a flowchart or pick from one of the examples and try to edit it. In particular I'm looking for feedback on if this mode of interaction is intuitive to you and a productive way to make flowcharts.

I also manage this account 'wantfeedback' which made this post. It was inspired by a previous Ask HN I did to get feedback on knotend: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27707521 . Please let me know what you think of this project exchange format.


👤 alek_m
I'm building a log management platform priced lower than hosting your own open source stack. In our books it saves up to 80% in log spend.

Website: https://www.wrble.com/

The product:

I’ve build a log management platform out of frustration at the lack of competitive pricing and stagnant feature sets of existing logs management companies.

Target Customer:

Developers, System administrators, Devops, CTO’s , or who ever needs a log management platform.

Wrble at the moment is being used by a number of early adopters and teams in our community. We have also been using Wrble internally for the past few months as well.

I would love to hear your comments, feedbacks and thoughts.


👤 theflyinghorse
We are building a marketplace for home cleaners. I am solo developer on the project and I would like some feedback. Are there issues with design, is it easy to use?

https://app.homespritz.ca

Currently we are only in Alberta Canada, so if you want to search an address here's a random address from Calgary: 2205 33 Ave SW Calgary, AB T2T 1Z9


👤 psikomanjak
Currently working as part of https://treblle.com, a tool that makes it super easy to understand what’s going on with your APIs and the apps that use them.

It has features like real time monitoring, error tracking, auto generated documentation and more.

Would love your feedback!


👤 bsldld
Mine is just on the paper, but a feedback is most welcome: https://loan-free-ed.neocities.org

Looking for co-developers for the project. It will be non-profit and open source.


👤 codingdave
Is this thread official in any way, or is it one user launching their own thing?

👤 poletopole
This really isn't a traditional product "idea"; to be frank, it's somewhat personal, but I did my best to generalize. I've found that trying to validate ideas is abysmal, only you can answer the hard questions, the ones that make or break an idea. I find it useful just to get to the heart of the problem through platonic like discussion, the trouble is that isn't always convenient. More times than not, that leads to a truly good idea that had nothing to do with the original one. So here's the biggest problem I see this industry has, and it's "one" going ignored.

I have tons of ideas these days. Perhaps, that's the problem because the more I think about it, the less I feel like my heart still has it in me to do another project. There's a dark shadow growing over this industry, "one" no one sees because we've become dark in heart along with it, and its really a spiritual war at this point.

Day after day I read stories, mine included, programmers burned out, suicidal, and broken who want out--whom have no intention on returning. This sickness can't be resolved entirely just by learning to take your profession and work impersonally, or job hopping to another one, and just doing what most others do, which is do your time, clock in and clock out, and go home and escape from reality by driving drunk into the solace of the mass distraction machines like netflix. That sounds more like an internment camp with extra steps.

This is a moral dilemma the world over is suffering, sitting in a sort of loud silence. "One" that fully developed nations are now just starting to confront, as our economy reaches its latest stage. Can software really solve this problem or is it just part of the problem? Where has political reformation gotten us? We as humans, not "one" nation, are divided more than ever.

Part of me feels like the solution, if one exists, will certainly involve software, god knows I've tried, for years now, to think of how that would play out. I feel like the answer always results in what I call the "shadow" economy, the one that will rise from the ashes of the reputation economy, one that can end well or poorly for the future.

It's not just crypto currencies as one would be lead to think, it's just one measure that will be necessary. Frankly, it should only take a radically small fraction of the time to develop and ship software than it does now, but only because so much in this world is broken by design, not just software.

This is truly the greatest existential risk I see other than ML and the two are intimately connected, but the solution lies more in a new protocol, one, if you read about it, would sound more like science fiction than reality, and may require rethinking what language can be. But like all good protocols, it will need to be an intentionally "dumb" one. "One" is a misnomer because it would really be billions of small ones, but harkens back to the words of Alan Kay at the dawn of the web and before him perhaps Claude Shannon. But again, I would really rather discuss the problem than the solution.

Maybe this is a man's world after all, I would really love to hear what a woman has to say for once, they are the true "fixers", not just "makers".