Show HN: My Side Project Rocks – Share and discover side projects

by scastiel • 4 years ago

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pbronez2• 4 years ago

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...

pbronez2• 4 years ago

Feedback:

Should pull through the Twitter user pictures

shafyy• 4 years ago

Cool, just posted my two side projects =)

daltont• 4 years ago

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.

scubakid2• 4 years ago

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• 4 years ago

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.

al_borland• 4 years ago

My issue with following a site like this would be burn out from new products. I followed TechCrunch years ago and ended up signing up for so many start up sites. I'm sure 80% of them don't even exist anymore. When I look at cleaning up my password manager it just seems so daunting. I eventually had to remove it from my RSS reader so I could wait and see what might actually hit crucial mass before jumping on board.

sideproject2• 4 years ago

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!

kaycebasques• 4 years ago

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

This mentality provided a breakthrough for me and has helped me follow through on a side project that I'm now using daily. I don't care at all whether it makes sense for other people. I know what all the buttons/fields/etc are for and it's serving its purpose for me.

rozenmd• 4 years ago

You could also just ask HN.

onepunchmob6• 4 years ago

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.

metadat3• 4 years ago

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?

onepunchmob6• 4 years ago

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.

sideproject2• 4 years ago

How are you differentiating? https://www.sideprojectors.com :)

onepunchmob6• 4 years ago

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!

masukomi• 4 years ago

a) cool

b) looks actually well done

c) already found something i'd consider

d) Please do whatever you can to keep the "i made an amazon reseller blog site" type off of it. Every "buy my business" web site seems to devolve into hundreds of listings for those.

onepunchmob6• 4 years ago

We actively pursue quality when scouting for projects. There is a fine balance we must maintain in order for our goals to come to fruition. Quantity but not clutter, quality but not scarcity.

We want to promote the fact that projects do indeed have value even if they are not generating mrr, but not to the point that people waste resources (their time and expertise) building half-assed projects. To do that we have to actively avoid becoming a d) type marketplace.

It's awesome that you already found something interesting! We have a few communication channels on our website, so if you have any questions I encourage you to reach out to us. In fact I'd be happy to jump on a call with you if you want to learn more about us!

davidkuennen• 4 years ago

Posted mine as well

rhn_mk12• 4 years ago

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.

scubakid2• 4 years ago

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_mk12• 4 years ago

All I did was try to register.

modzu• 4 years ago

you should post a privacy policy.

grepLeigh• 4 years ago

This is cool =) I submitted PrintNanny.ai, which started as a side-project but has grown into a full-time job for me.

quickthrower2• 4 years ago

I saw that. Neat idea.

empressplay• 4 years ago

Needs tags and a search function

boo-ga-ga• 4 years ago

Have you added your side project to the side project list?:)

mickael-kerjean• 4 years ago

mine is https://mysideproject.rocks/p/62a92acc2ad7a70017ed0dc5 It would have never seen the light of the day without the infamous top comment from the Dropbox launch.

kebsup• 4 years ago

Tried to post, but I don't have Twitter and registration failed with "Something went wrong, please try again later".

tombrm• 4 years ago

Reminds me of an early version of Product Hunt.

bspear• 4 years ago

Same!

abnerhorn• 4 years ago

I was coming to comment the very same thing :)

pkulak• 4 years ago

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".

Rodeoclash• 4 years ago

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

binwiederhier• 4 years ago

I like the idea and started filling out everything for my side project, but then after I clicked submit I was told to sign up to continue.

That is a dark pattern and leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Tell me upfront that I need to create an account. Not in small font, on the first page.

hansword• 4 years ago

Fully agree.

Just one thing like that ruins the enjoyment of the whole project for me. It moves from "oh, cool, someone wants to freely share the stuff hey like" to a suspicious attitude of "what is their real goal here"....

samsquire• 4 years ago

My side project is to generate ideas for how I want computing to be and try implement algorithms that do so. My vision of computing is so far away from how computing works in this era, it's more like Xanadu and The Mother of All Demos. I am a DevOps engineer interested in parallel programming and distributed systems amongst other things, see my GitHub.

I posted my idea pages. I figure they are sources of inspiration for this clique of software engineers and makers.

https://mysideproject.rocks/p/62a947aaed8fdc00174a90f0 https://mysideproject.rocks/p/62a94821ed8fdc00174a90f4 https://mysideproject.rocks/p/62a94899ed8fdc00174a90f8

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas https://github.com/samsquire/ideas2 https://github.com/samsquire/ideas3 https://github.com/samsquire/ideas4 (incomplete)

Ideas4 is more data structure ideas and futuristic computing ideas and automated program synthesis.

rschachte• 4 years ago

Left the second I had to sign up.

jesperlang• 4 years ago

I like the idea but what is a side-project really? Ideally I would not want to see commercial products or MVPs with start up intentions!

Drei01Matt• 4 years ago

Great idea! This could be the next Product Hunt (which has gone to the dogs AFAIC)

davidajackson• 4 years ago

where is your localtime posted at coming from? mine was off. just use frontend localized?

jack335• 4 years ago

Really cool & Simple

I've submitted mine :)

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