bengold14

Hi, thanks!

That's a great question. It is not making anybody rich, but I cover my costs and make a few hundred extra a month. I think on the order of $500+ MRR.

Besides buying credits there is also a pro membership where people choose which demographics rank them (age, location, gender), can have more tests, larger test sizes and always be at the front of the queue for ranking.

Hi! Sorry for the late response, went to bed and forgot about this post. Thanks :)

We check to make certain people aren't ranking formulaically, and if they are we invalidate their votes and ban them automatically. We also check how close people's rankings are to the consensus retroactively and do some fancy anti cheating patterns there as well.

RankPic (https://www.rankpic.info) is an app to help users crowdsource their best photo. I've been building over the past 3 years & it's grown into a lovely community of people who help each other pick their best pictures for dating apps, professional photos etc.

I've seen some pretty fun novel use cases, such as (multiple!) people using it to pick out glasses, wedding invites & so on.

I recently completed a leaderboard function that cross compares photos from different tests using Claude, which was really impressive and scared me for my day job..

Thank you!

RankPic (https://www.rankpic.info) is an app to help users crowdsource their best photo. I've been building over the past 3 years. It's grown into a lovely community of people who help each other pick their best pictures for dating apps, professional photos etc.

I've seen some pretty fun novel use cases, such as (multiple!) people using it to pick out glasses, wedding invites & so on -- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rankpic-photo-ranking/id160299... (ios) -- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.rankpic.ra... (android)

I founded a startup based on this idea. Track purchases with credit cards and sum things up on a monthly basis. Unfortunately couldn't find a grocer to take me up on it mid pandemic, but I want to try it again in a few years if no one has made it work yet.

Thanks for asking! The community is about 15,000 users, maybe 100-300 DAU, tests complete in as little as 10 hours for 20 ranks or up to a couple days if you have a lot of niche filters set for your rankers (age, sex, location).

The best ROI I have found is on Apple and Android app stores. I tried Facebook, Tiktok & others and have found them very expensive with little return (though I admit I'm not marketing expert).

As for Photofeeler.. I actually created this app because I found the way it rated me 1-10 fairly harmful to my mental health. RankPic has users rank your photos best to worst, so it's just against yourself. Additionally you can get more mileage out of each test as you can upload up to 6 photos at a time.

I got all my friends to go on it and spent lots of time ranking people myself.

I also started things off with "fake" tests so that people had other people to rank at the beginning, otherwise folks would just see a dead app and drop off.

It was a really big moment 9 months in when someone's test completed entirely without me ranking. It was a lot of work & I'm really glad to be at a point now where I get to watch people rank each other without me.

I used fiverr to make assets, and then either use fiverr to make a design that I can easily build with one of the website building tools (wix, etc.) or I try to build it myself.

The easiest way is to find a landing page you think looks good and use it as inspiration with your own colors, assets, etc.

Thanks! Emailed :)

Thank you! The ranking queue was a fun thing to implement.

No offense taken, I also have many qualms about the role looks and photos play in our society. The destruction & gamification of social interaction by tech is a genuine harm.

Unfortunately it's what we're dealing with right now, and people need feedback to be able to play the game.

Thanks for asking! I also used photofeeler and found the way it rated me 1-10 fairly harmful to my mental health. RankPic has users rank your photos best to worst, so it's just against yourself.

Additionally it allows users to get more mileage out of each test, when you can do 2-6 photos instead of just one at a time.

Anecdotally I've also heard it is a more fun experience for the rankers.

RankPic (https://www.rankpic.info) is an app to help users crowdsource their best photo.

I've been building over the past 3 years & just recently monetized and crossed the $500/m mark through a Pro subscription. It's grown into a lovely community of people who help each other pick their best pictures for dating apps, professional photos etc.

I've seen some pretty fun novel use cases, such as (multiple!) people using it to pick out glasses, wedding invites & so on

-- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rankpic-photo-ranking/id160299... (ios)

-- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.rankpic.ra... (android)

RankPic - www.rankpic.info (available on Android and iOS, website is.. meh)

App that lets you crowdsource people's opinions on your photos. Unlike other websites out there, it doesn't rate you 1-10 but instead ranks your photos against each other so you don't have to feel bad about yourself :). Very useful for dating apps and other social media, esp. if you don't have easy access to friends' opinions.

I've had lots of friends and users tell me it's super useful, but I'm in a slump on building it right now.

worthy cultural events.. what? You are missing out on like all of NYC

My email account that is associated with it doesn't work as they shutdown my domain, so I can't have missed any feedback, and there isn't anyway I can see to switch it without access to the email.

I don't know what to do, I wish they had someone to talk to. I pay them and can't even reach someone it's crazy, they're losing thousands of dollars a month from me and they can't even give me someone to talk to for 15 minutes and sort this out.

Like.. did you read the article? Gloating about how all of America's labor and corporate leaders came together to save democracy? Such a conspiracy that citizens from opposing camps were so concerned about Trumps unfounded election lies that they opposed them uniformly.

That's a ridiculous re-writing of history. Russia has documented interference in the election [1]. Also, most Democrats protesting not my president and stolen elections do so because Trump was elected while losing the popular vote. Republicans just made up lies and then tried a coup on democracy, that was just barely prevented by republicans with a backbone. It's crazy how close we came to dictatorship, helped enormously by people like you love to be contrarian and say "both sides"

[1] https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/cyber/russian-interference-in-201...

great point. So inconvenience is the exact same as execution.

As someone who doesn't own a gun, but could be shot if I accidentally bump into someone in Florida and they decide to "stand their ground." Same.

React Native + Expo.

Expo has been making unbelievably rapid progress with tooling, documentation, consistent, high quality API's and general improvements. Evan Bacon + team are really impressive to watch

They start their career at age 24 and, because they have a Master's degree, they skip over the long years in the trenches working as a computer programmer. Instead, their first job is often as CTO of some medium sized company.

If this is actually in your book I would remove it. This totally destroys your credibility because:

A. You're talking about a 7 person startup, not a "medium sized company" B. You're talking about the worst managed medium sized company I've ever heard of, where they would put a 24 y.o. masters student with no real world experience in charge of anyone. C. It's not a true anecdote

Any of the above options lead me as a reader to think that either you don't have experience in the industry, have experience with poorly managed companies or are making up scenarios to fit your narrative

I disagree. For me Typescript is incredibly useful at any size. I find myself missing it while solving leet code problems.

And it takes 5 minutes to set up.

I can't tell if this is a joke or we've actually done a full circle

Nor is it confined to the Left: neo-Nazi groups offer some of the clearest examples of purity spirals

Seems like your own linked article says it's not just a leftist thing?

I used to manage solar installations, couple of things:

1. Electrically, solar does feed your house first. It interconnects before the meter and into your main electric panel. The reason it doesn't work during an outage is because of regulations requiring solar to turn off during power outages so that electricians fixing downed lines don't have surprise power from random houses after they turn off the grid power.

2. If you want solar to work during an electric outage you need to install a battery backup that can feed it AC power and disconnect it from the grid during a grid failure. However, you need a pretty big battery to power a full house for a long time so it's generally cheaper and easier to have a gas generator backup if you are worried about this. Batteries are really just good for energy arbitrage purposes these days.

3. There are inverters that have an outlet that works during grid outages, even without batteries (https://www.sma-sunny.com/us/how-to-explain-secure-power-sup...). They generally cost the same