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eastburnn

5 karma · joined April 30, 2024

Just a dude making stuff.
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eastburnn··on [dead]
A little over a year ago I made this extremely basic website to tell me how many stock market trading days were left in the current year (since answers I was getting from Google/Gemini were incorrect).

It was mostly just for me and I didn’t think much of it, but after a few months I noticed it was ranking really well and recently it’s been getting ~2,000 visitors per month with zero marketing.

This last weekend I chose to optimize SEO further and add a bunch of features to create more (genuine) value - regardless of how niche the space is.

All this to say: niche, one-page websites are far from dead!

eastburnn··on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
Businesses and peoples’ livelihoods are online nowadays, it’s not just scrolling Twitter for fun.

The internet can’t afford to just “give people mental health breaks.”

eastburnn··on [dead]
This is a super simple idea that has yet to be executed in a meaningful way. Instead of empowering affiliates to go and sell your product, why hasn’t anyone created something that empowers people to gain you newsletter subscribers or Instagram followers?
eastburnn··on Linguists find proof of sweeping language pattern once deemed a 'hoax'
Seeing the maps was interesting. Pretty sure there are like 2 dozen words for weed…
eastburnn··on Side projects I've built since 2009
Very impressive “Sold” list! I’ve created a similar portfolio site for myself, but haven’t added a “Sold” section. Seems obvious, so I think that’ll be in my next update. Link below for reference:

[1] https://www.itschrisray.com/

eastburnn··on [dead]
Simple concept: spend time building a very well curated RSS feed for a high-value niche (sources articles, blog posts, tweets, YouTube videos) and format the content into a visually appealing newsletter. Make money from ads and partnerships effectively productizing your RSS feed.
eastburnn··on Viral post discovery tool for Bluesky
I plan on adding this feature!
eastburnn··on Viral post discovery tool for Bluesky
TrendSpotter helps users find all high-engagement posts for a given keyword that were created in the last 24 hours or less on Bluesky Social.

Use it to: - find posts getting a lot of attention and join those conversations - research news stories, products, websites, etc - understand what kinds of posts are going viral for a given topic/niche

eastburnn··on Made a better search engine than native Bluesky search
TrendSpotter finds all the high engagement posts created in the last day or less.

Bluesky’s native search only shows “Latest” posts (everything getting churned out), and “Top” which is usually a few days stale and not getting a lot of attention anymore.

TrendSpotter is better at finding trends and viral posts.

Free to use and no login required.

eastburnn··on Subreddit Summarizer Chrome Extension
This thing summarizes the top posts in the past 24 hours for any subreddit. It also summarizes the comments section and provides key takeaways. Pretty good for really busy subs if you just want a high-level overview. If you can tell you're interested in a post, you can just click the link in the extension and it'll take you there. Totally free too, just need to add you own OpenAI API key.