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Hovercode | Infrastructure Engineer | Contract, part-time or full-time | Remote (EU preferred)

Hovercode is a QR code generator and analytics platform. We're a small, profitable company that's based in the UK and is trusted by hundreds of thousands worldwide. It's a pretty simple business compared to most on here!

We're seeking an infrastructure engineer to architect a setup that can handle the next level of scale reliably

More details here and how to apply here (very simple application!): https://hovercode.com/careers/infrastructure-engineer/

Hovercode | https://hovercode.com | REMOTE | Full-time or part-time | Full-stack developer

Hovercode is a QR code generator and analytics platform. We're a small, profitable company that's based in the UK and is trusted by tens of thousands worldwide. It's a pretty simple business compared to most on here and right now it's just me running it.

We're seeking a full-stack developer (mid level) who's language agnostic. Your primary focus will be improving our existing integrations and creating new ones. Integrations on our roadmap: Chrome, Figma, Airtable, Zapier, Make, and possibly more. If that works out, you will start to work on the core product, which is built with Django, Postgres and some Golang on the backend with mostly HTML, Alpine.js, HTMX, and vanilla JS on the front-end (and Tailwind).

Hovercode isn't a startup per se, but a small software business, so it's a calm working environment and part-time is an option. This makes it well suited to someone who wants more time and energy for life or to hack on their own projects etc.

More details and a short application form here: https://hovercode.com/careers/full-stack-dev/

Thank you

Bookmarked your marketplace btw, love the idea

Pretty surreal to see a clone of my product for sale on here

My product: https://feedbacklane.com

The clone: https://zeroacquire.com/simple-form/

I’m all for getting inspired by ideas, but such close copies feels wrong

I work alone so don't get the chance to pair program, but I hear a lot of good things about tuple.app

I wonder if their “tuna” could be vegan in that case

One of the hosts of this podcast (https://softwaresocial.dev/) is building a file upload widget and is getting most of their early trials from the Heroku marketplace. Worth a listen and maybe even reaching out to compare experiences

This site is where the term came from: https://www.indiehackers.com/

People define it differently, but generally I think of indie hackers as people, usually technical, who are building or are aiming to build smaller tech businesses. They generally either bootstrap or raise small amounts of money. A lot of indie hackers are would be happy with a business that makes 5-10k USD per month per founder

I don’t think I see what you mean here. Where am I selling a list of business models?

There could be categories of things people want without many solutions in some marketplaces. For example, in the Hubspot marketplace, there are many WhatsApp widgets in their marketplace. Someone made one for the Pipedrive marketplace and it’s doing very well. There would be similar missing apps for Pipedrive, or there would be other platforms where a WhatsApp widget could do well.

Yep - I've looked into automating or hiring this out, but spending Monday every week updating/adding a product has been the simplest solution so far

Awesome, thanks - let me know if you have any questions or feedback

https://pageflows.com has been paying my bills for a couple of years now

To give you an idea of revenue, it’s about as much as I’d be getting paid as a junior-mid developer in London and requires a day or two of work a week unless I’m adding a new feature, redesigning etc.

https://screenjar.com is also making a small amount of revenue, but nothing meaningful yet.

I copied it from a previous site that had some weird scrolling requirements, so the top HTML element had width: 100%; height: 100%; overflow-y: hidden; on it, while the body element had overflow-x: hidden; width: 100%; height: 100%; on it. Getting rid of that fixed the issues (unsurprisingly!).

I can't imagine many other sites made this mistake!

It was a stupid mistake I made in the CSS after lazily copying it over from another site I made which was doing some weirder stuff with horizontal scrolling

This should be fixed now

Thanks for letting me know, I’ll look into this asap

You could possibly get a job at a company that does something like this or aims to?

The "login link" makes sense, it would just require more upfront work/dev time from clients. I honestly don't know much about what people would be willing to put up with as Screenjar is super early-stage. I'm just excited that this exists as it's another option to explore when coming across these types of use cases.

Not sure if I'm going to build this yet, but I was looking into building a tool that let product designers/managers easily ask customers/user testers to record themselves trying to complete various tasks on a website.

e.g. "go to amazon.com and add an item to your wishlist"

I wanted to see if it was possible to make it so the tester didn't have to install/download anything. It is possible in modern browsers with WebRTC, but it's kinda clunky and doesn't work on mobile/Safari. A "cloud browser" was a solution I looked into a bit, but it seemed too complex for me to try implement on my own, which is why I'm excited to see this exist. Again, I'm not sure I'll end up working on this, so my feedback probably isn't useful, but I'm happy to give it anyway.

Another possible use case is recording for customer support (I run screenjar.com which uses WebRTC for this), but the main issue for this use case is customers would have to log in on the cloud browser which isn't ideal in terms of usability as well as security.

This is so awesome! I’ve been looking for something like this for a “user testing” use case

Nice work - just purchased. I’ve built a couple of simple extensions before and it always takes me an hour or so to remember how it all works. Hopefully this speeds that process up a bit. Good luck!

This is a good example of a productized service that produces case studies: https://casestudybuddy.com/

I'm not affiliated & have never worked with them, but have heard good things and the site seems convincing.

I made this tiny tool that lets you request screen recordings from users or teammates with them having to install an extension or download anything.

It's very much an MVP, but I think it can be useful for requesting design feedback or asking people for a bit more context around bugs. It works in Chrome & Firefox

I was just curious to know your number - it's an interesting data point. I have experimented with pricing, but not enough, so it's something I have to do at some point.

Thanks! I started a related newsletter a few years ago that has good reach (https://uimovement.com) and that drives some traffic. SEO is also a decent source, plus some content marketing and word of mouth.

I've recently started experimenting with ways to grow the traffic above the base level, but it's slow going tbh.

Most customers are indeed businesses. Great shout on some sort of team/business plan - it's on my to-do list!

What would your guess have been?

Yeah I certainly think there's room for something similar for the gaming world, especially as some gaming categories are so competitive.

Bonjoro is such an awesome idea! I was aware of it, but never thought to actually try it out myself. I'll look into it!