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not sure it's okay to have microsoft azure as your logo in the navbar? you're not from the microsoft, right? it may be misleading, better use own identity :/

Hi, Peter, founder of the app here!

As a Technical Founder, I lacked the design skills to create beautiful Startup Visuals like logo, banner, and social media graphics for new projects, so I made a tool to automate it!

The idea? Get a Logo, Favicon, Banner, OG Image, and Social Media Graphics customized to your project, in minutes.

Features I built for the MVP I launched today:

1/ Startup Visuals Pack Generator

Get all the graphics in minutes, customized to your business style.

- Logo - Favicon - Banner / OG image for social media - Social Media Graphics

2/ Beautiful Screenshots Editor

Create outstanding Screenshots with all the paddings, rounded corners, backgrounds, etc.

- 1000+ icons - 200+ backgrounds - Easy to customize - Reusable Templates and Presets

No design skills required.

Stop wasting time on next Startup Visuals and focus your mind on actually building the business

Let me know your thoughts, whether it may be useful for your next Side Project?

Hi, Peter here As a non-native English, I lacked the vocabulary to express myself fluently like many of you here. I was using only basic, common words I learned in school I tried learning new words, but. failed.

So I built LanguageBeast: a platform to Learn English vocabulary that matters to enrich your vocabulary through synonyms, antonyms, and examples for common English words.

I'd love to hear your feedback on whether it may help improve your English vocabulary.

Estimates != 100% project time spent.

I'd say the main issue is misunderstanding of concept we are planning between business and tech people. Those groups think so differentely. We use Planning Poker tool - https://scrumhub.it/ for each user story, but still there area projects unestimated with strongly extended timeline compared to initial estimates. But on the other hands mostly it happens when business add new features, change requirements and the wheel comes full circle, we do retro and it is what it is :)

We could simplify the article to a sentence: be good and clear in communication.

That's for sure valuable skill which gives you advantage over other engineers, or to say people in general :)

You can start with notes of problems you meet daily or ideas you come up with. If you want to pursue someone else ideas, most likely you won't have the determination to build things for years, fail and learn from these mistakes.

It takes time, tears and sweat and a lot of failures to actually build something successful, it won't be a one night sucess from idea taken from someone.

It's painful, but a worth failure lesson. I started building my own side-projects. First took months to build while learning new technologies. Previous one took a year to actually code all these fancy features. Added payments, billing pages, etc. Then noone bought the subscription :)

Anyway I learned so much along the way and they say you have to spend thousands of hours to actually become successful in one area. Now I've built a project on 2/3 weeks. I give it a few weeks, then move to a new idea to find a gold mine and start the monetization.

@annie_muss I'm curious, are those ideas something you'd like to share publicly with people? I had an idea to build a service, where users could post their "side-project idea", as they don't want / don't have time etc to build them and are okay with others using these ideas to build something meaningful. I feel it could become a place for active startup builders to connect, a place for creativity.

Great feedback, thanks! I'll consider those things, but first I'll need to rethink whether the idea of developing more features just to do more research is good or better if I switch to a new idea instead, to save some time.

Congrats on the idea and execution. I was thinking about launching similar product, but I thought it'd be too costly to parse all these articles. I was thinking more of first summarizing these articles (avg article has like 1000 words) and then implementing a recommendation module. Without a successful paid plan,I think I'd fail hardly with cost :(

I'm a bit younger, working as a Software Engineer for a startup. I'm building my own projects to move towards them in the future as a real startup when it starts making money.

I don't have a mentor. I was thinking about it, but for me being active on websites connected with my lifestyle and following their valuable people in my topics: startups, technology, and building a successful business became a great way to improve every day.

For me these sites are Twitter, IndieHackers, HackerNews, ProductHunt, BetaList. I find there is so much precious content, better than reading some old blog posts or forums.

I can live day by day, following their ups and downs. I can actively comment on their work and ask questions. That's a hidden mentoring for me.

The part about 'niching down' is really important in the side-projects world, and a lot of people are missing that. They try to build all-in-one heavy projects, hoping to provide more values than existing products.

I higly agree with simplicity and decluterring projects to provide a real, but simple value.

PHP is a great option to start with, but after a few years of working with the PHP, I'm slowly switching to a JS stack: NodeJS, NestJS, TypeScript, GraphQL. It gives me much more fun than coding in a php, even with organized framework like Symfony.

I can start the discussion:

What payment gateway are you using? I've started implementing the Paddle, due to being a merchant of records - I'm free of taxes, Paddle takes care of that. That's very important for me, as I'm going global with my product.

Do you include taxes (VAT) on the pricing page? (tax exclusive vs tax inclusive) I plan to include taxes in the pricing users see on the Pricing page, so as not to be misleading at the end of the payment process.

Do your users choose monthly payments over annual plans? I'm in the MVP process, so I have no data yet :)

Yeah, hosting static sites looks easy this time... But I have larger projects with backend, databases etc., so I'm looking for a wider hosting solution :)

Yeah, Heroku is not a good way now :] About the GCP free tier I have to read more, but it looks like I'd still mostly manage the infrastructure myself with that.

It's an MVP so I decided to launch it as a free version. In the long future I may add paid plans if it goes well, but there will be a free version for sure. And email is needed to create an account to save your content so it's only available for you, it won't be sold or things like that.

Hello everyone, here is my first app launch and Show HN. I'd love to hear your feedback! It's a productivity-minded workspace (Notion-like), where you can manage: notes, to-do lists, bookmarks, and read daily news feed. It allows to deal with everyday tasks and projects. On top of it, you can consume daily news feed and store bookmarks in one tool!

It's an MVP so feedback is really welcome!

I guess it depends on the task. From my perspective I wouldn't mind using libraries, as we do it on a daily basis.