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http://sideprojectors.com
Have you got a side project? :)
HelloBox is a tool to create an online community like HN. SideProjectors is a marketplace for buying and selling side projects.
https://www.designernews.co/ - for designers
http://www.webdesignernews.com/ - for web designers
https://growthhackers.com/welcome - growthhackers
Then of course there's a sleuth of subreddits.... similar to HN would be
https://www.reddit.com/r/startup
If you are looking for something different, there is a tool that lets you create online communities like HN or Reddit, so you can create your own.
Quite a few communities on it are
http://www.chitchats.co/ - community to share interesting Slack chatrooms
http://tools.robingood.com/ - curated list of tech tools
I did a bit of research as soon as the news was announced. And found Sendgrid the most on par with what Mandrill was offering.
It seems a tad slow, but it's ok. Someone mentioned SparkPost, but quite a few emails from them were going to SPAM folders.
Someone mentioned sparkpost, and it seemed to be the one that was closest to what mandrill was offering (they offer 10,000 instead of mandrill's 12,000).
So I just tried SparkPost and at a quick glance, here is what I found
- You have to specify the "sending domain". In Mandrill, I could just do "from blah@whatever.com" and it worked. But with SparkPost, I have to specify "whatever.com" as a sending domain. But you have to verify the ownership of the domain, so the bottom line is you can't just change the "FROM EMAIL" address to anything.
- Also, I just sent a test email and it went straight to GMail SPAM folder. This never happened with Mandrill.
Logged onto "Find my iPhone" app and it told me it was about 1km away from my house. I thought I must've dropped it somewhere nearby.
So I got the address from Apple Map, drove there and knocked on the door to greet a rather defensive (obviously) lady who, of course, denied ever picking up an iphone that day.
I snooped around to see if there were any suspicious people around, maybe she has a wayward son who goes around and steals other people's phones.
I then went to the police office nearby and asked them what I could do. They told me they can't use the GPS tracking as an evidence for a search warrant - doh!
It was frustrating because the app was telling me that my phone was right there! At the back of this lady's house!
At this moment, I was going through all sorts of thoughts - such as "should I break into her house at night?", "should I go back and just barge into her house and locate my phone and shout 'AH HA! I KNEW IT! YOU THIEF"!
Feeling dejected, I came home, only to find my phone sitting on the top of my drawer.
2 seconds ago, I swear I thought she was the thief.
Apple - you disappointed me.
http://blog.fogcreek.com/the-trello-tech-stack/
but that post is about 3 years old, so I wonder how they changed over the years....
It's a tool for creating a community. Its premise was "Create your own HackerNews".
I've re-designed a bunch of things, re-branded it, and am now planning to turn it into a business next year. We'll see. :)
[Now that I think about it, I should put this on the OpenHunt!]
Average size deal I think is between $1000 to $5000. But again, it depends how the seller prices it. Many times the price is settled behind the scene. We just cater the meeting between the seller and buyer.
3rd question is also hard to figure out. Some side projects (obviously) never get sold. A few users were disappointed that their projects didn't get sold. But what can I do? (I suppose I can bring more people...) But there have been quite a few projects that got sold literally within days after posting.
By all means! You can sell any side projects. It depends on the people and what they want. And what do they want? We just don't know. :) Try it out by posting something and gauge their interest.
I've been delaying learning React for awhile. After a period of ranting about "another JS library, another JS tool etc etc!!", I got tired of my ranting and have been giving a decent go at picking up React and a myriad of related tools (webpack, flux, react-router...).
It turns out, if you have some experience of framework, whether it be AngularJS or Backbone (I come from BackboneJS and Marionette background), it doesn't take you too long to learn these things.
I signed up for Egghead, searched around for awhile for the latest relevant tutorials, opened up many Chrome tabs and jumped around different places, but after a week, things are falling into places (JOY!).
Learning part is frustrating, because there are references to old versions, old tutorials and you have to somehow mine through to make sense for yourself. But what isn't thesedays?
I haven't picked up redux properly yet, but now I get Flux, I don't think it'll take too long before applying it. Redux Router? Bring it on!!
It's a place where people sell & buy side projects (exactly what you're talking about).
Have a look through the projects that have been listed and hopefully you'll arrive at answers to the questions that you asked above. Happy to answer any questions too! :)
http://hellobox.co (create your own HackerNews clone) http://sideprojectors.com (a market place for side projects)
I think sharing "relevant" projects for the audience is quite important. The subreddit r/startup is also quite good or r/sideprojects if you are looking for other places to share your projects. ProductHunt is also quite popular thesedays of course.
I started it out as a "create your own hackernews clone" idea, but it's now evolved into a more of community management tool. I'm hoping that it'll soon be able to charge people for the service it's providing. Would love to hear your feedback!
I run two sites
http://hellobox.co - tool to create and run your own communities (e.g. like HN) http://sideprojectors.com - market place to sell & buy side projects