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Big Weather - Crafted for calm, clear skies
Big Weather is a hand-crafted, beautiful weather app exclusively for the Mac menubar.
Starting the 30-day maker challenge 🚀
I've decided to join the $100, 30-day challenge to becoming an indie hacker. The challenge is a great way to set constraints when validating a product and growing to profitability as quickly as possible. When building my first project, I spent $4,000 manufacturing a new physical product (failed). My second project, I spent 12 months working relentlessly to build a product that wasn't validated (failed). This time, I plan to be meticulous about the way I allocate resources. By choosing to stick to a simple concept, I've created a clothing label for passionate makers like myself, called Maker Threads. There's certainly nothing innovative about a clothing label, but I'm excited to already see promising results in comparison to my past projects. Current breakdown:
Spend: $35 (Shopify monthly fee)
Revenue: $44 If you're a maker who's ready to get serious about monetizing your product, I'd recommend joining the challenge to see what you can achieve If you've previously taken the 30-day maker challenge, I'd love for you to comment below and share your learnings throughout the process. If you'd like to support my journey, you can check out the Maker Threads store here: https://makerthreads.co
What was your first product?
Today I launched #32 on PH and was thinking back to the first software product I made. It was a simple .exe popup I sent to a few friends...they had to type 'Andrew is awesome' before it would go away I was so pleased...
OwlOCR 1.0 - Snappy, secure, on-device OCR for MacOS
OwlOCR offers simple optical character recognition of text in PDF files, images or on-screen and converts that to plain text. All conversion is done securely on-device - none of the data are sent to third-party services in the cloud as most applications do.
OwlOCR 4.0 - Near instant text recognition for Mac!
This handy little utility lets you use text recognition to instantly capture anything on the Mac screen. Digitizes your scans and files to create searchable PDFs. Everything is done on your Mac to ensure full privacy and performance.
Most features are free!
Big Weather - Weather at a glance, right in the menubar of your Mac
Big Weather shows you the weather information you need conveniently in the menubar and with a nice UI when opened in the window. Weather for your location or another location. Temperature, rainfall for 48 hours. UV, wind and humidity, weekly summary and more!

