I parsed 968 launches from /r/SideProject and analyzed them with Claude 3 Opus

Alexander Isora 🦄
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Data Overview

I searched for all posts from /r/SideProjects that contained these strings: "I built", "I made an alternative to", "I created a clone of".
Most posts are <=1 year old.
Due to Reddit API's restrictions, the total number of posts analyzed was 968. I wish I could parse more.

List of Clones of Popular Apps
Loom (screen recording app): 6‼ Typeform (form builders): 7‼ Resume/CV apps: 3 Pastebin: 5 Habit trackers: 12‼ Link in bio: 5 Screenshot making tools: 3 Todo lists: 3 Bookmarking tools: 8 Website builders: 29 ‼‼ Notes taking tools: 10‼ classic Health, fitness, and wellness apps: 19‼ Feedback gathering tools: 10‼ Time tracking and invoicing tools: 4 Patreon alternatives: 2 Twitter: 16‼‼‼ wtf? Product Hunt: 6‼ Pomodoro timers: 1 Categories
Language learning: 4 Directory/list: 7 Chrome extension: 21 Crypto or decentralized: 5 Finance: 15 Dev tool: 26 Self-hosted: 14 Growth or marketing tool: 11 Open-sourced: 37 Some Stats
B2C: 69.8% ↔ B2B: 30.2% (please do b2b!!!) AI tools: 108 (10.8%!)
Titles
Most Boring Title: "How I stumbled upon my startup idea: A casual chat"
Most Inspiring Title: "I taught people to code for 10 years. So I started my own learning platform for fun and it got REALLY BIG."
Least Catchy Title: "I made an alternative free WordPress theme directory"
Most Catchy Titles:
"I made a multiplayer game, got beaten at my own game, then made a bot for my game so I could finally win"
"I made a chrome extension that makes music sound like it's coming from another room"
"Too lazy to post daily, so built an app to do it instead"

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