Hi from Japan — I'm building Factdock, a search engine for every country's web
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Hi everyone, I'm Y. Chiba from Japan. I've worked on the web for many years.
I'm building Factdock, a search engine that lets you search the web of any country in your own language and find deeper information, with a link to every original page.
We're launching here on November 28, and I'm happy to join this community and meet other makers.
What are you building? I'd love to hear about it.
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Welcome, and good luck on the 28th! To answer your question: I build an app that makes personalised songs, with public song pages in many languages. A question from the publisher side: how will Factdock learn about new pages? When a user publishes a song, my backend pings IndexNow with the page and the author's profile, which reaches Bing, Yandex, Seznam and Naver within the same request. If Factdock accepted IndexNow, or something like it, small sites in every country could tell you about new pages directly instead of waiting to be crawled.
@gbasovv Thank you so much, George, and congratulations on Melodo! Turning a few words about someone into a full song in many languages is a lovely idea.
Great question. Factdock doesn't crawl the open web itself. It searches each country's web at the moment you ask, in that country's language, so new pages show up once the major web indexes have picked them up.
Your comment made me realize IndexNow is useful for us on the other side: we publish pages in 38 languages, so we've just turned on IndexNow to announce our own new pages to search engines like Bing, Naver and Yandex. Thanks for the tip!
Which languages bring Melodo the most listeners so far?
@apia_chiba Thank you, and glad IndexNow fits on your side, that is a nice turn. On languages, it is honestly too early for a clean answer. English is the main market, and in paid ads the Spanish speaking group, Spain plus Latin America, brought the most conversions in one ten day read. But the people who actually pay so far have been few, all 35 and older, and they came for occasions rather than from any one language. Good luck with the launch on the 28th!
@gbasovv Thanks for sharing such honest numbers, George! It's really interesting that your paying users came for special occasions rather than from any particular language. Best of luck with Melodo, and I look forward to staying in touch here!
Welcome to Product Hunt, and good luck on the 28th! Nice to see another maker from Japan here. I used to think you had to be in Silicon Valley to build for English-speaking users, and living abroad taught me that's not true. Search across languages fits that well. I'm building Pinateca, a kanban and Gantt board I made because the ones I used didn't fit my team.
@hisashispace Thank you so much! It's great to meet a fellow maker from Japan. You're right, you don't need to be in Silicon Valley to build for people around the world.
I took a look at Pinateca. Having kanban, Gantt and chat in one place, with everything available on the free plan, seems really practical for small teams. Being able to use it from ChatGPT and Claude is handy too. We're building Factdock to connect through MCP as well.
Which board type do your teams use the most?