Hi hunters and makers! 🙌
I've been working on this on and off as a side project since the last year. And now, after multiple refactors and redesigns, I feel it is finally in an MVP state ready for its first launch! 🚀
Awesome Indie was created as a small and clean alternative to startup directories like BetaList, StartupBase, Launching Next, and even Product Hunt itself (inception? 😂).
The main goal is to feature mostly bootstrapped products made by indie makers, solo founders, or small independent teams. As an indie maker myself, sometimes we see our hard-worked projects getting shadowed by big corporate products, so Awesome Indie is an attempt to create a small community dedicated to all of us, indie makers! 🙂
I tried to make the submission process as painless as possible. For example, it's not required to add custom images as I have an automated job that will automatically take screenshots to the product website when it gets approved.
The project was completely bootstrapped, with zero investment (only time and sweat 😅) and the first products were manually added by me. Nowadays there are a few organic users that submit their projects daily, but, the number of submissions is still very low, so sometimes some "not-so-indie" products are accepted, in a way to maintain the website running with 1-3 daily featured projects. So, hopefully, this launch will generate more visibility and increase the number of future submissions.
I hope you like it! It is very possible you find some bugs around, if so please ping me on Twitter so I can add it to the backlog.
Thanks! 🙌
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@katerina_kurshina the image thumbnails are automated, I have a small puppeteer script, that runs after a product gets approved, which is responsible to screenshot the website and generate a thumbnail. I have been improving this script by, for example, trying to close any cookie banners before taking a screenshot, or properly waiting for all the JS to load. But you are right, some still come out a little sloppy. Maybe I'll add the option to upload a custom thumbnail if the automated one comes out with some issues. Anyway, I'm grateful for your upvote! 🙏 Thanks for the support! 🙌
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@diogocapela Nice job, great idea, Congrats on the launch
@diogocapela Cool idea, I hope it levels the playing field for indie makers and help them reach their audiences. Also, I'm curious which team size you counsider "indie makers".
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@maya_ovice thanks! 🙌 That's indeed a very difficult question, I think it goes into some kind of grey area. Sometimes is not that easy to label something as indie or not.
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