FeMake

😊Hi Product Hunt, 🏡I'm very excited to be launching FeMake today, since this project touches close to home as a female maker on this platform. 🤔Since joining the maker community recently, I've been very pleasantly surprised by the positivity and support of females. However, when I looked at sites like 500 makers, I didn't see many women. So, I wanted to know: where does the maker community really stand in terms of inclusion, and more importantly, why might that be? 🐦I started with this tweet and the responses made it clear that I wasn't the only one who wanted to see this data. 📈So, I pulled all the maker and product data from the beginning of PH time (aka Nov 2013). After decoding over 40k names, I now had a view on the presence of women and how this has changed over time. More importantly, I think we as a community hopefully have a clearer view of the real picture: areas we can improve, areas we have improved, and something to measure moving forward. 🌟Finally, I wanted to make FeMake more than just a data center so I chose to include suggested tools and celebrate top female contributors, who have been influential in inspiring other women to join this movement. 💡If you'd like to understand my approach, reflection on the data, and why I even care about this project in the first place, you can read my article here. FeMake is also a part of Makers Festival under Inclusion, if you would like to vote for it. 💜Special thank you to a fellow female maker @tcodinat, who helped me create the amazing launch GIF and for sending me a customizable ProductHunt API script to play with. Also, thank you to @marie_dm_ and the entire Women Make community for helping me and other women to find their voice in tech.

Beautiful project. Do you have plans to add any more related data to the website? Seems like there's lots of possibilities there.

You did an awesome job Steph! 💫 I saw you working on the data to make something out of it and the result is amazing as well as really interesting. Information is key and like @morajabi said, it's important to have this data in order to see where we are at the moment, where we were and what we can do about it. I love that this project can have an impact on our perception of the maker space and its diversity.

Super cool to see the results of your work so beautifully laid out ✨

Beautiful project, well done @stephsmith, I wish to see the number of female makers increase more when you add data on 2019.🌟🌟🌟

I'm glad someone took care of analyzing this data, it gives a good idea of where we are and the output worth a look.

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Visualizations make it easy to read the result.

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I love everything about this product! As the maker community grows it's super important to get an understanding of the diversity, FeMake makes it super simple to see the female representation in different areas. I hope that we can start to use this data to encourage more women to come and make 💛

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Beautiful visualisations and a fantastic data set!

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