Awesome Indie

Explore micro-startups made by indie makers or small teams

26 followers

Explore micro-startups made by indie makers or small teams

26 followers

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Explore micro-startups made by indie makers or small teams.

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@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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4yr ago

Maker

@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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4yr ago

Maker

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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4yr ago

Maker

@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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4yr ago

Name Lantern

Great Product, Clean UI 👏 Looking forward to witness the platform growth!

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4yr ago

Maker

@joao_lopes2 glad you liked it! 🙏

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4yr ago

Congrats on the Launch 🚀🚀 Been following for a while!

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4yr ago

Maker

@maxwellcdavis thank you! 🙏

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4yr ago

GoIndie

Really great work, Diogo. "Awesome" domain as well! :)

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4yr ago

Maker

@brentobox thanks! 🙏 It is awesome indeed! Actually, I got really surprised when I realized the domain was free and without any premium pricing on it

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4yr ago

What are the benefits of your idea?

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4yr ago

Great opportunity! Thanks for the launch, upvoted \m/

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4yr ago

Maker

@je_suis_yaroslav thank you! 🙌

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4yr ago

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Awesome Indie is praised for its user-friendly interface and effective navigation. Users appreciate the platform as a valuable space for micro-startups to gain visibility. The project is commended for providing a dedicated place for indie makers and small teams to showcase their work. Overall, the feedback highlights the platform's role in supporting and promoting innovative projects from independent creators.

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