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Weekends are for side projects!
Share what you're going to be building or an idea you're kicking around.
And then give some feedback to a fellow Maker! 🙏
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Weekends are for side projects!
Share what you're going to be building or an idea you're kicking around.
And then give some feedback to a fellow Maker! 🙏
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This week I am sort of researching the market, identifying pain points.
Main Idea: Travel sector
From thinking of travelling to a place, to coming back home, everything in an app. I want to build a super app for Local+ International + Domestic travel. With features like community approved itineraries, budget planner, splitting budget, pre-booking adventures, restaurants and more, suggesting best spots on the way, safety advisory and real time notifications, connecting with other travellers, earning loyalty points to redeem in the app.
I am looking for people who love to travel and can help me with insights. Drop your email or Insta and I'll send you a link where we can connect to discuss.
(Creating something with people for people)
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@nischal_kanishk Hey Nischal, I travel a lot and can definitely see myself relying on app for ideas and planning. I can imagine a tool that I can use to plan and create a travel dashboard with everything I need before I arrive somewhere, and that has an offline mode because I won't always have internet access.
@Juan Great Insight Juan!
I would love to connect with you over a call, and ask you few questions that can help me build the perfect product. If you are interested, can you share your email or Linkedin?
hey @nischal_kanishk ! I can offer some feedback here.
I've traveled extensively. I've visited 34 countries and lived abroad in Hong Kong and Indonesia for 6 years, and now that I'm back living in the US, I probably visit 1-2 new countries per year (going to Ireland for the first time next week!).
I've experienced pretty much every travel-related problem there is and have become an expert planner over the years.
Based on that experience, I'm worried your idea may fall victim to what I call the "super app fallacy".
I see a lot of makers trying to build "all in one" apps for sectors that are operating just fine with a set of disparate tools.
Using the disparate tool stack to do what you need works because each tool does one thing very well, and creating a super app is a solution looking for a problem.
For example, I have a pretty nailed down process for working through trip planning (in approximate order):
destination research
evaluating points/miles value vs. cash flight prices
picking dates and booking flights
booking lodging
car rental
travel insurance
experience booking
visa considerations
I use different tools for all of these things, and I manage big trips centrally in Notion. Yeah, it's a bit annoying and takes a few hours, but it's not THAT hard, especially since I know what I'm doing.
Let's say you COULD make an all-in-one super app. You would need to do it fast enough to get meaningful traction quickly, which is nearly impossible with the level of feature development you'd need.
Add on the fact that the travel tech space is already super crowded with tons of services for every travel-related task under the sun.
AND travel is one of the most cyclical sectors on the planet, which is another reason to stay away from it.
The alternative is to focus on one hyper-specific problem in the travel space (ideally that you've suffered from personally), and build a tool that absolutely erases it. Then build from there.
What do you think?
@emikes919 Hey man!
That was a very well put reply. It gave me a real-world insight for sure.
I agree with all your points, and I see the struggle here.
Talking about solving 1 hyper specific problem, yes I am focusing on 1 core pain point and then will slowly integrate everything into one.
I have been interviewing people about pain points, I have gathered some, but as you are very much experienced, I would love to know what are the pain points you think should be solved.
Would love to connect with you on this too!
@nischal_kanishk happy to connect, got your dm on linkedin, will follow up there
I’m updating my app Kilowatt to include a new Garage feature that will allow people to add custom car models next to the library of existing models in the app. With so many new car models coming out it’s nigh impossible to keep up so this will offer people a way to add models that are less popular and not in the app yet. Also I just launched Flexible a fitness app aimed at doing your rehab exercises consistently, I really need to work on some marketing for that one though. It hasn’t even been hunted yet 😅
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@_tijs My wife and I have actually been talking a good bit about switching over to an electric car for our next vehicle. I'll have to remember Kilowatt! Seems super useful. For the new models that users are adding, are you planning on tracking what the most commonly added ones are to include by default? I can imagine that is a lot to keep up with given how many are coming out!
Also, I'm terrible about remembering to stretch before or after workouts. I really like the red panda mascot for Flexible. I'll have to try it out! And you should totally hunt it!
@jakecrump i want to eventually move away from offering the library, as you said it's getting harder and harder to keep up. I think if i help the user identify the right values they can get quite far in adding enough detail to get an accurate charging estimate without needing presets. This will also make it more flexible when adding an older model which might have less range now then when it came out for instance. As the apps that come with your car get better the niche for my app will be customization and things like cost calculation. It seems to already be more attractive to spreadsheet nerd types then average car owners so i think i can lean into that.
And yeah for Flexible i think i'll end up hunting it myself although i guess it's still better if someone else adds it. Thanks for the positive note!
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@_tijs Yeah I think leaning into the customization and cost calculation is a smart move. Good on you for understanding who it appeals to and leaning into that. And I think aiming for approximation over trying to get super accurate for every type of model makes sense. Like you said, even age of the car or something like mileage could affect that. I imagine most people are looking to just get a close approximation.
For hunting Flexible, it's totally fine to hunt it yourself. It really doesn't change anything if it's hunted by you or someone else in terms of it getting on the homepage.
I'm developing a text-to-speech platform focused on widely used African languages. Starting with common national languages like English, Arabic, Swahili, Somali, and Amharic, I plan to expand into vernacular tongues such as Igbo, Zulu, Gikuyu, and Sukuma.
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@rbluena hey Rabii, this definitely sounds useful! Is there anything similar out there, for African languages?
@juan I have seen for national languages but not for vernacular languages.
Velocity: Prompt Co-Pilot
This Prompt Assistant is all you need for getting the most out of any AI platform
Thinkvelocity.in
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@aakashpuriHey, the product looks great! Just one piece of feedback about the landing page: I instantly zoomed out to about 80% because the text appeared too large, even on a 24-inch monitor!
Velocity: Prompt Co-Pilot
i’m building the onboarding for VidSummify - AI Daily Digest Email for your favorite Youtube Channels. launched it a few days ago and got a few hundred requests, but not much traction yet.
now i wanna make the onboarding more fun so people enjoy using it right away. thinking about adding little moments like confetti when they do something the first time. maybe even throw in a surprise like a discount code or something playful. also working on tightening up the ui/ux.
what’s something fun or unexpected you’ve seen during onboarding that actually worked?
@hien_phan_harry Hey! Great to see a fellow maker from Vietnam 🇻🇳 🙌
VidSummify sounds super useful — I’d definitely use it to keep up with my favorite creators without spending hours watching!
Love that you’re making onboarding more fun. One thing I’ve seen work well is a quick, interactive quiz during setup — like picking favorite YouTubers or content types. It adds a personal touch and builds excitement early on.
You’ve already got strong initial interest — just a matter of dialing in the experience now. Keep it up!
I’m working on NewsMate — an AI-powered news assistant that delivers smart, personalized, real-time summaries. It also auto-swipes and reads them aloud, making news totally hands-free. Launch coming soon!
Would be awesome to support each other’s journeys — let’s stay in touch!
@valhun thank you for the idea about interactive quiz, will try it
I’m working on Unora. It’s basically one app to handle all your chats and emails from WhatsApp, Instagram, Gmail, Slack, and more. It brings 7 apps into one clean, searchable place. Basically trying to fix the chaos of too many apps 😅
Apart from aggregating your communication, it also uses AI to give you quick priority-ordered summaries boosting your productivity even more. Would love any thoughts! @Unora
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@erik_s Very cool idea! Being able to search across all of those does sound very nice. I'll often forget where I get a message and spend way too long going through the different apps trying to find it haha
@erik_s if you can actually make this a thing I'd be so happy. key thing for me would be latency. There would have to be a super smooth ux
Biteme: Calorie Calculator
This weekend I'm hacking away at Loopify, a social media software my cofounder and I started out of frustration. We wanted something that actually did feel new, didn't require 5 tabs to do simple things, and didn't require enterprise expense just to get along.
Right now I'm working on the analytics view, trying to make performance data actually useful, not just numbers for the sake of numbers.
Would love to see what everyone else is producing as well. Always fascinating to see how different projects transition from idea to UI.
Anyways, if anybody’s interested to chat and tell us your experiences and frustrations, would love to hear https://discord.gg/Q6Ph4eGsgW.
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@dan16 Sounds interesting! So is it a new social media platform? Or is it software for leveraging social media?
Biteme: Calorie Calculator
@jakecrump leveraging social media. It's a competitor for platforms like Hootsuite and Buffer, but dare I say much better... Ok, I may be biased here 😁
a tool can visualize your custom code
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@lezhu Is this a web based sandbox? Any particular limitations?
@jakecrump Yes, it's a web-based sandbox supporting Python, JavaScript, and C++ (C++ still experimental). Code runs in isolated environments with execution step limits to prevent overload. Current restrictions: no third-party package imports, no interactive input (like input()/stdin), and some syntax (e.g., classes) might not visualize cleanly.
I launched mine this week quick mvp - Launch a high-value MVP in 10 working day. It's good for busy developers or non-technical founders or just founders who want to test the market without putting in the time
I launched my side project yesterday called DeepRankAI its a free AI Content humanization tool that turns your AI generated content into human like writing in one click.
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@gerome24 Very cool and congrats on launching! What was the process like for building the AI detection? That feels like a tough problem a lot of people are trying to crack.
@jakecrump This is undoubtedly a highly complex problem, and I am still in the process of completing it. However, the humanization tool is already finished and successfully bypasses all AI detection systems and tools. The most challenging aspect of developing the AI detector has been sourcing genuine human-written content to fine-tune the LLM for accurate detection results.
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@gerome24 That's interesting! Is there a particular kind of human-written content you aim for? I'd imagine not all styles would work well.
@jakecrump Its basically made to convert the content the user pastes into the text area and wants humanized there is multiple different styles and most work pretty well but the default option works best