takkatakka
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Comment · 9 months ago
https://chrispryan.com/
Comment · 9 months ago
Sounds like you certainly found a market. Do you have any estimates on how big that market is, and thus how much of the market you have captured?
And then from there, figuring out what the rest of the market is using, and why.
Comment · 9 months ago
Do you have product market fit, and just need to do more marketing? If so, I would keep going. Otherwise, I'd probably be a bit burnt out after 3 years of no PMF.
Comment · 9 months ago
Trying to create a moon jar in pottery class
Comment · 9 months ago
A session recording and product analytics tool: https://scryspell.com/
I built it because I thought session recording was such a cool feature, and wanted to know how to make one.
I have a version 1.0, and now working on how to sell and market in a crowded product space!
Comment · 1 year ago
Working on a session recording app: https://scryspell.com
Currently it's meant to help devs fix UI and UX issues by seeing exactly what their users saw, including a log of the browser console and network traffic.
I say currently because it has preset analytics (charts for top entry page, top exit page, etc) but am working on letting users define their own trend and funnel charts. That will open it up to basic web/product analytics.
The goal is to be simple analytics + session recording w/ masking.
TechStack:
UI: React, ReactQuery, TypeScript
Backend: Java, SpringBoot, jOOQ, PostgreSQL
Using rrweb for the session recording.
Comment · 1 year ago
1. For me, at a senior dev level, about half are multiple rounds of leetcode / system design and the other half are some sort of live coding something more practical.
2. I think they're mostly just making calls to the existing LLM's apis.
3. I ask myself why I started the pet project. If it was to learn something new, well, I probably got bored because I learned the the part that was interesting to me.
Comment · 1 year ago
https://scryspell.com - a simple session recording and analytics tool.
I used to use squeaky.ai which was a pretty simple session recording tool, but they got tired of running it and shut it down. PostHog is pretty great and with a generous free tier, but I get overwhelmed by their huge UI since it's such a large product now.
The core of the product is session recording, which I implemented using the rrweb library, which itself uses the Mutation Observer API. Everything else is pretty standard React/TypeScript/TanQuery for the front, Java/SpringBoot/PostgreSQL for the back.
No users, but working through the journey of trying to become a better copy writer / product manager / marketer! I've been getting some great advice on how to improve my landing page which has been exciting.
Comment · 1 year ago
It's pretty basic and missing a lot of features, but the session recording core is there.
For now, I built the backend just using Java, SpringBoot, PostgreSQL, Jooq.
The recording part uses rrewb: https://github.com/rrweb-io/rrweb
The frontend in general is just React, TanStack Query, TypeScript, and TailwindCSS.
Looking for early users, feedback, etc!
Comment · 1 year ago
The method I've been going with recently is to just clone an existing app. I was inspired by max rozen blogging about building the '200th uptime checker'.
https://maxrozen.com/#bootstrapping-onlineornot
I've made a pdf bankstatement to csv app and now working on a session recording app.
The bank statement tool hovered around break even, but ultimately I shut it down since I hit a point where I was just grinding out integrations with different pdf bank statements, which got old, and had no end in sight.
Comment · 2 years ago
Just dinking around making an RDP electron app.
Comment · 2 years ago
Wow. Their salary ranges seem low?
Backend Engineer, assuming that is mid level:
"The base salary range for this full-time position is between $38,900 USD to $87,500 USD"
Comment · 2 years ago
I've tried a variety of things (LinkedIn Ads, Reddit Ads, Google Ads, SEO, responding to relevant reddit questions). Most of the paying customers come from google ads, but a few have come from my reddit comments.
The reddit comments are pretty direct, like, the poster is asking about how to convert pdf bank statements to csv and I provide a link w/ full transparency that I'm the developer.