topoftheforts

SEEKING WORK | UK or Remote | IT Consultant / Full Stack Engineer

Technologies: PHP, Laravel (9yrs exp), VueJS/NuxtJS, AlpineJS, MySQL, TailwindCSS, AWS, Azure, RESTful APIs, Adwords, GA Ecommerce, Git, Twilio, Stripe, Docker

Email: topoftheforts[at]gmail.com

CV: Please email and I'll send that over + LinkedIn profile

I have 14 years experience in full stack web development, I have managed small dev teams and have been a one-man IT department for small startups and non-profits. I believe in focusing on business results and revenue. I worked a lot with marketing departments in conversion tracking, conversion optimisation, A/B testing. I love building, making web applications and creating value.

I've been indie hacking for the last couple years as well, latest project is gumtrends.com - built with Laravel, took me 6 days from idea to finish and made it to HN front page.

Looking for projects and part-time opportunities.

SEEKING WORK | UK or Remote | IT Consultant / Full Stack Engineer

Technologies: PHP, Laravel (9yrs exp), VueJS/NuxtJS, AlpineJS, MySQL, TailwindCSS, AWS, Azure, RESTful APIs, Adwords, GA Ecommerce, Git, Twilio, Stripe, Docker

Email: topoftheforts[at]gmail.com

CV: Please email and I'll send that over + LinkedIn profile

I have 14 years experience in full stack web development, I have managed small dev teams and have been a one-man IT department for small startups and non-profits. I believe in focusing on business results and revenue. I worked a lot with marketing departments in conversion tracking, conversion optimisation, A/B testing. I love building, making web applications and creating value.

I've been indie hacking for the last couple years as well, latest project is gumtrends.com - built with Laravel, took me 6 days from idea to finish and made it to HN front page.

Looking for projects and part-time opportunities.

I think the main link of this post should be the homepage and not the generated report, I was very confused at what I was looking at.

I understand the value proposition of this but I can't get past the feeling of "this is just more auto-generated garbage". I am aware that a lot of online outlets do pretty much the same - they summarize a press release and make it their own, adding some images - and this tool is automating that process.

I just can't see myself ever reading an article like this, especially cause it's obvious to me that it's AI generated (paragraphs starting with "Moreover," , "In Summary,"). I'm a sample size of 1 though, and many other people might still read articles like this.

Another doubt I have is in regards to Google - do they like this kind of content? From what I understand they're not against AI but it has to provide valuable information. This seems to regurgitate existing information without extra commentary, so is this even helping SEO?

Apologies if this comes across as negative, I appreciate the work involved, just trying to give some honest feedback.

"Maybe that was all preparation for slicing America in two using an Australia-shaped knife" one of those sentences I feel like no one has ever said before (/r/brandnewsentence material)

96%, really proud of that

thank you so much for sharing this site! I've been having a hard time wrapping my head around some Vue2->Vue3 changes and this is very helpful

I kinda feel it's mostly because of the paywall

On point.

Thank you! I think you're so right and I used that spirit to launch Gumtrends. I was worried about the reaction of people (about bugs, the scraping, missing features) but I'm so happy I launched anyway.

Thank you so much!

sure just email at [email protected]

Unfortunately Gumroad does not display any text reviews as far as I'm aware

Honestly I hadn't heard of trends.vc until now (and I never scrolled that far into the Gumroad homepage) I have another website that is focused on trends (social media related) and I know it's a big market so that's why I built Gumtrends