not sure it's okay to have microsoft azure as your logo in the navbar? you're not from the microsoft, right? it may be misleading, better use own identity :/
As a Technical Founder, I lacked the design skills to create beautiful Startup Visuals like logo, banner, and social media graphics for new projects, so I made a tool to automate it!
The idea? Get a Logo, Favicon, Banner, OG Image, and Social Media Graphics customized to your project, in minutes.
Features I built for the MVP I launched today:
1/ Startup Visuals Pack Generator
Get all the graphics in minutes, customized to your business style.
- Logo
- Favicon
- Banner / OG image for social media
- Social Media Graphics
2/ Beautiful Screenshots Editor
Create outstanding Screenshots with all the paddings, rounded corners, backgrounds, etc.
- 1000+ icons
- 200+ backgrounds
- Easy to customize
- Reusable Templates and Presets
No design skills required.
Stop wasting time on next Startup Visuals and focus your mind on actually building the business
Let me know your thoughts, whether it may be useful for your next Side Project?
Hi, Peter here
As a non-native English, I lacked the vocabulary to express myself fluently like many of you here. I was using only basic, common words I learned in school I tried learning new words, but. failed.
So I built LanguageBeast: a platform to Learn English vocabulary that matters to enrich your vocabulary through synonyms, antonyms, and examples for common English words.
I'd love to hear your feedback on whether it may help improve your English vocabulary.
love the idea. hesitant to pay as I don't know if the product is for me. native english speaker. always interested in expanding my vocabulary and a tool that helps me do so using spaced repetition would be quite useful.
I'd say the main issue is misunderstanding of concept we are planning between business and tech people. Those groups think so differentely. We use Planning Poker tool - https://scrumhub.it/ for each user story, but still there area projects unestimated with strongly extended timeline compared to initial estimates. But on the other hands mostly it happens when business add new features, change requirements and the wheel comes full circle, we do retro and it is what it is :)
Yep. Good and clear communication is also a neat trick to not being hated by technical managers, stakeholders and other teammates.
The older I get, I find this more important than technical skills. Technical skills are fixable by training, mentoring, or simply asking me.
I've seen bad communication causing delays, misunderstandings of business needs, developers who can't level up, and, in the extreme, fights between team members.
While this is a very good start and me having that skill helped me a lot, we should not forget that many PMs and all sorts of managers simply love changing requirements after just one call with the CEO or the finance department.
...And then they "forget" to tell you that they changed the requirements. And have not written down that anywhere.
...And then that happens 4 more times.
...And then a month later it's the engineer's fault that he's not part of the hive mind and does not read thoughts.
So I don't disagree, communication and other soft skills are certainly invaluable. But they don't filter out bad manager actors.
You can start with notes of problems you meet daily or ideas you come up with. If you want to pursue someone else ideas, most likely you won't have the determination to build things for years, fail and learn from these mistakes.
It takes time, tears and sweat and a lot of failures to actually build something successful, it won't be a one night sucess from idea taken from someone.
It's painful, but a worth failure lesson. I started building my own side-projects.
First took months to build while learning new technologies.
Previous one took a year to actually code all these fancy features.
Added payments, billing pages, etc. Then noone bought the subscription :)
Anyway I learned so much along the way and they say you have to spend thousands of hours to actually become successful in one area. Now I've built a project on 2/3 weeks. I give it a few weeks, then move to a new idea to find a gold mine and start the monetization.
@annie_muss
I'm curious, are those ideas something you'd like to share publicly with people? I had an idea to build a service, where users could post their "side-project idea", as they don't want / don't have time etc to build them and are okay with others using these ideas to build something meaningful. I feel it could become a place for active startup builders to connect, a place for creativity.
Great feedback, thanks!
I'll consider those things, but first I'll need to rethink whether the idea of developing more features just to do more research is good or better if I switch to a new idea instead, to save some time.
Congrats on the idea and execution. I was thinking about launching similar product, but I thought it'd be too costly to parse all these articles. I was thinking more of first summarizing these articles (avg article has like 1000 words) and then implementing a recommendation module. Without a successful paid plan,I think I'd fail hardly with cost :(
