I spent my summer learning about web components and rebuilt my image-template editor as such; This was the first try at using my own SDK and applying it onto a small product (and ofc I found 1000 things to add for my future customers :) )
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This little tool combines image generation, NFTs and flexing on Twitter
• It fetches the latest NFTs from your wallet via OpenSea
• generates a Twitter header image (using a customizable template) with them
Images are being created by my service over at placid.app, but you can manage templates right out of your WordPress backend (yes I cheated on that by i-framing the Editor into it - but still feels kinda good to me)
I'd love to hear what you think about my Idea in general, and if some WordPress heroes are here - then also about the obvious mistakes I made!
I’m Armin, part of the team behind the 24 Hour Startup Challenge!
Over this weekend, there are over 300 founders building products live on Twitch in 24 hours. As I post this, there are almost 90 people live streaming their work from all over the world! You can watch them on 24hrstartup.com.
The idea behind this live-streamed hackathon event comes from Pat Walls. He challenged himself to do a 24-hour startup twice this year and live-streamed his process. He is currently moderating and interviewing people from the maker community in our main stream.
Initially, we planned for about 50 participants but were overwhelmed with sign-ups. People are motivated to do this, and you can see that in their streams! We think it’s great to watch everyone make their crazy ideas reality, so we wanted to share :)
A few products being built right now:
* Heartbeat Canvas - Generate art from your heartbeat
* Privacy First Products - A curated list where you can discuss privacy first products
* EpilepsyBlocker - Disable GIFs that may cause epilepsy
I browsed the streams. Fun projects! Lots of opinions expressed here and I would tend to agree that none of these folks seem to be doing anything with customers. I'd love to see a challenge where the goal was to have 5 customers in 24 hours. With that said this seems more like a distributed hack-a-thon and a good one. I think that's an idea worth repeating. Venues and wifi and food and security and all the other things we have to do for meatspace hack-a-thons means we can only do one a year. Twitch hosted hack-a-thons seem like a great way to put something together fast.
People could pay to play and gain a shot at the prizes.
Hey... that sounds like a startup. Maybe there is one startup in your event. ;)
> I'd love to see a challenge where the goal was to have 5 customers in 24 hours.
I tried this (https://www.twitch.tv/louisswiss) last week and failed. The weekend just isn't good for b2b sales. With no extra work I did reach 4 sales ($600) within a week though.
Thanks for the mention of Privacy First Products, I will probably post that to Hacker News later, but here is already a sneak preview: https://privacyfirstproducts.com
It's quite a challenge to keep focused all the time, but it's super fun to test out what you can do in one day. The code will reflect the fast coding of course, but I'm surprised on the progress of maybe streamers!
Seems like a less descriptive privacytools.io. The focus is on the comments I take it? I guess my concern is whether the commenters will write insightful, useful things or whether it will be all speculation.
Twitch is a great platform for this. I really believe you could turn this concept into an always on 24/7 channel ;)
One interesting trend are features built on top of remote team management tools such as slack, airtable, gitlab, etc. I use G Suite everyday. And would definitely look to build on that platform with their huge user base ;)
Good question. On something that's minimal impact to lose, I like the https://spike.news model of saving state: you're given a token (a string of a few words) to log back in with later. No email, no risk, everyone's happy.
To get even more pedantic, they are building apps, not launching them.
Not that I want to dismiss the efforts - a group of people all challenging themselves to build out a side project in 24 hours is commendable. But building an idea into an MVP on a Saturday is not the same thing as launching a company.
Then we wouldn't need the word "startup" at all. But since people intuitively see a difference between opening up a deli and starting a social network, I think the word has a use.
I think people associcate startups with technology, high risk (compared to a proven business model that has worked a thousand times for other people), and potential for fast growth (with regards to the investment).
I think that's a post appstore or post web definition. I'm all for unsexy startups if they can turn the entire city into a customer and yet not be relevant outside of the city
Quite some irony in the fact that while some people are trying to build products quickly, Hacker News (run by startup incubator YCombinator) has a 20-comment thread debating what 'startup' means.
That's not what I'm advocating. Just arguing against the parent who said some equivalent of "while others are building products, you wannabe entrepreneurs are all talks here on HN".
How do you propose anyone will have a MVP within a day? Which is the purpose of this event. I mentioned giving them a month to develop and build some level of product and anticipation for what it is they're proposing. Nothing about calling them a 'start-up' based on any level of randomness. Or perhaps you don't understand the word 'maybe'.
We should take back the word 'startup' from people who want to make us think it is reserved for something that involves a business plan and raising money.
Having been interested in business since before the dot-com book, I've seen "Startup" transform from "New business, dealing with new business problems" to the very SV-driven notion that it's a new business expressly designed to scale quickly.
Words might need to mean something, but there's already been a lot of drift here.
That's of course not just happening now, it has always been a problem with the term. There has never been wide industry agreement as to what it means, going back decades.
That's how you end up with the media referring to 10 year old type companies that have thousands of employees as start-ups. I don't think a definition for it is going to get narrowed now, it will probably always be a broad/loose term.
In trying to “take back the word
startup” and redefine it to fit your own preferred meaning. I expect you will find, most on HN will take a more conservative position in it’s definition.
I agree that the term "startup" is not strictly defined. But often the nuances are "can we only call a quickly growing company a startup" (a la Paul Graham) or "can we call any young company a startup".
What the definitions agree on is that a startup is company, a business. Making a business involves a lot more than creating a product and is a much more complex undertaking.
I’m Armin, co-creator of MakerWidget! It’s a little widget you can put on your project pages to show who you are, where to find you and what you did before.
My partner Melanie and I wanted to make ourselves more visible on our side project pages, so we tried to elaborate on Pieter Levels idea of a maker badge!
You can easily set up your widget on makerwidget.com for free and grab your embed code! It supports multiple makers, custom link lists and a project gallery. Being a team of two makers ourselves, we focused a lot on flexibility!
I built the whole thing with Laravel and Vue.js and learned so much on the way. Mostly about the fact that an iFrame can be transparent !? - In the next steps, im going to try to optimise the Request-count - if someone here can give me tips on what else I can (and should) do tech-wise please tell me!
I ship-streamed the development of this widget on Twitch, and will also be live today. You can watch me on shipstreams.com! (And yes, I’m low-key trying to make „ship-streaming“ a thing!) :)
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This little tool combines image generation, NFTs and flexing on Twitter
• It fetches the latest NFTs from your wallet via OpenSea
• generates a Twitter header image (using a customizable template) with them
• and auto-updates your profile
Examples:
Video: https://cln.sh/4aZdhH
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pugson