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Quick demo of Onelook — an AI assistant for building internal tools
If you've got an internal tool in mind that you wanna build, we invite you to sign up for the waitlist! ✨
Links in thread 👇
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Decided to ditch Stripe for Lemon Squeezy
@lmsqueezy
for payments on my demo recording app
And holy... I can see why people would choose it over Stripe 😲
Since they serve a niche (SAAS payments), the process is many times smoother
A thread 👇
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#indiehackers
👋 I need your help!
Ingrain has launched on PH, and I would really appreciate it if you could help me upvote it, thanks! 🙏
Link in thread 👇
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Finally, the biggest boon in my view — I do NOT need to provide extensive KYC info to get started on a new store since Lemon squeezy acts as the merchant of record.
This means that, unlike Stripe, I don't have to do a big bunch of set up (bank details etc) each time I make a new…
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Hi 👋
#indiehackers
#buildinpublic
What tool do you use to create demo videos, any recommendations?
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Since Lemon Squeezy is concentrated on SAAS payments, their workflow is greatly simplified:
You can create either recurring subscription or one-time payment products, and there's not much fiddling required to find the creation flow of either ✨
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Spent the entire day redesigning a new logo on Canva, couldn't get any good results from ChatGPT
But hey, at least it looks not bad ✨
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Almost there, preparing the website for my demo recording app 🔥
This app actually took a lot longer than I anticipated, too many unexpected twists and turns tripping me up (more so than usual) 😅 but I'm glad it's finally at a stable-ish stage!
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Note to self: When debugging, take breaks to avoid tunnel vision
Fresh eyes can spot issues more easily! 👀
Stay patient and persist on ✨
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ZapAnim is live 🔥
Get animated stats for your landing page and superboost its engagement 🚀
Start for free (Link in bio)
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If you're building a web app and are not sure what to go with, I recommend:
• FE + Api: NextJS (app router) + Mantine
• DB: Supabase/Neon/Firebase
• Auth: Use your DB provider's (supabase/firebase) or Clerk
• Hosting: Vercel
$0 cost
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#developer
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You can also get it to generate a license key for each purchase — no need to code in product keys management within your own backend, just check with their API servers 🔑
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@wangwangio
It'll only take < 1 hour to know enough to get something working, but to master — to know when to use every semantic tag, attributes etc + accessibility concerns — that's probably gonna take years =/
Also it's a living standard, new stuff gets added/deprecated as time goes by
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@ThePeterMick
Building out the editor for crafting attention-grabbing animations for your landing pages
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App
#3
: app demo recorder 📽️
With motion blur VS no motion blur 🫨
Adding motion blur to the viewport movement seems to have made a bigger impact than I expected — the addition of motion blur actually makes the movement look A LOT smoother 😲
#buildinpublic
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Recorded a new demo for using screen studio (as recommended by other buildinpublic folks)
Let me know what you think!
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Thanks everyone for helping to upvote Ingrain on Product Hunt, you guys are awesome 🫶
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Would you ever consider applying to YC with your app?
Why or why not?
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Been using
@codeiumdev
for 2 months or so now, still quite blown away by how effective it is
I use mantine components in my project, and it's capable of suggesting composition of relevant components based on what my custom component is called 🤯
Also, sometimes when I'm not…
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@adrian_horning_
@ImSh4yy
Supabase is great but it's kinda expensive for solopreneurs tho. Paid plans require at least $28 + $10 for each db per month 💸
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I aimed to build something within 2 weeks, but building an app to record slick demos was much more complicated than expected
This is my third week in, just added mouse motion blur for a more natural/less jittery look
Aiming for v1 EOW
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@icoapps
Ahh I see, ZapAnim is currently aimed at embedding on landing pages though. Would having it somewhere on your landing page help you?
Btw, by
@audiencon
could give you shareable followers/likes animation in video/gif format.
It inspired ZapAnim :)
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Just learned that
@nextjs
has a `next/font` package that helps you load google fonts super easily like:
```
const inter = Inter({ subsets: ['latin'] })
<main className={inter.className}>
...
</main>
```
No more painful writing of font family CSS 🤠
#indiehackers
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Finally managed to get the scrubbing to be smooth!
Tried so many things to get this — splitting the recording, pre-rendering all frames, using different video formats etc
Turns out the easiest way was to just force-include more i-frames in the recording
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Want attention-grabbing animations like this on your landing page?
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Another day at building my demo recording app
Got the pointer sprite to be in sync with the scrubbing 👍
Now, just a few more things to go before v1 is complete 🚀
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Bulk generation of product description generation for Shopify ⚡️
Finally got down a good enough flow, lemme know what you think!
#buildinpublic
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Finally done-ish with v1 of the demo recording app! 🥳
Still needs lots of polish but at least it does what I need it to, here's a short example clip with transition and zoom 👀
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@natalia_demia
Thanks for sharing, this is interesting
I've never tried using json schema with openai gpt 3.5, but it worked consistently well enough when you provide a json-ish example e.g.
{
type: "clothes",
price: 10.3
}
No longer had to do this since they introduced functions tho 👍
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Currently building an AI wrapper app with a friend:
1. tell AI in plain english what internal app you need (e.g. admin panels) and have a fully functional app generated including backend 🧙♂️
2. Customize the UI as you like 🧑🎨
Website + demo link in comments 👇
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They also offer a bunch of icing-on-the-cake features like email marketing (not sure if it's free yet) and an affiliate system - no monthly payment, they take % of transaction instead, which makes it more accessible to solopreneurs
I'll be utilizing the affiliate one🤝
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Hey
#indiehackers
#buildinpublic
👋
Have you guys ever thought about putting in gamification elements in your apps to increase user engagement? 🏆
(e.g. earning badges for completing certain tasks, similar to ProductHunt's streak badge in the screenie)
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@SSiddiqui223
Hey Saima 👋 thanks for this space
I'm on a journey to make 1 saas app/month for this year, let's connect!
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Another day another demo for my recording app 🚀
Implemented clip splitting — got a part mid-recording that you don't want? Split it and trim it off ✂️
It's still a little buggy 🪲 but it'll be ironed out
Inching ever closer to v1, just a little more to go!
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Making a new stripe business account for each new app that I build is very cumbersome
I understand there's a need for them to do kyc for each "new business" but still... =S
#buildinpublic
do you guys know of an easier way to deal with this?
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Finally finished the edit/update animation workflow for after quite a bit of data wrangling with Firestore
Let me know what you think!
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Early attempt at cropping video
Didn't turn out quite how I wanted it, looking a bit squashed and not centered. Silver lining is at least the pointer positioning is still on point haha
As with all hurdles, it will be overcome 💪
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@SaidAitmbarek
Oh uh that's interesting 😅 does your FE need access to the cookie, and if so why?
Setting httponly cookie via server-side usually isn't too difficult and provides robust enough security
However if your access token is rotated frequently enough e.g. 1 hr I'd say it's good…
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Another day building my demo recording app
Using Pixi JS to draw the screen recording on a canvas for post-edits
Was trying to get the viewport container to follow mouse movements by moving its X/Y position, turns updating its pivot with mouse xy is 100x easier
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TIL when using OpenAI function calling, you can reference one part of the json schema in other parts to avoid duplication (possibly saving tokens)
e.g. assuming I have a textInput rep
textInput: {
$id: '/defs/textInput',
type: 'object',
...
}
I can reference textInput…
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Gonna build out at least 1 saas project a month, let's see how this goes!
Building embeddable animations to capturing attention more easily on landing pages rn, DM me if you're interested in trying out!
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@wangwangio
I agree! NextJS blows everything out of the water.
The only problem is that unless you're self-hosting, it seems that Vercel is the only hosting solution that supports the features (especially bleeding edge ones like server actions) well enough
I've had loads of problems…
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@itsconchur
@lmsqueezy
5% + 50¢
It's high compared to Stripe, so might wanna consider moving away if/when selling at high volumes
It's a great place for starting out tho
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@DanielPeris
@CotonSimon
1. Haha ok, do you happen to have an example to share?
2. Ahh I see, no issues with offering LTDs, just always wondered which one would be more attractive for early adopters, I guess LTD is still the way to go.
Btw followed you for your great content, would love to connect 😁
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@eliasstravik
I think you made the right choice.
Health and family come first, no point burning yourself out. Go take a break brother, you've earned it and your family deserves your company :)
Have a good rest!
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For electron app builders 🛠️
When I read the auto-update part of building an Electron app, I thought it looked pretty straightforward
Now that I've gotten to that part, it turns out the autoUpdate packaged within is outdated 😖
Use electron-updater package instead! 🔥…
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Developers of today are extremely fortunate to have access to LLMs like ChatGPT, trying to find out how to do something like this probably would've taken me hours of research (I have 0 exp in working with FFMPEG)
Now all it takes is 1 min 🔥
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PSA for people running AI wrappers:
OpenAI changed their API billing to prepaid 2 weeks ago, but there's a bug 🪲
After you've funded your account, your services may still fail to work 🫠
I wasted my time finding a solution so you don't have to:
Make and use a new API key 😅
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TIL there's WebCodec which lets you encode (i.e. make mp4/webm vids from images) STRAIGHT from your browser 🤯
Currently trying it out to export edited clips from my demo recorder app
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#buildinpublic
Friendly reminder to get someone with fresh eyes to test your app 👀
Everything worked flawlessly on my Mac before I spend 10+ mins to on a prod build and to sign + notarize it
I let friend test it, he runs into a breaking bug in < 3 mins 😭
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Customizable padding and background are in ✨
It's been quite a journey but the screen recording app is finally taking shape
Video export takes quite a bit of time still but at least it works
Final leg to v1 💨
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Access control rules on firebase db can really eat up a lot of your reads
But there's a rather simple workaround — custom claims
Set a custom claim on the user's JWT and check against it e.g. user.auth.token.isAdmin == true
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Hi
#buildinpublic
#indiehackers
👋
I need some opinions — do you think the headline grabs interest well enough?
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Trying out Firebase for , some good and not so good.
Auth is ridiculously easy, one line can take care of the login/signup:
`signInWithPopup(auth, provider)`
Firestore SDK design tho is not as intuitive as Supabase's I find
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App
#3
- demo recorder
Difference between not using vs using WebCodec for encoding video output for a 3.4s video
The difference is day & night - 18s vs 3s, 6x improvement 🔥
Will probably be even larger for longer videos
Simpler code too ✨
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Just built the first MVP for my personal demo recording app and I couldn't be more excited! 🎉💪🔨 is the way to go!
Sharing my journey, wins, challenges, and everything in between.
Let's learn, grow, and inspire each other.🚀🙌
#buildinpublic
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What's up
#indiehackers
, drop a 👋 and let's
#connect
😁/
/▌
/ \
----
Start the new year right with some new friends
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TIL you can hide the ugly default title bar at the top of the electron app and replace it with your own custom HTML element 🫥
Just need add this style to the the replacement element to make it draggable:
-webkit-app-region: drag;
Default title bar VS custom title bar:…
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Early version of the animation editor; select an animation and then change colors, copy etc.
The resulting animation will be available to embed on your website to supercharge capturing of attention
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@OngDevLab
Yes in general, but if you're just writing a short single-file script or just starting out then no harm using javascript.
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For the indiehackers who have built many saas projects, any db providers to recommend apart from Supabase?
The additional $10/mth/project is pretty steep for experimentation :/
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@Kayodedcreative
@lmsqueezy
😂 I legit did not know that
They've done a good enough job as a wrapper to be compelling tho!
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@Mindsix
@lmsqueezy
Yea they're fees are high. Will have to switch to Stripe when products do take off 🚀
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I find it much easier to read when functions are ordered by when they are called e.g.
function doA() {
doB();
doC();
}
function doB { ... }
function doC { ... }
What about you?
#developers
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@ThePeterMick
Easily make your app feel professional
Integrate activity audit trails in your app with
Log a trail of user activities and display them within your app's interface with our components, offering your users a transparent view of their account activities.
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@sidi_jeddou_dev
Ahaha I use canva for buncha things too, but looking for something that could automatically take care of the zooming, click effects etc. without too much effort. Thanks for the rec tho!
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@itsconchur
@lmsqueezy
Not sure about subscriptions yet, but selling licenses (e.g. LTDs) is ridiculously straightforward using them since they can just email the buyer the license, and you just need to make a call to activate/check validity
They do offer other things like affiliates which normally…
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@TakoTreba
Urban legend says that putting link will hurt visibility (which kinda makes sense since Elon Musk probably doesn't want to encourage people going outside of the platform)
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@PLBompard
Happy Sunday!
Building ZapAnim — embeddable animated stats for your landing pages to help boost engagement 🚀
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App
#3
, 2024
User activity audit trail app which lets you easily log user actions (e.g., login attempts, data or settings changes) within your app, and also to display them beautifully with our components.
Can be used to show your users what has been happening in their account.…
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@mehrab_xyz
Thanks! Yea it does zoom. We do have plans for supporting windows/linux in the future but gonna go with Mac as a testbed first since that's what I'm developing it on, and can only export reliably for 😅
Do stay tuned for it tho!
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