Hi everybody, I was wondering if anyone had any tips on how to get more exposure on a FOSS project I made? I tried sharing on reddit but my posts were immediately taken down, probably because I don't really go on reddit very much. I also have intentions to go on HN soon, but any other ideas? Thanks.
How hard can it be to build a CI/CD system? Concourse CI has the right model but the operational overhead is brutal. That question stuck with me long enough that I started building it. What kept me going was realising I needed it for my own side projects too: games and open source tools that require custom environments GitHub Actions can't provide.
The design goal was something that grows with you. A binary and a pipeline file is all you need to start: runs entirely in memory. Add SQLite for persistence. Add Postgres and distributed workers when you scale. Never have to migrate or reconfigure.
Key things:
PikoCI deploys itself. Live at ci.pikoci.com/teams/main/pipelines/pikoci, no login needed.
I am making a blog/publication/personal profile site, and I really stand for Web revival. However, I do not have any coding knowledge and can't handle website management alongside managing the publication. Is it ironic that I am making it on Squarespace? It sure does violate the core ethos of the IndieWeb movement: technological independence. But it is still original and expressive, and creative in essence. Please tell me what do you think, personally.
You can filter or type any context into the search to generate a custom curation
Check it out @ naturalselection.so
Built for fun, no monetization involved. Let me know what you think!
For the past 5 days, I’ve been building Boomboxt, a social platform for reviewing/tracking music. There are sites like this such as Album of the Year, Rate Your Music, last.fm, airbuds, etc.
HOWEVER:
AOTY and RYM are great, but the interface of RYM feels dated and neither track your actual listens.
Last.fm is great at tracking your music, but it’s just a stats dashboard. There’s no actual decent social incentive or layer to it for me personally.
Airbuds nails audiotracking, but it feels like it’s purely focused on here’s what everyone’s listening to rather than here’s what people think of it. Not to mention the app spams you with notifications.
Boomboxt tries to be all of these. It tracks your music like last.fm, lets you rate and review albums as well as songs, and has a real social feed of what you and your friends are reviewing. It also has heardle! which is like wordle but with songs, which none of these apps have. And the best part, this whole experience is free!
There’s only about 5 users on the site, but I’d love to get more people like you all and get feedback on the site to improve and make it better. And maybe word of mouth could get this site big so everyone can enjoy it.
Right now there’s only a desktop and mobile web version, and it only works with Spotify, but I hope to make an app if enough people like this idea as well expand to other streaming platforms.
I've been thinking over something which would be feasible to build: a webring which mobile users can traverse by swiping rather than clicking. Like webring buttons, it would be easy for creators to embed into a page.
I think the addictive nature of infinite scroll (and swiping) is an absolute plague upon the world, however in the case of traversing self-authored websites the experience might be less passive than social platforms as each site invites interaction. Would it be just as addictive, or simply a neat way to browse indie websites? Maybe a little of both?
I'd like to hear your thoughts on whether you think this would be a positive contribution.
Update: looks like the reception is neutral to negative. I'll shelve this idea for now. Thanks for the feedback everyone :)
Hey everyone, Just wanted to get an idea of how people are making their sites. Would love to hear specifically from both non-primarily technical folks and nerds.
Until the last few years I was creating my site with static site generators (E.g. Bridgetown, 11ty, Jekyll, etc.)
I've been programming with PHP since forever, so for a bit I tinkered with a minimal PHP framework to build it, but then I realized I was basically bootstrapping a (less powerful) CMS.
I dropped that project and then just decided to rebuild my site using a flat file PHP-based CMS. It's a nice compromise between SSGs and other CMSs like WordPress.
How about you?
I am not good at css. So as you would notice, its from manus. What I am good at is math (shocking, right?). I made the tiny code thing to make a map out of an image you put in. Manus made the website tho. Here it is https://manus.im/share/g4GocDrQN28Nc1v2Qbeftu .
Sometimes it's nice just knowing someone else is there.
I built a quiet online café where people can simply share the same space without chatting.
If you'd like a peaceful place to quietly spend some time with others, feel free to stop by.
https://cybercafe-dev.web.app/
I'd really appreciate any honest feedback.
1. Would you ever come back?
2. What made you stay or leave?
I recently created a small website/archive called NIEMANDSLAND dedicated to underground literature, indie zines and fragmented writing.
The project was inspired by DIY zine culture, outsider literature and the idea of building small spaces outside algorithm-driven platforms.
The site contains independent zines, literary fragments, archive-style blog entries and experimental/underground writing
A lot of the atmosphere is influenced by railway stations, sleepless cities, typewriters, photocopied zines and early internet aesthetics.
No ads. No optimization. Just fragments from the wasteland.
Would love to connect with other people interested in zines, DIY publishing and underground literature.
Yo, what up team? I've made a personal site. Check it out if your so inclined.
I have updated my about me page. I deleted my other post because it wasn't fit for me.
https://athm.neocities.org/index6 My about me page. Now you get to know me a bit better.
Let me know if you have any questions!
Edit! I fixed it.
I want to create a website for downloading videos from social media. I'm looking for methods or projects from GitHub to get ideas from. If anyone has information or effective methods, please share them. Ideally, it would be free or at least cost-free.
Founder here.
Over the last few months, I built a link management SaaS called Frenzo. While building it, I realized something interesting about the URL shortening market.
I initially assumed people wanted a shorter URL.
After talking to potential users, almost nobody cared about the length of the link.
The conversations instead revolved around questions like:
That completely changed how I thought about the product.
Instead of building "another Bitly clone," I started thinking of it as programmable link infrastructure.
I'm curious how other SaaS founders validate assumptions like this.
Have you ever built a feature you thought customers wanted, only to discover they actually cared about something completely different?
I'd love to hear examples from your own products.
This project is starting from scratch to create a search engine largely built by people. There's a slow semi-automated spider to help build up the search engine, but it also lets people add sites various ways. One way is to click the mushroom (bottom right) and add a bookmark. If the site you bookmark isn't already in the search engine, it'll get added.
It blocks facebook, google, amazon, and a few other mega sites.
This is my shrine. https://athm.neocities.org/img Click on ''Welcome to HOLYWOOD'' to enter.
こんにちは! Everyone!
Akira here. A lot has occurred since the last update. To fall back on the previous update, we’ve discussed The Memory Paint software I’ve been working on. To give everyone a quick refresh of the goal of the software. Memory Paint is designed to be an art software that is meant to best replicate real life art mediums, with flawless, and easy effort. The purpose is to allow anyone of any background with or without a history of art, to be able to create a masterpiece simply and easily.
This has been a fun, and eye opening project for me, and at the age of 27, growing up obsessed with tech, and quirky computers and inventions, this would be my first project that I’ll be putting out there. My mom is Japanese, and my dad is French Canadian, my mom side of the family is made up of artists, while my grandfather, and a few of my family members on my dad’s side, worked at IBM in NC before the Charlotte branch dissolved. So, in a way, this project kinda serves as a blend of two philosophies I grew up with.
In the last post, we’ve worked on a physical prototype for the software, I’ve dubbed it “The Tech Canvas”
While the first prototype was aesthetically pleasing, the hardware simply couldn’t handle the software. So, going back to the drawing board, I’ve decided to rethink and go with a new design. From the images and the sketch you see, the big component that will most definitely stay, is the art easel. Which, not only looks pretty cool, it made it comfortable to use when testing the software with a sketch pad.
Prototype 2 was a massive success!!
As far as when the Tech Canvas will go into the market for sale? It’ll be a while, I’d much rather perfect something, and offer quality over quantity. It won’t be any time soon sadly :( sowwy!!! But expect it to launch with a low price ($90 or less)
So, in the youtube video, I went through a quick demonstration of Ver 1.2. I will say, I’m not a youtuber, the video sucks lol, and it’s pretty hard to tell what I’m clicking on when showcasing the software. Here’s what I’ll say about Version 1.2 of Memory Paint. Wet on Wet techniques have been added for all three mediums, a line straightener tool has been heavily worked on, now any shape, squiggly line, or sketch, will now have perfect curves, angles, etc. This is still a work in progress as you can see in the youtube video lol. Other features have also been fixed to where it’ll run as intended.
Version 1.3 is now in development. A ton of new things are getting added! And it’ll def be a massive improvement over 1.2
As always, I’m looking for feedback for anyone who is down to test out what is currently available on my itch.io page, and Version 1.3 that is stil being worked on. If anyone wants to hit me up, feel free to leave me a comment and message and I’ll get back with ya!
Thank you everyone for the amazing support!! ^w^
Itch.io page: https://akirakaminagaofficial.itch.io/memorynetpaint
Youtube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbtyhobdqwY&t=12s
Today I was sitting eating and thinking about my site. I like the way it looks,but I feel like there can be more! As an artist I can think and create things,but when it comes to my site I get stagnant. I'm into the Gothic aesthetic, but also emo,nu-metal,and dark fantasy. Things like fairies, vampires,ect. Let me know any ideas. Thank you!
Frustrated with how sterile modern social media has become so I built something about it.
TheSocialVOID is a MySpace-inspired social network where you can actually customize your profile. Write your own CSS, pick layouts, add music, post blogs and bulletins, the whole thing. It feels like 2006 but built on a modern stack.
Tech side for anyone curious: Node.js, Express, MySQL, Socket.io, hosted on a VPS behind Cloudflare. User CSS gets sandboxed through DOMPurify with a review queue for anything flagged.
No ads, no algorithm, no data selling. Just a place to make your corner of the internet yours again.
Early access is live at thesocialvoid.com, would love to hear what people think.