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Show HN: Real-time image generation with SDXL Lightning

Show HN: Real-time image generation with SDXL Lightning

Show HN: Real-time image generation with SDXL Lightning

Show HN: Real-time image generation with SDXL Lightning

Show HN: Real-time image generation with SDXL Lightning

Show HN: A Tool to Help You Understand Your Anxious Friends Better

Hey everyone! We made a tool that shows you how someone with anxiety feels when they get messages. It's all about getting each other and being kind. If you want to help your friends or family who get anxious, this could help. Give it a look and see what you think. It's a way to be nicer to each other.

Show HN: An Experiment with One-Feature Tool Made $7164/Mo

My Raw Story on coming up with an idea, building and growing it. It's very detailed, with the purpose of giving another founder an insider look at one way of doing it.<p>In January I launched an indexing tool called Index Rusher, that forces google to index your pages quicker, to get ranked for SEO faster. This whole project was something I needed myself since I got over 20 products and paying for an external one would simply cost too much.<p>My initial idea was that I would just build an internal tool for my use, that has only 1 feature. No UI really, just 1 button.<p>In the middle of the process, I realized that I could actually run an experiment and launch this tool publically with just one feature. Super simple.<p>I hired a dev who spent a month building it. It looked super easy at first, but it turned out there were so many hidden snakes on the way. Troubles with sitemaps, google APIs, and more.<p>1 month later I launched it (In Jan). The launch didn't go so great, but I didn't really have high hopes. Because nobody knew about this tool, I had no traffic on the site. I still sold several licenses, which made me pretty happy, it felt like validation, people needed it, even if it solved such a narrow problem.<p>At that point, I declared my next stage of the experiment: Growing the traffic and revenue.<p>I've done a number of growth hacks in the next 30 days, resulting in over $7k in revenue, but what's more important, the traffic on the site has grown a lot and stays high and growing. This means I've done a pretty good job on organic growth too, which will just accelerate over time.<p>Here is what I've done:<p>Cross-linking. I added links in the footer on my other products. This is one hidden effect of having multiple products. Each may serve as a lead magnet for the other one. In my case, I have the same audience for all my tools, people who love one of my tools often check out the rest.<p>Being visible on social media. I monitor discussions around the Google Indexing topics and add my replies there. I don't just spam in replies with my tools, in most cases, I genuinely answer and bring value. If my reply gets a reply, I may include my URL in the next reply.<p>Social Media and Blog posts. I've posted several posts about Growth, where I mentioned Indexrusher since I actually use it for me Growth.<p>Traffic from Directories. This one was the top channel of growth. Over 50% of the paying users arrive from web directories. I used a tool that listed Index Rusher on 100 directories & websites.<p>Sponsored listings. I "sponsored" directories to place a banner for my tool on the top of their page/list. Seeing the effect of "boosted" listings. The ROI was good. About $2.5k of revenue came in from these boosts.<p>Affiliate partners Made a deal with a few affiliate partners who reached out to me on X and he drove a decent amount of traffic and paid users to me since he was launching on PH the same week,<p>The total economy of the project now Dev costs: $1500*3=$4500<p>- Godaddy domain: $9<p>- hetzner Hosting: $10/mo<p>- landing page on Unicorn Platform: $9/mo<p>- cost of sponsorships: $800<p>- Affiliate payouts: $150<p>- listingbott for backlinks: $499<p>- seobot ai for blog: $99<p>- Stripe fees: $654<p>Total cost: $6711<p>Revenue: $7164<p>Profit: $453.<p>So, it's profitable!<p>My next steps will be 1) Promote it to 100,000+ users of my Website Builder and reach out to more website builders and pitch them the integration<p>2) Increase Word-of-mouth effect<p>3) Perhaps try some paid ads<p>4) Add automated emails to remind about Index Rusher users who signed up but didn't buy<p>5) Launch a directory as a lead magnet<p>6) Launch little free tools as lead magnets<p>7) Product Hunt launch<p>8) AppSumo launch<p>I will make a new post in a month describing how it went.

Show HN: An Experiment with One-Feature Tool Made $7164/Mo

My Raw Story on coming up with an idea, building and growing it. It's very detailed, with the purpose of giving another founder an insider look at one way of doing it.<p>In January I launched an indexing tool called Index Rusher, that forces google to index your pages quicker, to get ranked for SEO faster. This whole project was something I needed myself since I got over 20 products and paying for an external one would simply cost too much.<p>My initial idea was that I would just build an internal tool for my use, that has only 1 feature. No UI really, just 1 button.<p>In the middle of the process, I realized that I could actually run an experiment and launch this tool publically with just one feature. Super simple.<p>I hired a dev who spent a month building it. It looked super easy at first, but it turned out there were so many hidden snakes on the way. Troubles with sitemaps, google APIs, and more.<p>1 month later I launched it (In Jan). The launch didn't go so great, but I didn't really have high hopes. Because nobody knew about this tool, I had no traffic on the site. I still sold several licenses, which made me pretty happy, it felt like validation, people needed it, even if it solved such a narrow problem.<p>At that point, I declared my next stage of the experiment: Growing the traffic and revenue.<p>I've done a number of growth hacks in the next 30 days, resulting in over $7k in revenue, but what's more important, the traffic on the site has grown a lot and stays high and growing. This means I've done a pretty good job on organic growth too, which will just accelerate over time.<p>Here is what I've done:<p>Cross-linking. I added links in the footer on my other products. This is one hidden effect of having multiple products. Each may serve as a lead magnet for the other one. In my case, I have the same audience for all my tools, people who love one of my tools often check out the rest.<p>Being visible on social media. I monitor discussions around the Google Indexing topics and add my replies there. I don't just spam in replies with my tools, in most cases, I genuinely answer and bring value. If my reply gets a reply, I may include my URL in the next reply.<p>Social Media and Blog posts. I've posted several posts about Growth, where I mentioned Indexrusher since I actually use it for me Growth.<p>Traffic from Directories. This one was the top channel of growth. Over 50% of the paying users arrive from web directories. I used a tool that listed Index Rusher on 100 directories & websites.<p>Sponsored listings. I "sponsored" directories to place a banner for my tool on the top of their page/list. Seeing the effect of "boosted" listings. The ROI was good. About $2.5k of revenue came in from these boosts.<p>Affiliate partners Made a deal with a few affiliate partners who reached out to me on X and he drove a decent amount of traffic and paid users to me since he was launching on PH the same week,<p>The total economy of the project now Dev costs: $1500*3=$4500<p>- Godaddy domain: $9<p>- hetzner Hosting: $10/mo<p>- landing page on Unicorn Platform: $9/mo<p>- cost of sponsorships: $800<p>- Affiliate payouts: $150<p>- listingbott for backlinks: $499<p>- seobot ai for blog: $99<p>- Stripe fees: $654<p>Total cost: $6711<p>Revenue: $7164<p>Profit: $453.<p>So, it's profitable!<p>My next steps will be 1) Promote it to 100,000+ users of my Website Builder and reach out to more website builders and pitch them the integration<p>2) Increase Word-of-mouth effect<p>3) Perhaps try some paid ads<p>4) Add automated emails to remind about Index Rusher users who signed up but didn't buy<p>5) Launch a directory as a lead magnet<p>6) Launch little free tools as lead magnets<p>7) Product Hunt launch<p>8) AppSumo launch<p>I will make a new post in a month describing how it went.

Show HN: NotesOllama – I added local LLM support to Apple Notes (through Ollama)

This lets you talk to local LLMs in Apple Notes. I saw Obsidian Ollama (<a href="https://github.com/hinterdupfinger/obsidian-ollama">https://github.com/hinterdupfinger/obsidian-ollama</a>) and thought it was handy, but I'm too lazy to migrate away from the Apple ecosystem, so I quickly hacked this together. I tend to use Notes as a scratchpad for prompts, so it's nice to do some quick inference without leaving the app.<p>Notes doesn't really support plugins so I'm using the macOS accessibility API for reading selections and then stream responses using the clipboard (not ideal but it works).

Show HN: NotesOllama – I added local LLM support to Apple Notes (through Ollama)

This lets you talk to local LLMs in Apple Notes. I saw Obsidian Ollama (<a href="https://github.com/hinterdupfinger/obsidian-ollama">https://github.com/hinterdupfinger/obsidian-ollama</a>) and thought it was handy, but I'm too lazy to migrate away from the Apple ecosystem, so I quickly hacked this together. I tend to use Notes as a scratchpad for prompts, so it's nice to do some quick inference without leaving the app.<p>Notes doesn't really support plugins so I'm using the macOS accessibility API for reading selections and then stream responses using the clipboard (not ideal but it works).

Show HN: A new search engine for finding leads

Hey folks,<p>There has been some talk about search engines here so I thought maybe I'd share a new project I'm working on. Built it partly to help me sell my own projects.<p>Still a lot of work to be done but would be happy to get feedback. Very early phase so don't trust your life with it.<p>Cheers<p>---<p>Edit: if anyone needs a free/no CC account just DM me on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/crufter/" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/in/crufter/</a>

Show HN: DMARC Checker

Show HN: DMARC Checker

Show HN: DMARC Checker

Show HN: I made a simple daily word puzzle

Show HN: Swift Mail. Fastmail's modern mail standard delivered natively on macOS

Hello HN! I'm excited to introduce Swift Mail, a native macOS email client purpose-built for the JMAP mail standard.<p>Primarily constructed with SwiftUI and occasional AppKit elements, Swift Mail combines the speed and efficiency of a modern mail standard with desktop-centric features such as system notifications, keyboard shortcuts, quick look, multiple windows, state restoration, dark mode, and more.<p>Swift Mail distinguishes itself from other email clients with its steadfast commitment to the JMAP standard over the traditional IMAP implementation, facilitating seamless alignment with modern mail features. It supports various innovative Fastmail features, such as multiple sending identities, the ability to send or reply on-the-fly from wildcard (*) aliases, and the ability to swiftly transition between (true) label and folder organization schemes.<p>Swift Mail prioritizes user privacy and does not collect any user data or function through intermediary servers. Instead, it directly connects to the JMAP server with the user's provided account credentials, processing and storing all data locally on the user's device.<p>Currently, Swift Mail is available directly via the Mac App Store with support extending back to Monterey.<p>I’m also running a developer build on visionOS (if you have hardware and are interested in testing a beta release, please reach out to beta at swiftmail dot io).<p>A sincere thank you to everyone who has contributed their valuable insights or participated in beta testing via TestFlight thus far.<p>Looking forward to your feedback!<p>- Karl

Show HN: Swift Mail. Fastmail's modern mail standard delivered natively on macOS

Hello HN! I'm excited to introduce Swift Mail, a native macOS email client purpose-built for the JMAP mail standard.<p>Primarily constructed with SwiftUI and occasional AppKit elements, Swift Mail combines the speed and efficiency of a modern mail standard with desktop-centric features such as system notifications, keyboard shortcuts, quick look, multiple windows, state restoration, dark mode, and more.<p>Swift Mail distinguishes itself from other email clients with its steadfast commitment to the JMAP standard over the traditional IMAP implementation, facilitating seamless alignment with modern mail features. It supports various innovative Fastmail features, such as multiple sending identities, the ability to send or reply on-the-fly from wildcard (*) aliases, and the ability to swiftly transition between (true) label and folder organization schemes.<p>Swift Mail prioritizes user privacy and does not collect any user data or function through intermediary servers. Instead, it directly connects to the JMAP server with the user's provided account credentials, processing and storing all data locally on the user's device.<p>Currently, Swift Mail is available directly via the Mac App Store with support extending back to Monterey.<p>I’m also running a developer build on visionOS (if you have hardware and are interested in testing a beta release, please reach out to beta at swiftmail dot io).<p>A sincere thank you to everyone who has contributed their valuable insights or participated in beta testing via TestFlight thus far.<p>Looking forward to your feedback!<p>- Karl

Show HN: CodeRev.app – Code Review as Interview

I've long had a dislike for leetcode interviews on both sides of the coin.<p>Project-based interviews can also be challenging because it can end up filtering out folks who don't want to spend several hours building something in their free time.<p>I met up with a friend last year -- a very senior dev -- who had taken some time off to study leetcode exercises while preparing for FAANG interviews. It struck me that one of the key measures of whether a candidate is a fit for a team is rather <i>synthetic</i>.<p>CodeRev.app is a simple, lightweight tool that helps teams evaluate candidates using code reviews. While programming tends to be a more isolated activity, code reviews tend to be more open ended, collaborative, and reflective of how a candidate communicates, interacts, and provides feedback day-to-day. It may also be a better yardstick for roles that are biased towards reading code rather than writing code (engineering manager, support, QA).<p>More interesting is that as we come to rely on AI generated code in our workflows, testing for the ability to read and evaluate the quality of generated code and whether it is fit-for-purpose becomes more important. Being able to quickly identify security flaws, logical flaws, and domain specific gaps (auditing, logging, etc.) becomes increasingly important.<p>More in depth thoughts here: <a href="https://chrlschn.dev/blog/2023/07/interviews-age-of-ai-ditch-leetcode-try-code-reviews-instead/" rel="nofollow">https://chrlschn.dev/blog/2023/07/interviews-age-of-ai-ditch...</a>

Show HN: Hyperdiv – Reactive, immediate-mode web UI framework for Python

Hello HN,<p>I'm releasing Hyperdiv (<a href="https://hyperdiv.io" rel="nofollow">https://hyperdiv.io</a>), a framework for rapidly developing reactive browser UIs in Python, with immediate-mode syntax and using Shoelace (<a href="https://shoelace.style" rel="nofollow">https://shoelace.style</a>) as its built-in component system.<p>This short coding video will give you a good idea of what it is: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XJKfxaqvGE" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XJKfxaqvGE</a><p>I wrote a brief article about the motivation and approach: <a href="https://hyperdiv.io/intro.html" rel="nofollow">https://hyperdiv.io/intro.html</a><p>Hyperdiv doesn't aim to compete with serious full-stack frameworks. The core aim was to make it easy and fast to prototype apps and build UI-based tools. I was originally motivated by internal tools at work -- feeling the need to quickly put together UI-based tools to share with both technical and non-technical coworkers, without having to stand up and maintain a full internal stack.<p>This is my first major open source release. I really appreciate your feedback and support. - Marius

Show HN: Hyperdiv – Reactive, immediate-mode web UI framework for Python

Hello HN,<p>I'm releasing Hyperdiv (<a href="https://hyperdiv.io" rel="nofollow">https://hyperdiv.io</a>), a framework for rapidly developing reactive browser UIs in Python, with immediate-mode syntax and using Shoelace (<a href="https://shoelace.style" rel="nofollow">https://shoelace.style</a>) as its built-in component system.<p>This short coding video will give you a good idea of what it is: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XJKfxaqvGE" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XJKfxaqvGE</a><p>I wrote a brief article about the motivation and approach: <a href="https://hyperdiv.io/intro.html" rel="nofollow">https://hyperdiv.io/intro.html</a><p>Hyperdiv doesn't aim to compete with serious full-stack frameworks. The core aim was to make it easy and fast to prototype apps and build UI-based tools. I was originally motivated by internal tools at work -- feeling the need to quickly put together UI-based tools to share with both technical and non-technical coworkers, without having to stand up and maintain a full internal stack.<p>This is my first major open source release. I really appreciate your feedback and support. - Marius