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Show HN: Simple website for posting updates on your side projects

prehave.com

22 pointsrememberlenny11 comments

Hey all!

I've been working on https://prehave.com. I want it to be the easiest website you can make for tracking your side project work. I made it exceptionally easy to keep a community of followers engaged.

I just added the ability to have an email update go out when you post a new project update. Anyone interested in your project can submit their email address and get one-time emails to your project when you post new updates.

The email updates come in a well designed responsive email, with a link. The email updates can be written in Markdown, making it easy for you to style.

Please let me know what you think!

I really liked the minimalist design and color pattern of the product. Just one feature request: can I also see how many unique visitors have been on my side project page? The visitor count increments every time I reload the page, which may not really tell me how many visitors have shown interest in my project. A unique visitor count would give me better insights.

I was about to start working on a side project of mine today and I couldn't have found Prehave at a better time. Do visit https://prehave.com/p/bookay for my side project's constant updates!

Yes! I'll make that adjustment.

Thanks for signing up!!

Currently there is a stats page for all of your projects here: https://prehave.com/stats - I will make one that is a bit more specific to your project. I am collected all of the necessary information to build out the pages.

Right now, I'm working on the engagement emails that help users get the most out of the product.

Im currently designing the entire site to have the longest user engagement over time. I was initially going the route of making the site feature rich and highly sharable, but decided it's better to have less users who truly love the product.

If there are any other features you want, please feel free to email me directly at lenny@prehave.com

Liked it so much, that I hunted it too :) https://www.producthunt.com/posts/prehave

Thanks!

What is the difference between this and a blogging platform + email newsletter?

Perhaps this is a criticism, perhaps it means you should broaden your scope.

A service specific to side projects should have specific features, like, for example, GitHub commit tracking: let the developer see the new commits he has pushed to GitHub and explain the changes they introduce in a new post on Prehave.

Thanks for checking out the project.

I am incrementally implementing features.

Im currently solidifying the email communication that goes to users and project followers. Once I feel this is solid, I am implementing a github integration with commits.

I want to have a way to integrate the commits from a github repository, and provide a way to comment on a series of them. Think a tweetstorm meets git commits. The idea is to add a narrative/explanation behind the commit series.

Hey, that's exactly what I thought!

I really like the idea, keep it up!

A couple small typos:

• Your side projects belongs here: belong/project

• Dont and doesnt: missing apostrophe

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