andycloke

Of course it’s a risk, but as an indie hacker making my first business, being able to build on another platform that’s blowing up has serious benefits in terms of getting traction.

I doubt they care at $2500 MRR lol

Yeah I address that in the doc.

Basically many of my customers have the TikTok CM but it hasn’t got enough people on it. Obviously that could change

Support is an hour or two a week.

Sales and management has varied a lot as I’ve got more and less interested in the project, but a few hours a week.

I’ve been working full time somewhere else whilst building this.

As with any side project it’s been as much about learning (SEO, marketing, customer development) as the financial returns!

Hi HN,

I've bootstrapped my SaaS tool Influence Grid (https://www.influencegrid.com) since December 2019. It's a TikTok influencer search engine used by marketing agencies, consumer brands etc.

I'm looking to sell and thought this doc might be interesting to other HN folk as it goes into how I've built and grown the project, and why I'm selling.

Any questions or offers, let me know! andy@influencegrid.com

Hi, developer here. The extension adds a preview to the page with the live stream when you hover over a video thumbnail. It currently works with Twitch, YouTube and Facebook. I plan to add more sites soon if people like it :)

Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRJED9leVPs

Really really liked it - basically you catch all your errors as you write the code rather than having to debug it!

Thanks for the feedback, will take a look

(Author) Last year I wrote a web app for practising Spanish verb conjugations called Verb Master. It got some interest on Hacker News (see here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14326166). I recently re-wrote it in TypeScript and improved load times and mobile performance.

It now saves your stats in local storage and uses them to suggest which verb-tense combinations to study. I also added a better game review with high scores.

Github repo: https://github.com/andycloke/verbly

Thanks! I found anki is great for vocab but for verbs there are just so many conjugations that you end up with too many flashcards. Plus making them is a bore as you say...

This is already a feature but maybe it's not clear. Click on the drop down in the top right to change the language to Spanish

Thanks - Unfortunately that's just the way the component library (React Toolbox) behaves. I could probably force a 'display: none' or something but I'd rather spend my time adding more feature :)

Fixed now

Appears to be an error in the CSV file of the verb database I used. Looking into using the XLS file instead.

Will take a look at this tomorrow - thanks

Thanks - fixed!

Thanks! Great shout on the hint mode.

I don't quite understand the bug - could you post steps to recreate? For me submitting a wrong answer shows the conjugation table, then takes you to the next question :/

I actually came across your site a while back and really like it. That method of grouping verbs is very interesting. Thanks for sharing! I definitely need to think about how to group verbs, e.g. by most common and similar stems.

I wanted to avoid multiple choice as I think active recall of the answer is quite important, but I agree it's a trade off as input on mobile for my site feels pretty slow.

Nice work! Yeah couldn't agree more. It really brought home how great Redux is even for smallish projects like these

Cheers! The look is all Material Design using the React Toolbox library

thanks a lot - I forgot to add that to the shortcuts table but have added it now

Hi cheers for the feedback.

The thinking behind that was that when you on first start it says: '1 - conjugate this verb' '2 - for this person' etc. Which I think is the most logical order.

However I wanted to keep the verb close to the input box so that you can see it close by as you type your answer. That's why the numbers don't follow the order on the page.

I might do this differently in the future - I could maybe get rid of the numbers when you put your mouse over them, but keep them for the initial intro.

Thanks a lot man! Most of the design credit should go to React Toolbox: http://react-toolbox.com

The verb data is from: https://github.com/ghidinelli/fred-jehle-spanish-verbs. I wrote a node script to turn it into a more efficient format.

If you're interested I wrote a little post about making it here: https://andycloke.github.io/Building-Verb-Master/

Creator here. I only started learning to code properly 7 months ago and react ~3 months ago, so I'd love any feedback.

I hope to add audio, more tenses and more feedback (on your progress through each round) soon.

I wrote a blog post on the development here for anyone interested: https://andycloke.github.io/Building-Verb-Master/

This was my CS50 final project. Can't recommend the course highly enough.

This was a bug, Sorry! I'd previously set the target score to 15, but I changed it to 1 whilst debugging something this afternoon. Noob error - Fixed now :)

Edit: Not sure what the undefined bug was will keep looking, ... thanks for flagging it up.

I added the tooltips in the game to explain what to do but I agree it could be more intuitive.