Discussions
🛠️ Technical Solutions
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Authentication for Browser Extensions:
- Use Firebase or OAuth for simpler authentication in browser extensions, avoiding the complexity of email/password. Consider using PlasmoHQ/examples for guidance with firebase auth, see example
- For a lean MVP, explore OTP via email with a short session token for simpler user authentication.
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Extracting Data from Websites:
- Consider headless browsers or APIs like Scrapingbee for automated data extraction, instead of manual copying, especially if APIs aren't available. Scrapingbee also integrates with make.com for building automation flows Scrapingbee
- Use Power Automate Desktop to extract data from websites where APIs are not accessible.
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AI Tools for Code and UI:
- For rapid prototyping, especially UI, Lovable.dev and Bolt.new offer a low code approach. Also consider v0 for UI inspiration. Lovable integrates with supabase for auth. Lovable.dev Bolt.new
- For those with coding knowledge, Cursor.ai, and Cline offer powerful AI based code editing and code generation. Cursor.ai also supports adding docs via using "@" for custom knowledge. Cursor.ai
- For UI inspiration check out v0 and for ideas of what to built and how, consider exploring hackathon example apps
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Working with APIs:
Use proxycurl api to extract data from LinkedIn. proxycurl
🚀 Shipping & Deployment
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Hosting & Deployment Options:
- For simple and fast serverless deployment, explore options like Railway, Fly.io, or Render as an easier alternative to DO or Linode. For static sites consider using Netlify.
- For telegram bots, consider cloudflare workers for easy js server setup
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Mobile app development:
Beware of AI builders for mobile apps, as there is no good solution for mobile development, yet. focus on the tech stack for native web and convert with webview. You can try generating mobile layouts with V0.dev, but it's not a great tool.
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Domain Names:
- Use Namecheap or porkbun for affordable domain registration. Remember to check renewal fees and consider cloudflare for domain registration
- Beware that Namecheap have a bad policy for expired domains
- Consider IONOS for cheap first year domains.
🌱 Growing and Marketing
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Community Engagement:
- New sub-group in Build, Ship & Grow WhatsApp community for matching between builders, you can find it here - Matching Community
- If you're building a tool for content creation, understand how the community is building products, what tools they use, and where they are hanging out. check out what people say about lovable in this lovable insights
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Finding customers:
To connect with e-commerce business owners, consider using App Store Research tools for research. To understand the user's problems and needs consider building a community. App Store Research
🗓️ Built This Week
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Tools & Projects:
- A platform was created to generate social media posts about almost any topic by pulling from public sources, using aipostgenerator.dev aipostgenerator.dev minimox
- A web application that allows users to create a plan and break down goals into actionable steps, based on different parameters using tally and square space. yearforward
- Created an AI-driven tool to find the best telegram channels for job opportunities in Israel. secrethunter
- A tool for easily creating and managing lists of investors, including contact information and details about their investments. investor-match-making
- A basic directory website of HTML5 games using Bolt.new, and publicly available APIs. Can be found at thegamehub
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Other cool projects:
- A tool to help creators on LinkedIn create more viral content was created with Cursor GenDesk
- A tool to help people track their crypto currency was created with Lovable cryptolova
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