Project Description: D&D with less fighting and more trolley problems.
I'm building a non-combat focused TTRPG. Happy to give any HN readers a free account to play around with. There's no VTT element and there's no plan to build one; instead it's focused on group storytelling and logging the story, rather than combat and world management.
The world and rule set is very much built to be around levelling the playing field so the GM isn't expected to buy everything and be the centre of the world. Instead, players have as much agency as the GM does, and the world lore is free to access.
There's an element of, if you don't know the acronym, then at this point you're not the market. Longer term, I'll want it to be generalist, but in the same way as as a dev I'll use terminology to help people select into "this is relevant to me or not", TTRPG serves a similar purpose here.
You're not wrong though. For anyone wondering, table-top role playing game.
Nope. It's a market targeting thing. I don't have the resource to deal with people who haven't played before, as well as people who have. For beta testers, if someone hasn't played a TTRPG before, they're not suitable. They wouldn't have anything to compare to.
I'm building an app to track hiking, mountaineering, mountainbiking, trailrunning and skiing activities , including 3D visualization (I live in Switzerland, so it's usually always either up or down and that's hard to visualize on a 2D map) and easy comparison of past efforts on the same track.
The idea is to replace lists with charts. Instead of sorting - say - monitors by price or size, on Product Chart you can sort them by both! And compare them on the resulting interactive scatterplot.
What do you want to be tested:
Imagine you were to buy a new Smartphone, Laptop, Tablet, Monitor, Camera, 3D Printer or Solid State Drive today. How would you go about it on Product Chart? Did you find a product that suits your requirements?
Project description: I'm designing a custom filesystem with compression, error correction (with mirroring) & encryption.
The aim of the project is to have a filesystem with these features while remaining considerably simpler & easier to use than ZFS, btrfs etc. In particular, I aim to make it easy to use with removable media as I got a bunch of old drives that I don't want to have powered on 24/7.
I'm looking for people willing to test the filesystem. While the filesystem appears stable I believe more issues may pop up when used for long-term storage (e.g. backups). With more people using it I hope to find these issues quicker.
There are currently only (FUSE & tool/"mkfs") binaries for Linux[1]. If you want to test it but don't have a Linux installation, please let me know and I'll see if I can create a build for your OS.
Contact info: hn+nrfs@demindiro.com or on Github.
P.S.: Using a block size other than 12 is currently broken, so don't adjust that parameter when creating a filesystem.
Project description: Whenever I've applied for jobs, I found myself with a mess of emails and spreadsheets. It sort of worked, but also felt like it could have been better. The initial goal of Rolepad is helping job seekers manage their search process. Think an Applicant Tracking System but for the other side. You can also visualize your progress with a Sankey diagram and share it anonymously. Getting started is easy - account is created automatically with your first login.
How to test: use this as if you were looking for a job (bonus points if you are!) - would love to hear what you find useful, what's painful, what's missing. Try the diagram sharing functionality (maybe share the public link in a comment here!). Should be usable both from desktop and mobile.
Contact info: there is an in-app feedback page. If you really need email, you can find it on the homepage.
Love this idea BTW. I'd like to do a Show HN once v1 is ready, but happy to have folks get value from it already!
Project Description: A product discovery app that features highly curated lists of products via guides and an endless tiktok-esque feed to discover new and exciting products. The idea came from my wife always having trouble finding me gifts for special occasions like birthdays and currently searching "gifts for men" always suggests shot glasses, knives, or beard kits, which are things I don't want haha.
What do you want to be tested: Live data is not in the app yet (there's about 50 test products for now), trying to nail the experience first since it's a PWA and testing on various devices is hard. If you sign up, your data will likely be deleted by morning time as we're not even alpha yet. Just really curious to see if it works well on a variety of real world devices and also validate if it's something people would use.
Contact Info: contact@ado.xyz (if you want to chat about the app, collab, etc.)
cool idea!
worked well enough for me on Chrome/Android.
As for the listings i would only use this if the products would be more "interesting".
atm i was ony presented with the most bland and popular techbro gadgets.
i get that this is bc it is still in early stages but the variety and uniqueness of suggestions would be key IMO.
> I was ony presented with the most bland and popular techbro gadgets.
Same here.
If someone wanted a list of gift ideas, I'd give them access to my Youtube feed. Pretty much anything related to what you find there would feel personal.
You can pretty much use it for every recurring workflow
you might have. From checkables, to form fields or fully automated steps.
What makes us different:
- Mobile-first, but equally awesome on desktop/web (thanks to RNW/Expo!)
- Extendable via custom scripts for powering custom Quest items, like dropdowns powered by data from Airtable, Google Sheets or giving control to your smart device (Philips Hue, Tesla, ..)
- Custom scripts to forward Quest data to Airtable, Google Sheets or really do anything else with the data
- Scheduling of Quests, Optional Approvals, List vs. Slidemode, Public Quests vs Assigned Quests, etc. etc.
P.S. Extendablity is powered by a service we productized for others to use as well to run 3rd party code fast & secure: https://www.scriptable.run
Project Description: A website builder that uses only SQL. A single binary that renders .sql files as web pages. Lets data analysts turn any database into a custom CRUD website.
What do you want to be tested:
I want to know how easy it is to get familiar with the concept and build a website. Try to build a small website in 15 minutes and tell me if you encountered any roadblock. I'm planning to make Show HN shortly and would like to polish the dev experience first.
Also, english is not my native tongue; let me know if there is any grammar mistake in the readme or the website.
I've been working on a Bootstrap 5 landing page builder for almost 1 year now (mostly just weekends though).
The main USP of this builder is it's targeted more for developers and people who know what Bootstrap 5 is than just another website builder. Apart from the drag-n-drop builder, It has many ways to create websites and landing pages including a step by step wizard that generates a landing page after you answer a few simple questions, a GPT3 a.i. filler, etc.
Testing info:
If anyone has 5 minutes to spare and want to play with it I would really appreciate your good honest feedback about the builder and everything. No signup or cc is needed for trying by the way.
Contact: support@domain or my personal email in profile.
Project description: If you like (neo)vim and Nix, you might find this interesting: it’s a Nix-based Neovim development shell supporting a bunch of languages (with more to come!). LSPs are used with Neovim’s LSP support to give nice editing features, and treesitter is used for highlighting. Nix makes it possible to try out the shell with a single command (once you have Nix installed).
Project Description: Real-time organization and collaboration tool for structured note-taking, mind mapping, and outlining.
What do you want to be tested: We recently integrated OpenAI / GPT-3 into our collaborative editor to generate automated outlines and mind maps, but it is still a work in progress and with some bugs. Would love to get some feedback and help with testing and improving it. Here is a preview: https://www.taskade.com/blog/ai-outliner
Project Description: Infinitely nestable task management - break complex projects down into simple steps/tasks.
Looking for feedback on UX, landing page and testing that features work as expected + are obviously available. Let me know if it's easy to create tasks, prioritise, schedule and rearrange tasks.
Project Description: We’re building a tool to design and run user state machines (we call these ‘flows’). It’s comprised of a shared canvas for modeling and versioning user flows, SDKs for instantiating those flows per user, and a platform to persist user flow state that handles migrating users between versions on the fly.
The SDK gives you hooks to manage state for each node (we call these ‘blocks’) and Dopt handles any side effects, transitioning all dependent blocks for you. Reactivity is also built in: those side effects on the user state graph, along with any others (e.g. updates to user properties or API invocations) are propagated in real time to the SDK.
We started Dopt because we’ve seen teams struggle when trying to build experiences that are contextual to what a user/workspace has done (e.g. product onboarding and education flows). Doing so requires modeling user state graphs in the DB, migrating the schema/data across versions of the graph, tying in product state to state outside of the product, and lots of back and forth with product and design.
What do you want to be tested: We're looking for more folks building with Dopt during our private beta. We're giving the product away for free during this period and cutting discounts for folks that build with us now once we go GA.
Contact: info@dopt.com (or you can sign up for the beta on the website and reply letting us know you found us on Hacker News to skip the line)
I’m building my own SaaS and am really interested in something that
would help me create great onboarding.
So I went to your website and honestly tried to understand your product. Instead of great onboarding your website has very complicated video, that I gave up on.
So maybe having a great onboarding on your own website would be a good way of showing that your product is great.
Thanks for the feedback, we're planning some larger updates to the website so helpful to hear!
We do have an interactive example gallery that we're building out for the reason you call out, would love any feedback you have on them: https://www.dopt.com/examples
Earlybird is a simple and intuitive landing page builder designed specifically for small businesses and creators looking to validate their ideas in the early stages of product/business development. We also offer a Stripe connect for users who want to collect payments through their landing pages.
Some common use cases for Earlybird include:
/ Idea validation: Entrepreneurs and startups can use the product to create landing pages to gauge interest in their products and test their market fit.
/ Lead generation: Small business owners can use the product to create one pagers to collect leads.
/ Pre-orders: Small business owners can use our platform to create pre-order landing pages, allowing customers to place an order and reserve their spot in line before the product is available for sale.
/ Digital product launches: Create landing pages to sell/launch digital products, such as ebooks and software keys, helping to build awareness and generate sales.
Testing: Sign up is free and no CC required. We'd to like hear feedback on usability and the features we offer. We also review feature requests routinely at https://earlybird.canny.io/
Contact: support@earlybird.im or Twitter @EarlyBirdIM
I am building a desktop app[1] to easily query and visualize data files (CSV, XLSX, JSON). It stems from my personal experience in spending a lot of time to get simple answers from CSV/Excel files. SQL is fucking awesome! But usually to run it over the any form of data, you need a DB instance. You need to create a schema for your table, and then import it. There are some CLI-tools that are helpful, but they are usually limited (can't do joins for example) and not user-friendly. To visualize the data, you then have to export the data and import it in your data visualization tool. For even creating a simple bar chart, there are so many steps.
I am building a tool that lets you do all of the above from a single place. If you're an engineer or data scientist who has found himself/herself juggling multiple tools to get simple answers from data, you're my target audience. As a beta tester, you'll get a lifetime free subscription, and your feedback will help me shape the app.
You can reach me at my email (hi [at] shubhamjain.co). You can also fill the Subscribe form on the website and I'll reach out to you.
Description: Website that makes it easy to discover how cities, towns and zip codes in the USA are changing. Useful for finding towns and neighborhoods you might want to live or invest in.
Testing Help: Map view and place finder. Is the map view helpful? Is the place finder easy to use?
Project description: This is an open source course about contributing to open source projects. It is a collection of the skills and expertise contributors to this course have acquired over years of working on FLOSS projects. We want to share the experience (and thrill!) of contributing.
Project description:
Ant Commander Pro is a file manager for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
Compared to other file manager, this one is more developer oriented: basic Git support, syntax highlighting for source code, multiple shells included, can run embedded in IntelliJ IDEA and some other IDE's.
One of the main goal is efficiency: there is no search dialog, just a search field (e.g. "*/.java & < 1 day & >5kb"), possible file conflicts are analyzed before the operation begins, ...
After the installation, it's fully functional for at least one day, then you can fill in a form to get a free beta license key on the website.
Project Description: This is an AI-powered programming tool that creates and updates simple web pages and applications based on natural language instructions.
Its applying ChatGPT-like models (e.g. text-davinci-003/code-davinci-002 from OpenAI) for programming with the admittedly ambitious goal of trying to help users who are technical but non-programmers.
It has preliminary knowledgebase support, templates, the ability to edit and resubmit list of commands to refine them, and hosting for web pages.
NOTE: I actually need at least another 3 days before I can get the new dialog-based version out, and then I will be looking for beta testers again. I already know that the current format is not something most users really can handle. The new version will issue the "metacommands" for the user.
When I finally get this release out, I will be looking to hear about bugs and also any and all feedback or advice on how it can be made more useful for specific projects. In particular I am hoping that at some point people who are into "no code" or "low code" will be able to use it for some things. So if anyone normally uses those types of tools it would be nice to hear some specific use case and what it would take to meet that or an attempt to apply the tool.
The next release after this one will be big for increasing the utility because I plan if possible to integrate with fly.io so people can use the AI to iteratively build and deploy web applications that have a back end. Although I might do subdomains first. Or maybe need to work on something more tedious like automatically detecting incomplete replies that need to be continued.
Contact: jason@aidev.codes or ideally just click the Discord link in the upper-right hand corner.
I guess you mean in my comment here on HN? Because there is no marketing copy on the website that talks about how it works. There is a Help page which right now needs to be pretty technical.
If you mean in the HN comment, I deliberately did not create an advertisement here but rather a technical request for beta testers since that is what this thread is about.
But in general that's great to have the reminder to make some marketing copy and put it on the website at some point. Right now just trying to make the basic concept actually work which is one of the hardest tasks that anyone on the planet has taken up with LLMs.
Project Description: An end-to-end data platform that contains built-in ingestion, SQL-based pipelines for transformation, ability to run Python in mixed pipelines, data catalog, data quality tests, documentation and more. It replaces tools/platforms like dbt, hue, airbyte and alike.
What do you want to be tested:
We are interested in covering the needs of small to medium size businesses and we are looking for early adopters to get feedback about the platform. We'll cover the costs of the whole pipeline for 3+ months and migrate your existing solutions to our platform if you'd like in exchange for feedback.
Please leave your email in the website and I'll personally reach out.
Project description: I am building a tool to help Saas Founders/Side project builders/Indiehackers to quickly build a fully functional web application. The tool would provide user auth, user management, payment, onboarding wizard builder, demo recorder, Marketing automation all in a single place. The end user would bring their own frontend framework to implement their business idea.
What do you want to be tested: I am still very early and am looking for product feedback from Beta testers whereby they could try out the product and provide feedback. (which is still very very early)
Tracket is a platform that lets you build, customize, and monetize niche job board websites. Our platform empowers ambitious entrepreneurs to create professional, customizable job boards and monetize them to bring in extra income.
We're looking for feedback on our onboarding flow and how we can make it as easy as possible to get a job board up and running quickly. We're also looking for suggestions on how to make our themes more customizable and easier to use.
Project Description: Easily publish and sync notes, blogs, and digital gardens to unlimited public sites. Currently works as an Obsidian plugin but quickly looking to expand into other knowledge management and networked note taking platforms.
Completely free for unlimited sites and publishing currently (upgrade includes custom domains etc). Looking for feedback and testing prior to a product hunt launch in a few weeks.
Project Description: a vercel-like experience on top of your AWS or GCP account. Effectively we're an abstraction layer on top of your cloud account with cloud dev environments, full-stack branch previews, managed CI/CD, automated deployments to your AWS or GCP account. We take platform engineering off your team's plate
What do you want to be tested: we're looking for more beta customers for our tech so we can continue to improve
Didgets is a new kind of general-purpose data manager. It can be used to store and organize millions of files. It can be used to create relational database tables and query them; clean them; transform the data; and export selected subsets of data in a variety of formats. Analytic operations are quick and simple.
Project Description: Garden is a git multi-repo powertool. Garden lets you define custom workflows over arbitrary collections of git trees.
If you find yourself running bespoke commands across a smattering of git repositories then Garden can be a big improvement over a big pile o' scripts and repos.
What do you want to be tested: Test the documented feature-set and new-user onboarding experience. Give feedback on its usefulness as a development/testing aid.
Project Description: It's a tool for thought, browser, note-taking application with inspiration from: Roam Research, Obsidian, SigmaOS, Chrome etc. I'm trying to have a all-in-one browser where I don't have to leave to do anything. Everything should be done inside the browser.
Testing help: Anyone who has a non-linux, non-windows machine would be of great help because I need to fix the small bugs still.
Project Description:
Database of SEC Form 4 filings. Makes it easy to see related filings, filter by company. issue, officer, or keyword. Up to the minute filings.
Testing help:
I'd like to figure out how to make this information more relevant and actionable for existing investment and trading strategies. I'm also pretty early on in the project, and I'm using the NextJS beta + Vercel, so looking for some smoke testing and QA.
Project Description: I'm building a session explorer for mobile apps. Upload your app build, interact with your app directly in your browser, share your session link which includes:
- video of the session
- a timeline of interactions (=steps to reproduce)
- network calls
- console logs
What do you want to be tested: I want to test value. Will you use that feature? What would you use it for? Who are you?
Contact Info: edelans@gmail.com, I'll be happy to show you my working prototype (all the features listed above already work).
https://www.legalreview.ai/
Project Description: AI contract review. For when you need to understand a contract before engaging a lawyer. Just forward the contract via email.
Right now we support Software service agreements, NDAs, T&Cs and next week employment contracts, leasing agreements and privacy policies.
How to test: we are still in alpha. For access, email daniel [@] legalreview.ai . Then just send us a contract or link to T&Cs. Let us know what you think of the output.
Project Description:
We help subscription businesses earn more by detecting and upgrading users that repeat trials or share accounts. Eg, when signing up with your work email to get another free week, or giving your password to your friend/co-worker..
What to test:
Connect your app/website and see how many users are repeating trials or sharing accounts.
How to test:
Sign up, follow the wizard, install our js, ios or android API in just a few lines of code.
Product description:
We’re making the simplest tools to find churn, growth, and cash flow metrics for SaaS businesses. We connect to your Stripe and Quickbooks accounts to create a dashboard of useful insights without any configuration.
We need help making sure our math is right, and we’re offering the product for free in exchange for your feedback.
Contact: elliot@growtopline.com
If you’d prefer to join our waitlist, go ahead and add your email on growtopline.com
Project Description: This is a tool for engineering managers/vp/cto's etc. who want to get insight into their organizations development process. Goal is to identify the bottlenecks and help in improving dev peocess.
Testing Requirement: Need EM's to try the tool and provide feedback if the existing sets of metrics are useful to them and what additional metrics should be added to improve its utility for them.
Description: Designed by a former accountant, Percento is a fast and powerful personal finance manager on iOS. With a clean net worth overview, you can focus on what's important, while minimizing effort to keep track of all your money accounts.
Testing: Feedback On User Experience and localization. Percento is featured multiple times by Apple in my country, and I am looking to promote the App in English speaking countries.
Project Description: an email testing tool for devs and testers. Provides a “fake” SMTP server, a web app and an embedded web “widget” for seeing test emails inside the app you’re building.
To be tested: If I were to be specific, we’ve had a few people sign up but never actually try it out. I’d like feedback on the onboarding process/website to see how to make it easier to get going/understand it.
Alphalerts is a SaaS platform hosted in Germany that allows customers to set filters based on key performance indicators (KPIs) to receive alerts when certain stock, option, or crypto events occur.
What do you want to be tested:
Overall functionality of the site, also accuracy and usefulness of the data provided compared to other services.
Contact Info: Contact information can be found on the website, Email: info@alphalerts.com
https://www.anyquestions.ai/videoExternal
Project Description:
A way to ask questions to/on any Youtube video(uses whisper + smart embeddings), and get a quoted response.
What do you want to be tested:
Does it answer questions well for you, for the video you added? Ideal for 10-30 min educational/podcast style videos.
Project Description:
We are building a Natural Language based Framework for Intelligent Search & NLQ Analytics for your Software.
GPT like - but not GPT based.
What do you want to be tested:
What way of integration resonates best with companies. API only, with or without UI / UX components. We still have a bunch of open questions regarding that.
acreom is a developer-first knowledge base with tasks.
we're working on sync with Jira that we would love to get some feedback on. We are building it so you won't have to visit Jira again, and will be able to manage your single-player dev workflow in acreom (breaking down issues, tracking progress, knowledge base, documentation etc.)
Project Description: Teaminal lets you conduct agile meetings like standup, retro, and sprint planning asynchronously.
What do you want to be tested: I'd love any feedback on the product, integrations you'd like to see, and whether this is something you'd like to use with your team.
Thanks for checking it out! A Teams integration is definitely in the backlog, but I should probably bump it up now that you mention it. The average Jira-using scrum team is probably also pretty likely to be a Teams user.
Requirements: Testers will need to be runners (at least some times) and have a Strava account.
Project Description: Challenge friends/family/colleagues for who will run X kilometers first. Integrates with Strava to track the progress and keep the leaderboard for the challenge up-to-date.
So it's more like a one-time thing, when somebody wins the challenge, the challenge is done. Also if people likes it I plan to make it multi platform, such that you can challenge others even if you don't have your running data on the same platform (strava,garmin etc.)
Yeah that would be interesting feature. An aggregator site, where you can check all your friends runnings. At presents I'm using Strava but some of my friends on Addidas Running and I can't check their progression.
Project Description: automation/monitoring for 3D printer farms.
I'm currently running a paid beta program for $149/year.
Contact Info:
Email leigh@printnanny.ai if you're interested in becoming a Founding Member (paid beta subscription). I'll send you a coupon code that rounds down to $99 USD.
Product description: I’m building a link-archiver application for iOS devices that lets you save links and organise them in folders, with tags and notes.
What needs to be tested: General app usability and UI/UX feedback.
Contact: matt95.righetti@gmail.com
The app is currently on TestFlight only and you can find the link on the website!
TwistedWave, is an audio editor for macOS, iOS and Online, and I have almost finished porting it to Windows. I would appreciate any help in testing the Windows version before I release it officially.
Continuous profiling for Linux. It uses ebpf to sample running programs and unwinds the stack, then uploads to server so you know why it look 10 seconds to process that customer’s request last Christmas. :)
Currently supports x86-64 and ARM64
Contact: feel free to join the discord on the website
The page looks pretty dang good. There might be too many of those interactive videos/gifs...there's a lot vying for my attention especially when I can see multiple moving things at once, I could be wrong though. Might be a nice touch to make the previous one stop moving when another is closer to the center of the viewport? Also, just out of curiosity, why is there a link in the footer to a page explaining what Google Jobs is? I didn't understand why all of that was being explained.
Great feedback, thank you! I will work on improving these animations.
As for Google for jobs, many companies and recruiters do not know about it so I thought of explaining what is it and why it is important for organic reach.
Project description: a new UI for generative AI services. Image creation will be first, and should be launched this month. You can sign-up to be notified of the launch on the landing page.
Contact: jason.filby@gmail.com or via Twitter (see my HN profile).
Project description:
A search engine friendly Slack alternative for communities.
We’re working on some tools to make conversations more scalable and async. Large communities who use Slack and Discord becomes untenable we want to make that experience more enjoyable
Product description: Flywheel is instant analytics for product-led growth (aka freemium or free trial products). You'll learn which marketing tactics drive in-app product adoption with zero configuration after integrating a data source. Recent companies have onboarded in <3 minutes if they use Segment / Intercom, or <1hr to install our custom Flywheel.js tracking script.
Testing: Sign up is free with no CC. We want to validate that our calculations work for a wide variety of use cases and event formats, and learn how much value the tool can provide for smaller companies with few, or no, data analysts.
Contact info: You can ping me directly at chase@theflywheel.app or use Intercom inside the app
Project Description: M93 is a personal dashboard that's equal parts habit tracker, progress tracker and life logger. Conceptually, it takes the UI concept of a Github-style contribution graph, adds interactivity to it and makes it the centerpiece of the dashboard.
What do you want to be tested:
1. I want to test if its valuable. Will you use these features? What would you use it for?
1a. What other features would you want from it?
2. What do you think of the UI? Is it intuitive? Easy to use? Which part is confusing?
3. Did the landing page make sense? What didn't make sense?
4. Did the signup tour do an adequate job of explaining how to use the app?
To be tested: 1) identify failure points of the markdown parsing 2) improve overall experience of collaborating 3) identify key features for expanding the utility of Publish as Website.
Project Description: D&D with less fighting and more trolley problems.
I'm building a non-combat focused TTRPG. Happy to give any HN readers a free account to play around with. There's no VTT element and there's no plan to build one; instead it's focused on group storytelling and logging the story, rather than combat and world management.
The world and rule set is very much built to be around levelling the playing field so the GM isn't expected to buy everything and be the centre of the world. Instead, players have as much agency as the GM does, and the world lore is free to access.
Registration link - https://triumvene.com/#/portal/register
Sign up for the free preview and I'll upgrade you to a full account.
Contact info - pete at watson-wail dot es