About
I am a product minded Software Engineer. Building in both frontend and backend, with server, 'serverless', just what is needed to do the job. I have built some small tools, Mock Magic which is a simple, but complete tool to generate device mockups as image or video. I also built an iOs app called Brainflow, which is a minimalistic note taking app, meant for journaling. I love small, nifty tools that are adding little quality-of-life improvements or just happiness in the way they work.
Work
Engineering
Maker History
MockMagicCreate device mockups in seconds. Literally- Mock Magic StudioOct 2023
- MockMagicJan 2021
Forums
Where do you share ideas and get feedback?
Hi, I have a problem maybe someone can help me with it. I'm a software developer, and I maintain a solid tech stack (UI/UX isn't great but I'm working on it). I am capable of designing, developing, and deploying an application from start to finish. The difficulty I am having is how to reach users, my distribution stack is poor, very poor. When I google this problem and watch youtube videos, the solutions do not seem real. It is essentially getting a bunch of fake people to attract not fake people and spam. Product Hunt is the only place I've found that looks and feels honest where I've found tech that I'm using on a daily basis. Do you know of more places like this where I can promote with more idea minded people to get feedback? Thanks for your help.
What's your code stack for 2021?
What technologies are you using currently and are excited about in 2021? I'm currently using: Nextjs React GraphQL Tailwind CSS
As a developer, what do you do with faltering projects?
You are a developer and you have put a few weeks/months into developing a project with big hopes for it. You launch it on PH and get a few hundred signups or views, etc. Then it is 4 weeks later and you are seeing nothing. People are barely visiting let alone signing up or buying your product. You try marketing but it has limited effect and as you end up running out of money to keep advertising it, you start to realise maybe this is not going to work out. What do you do with it? Do you keep going, and keep pushing it? Do you mothball it and take it offline? Do you try and sell the project to someone else to recoup some money? Do you look for partners to work with who can hopefully make it a success alongside you? Do you look for more feedback or ideas on where it can be altered or changed to become a better project? Or do you weep heavily for 3 weeks and turn to Netflix and chocolate to get you out of the depression? One of the reasons I ask is that there are some brilliant ideas on PH but when you click through they are dead or dying and it makes you think "If they just tweaked this" or "If they just added that?" or "If they used it for this purpose that has a huge demand, rather than for their audience that nobody is really that interested in?".