So one my post here called "These free tools for developers are 🔥🔥🔥" was getting a lot of views and it gave me a idea to make a website our of it & a few days later I launched Appydev
I put it up on Product Hunt and it was voted ~700 times & is the top voted product of the day (19th July 2020).
It was also backlinked by many popular design blogs & mentioned by some really awesome people on twitter.
How I built it?
When I finally started building this, I had a huge list of bookmarks of great tools and resources which helped me a lot for my work.
All I had was links and I had been saving them with the notion web clipper. Now the issue was getting the data, descriptions, images, author, pricing & open source links for these projects.
Doing this manually for ~300 links was a huge task, so I wrote a scraper in node js which did all of the heavy lifting. I just uploaded a csv file with the links and it pulled the title, description, og:images, icons etc.
I tried pulling pricing links & github links, but it didn't work well (worked for a few links), I just ended up find this data manually along with a little help.
This site was made with vue, nuxt, nuxt content module & tailwindcss.
A month later, I have sold this template to two 2 clients for a good amount of money. They wanted something similar, but a little customised to their preference.
The best part is I got sponsored by 10 awesome people, who just liked the website and they were not even trying to get something in return & it was all because of a dev.to article.
You can find these supporters here https://appydev.co/coffee/
Top comments (6)
Loved the UI. Looks very polished♥️
Very inspiring!
Awesome work there Fayaz! Looks great.
So how did you get a word out about the new site when it was ready? Did you post a link for it in your article that was getting those views?
Posting on PH, announcing on Twitter, telegram groups etc, the rest was just backlinks and stuff.
Beautiful design Fayaz 👌 Loved the overall balance and look
Glad you liked it