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Show Dev: OS Wordle in 60+ languages!

Hugo Montenegro — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 09:08:55 +0000

🧱🚀 Launch Day!

I'm launching an Open-Source sideproject I've been working on for a bit :)

I reaaaaaally suck at frontend, & wanted to get better. So I remade my current favorite frontend-heavy game with some extra pizzaz.

Presenting: Wordle Global!

The main goal was to get some practice with Vue.js and TailwindCSS under my belt, and also make something useful. I hope this finds some use out there!

The whole thing is open-source, and you can (and actually, please do) suggest improvements or fixes over at GitHub

There's fun languages, like Klingon or Tolkien's Elvish that you can measure yourself on, as well as right to left languages like Arabic or Hebrew.

Here's the direct link if you want to check it out:
https://wordle.global

And here's the ProductHunt launch, where I'd appreciate an upvote :P

Hope you enjoy!

FEEDBACK REQUESTED: We're building a way to understand your internet self

Hugo Montenegro — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 23:26:58 +0000

Hey Everyone! I've recently started working on a new project with a good friend of mine, and we're hoping to get some feedback.

The landing page is here: www.montfor.com

The problem we're trying to solve: You browse hundreds of websites daily, every day. And yet if you want to look at your history in a comprehensible way, it's really hard. I learn a ton of stuff online (blogposts, articles, tweets, youtube videos, etc...) and yet I have no overview of what I've learned when/where. I'd love to have that kind of organization, and that's what we're trying to build.

The long term vision: Long-term, we want to not only give you awesome visualizations and ways to organize and review your activity, but also offer a way to help self-learners prove what they learn online. Currently if you learn topics on your own outside of university or the like you get no proof, no certificate, no nothing. We're hoping we can change that, and provide our own certificate that states person X has spent ZZZ active hours on topic Y, and is therefore an expert in it and a top candidate.

The revenue model: We're unsure about this yet, but we have a few ideas. We could either connect our users with companies and offer them interviews, receiving a hiring commission in the process (these are generally really high, but it's a big hassle to act as a hiring agency). We could also provide content recommendations á la youtube homepage or instagram explore (should be good since they're based on your activity) where we sprinkle ads in, or just make the software paid. Suggestions welcome! What we never want to do is sell users data (I'm personally huge advocate against that).

Since we're really early stage, we'd love to have some feedback! Give me your worst :P

List of places to post your startup (for FREE)

Hugo Montenegro — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 12:54:44 +0000

I've been struggling a lot with SEO whilst building my startup, and I happened upon a pretty great collection of sites on the internet where you can submit your startup. It takes a while to go through all, but it's great for backlink juice and just general traffic (people use them to discover new products, like e.g. alternative.to).

Here's the GitHub repo with the huge collection of places: GitHub

Not all of them are good tough: like a third of them aren't free and can cost up to ~199$ just to list your project. I went through all of them yesterday posting Namy (my startup), and made my own collection of the best/fastest. Then, since I need SEO juice for Namy, I published them in a blogpost:

https://www.namy.ai/blog/places-to-post-startup

Hope you find this useful for your own projects!!

I just made my first $1 on the Internet!!! 😲💸

Hugo Montenegro — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 13:34:33 +0000

I couldn't be happier right now.

I've been working on www.namy.ai for a while, and yesterday I finally finished making & training an AI model that I was happy with, and deployed it to live. Then I made a small announcement on Twitter (~300 followers) about it.

Some people visited and entered prompts, loitered around, but I didn't see anyone actually buy a domain. "Oh well" I said, I still needed to improve my SEO anyways (barely have done anything on that front😅)

BUT TODAY I log into my dashboard, and I see:
balance: €0.99 EUR

😲

It finally happened!!!!!! My FIRST internet money that I earned on my own!!!!

I know it's not a lot and that I have a long way to go (and just making twitter posts is not sustainable. I need to improve SEO.), but damn does it feel good!

It's definitely validating that someone, somewhere paid money for something you built. Great feeling!

Anyways I just wanted to share this little victory with the community here. Wish you all the best!

It feels good to have a productive week 😊

Hugo Montenegro — Sat, 21 Aug 2021 10:53:11 +0000

Some weeks are good, some weeks are bad.

This week was definitely a good one, I was super productive and added a ton of new features to www.namy.ai 🥳

Here's a list of everything new:

new frontpage with better copy & new domain-section
filter to hide taken domains
widget to instantly check if a domain is available
ability to favorite domains and save them for later viewing
twitter tab
api tab
Plus a lot of restructuring in the backend that's not immediately visible.

NEXT STEPS: New & improved AI model, twitter bot, expanded affiliates.

Onwards!

namy.ai MVP DONE!

Hugo Montenegro — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 19:00:13 +0000

🎉🎉 Yaayyyyy! 🥳🎉

I just pushed the new version to GitHub, so happy!

www.namy.ai is at what I'd consider a proper "MVP" level.

WHAT: It's a domain name generator that's powered with AI.
WHY: I thought existing generators suck. Namerobot, Namekrea, Namelix, Google domains, etc... They all suck

HOW YOU CAN HELP: please check it out and give me some feedback?

Thanks! ❤️

My first Launch! 🚀🚢

Hugo Montenegro — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 12:19:03 +0000

Hey, I'm finally shipping something!

I'm working on two bigger projects at the moment, but have been frustrated for a bit because progress has been a bit slow. So, I thought I'd take a break and build something small and fun.

INTRODUCING: www.remindy.me

I found the domain name was available whilst I was working on one of my other projects (a domain name recommendation engine that generates new & available domains), thought it was cute and grabbed it immediately. A bit later, this website was born!

Here's some more details for the curious:

Tech Stack

Backend: Python/Flask
Frontend: my weakpoint. Currently using Bootstrap 5 and some simple CSS. Have I mentioned I hate CSS? At least now it looks good decent on mobile too)
Email provider: Fastmail (love them)
Deployment: Heroku (easy to setup, use, scale and maintain)
Domain provider: Namecheap (much better than GoDaddy)

Plans for the future

Open-Sourcing: I want to clean up the code a bit and then open-source the project. There's no revenue model and maintenance costs are low (7$/mo), so there's no downside. Besides, I use so much FOSS that it's the least I can do.
Nothing much more besides that. If you have any good ideas I'll be glad to hear them, but the idea was to have a simple service that I'd leave running forever (a la Unix Philosophy)

Marketing Plans

Don't really plan on promoting this much - it's just for fun. I had planned to share it with the few maker communities I'm part of, announce it on my Twitter, and maybe do a Show HN once I've published the source code.

Conclusion

Building this was fun. I enjoyed building a small-scale project that nevertheless is useful. Finishing something and shipping it also has given me some extra motivation to continue working on my other (larger) projects. Can't wait to ship!

Lastly, if you want to connect with me, I'm quite active on Twitter these days. Happy to follow back!

I've also got a website I update occasionally: www.hugomontenegro.com

Cheers and thanks for reading this!