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How RapidFeedback solved my feedback problem and can help you build Better Products

Ved Nig — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 01:33:06 +0000

Hey Devs! 👋

As developers, we all know how crucial user feedback is. Whether you're working on a side project, an MVP, or scaling a full-fledged product, hearing from your users is key to iterating faster and improving your product. But there’s one major problem I ran into: collecting and managing feedback was a huge pain.

Let me walk you through how I faced this issue, how RapidFeedback solved it, and why I think you should give it a try for your own projects.

The Problem: Gathering and Managing User Feedback Is Hard

When I first started building my side project, I knew feedback was essential, but it felt like an overwhelming task. I had a landing page set up, but I didn’t know how to:

Efficiently collect feedback from users.
Manage testimonials that could help me showcase my product’s strengths.
Use feedback to make fast, data-driven decisions without getting buried in a sea of responses.

I tried several solutions, but they either lacked the flexibility or were too complex to set up. I ended up spending more time on the tools than on improving my actual product. 😅

The Solution: RapidFeedback Made It Easy

Then, I found RapidFeedback, and it changed everything. 🚀

RapidFeedback solved all my problems with just a few lines of code and a seamless interface. Here's how it worked for me:

Instant Real-Time Feedback: With just a single snippet of code, I could start collecting insights from users on my landing page in real-time. This meant I could adjust quickly, whether it was fixing bugs, refining features, or improving the user experience based on actual input.
Review Management Made Simple: Organizing feedback was a breeze. I could instantly manage the reviews I wanted to show and hide the ones that weren’t relevant. It helped me focus on the feedback that truly mattered, making it easier to iterate and boost conversions.
Video Testimonials in 2 Minutes: One feature that really stood out was the ability to collect video testimonials. It added an extra layer of authenticity and helped me establish credibility. Plus, the setup was super fast (literally 2 minutes!).

Why You Should Use RapidFeedback

If you’re a developer looking to iterate faster, increase conversions, or simply make your user feedback process smoother, I highly recommend giving RapidFeedback a try.

Real-Time Insights: Collect feedback as users engage with your site or product.
Effortless Management: Show and hide reviews that matter, saving you time and hassle.
Free Plan for Side Projects: No budget for a tool? No problem! RapidFeedback offers a free tier that’s perfect for side projects, indie developers, or MVPs. You can start collecting feedback without spending a dime and upgrade later as your project grows.

The Bottom Line

If you’re looking for a hassle-free, powerful way to collect and manage feedback, RapidFeedback is a game-changer. It helped me iterate faster and make better decisions, and I’m confident it’ll help you too.

Check it out and get started for free at rapidfeedback.xyz.

Happy coding, and let me know how RapidFeedback works for you in the comments! 👇

Or give us feedback from inside the user dash board on signup

Discover Projects Like a Pro with GitHub Multi Topic Explorer! 🚀

Ved Nig — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 08:55:21 +0000

Hey, Dev Community! 👋

Ever found yourself endlessly scrolling through GitHub, hunting for the perfect project or repo that combines exactly the topics you’re interested in? 🕵️‍♂️

Well, guess what? Those days are OVER! Enter GitHub Multi Topic Explorer – the tool you didn’t know you needed until now.

🧩 What Is It?

GitHub Multi Topic Explorer is like your very own repo matchmaker. Combine multiple topics, fine-tune your search, and voilà – a curated list of repositories that fit your vibe! Whether you're hunting for inspiration, looking for open-source contributions, or just exploring cool projects, this tool's got your back.

🛠️ Why You'll Love It

Precise Searches: Mix and match topics like "AI" + "ClimateTech" or "SaaS" + "Linux" (because why not?).
Save Time: No more endless scrolling through vaguely related repos.
Open Source Awesomeness: It's built for devs, by a dev. 👨‍💻👩‍💻

🎯 How to Use It

Head over to GitHub Multi Topic Explorer.
Enter your desired topics.
Bask in the glory of perfectly matched results!

🌟 A Challenge for You

Try it out, and share the coolest repo you find in the comments! Bonus points for quirky topic combinations. 🚀

Tool URL: https://githubtopics.cloudninelabs.site/

Let’s make discovering projects on GitHub a fun and productive experience. Happy exploring, devs! 💻✨

I couldn't afford $5/mo for Ghost Pro so I built one for $2/mo on a $4,000/mo VPS

Ved Nig — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 20:05:09 +0000

Children, this is the story of "How I Met Your M̶o̶t̶h̶e̶r̶ .... no Ghost"

So, this story starts with the usual problem present everywhere , I know, Poverty. So, right now I have graduated from my college and was working on my startup doshare.me living in the spare room of my parent's house. For over a year I looked for tech based jobs on various platforms including Linkedin, Glassdoor and Indeed during the global financial slowdown and seasons of layoffs that's when I started on "file based service for reorganization" i.e changing the way buisnesses interact with files. But that would be a story for next decade.

This one's for this weekend. Since, all the SEO services, marketing and discoverability start with a blog, we at Doshare, got our go-to blog on Ghost Pro. After 1 Month of Free Trial and sending a "reinstating" email to ghost support team(cause card declined ofc.). We knew we couldn't pay $11/mo for Plausible Analytics and $5 for Ghost Pro then paying Monthly Infrastructure Costs for AWS, Cloudflare Workers, R2 and Render. We needed to cut costs so we did what any other (totally!) reasonable engineer would do. Setup the blog on a VPS using docker. So, like aaanyyy other reasonable engineer we started out, where ever we could get free credits.

And then this occurred. IBM gave free $1000 IN VPC credits. After exhausting every free credit limit on AWS and Render. It was time to move to IBM cloud.

Simply installing docker and setting up a single instance of Ghost for our blog at blog.doshare.me . Then I realized many people are required to host their own instance on a $5 DigitalOcean droplet(or similarly priced VPS on AWS, Azure etc.).

While setting up Ghost using Docker on server. I thought it would be great to have a WebUI over the Docker that could deploy as many websites I want for each of my side projects with a simple URL setup via cname. So, taking inspiration from Vercel's UI (or Next.js idk much of a Vue person really). But, I wanted to learn Nextjs and work on a project using Supabase - what's supabase? you ask? it's this Awesome Open Source Firebase alternative for building Apps. And recently, it went into GA - General Availability, which also means they have made it less buggy for this type of project or any.

So, I left everything I was doing(I wasn't doing anything), and got started with this Nextbase Starter from GitHub. Encountered some errors, did rigourous Testing, Wake up late. Sleep (a little) for 2 week. First week I hoped, I would be able to ship by end of week. But that was my overambitious self. it's okay(sobs on localhost:3000) .Let's say it, "I am Batman" (in ben afleck's voice). OKAY, you got me I might have designed (or not) a theme named Batmobile for Ghost back when I was tinkering with building Custom Ghost Themes.

After 2 weeks on 14 June starting from 1 June it was finally completed with Payment Integration using Razorpay's Gateway. It was live for 2 days, I launched it on YC News and then Razorpay.(because they don't support business web hosting)

Remember it's BYOSD (that's short for Bring Your Own Sub-Domain)

Now, it's down again. So, that's great for an effort?

Now that my ramp is over here it is time for stating that I have made website free for now until I figure out a Payment Platform so you can try it out. Enjoy, GT out! (mic drop🎤)

Enjoy The Free Brunch Here :> Login - SignUp

PS: Now I have to pay $7000 and $72 on AWS plus whatever Cloudflare for SaaS bills.

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Notch X : For Multi-taskers

Ved Nig — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 16:54:45 +0000

Ever since the release of the latest MacBook there has been a crazy fuss surrounding the notch of MacBook.
But this story is not about notch on MacBook?
This one's about bringing MacBook's notch to Windows. So, once I searched the web how to add notch to windows I understood that though there were a few software capable. But all faced with the same problem that bringing a notch defeats the purpose of productivity.

Hence, there was this question I faced that how could you add a notch while at the same time making your system better?.
Now for one, there is one thing I should tell you that during this pandemic there were many instances when I learned but if there was anything that I learnt the most was to Multi-Task.
Such as, joining my online-classes, at the same time preparing for presentation in next class, as well as keeping updated with the messages from my group members for upcoming presentation.

For last few days I felt the need to access most important apps instantly. But each time I would have to go to Start Menu then Type The Name of App and then press Enter.

That's when I decided to create Notch X bringing the look and feel of notch and merging it with productivity for users.

And after coding, developing, designing and testing for 12*15 hours Notch X was born.

For starters, it is capable of:

Opening Notes :to know what to study
Opening Teams :to join my class
Xbox Gamebar :to record anything important in class and beyond
Settings :to quickly change microphone and camera access for conditions such as accidental enabling
And Wox : an application launcher faster than Start Menu

and I wish to add more features to it in future.
You can star the repo at rug-gui/notchx
You can also download the installer directly and install it.
(Though, it might have some bugs!)

Project is currently in Alpha Phase of Development.

And yeah, I believe even now it is not perfect, but there are a few improvements you can suggest too. And since it's open-source there can be few you can add yourself too.

Notched Forever💖