Today I was working on an alerting system that detects new developments in news and notifies me about it on the phone.
I used to integrate SMS gateways in the past so I thought it should be easy, but quickly realised how hard it got to get verified with these SMS providers. I can understand that is due to spam, but it's super hard to get verified for non-US countries.
So I was thinking to use push notifications but didn't want to create an app just to notify me. Luckily I found a Pushover app that does just that, is an existing app you can use to push notifications over for your personal use. If anyone will need something like that in the future it exists.
Saved me a lot of work.
How do you really validate an idea?
- people complaining about a problem doesn't really convert,
- having a wait-list doesn't really convert.
What worked for you?
24 hours after the launch, and I have 6 users 😀
...not paid ones unfortunately, but it's something, I guess.
1. Validated the problem,
2. Built a tool x-ninja.com
3. Contacted all people who said they would pay for it
0 responses, 0 users, 0 views
epic fail
Sometimes, all you need is a simple form that logs feedback on the backend.
Don't overengineer things!
Vibe coding can be like navigation with Google Maps...
You will get there, but you will have no idea how and how to get back 😁
After 20 years of developing software I still feel like noob and I think that is a good thing.
Never stop challenging and learning.