I built this in a few hours to play around with Figma's API, and it blew up on Twitter. Decided to open source the script + make a small guide. Hope you find it useful!
Decided to make a short guide in Medium explaining how to set up Google Sheets using the Google API to be the database or content management system of your website, with PHP. Hope you find it useful!
Feeling extremely kind this holiday season, I decided to make the different iterations, assets, illustrations and designs from the different products I released on 2018 open source, so you can use them for any purpose you want - either for your own projects, to learn or get inspired, I don't care!
Put together this small gimmick in ~5 hours and launched on the 24th, to celebrate the holidays.
The idea behind the platform is simple - Put a special message, offer, discount or freebie inside a custom wrapping (choose the shape and color of your gift), and send the link to whoever you like. They'll have to unwrap it to reveal its contents!
Built this in a couple of weeks, using the Product Hunt API & a simple script. Random Hunt has >13K products in its database that you can shuffle from, through an interface I made in ReactJs (hope you like the design!)
I decided to make it open source so people can contribute to it or make their own version.
You can put "Other" if you don't want to disclose it, but I understand the sentiment. It could be understood as NB / Trans for example, and it could be misleading. I'll keep that in mind for a future revision.
Thanks! It's something I have planned for when the platform is bigger in terms of users. Currently it has 900 (close to 1K, insane for just 2 days!), so if I split the categories more, many would be empty, making it difficult to find users in general. On top of that, more categories means more work for the users to select their desired categories. Overall it doesn't seem worth it for me currently.
What are my future plans in this regard though? When the site gets past 1K users, I will start brainstorming and developing a new way for users to select their categories. Likely through a textbox vs multiple checkboxes, where people could type the areas they are into and they would autocomplete. I'd like to also let users suggest categories, eventually maybe even let them create their own interests. Could be exciting!
That's a valid suggestion. I pulled the images from Unsplash (free to use), and needless to say, there's not really an endless assortment of pictures there, so I did with what I found, sadly. It is definitely something to improve upon, maybe I will get someone to do the photography for some of the topics, or alternatively go for a design. In reality I am not exactly fond of the execution of the categories - in the end they're sort of a filter, so I could have simply created a "super-page" where you could have those interests listed as filters, and could have found users sharing more than 1 category. On top of that, currently the platform has a fixed amount of categories, and it does not allow users to add themselves to any other interest, which is a bit limiting and unfortunate. Because of that, in the future I might redo this section entirely, which could help fix the issue you raised at the same time.
Ahh thank you for that bit of insight, I was wondering if you had gone through the additional trouble of maybe pulling images from each respective topic via hashtag and applied some sort of ML to decide what picture is displayed with what category.
Definitely nothing wrong with the approach you've taken though (and if nothing else, consider the above an idea if you do decide to rewrite that functionality) if it helped ship the product more quickly, like I said-it doesn't break functionality, just a passive observation that may help the user experience later down the line.
Appreciate your comment, I think it sums up well what I intended to go for with the platform. Taking aside what people might think about diversity, we've seen that ideologies radicalize when we are only surrounded by like-minded people, usually from similar backgrounds. Having the chance to find people based on a variety of filters allows you to discover pretty much any kind of person, and it can contribute to avoiding this issue in particular. Do I think that everyone must equally follow the same people from those different groups? No, not at all. But even having someone outside your bubble can help you broaden your view in a multitude of topics, for sure. Thanks!
First of all, props for shipping this! It says you're only 18 so great work!
I think that people are taking issue with this though:
> Taking aside what people might think about diversity, we've seen that ideologies radicalize when we are only surrounded by like-minded people, usually from similar backgrounds
You've classified people based on gender and sexual orientation but that doesn't actually mean they have different backgrounds. 99% of my upper middle class friends have nearly identical opinions (very liberal for the record). It doesn't matter if they're men, women, lgbqt+... I suspect you'd get more actual diversity by looking for people (regardless of gender or sexual preference) who don't live on the coasts or in major cities.
Fair. I think I might've mentioned this in another comment, but although I've put emphasis on identities, I also take into account background through filters such as language (different cultures), low-income (so not upper class), migrants... I will expand upon these now that I've got a decent userbase.
Cool! Great job taking the sometimes rough feedback too. The more you ship the more haters you're going to get. Take it in stride and do listen to see if people have a point (they won't always). Seems like you're doing just that though, so keep up the great work.
