Site's nice, it's a simple idea with a simple solution.
Some feedback if you want:
- You're overdoing it with the shadows. Simple flat design looks cleaner
- A little too many colors, that are not really aligned with each other. If you're not a designer, check out Tailwind colors and pick 1-2 you like that work complementary. Only use those and white/black/grey.
- For further reading on color picking, read up about the 60/30/10 rule in color design
- Since you've built your site with react, you could think about adding some simple animations (for example, when the books are switched on "next-book" button) by using Framer Motion. This is an opinionated thing from me.
Cool project, good start in the indie hacking community :) Keep doing cool stuff. If you wanna connect, find me on Twitter: @icebearlabs
> - You're overdoing it with the shadows. Simple flat design looks cleaner
I'm not a designer, but I strongly disagree with this one. Given a choice between using something flat or something with shadows, I will almost invariably lean towards the latter. The one place I might eliminate shadows for on this site is the "info" callouts on each book page; I don't think shadows communicate anything there and all other shadowed boxes on the site are clickable, while this one is not.
Thanks for your message! For sure, I will! What's happening here is definitely a huge motivation for what's next. I'm already looking forward to it! :)
Your comment is gold!
I will bookmark it and refer to it for my future projects. It's good to have feedback on the design so I can improve it next time.
By any chance, do you have any design resources or books you would recommend for something getting started with that (ideally actionable)?
Some other not yet mentioned feedback: The 'Show more' button which only revealed the last half of a sentence in both choices I made basically made me ditch the site. There's absolutely no reason to do this if there's no other collapsed content on the page, and also should be avoided if its only collapsing a tiny amount of text. Each book summary has its own distinct page, so its just annoying and to me serves no purpose.
Thanks for your feedback! Initially, I thought it would be a good idea, mainly if a description were too long. But, after reading your feedback and trying again on a few pages, it's never practical.
I just pushed an update to remove the "Show more" button.
The search seems to be very overwhelmed by traffic. I tried to find my own podcast "Code & Conquer - The Indie Hacker Podcast" but it doesn't show up. Or it showed up once, but I couldn't interact with the element? Not sure what I'm supposed to do after it found the podcast I'm looking for. The + button doesn't do anything.
First thing should not be finding out what what your customers want.
First thing should be finding out IF THERE EVEN ARE CUSTOMERS for your product.
A product idea that doesn't have any market won't be successful. So find out if there are people who have a problem that can be solved, then try to solve that problem. Additionally the problem has to be annoying enough so people are willing to pay to make it go away. If you have those two, it's a great start.
My name is Tobias and I’m excited to introduce my new Notion template: "The Software Development Health Check".
This template is a systematic approach to analyzing and improving your team's happiness, and mental health, as well as reduce stress levels.
> Why I came up with it
As a developer with 10+ years of experience, I have worked with all kinds of project managers, product owners, designers, business experts and of course other developers. While on that journey, I’ve always tried to see what works well for the dev teams and what does not. I have also done sparring and coaching for other developers and have noted what they struggle most with in their environments and with their colleagues.
All of this information, I tried to compile in this template. I have also “beta-tested” the template with other lead and senior developers to see what they had to add to my list and questions to ask. The result is a really solid template to find issues within your team and how to improve them.
In the end, I wanted to create a template, that helps team leads, project managers and lead devs to create a more fun working environment.
> Here's what you'll find inside
- A structured way to approach your teams current state and what questions to ask
- Multiple tests you can take, to find out what’s going right, what could be improved and what you can add to your process
- Suggestions on what to do to get the team to a better place
I built this template with my experience of 10+ years in large development teams. Added to that are dozens of discussions I had with other lead or senior developers to include their viewpoint as well.
As I continue to improve the template over time, I will release new free templates that you can add to this base template to add even more functionality. Stay up to date by following me either on Twitter [1] or on Gumroad [2]. I’ll message you when I have new freebies!
Does she defend the claim, that she really saw a snow leopard in the mountains in the full article / website text?
Edit: Read the disclaimer myself. She seems to defent seeing a snow leopard, as she also has a picture of its paw up in the same collection. Make of that, as you will.
>Squinting through my camera’s telephoto lens, I noticed something in the shadow of Mount Pumori. At first I thought it was a rock, but it was exactly what I was looking for.
Worded vaguely enough for plausible deniability, like the rest of the text on that page. She never mentions seeing or photographing a snow leopard, nor does she mention editing the photos. This page seems carefully compiled in order to achieve exactly the attention she got, while at the same time allowing her to deny any lies if the truth got out.
Don’t forget that attention is the number one value for artists. Some who go for fame will do anything for it (whether justified or as a last ditch effort to make the artist dream reality)
So, I go deeper into this in the actual template, but you're not supposed to check ALL of the boxes in ALL scenarios. This is not meant as a test, but rather a checklist, hence I changed the name from test to checklist after the first draft.
So for some things, your team, your company etc. will differ from me and my questions. Which is absolutely fine! This doesn't want to be a dogma and different things work for different people. I HAVE talked to more enterprisey devs, but have also worked myself in both environments. I hope both kinds of people can benefit from it in the end :)
Some feedback if you want:
- You're overdoing it with the shadows. Simple flat design looks cleaner
- A little too many colors, that are not really aligned with each other. If you're not a designer, check out Tailwind colors and pick 1-2 you like that work complementary. Only use those and white/black/grey.
- For further reading on color picking, read up about the 60/30/10 rule in color design
- Since you've built your site with react, you could think about adding some simple animations (for example, when the books are switched on "next-book" button) by using Framer Motion. This is an opinionated thing from me.
Cool project, good start in the indie hacking community :) Keep doing cool stuff. If you wanna connect, find me on Twitter: @icebearlabs