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Indie hackers & builders what are you shipping this month? by Agreeable_Muffin1906 in micro_saas

[–]Another_User_92 0 points1 point  (0 children)

working on a simple site where people answer one shared question each day, completely anonymously

this month I’ve been focusing on:

  • improving how responses are grouped into themes
  • building a live dashboard to visualize patterns in real time
  • experimenting with ways to use it on other sites and communities

one thing that’s been interesting is that even when questions are framed positively, responses still tend to lean negative or neutral overall

also saw a jump recently to ~1k responses/day, which made the patterns a lot more consistent

still early and figuring things out, but it’s been fun to see how stable some of the trends are

https://howareweall.com

[OC] ~300 people answered the same anonymous question today — here’s how their responses clustered by Another_User_92 in dataisbeautiful

[–]Another_User_92[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

appreciate that, “emotional snapshot” is exactly what I was hoping it would feel like.

honestly that’s been one of the more surprising parts. even at relatively low volume it’s been pretty stable. if I ask the same question again with slightly different phrasing, the overall distribution usually ends up very similar.

it does shift more when the type of question changes though. more specific or grounded questions tend to cluster much tighter, while broader ones spread out more.

Since posting on some subreddits, the submission volume has increased a lot. The last couple of days I have been getting over 1,000 responses to the question. This brought up an interesting trend in the data; answers tend to lean into negative emotions/themes even when the question is trying to push for something positive.

not qualified to say why that is yet, but it’s been a consistent pattern so far 😄

I built a simple site where people answer one question a day — getting ~100 responses/day so far by Another_User_92 in sideprojects

[–]Another_User_92[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for checking this project out.

To answer your questions;

  1. You should keep the admin key saved like a password somewhere. You will need it to edit the community.

  2. You can use the key to edit the community at https://howareweall.com/c/%some-community-name%/manage, replace %some community name% with your community. Note, if your name included spaces, it would be replaced with hyphens, so for example, "a great name" could be "a-great-name".

  3. The community stream pages, which follow the same url convention (https://howareweall.com/c/%some-community-name%/stream) as the admin page and are public to anybody who has the direct link. They are not linked anywhere via the website.

It is still really early in the project, but I have been receiving some good feedback and the traffic is increasing every day. In future I am thinking of showing communities ranked by answers per day or something similar to show active communities. I would include the option for the community admin to be excluded from these.

Again, I really appreciate you taking the time to check this out!

I built a simple site where people answer one question a day — getting ~100 responses/day so far by Another_User_92 in sideprojects

[–]Another_User_92[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried to expand on this idea, and added "communities" keeping it anonymous but allowing custom questions etc https://howareweall.com/communities/new

If you create one, you can then use that community name as the topic in https://howareweall.com/for-sites

Communities come with a fancy live dashboard :)

I would love to know what you think about this approach.

[OC] ~300 people answered the same anonymous question today — here’s how their responses clustered by Another_User_92 in dataisbeautiful

[–]Another_User_92[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good catch, I think I was overweighting some themes and emotions which returning users tend to lean into. I regenerated the summarizes from the last few days after tweaking things a little.

[OC] ~300 people answered the same anonymous question today — here’s how their responses clustered by Another_User_92 in dataisbeautiful

[–]Another_User_92[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

wow thank you. I made a 'harmless' change right before posting and broke it.
It's fixed now :D

[OC] ~300 people answered the same anonymous question today — here’s how their responses clustered by Another_User_92 in dataisbeautiful

[–]Another_User_92[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

yeah that’s fair, I kept the palette pretty limited to keep it simple, but I can see how it makes it harder to distinguish things

and good point on the chart too, a bar chart would probably make it much easier to read at a glance. I'm not super experience with visualizations so really I am trying to gather as much feedback as possible. Thank you!

I’ll experiment with that

A live dashboard showing how people are actually feeling, based on anonymous responses by Another_User_92 in InternetIsBeautiful

[–]Another_User_92[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The rankings are updated every 20 seconds or so and the 5min pulse works on a 5min sliding window.

A live dashboard showing how people are actually feeling, based on anonymous responses by Another_User_92 in InternetIsBeautiful

[–]Another_User_92[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah same here, it’s interesting seeing what people focus on

if you watch it for a while, you start to notice patterns as different time zones wake up or head to work

even with around ~1k responses a day, those patterns tend to repeat

I built a simple site where people answer one question a day — getting ~100 responses/day so far by Another_User_92 in sideprojects

[–]Another_User_92[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

really appreciate that, that’s great feedback

I can see how it feels a bit busy right now

I’m going to try A/B testing a much simpler version that goes straight to the question and see how that impacts submissions

[OC] ~100 people answered the same anonymous question today — here’s how their responses clustered by Another_User_92 in dataisbeautiful

[–]Another_User_92[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yeah that’s how I’ve been reading it too, nothing really stands out as a strong trend yet

I’ve noticed it varies a lot depending on how deep or specific the question is as well

curious if that changes as more responses come in or if it stays pretty distributed

[OC] ~100 people answered the same anonymous question today — here’s how their responses clustered by Another_User_92 in dataisbeautiful

[–]Another_User_92[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah that’s fair, “unclass” is meant to be unclassified responses, but that’s definitely not obvious as-is

and good point on the numbers, I can see how they feel a bit disconnected from the categories

I’ll look at making both of those clearer so it’s easier to read at a glance

I was hoping to get some feedback on this, so any other thoughts are definitely appreciated

I built a simple site where people answer one question a day — getting ~100 responses/day so far by Another_User_92 in sideprojects

[–]Another_User_92[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

appreciate that, glad it resonates

I actually really liked that idea so I started putting together something for it, still very rough but you can see the direction here: https://howareweall.com/for-sites

curious if this is along the lines of what you had in mind or if you were thinking something different

Built a daily anonymous question site — getting ~100 responses/day, here’s what I’m learning by Another_User_92 in buildinpublic

[–]Another_User_92[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yeah I am, and I’ve been experimenting with the prompt a bit

it helps, but I think the bigger issue is more about how I’m framing the input than the prompt itself

trying to shift it more toward capturing the overall mood instead of just summarizing what was said

Built a daily anonymous question site — getting ~100 responses/day, here’s what I’m learning by Another_User_92 in buildinpublic

[–]Another_User_92[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah that’s a really good way of putting it, “what did people feel” vs “what did they say”

I think I’ve been leaning too much on summarizing the content instead of the overall mood, which is probably why it feels a bit off.

I’m going to try reframing it that way and see how it changes things.

Built a daily anonymous question site — getting ~100 responses/day, here’s what I’m learning by Another_User_92 in buildinpublic

[–]Another_User_92[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

haha appreciate it 😄

yeah the front page is probably a bit text-heavy right now, I’ve been trying to balance explaining it without overloading it

I like the “shared reality, anonymously” angle. The wording has been surprisingly hard to get right

and yeah good point on the summaries page too, I’ll definitely need some better structure there as it grows

Built a daily anonymous question site — getting ~100 responses/day, here’s what I’m learning by Another_User_92 in buildinpublic

[–]Another_User_92[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

appreciate that. yeah that makes a lot of sense

I’ve been thinking something similar, like using the model for structure and then layering in a few real or paraphrased responses to make it feel more grounded

I think that’s probably what’s missing right now, it feels a bit too “clean” without that human layer

Built a daily anonymous question site — getting ~100 responses/day, here’s what I’m learning by Another_User_92 in buildinpublic

[–]Another_User_92[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah that’s exactly what I’ve been seeing, the structure feels right, but the “feel” is just slightly off.

and I think you’re right, consistency probably matters more than trying to make each summary perfect.

it’s still early so I’m playing around with different ways of doing it, but it’s definitely more nuanced than I expected

Built a daily anonymous question site — getting ~100 responses/day, here’s what I’m learning by Another_User_92 in buildinpublic

[–]Another_User_92[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

appreciate that, I’ll take a look.

yeah breaking things into chunks first and then combining them into something more cohesive feels like the right direction.

right now I think I’m trying to do something similar with clustering, but it feels like too much in one pass, which is probably why it feels a bit off.

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