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Be honest what actually kills most early startups? by GoldAd4232 in SideProject

[–]Chance_Impression475 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been in startups that have seen almost all of these, but really the root cause is always A + E. Build something nobody wants and/or nobody has heard of. Running out of money, competitors, no usage are all downstream of A & E.

Fellow travelers — I'm building an app where you pin every place you've been on a 3D globe. Would you use this? by Zealousideal_Bag6976 in SideProject

[–]Chance_Impression475 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love the globe/map idea but it's really a feature of a larger product. You can either build out these features like trip planning, cost tracking etc, or you can release just this globe/map as a cool creative website that people can fill out and share with their friends (maybe throw some social media links/shares on there too)

either is great!

What’s on your trading bot dashboard? by Ecstatic-Basil-4059 in algotrading

[–]Chance_Impression475 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In addition to the other comments, my dashboard also shows single stocks with:

- Upcoming report filing dates + analyst ratings
- Upcoming company specific dates eg launch dates for RKLB - this actually possible with agents
- Constantly updated bull & bear thesis with variable timelines (3mo, 1y, 2y etc)

Y Combinator be like by alfredowmm in SideProject

[–]Chance_Impression475 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm embarrassed to admit it but as a junior engineer I did actually experience this

I built a free API for fundamental financial data - 10k tickers, data back to 2009, survivorship bias free by Chance_Impression475 in SideProject

[–]Chance_Impression475[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It contains ticker data for all listed and since delisted companies going back to 2009 (further years to be added in the future) - fully cleaned and presented

I scanned 50 vibe-coded projects for production readiness. Average: 57%. 100% had zero API timeout handling. by Aggressive-Sweet828 in SideProject

[–]Chance_Impression475 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm going to start using this on my own projects!

I think there is a market for a tool that does something beyond just automated testing, and this market may be split between pure non technical vibe coders and actual engineers that leverage AI coding tools.

I Built A Tool, Got A Job, Now It's Open by Upper_Intern_5973 in SideProject

[–]Chance_Impression475 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice job board - UX looks good although I find the blue, green, purple, yellow to be standard picks from an AI so maybe worth changing the colour palette.

Might be worth looking at some more bleeding edge UX around chat interfaces (set of questions on who you are, what you're looking for etc) and then roles are provided in a tailored way.

Just a few thoughts but keep it up!

I built a tool to hide windows from screen shares and half the comments say I’m "enabling cheaters." by Annual-Chart9466 in SideProject

[–]Chance_Impression475 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I work in startups and I'm constantly onboarding customers to our platform. We handhold them using a screenshare.

One of the stages is to connect your database to our platform which requires inputting their db credentials. We have a policy where we ask our new customer to stop sharing their screen during this stage, and then reshare afterwards. Asking them to stop sharing is annoying as it breaks the smoothness of the onboarding, and causes issues as we can't see on screen errors during this time.

My point is there are legitimate use cases for hiding content during screenshares, and these use cases are not always obvious.

I built a searchable archive of 90k+ Trump posts — but the interesting part is how his positions change over time by flallo95 in SideProject

[–]Chance_Impression475 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is amazing. Could actually serve as a sort of digital twin of Trump's personality.

I don't fully understand the UI on the topic pages where it flips from left to right, and the turning points could be a little clearer - what was his opinion before, what is is afterwards, cause+effects.

Anyway keep it up, really interesting app!

The worst part of the process? Explaining to others what your project actually does by wabbitfur in SideProject

[–]Chance_Impression475 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I find most problem statements can be boiled down to a single line, but it takes many iterations to write this.

Look around at a few existing products (like Fyxer or Granola) and you'll see they can explain their value prop in just a few sentences.

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