Also posting it here. How I built an app to find the most mentioned brands on YouTube. ⏱️ Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 00:25 - Part 1 / Why & how I built this project 04:36 - Part 2 / The data 08:53 - Part 3 / The app

4 new Rails UI components just dropped! (Built with Stimulus & Tailwind) ✨ Dock Menu 🧭 Navbar 💡 Sidebar 🍞 Toast Oh and they're all Free!

8 new Rails UI components shipped in August! (Built with Stimulus & Tailwind) ℹ️ Alert 🔎 Autocomplete ✨ Badge 📃 Card 🚀 Command Palette ☑️ Confirmation 💬 Feedback 🦴 Skeleton

The video's finally up! In the last year, I analyzed 5 million YouTube videos to find which brands are the most mentioned by creators. Check the video to see how I learned how to do it & some cool Graphs! ⬇️ piped.video/watch?v=UzEZvoJE…

I just finished building a free youtube sponsorship calculator! For creators: You can know a pricing range for your next sponsored video For brands: You can get an idea of how much it will cost you to sponsor creators in your niche

🫠 After months of work and getting better at coding, I finally finished my new app! It's a database containing which brands sponsor YouTubers, you can check it at sponsorship.so It has 2M videos so far and I'll keep adding more + improving brand detection next up 👨‍💻

I've been seeing people publishing SaaS boilerplates recently, and last weekend I created a little list of 60+ templates with an upvote system. Enjoy! 👉 softwaregrowth.io/saas-boile…

Really cool way to visualize the year's progress! Here's ours at SchoolMaker 👀

Here's the story of @AlexandruGlv and how they cloned RailsDevs for the YouTube community. Also, this screenshot is just… perfect. 🤣 piped.video/watch?v=-Td6-mKG…

Turn a YouTube video into a text summary…in just a click! 🎥 ➡️ 📑 Tool by ⁦@AlexandruGlv⁩ does the trick 🪄 producthunt.com/posts/video-…

Just finished @ryanckulp 's camp ⛺ I got to code an AI app proof of concept in 13 days! It was a perfect environment to learn to build apps quickly from experienced devs & get to know smart people from around the world. That's how productive I felt during the last 2 weeks 👇

During the last few months, I spent 100+ hours building my first app yt.careers and got a few hundred signups Here's a little video documenting this journey! ⏱️ Timestamps: 00:00 - The idea (1h) 00:30 - Starting the MVP (20h) 01:33 - Getting the first users (10h) 02:49 - Improving coding skills (30h) 03:45 - Complete MVP (40h) 04:09 - Launching (5h) 04:50 - App trailer!

Hi! In the last few months I've been improving my coding chops, and just finished the V1 of my first app, so here's a quick post on how I built my first SaaS, from idea to launch: 1. The Idea 💡 After working with a YouTuber and making some creator friends, I saw how annoying it was to find good talent to work with for them. And on the flip side, I also realized how hard it is for people to find a solid job in this space. This is what gave me the idea of creating a job board centered around YouTube last year. 2. Building the MVP ⚙️ Since I have a demanding job and cannot spend dozens of hours coding every week, I needed to build an MVP quickly. So I looked for templates and open source projects that I could "yoink" so I could build a proper MVP fast, and after a few days of searching, I had found it! @joemasilotti is open sourcing his developer job board railsdevs.com, which was almost perfect for what I wanted to build. (For example, it lacks the ability to add job posts since it's entirely focused on candidates) So I got started and cloned it, changed the copy, changed a bit of logic, improved the SEO and made a video trailer, so everything makes sense for a YouTube job platform. Also, since I live in the country of the croissant 🥐, I translated the whole app in French, and translated Joe's app as well to thank him for open sourcing it. So after around 3 weeks of work, I was finally ready to officially publish it, but something stopped my progress for months... 3. Crushed by a giant 🧌 The same exact day I finished my MVP, Paddy, a great YouTuber with hundreds of thousands of followers, officially launched his own YouTube job board that instantly became huge, and used by the biggest creators. After seeing how successful it was, I looked back at my little prototype. And in one day, all the motivation in me was gone. I thought that my app sucked. That it was useless. So I gave up. ... But little by little. Thanks to discussions with friends. I realized that: • It was not that bad. • Many industries have multiple successful job boards. • Business owners often post their job offers on multiple job boards. So, it's not a zero-sum game. I just had to get users, improve my app, and differentiate it from this main competitor. So I started reaching out to people who might be interested in signing up to the app as candidates, which went well. But when I sat down to build new features, I realized that I hadn't built apps in months, and couldn’t really build stuff by myself that well... 4. :Insert training montage: 🦾 A few months ago, I saw that @ryanckulp, a startup founder who exited a previous company and now teaches how to code, released his last course, 24H MVP. The idea behind the course is to teach people how to build SaaS apps fast. And even if I had some coding skills, this course is really what got me out of tutorial hell and gave me dozens of "aha" moments. So I went through the material, and thanks to it managed to build a little bot that allows you to give anon feedback (@SecretFeedback), and a little stakeholder update platform (founderletter.io) I was finally ready to improve my app. 5. The launch ⚡ I started by adding: • The ability to add multiple YouTube channels • A job post creation system • And dozens of small tweaks for UI/UX & SEO • Improvements to the chat experience and made my app simpler than the competitor. And I finished the last tweaks yesterday evening, and I just released it on Product Hunt! producthunt.com/posts/yt-car… (would love to have your support 🫡) Now it's time to focus on the marketing side. I'm also thinking of sharing more of what I build, work on and learn on X. Thank you for reading my post! See you soon. Alex

I'm back from vacation, and it's a pretty good end of the week! • Was on the first page of HN for the first time today :o • Just saw that the @SoftwareGrowth YT started getting a bit of traction, more videos are coming soon!

👨‍💻 After months of hard work it's finally here! ✍️ I finished writing the most complete guide to course creation on the internet. ✨ It's a series of articles with checklists and custom interactions made with @webflow. 👉 Now LIVE on @ProductHunt: producthunt.com/posts/how-to…

Practice vs. Deliberate Practive Regular Practice = Mindless repetitions Deliberate Practice = Focused actions with the specific goal of improving performance and overcoming plateaus

For example, @daviddarmanin used a DTC approach to grow @hotjar! Source: x.com/startupspod/status/152… (great podcast episode btw)

The real difference between B2C and B2B SaaS • B2C = selling to people • B2B = selling to people that work at a company. In both cases, it's still selling to people

Don't just sell a bunch of features. 1. Sell a different and bold idea 2. Sell a solution to their problems 3. Sell a more enjoyable life Bonus points if you save your customers time and money

Consistent deliberate practice is more important than IQ.