slice-beans

Hi HN. Just wanted to share a little side project I've put together.

https://productlauncher.io

I've noticed a lot of people here suffer from abandoning their projects once they reach 80% complete and I am a fellow sufferer. To try to combat that I made productlauncher.io - a simple tool which launches for you, whether you like it or not. The process is simple:

- Add your project details - Add an expected launch date - Add a few influential twitter users who's opinion you respect - When your launch date arrives the app will tweet out a congratulations message along with a link to your product. It'll also send messages direct to the influential users you supplied

If you aren't going to launch on time you can delay for 24h but only within the last 24h before launch (so you have to keep coming back to delay indefinitely).

Right now the Twitter account only has a few followers but hopefully that'll increase over time and when it does the social stigma of launching a broken link will be enough to help people get over the finish line without spending forever 'perfecting'.

Let me know if this sounds useful or any suggestions to improve. :)

I am currently lead developer in a small web dev agency in Manchester, UK. I'd like to improve my skills offering by choosing a technology specialism and doubling down on that until I reach expert level, making me into one of those much discussed T shaped people. I hope this will also help me find a niche if I decide to start freelancing/consulting.

- I am currently capable working with PHP, HTML, CSS, JS (Typescript/React/Redux/Node), Objective-C and have dabbled with many others.

- I have some experience designing and provisioning scalable architectures on AWS.

- I have a strong interest in new and emerging languages such as Go and Rust but have limited experience working with them.

- I hope that by becoming an expert I can start contributing back to the chosen technology, related open-source projects and eventually give talks and teach others.

- You can see a few examples of the types of projects I have previously worked on here: https://slicebeans.com .

I would like to find an interesting (I know this is very subjective) and profitable niche, preferably in an area that has, or will soon have, an expert shortage.

A few ideas I've had:

- AWS or Google Cloud architect

- iOS developer specialising in music streaming apps

- Devops consulting for small agencies

Any and all advice is gladly received.