Hi HN! I built a side project that is an alternative to ProductHunt called Showcase My Website. To showcase your website on our home page, pay any amount higher than the last person.
After you submit, we use Puppeteer to grab a screenshot of your website, store the image in Mongo, and then display it on the home page. The tough part was getting this all to happen within a couple seconds of the payment going through. Additionally, we added a "History" tab that gives the website a permanent backlink for SEO purposes.
$1 of every showcase goes to Girls Who Code. There will be a monthly report of the donation posted on the website for public record.
I'd love your feedback! We went live a couple hours ago and have made 2 sales so far while we quickly fix the bugs. Excited to see where this goes.
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Show HN: I built a simple alternative to ProductHunt · HackerTrans
After you submit, we use Puppeteer to grab a screenshot of your website, store the image in Mongo, and then display it on the home page. The tough part was getting this all to happen within a couple seconds of the payment going through. Additionally, we added a "History" tab that gives the website a permanent backlink for SEO purposes.
$1 of every showcase goes to Girls Who Code. There will be a monthly report of the donation posted on the website for public record.
I'd love your feedback! We went live a couple hours ago and have made 2 sales so far while we quickly fix the bugs. Excited to see where this goes.