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mcrowe | 1 year ago | on: Show HN: FlowTunes – "endless" AI-generated music for focus

Happy to hear your thoughts and critique!

mcrowe | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: Old News – News that gets better the *less* you read it

Thanks! No personalization on taste yet. "Personally", I'm not saving items that I necessarily like more anyways, but rather ones that I want to check out later. Future work to add an "upvote" button that drives personal recommendations on taste, though!

mcrowe | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: An escape room in your browser

Thanks! Great to hear!

mcrowe | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: An escape room in your browser

Yeah. Definitely a good idea. I'm told the clues are a bit cryptic as they are. It would be nice to have another if you're really stuck.

mcrowe | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: An escape room in your browser

Haha. It's hard to give hints without giving it away to everyone else. Feel free to pm me on twitter @mitch_crowe and I'll be happy to give a hint.

mcrowe | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: An escape room in your browser

Nice! Thanks so much for the feedback @kinduff. Those are really good points.

mcrowe | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: An escape room in your browser

Hi! I created an "Escape Site". It has a score of challenging puzzles designed to make you think outside the box, and think differently about the way websites work. The success rate is about 10%. How do you fare?

I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback!

mcrowe | 8 years ago | on: Cora – A new way to learn how to program

I'm creating Cora, a new programming language and environment optimized for learning. I would love to hear your thoughts and suggestions!

mcrowe | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: Language Health – Compare programming language health over time

Like you, I spend a lot of time analyzing the programming language ecosystem. I created LanguageHealth to help me figure out which languages are growing or dying.

I hope you find it helpful!

mcrowe | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: NameQL – Find a name in milliseconds

Yes. I had a small amount of down time on launch day. Its been up consistently since then, though!

mcrowe | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: I had a successful Product Hunt launch. What do I do now?

Tabeth. Thanks for alerting me to this. I have addressed the issue. Now all the domains you see suggested should be available.

mcrowe | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: I had a successful Product Hunt launch. What do I do now?

[email protected] should do the trick.

mcrowe | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: I had a successful Product Hunt launch. What do I do now?

Thanks. That's an interesting suggestion. Might be a good option for revenue.

mcrowe | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: I had a successful Product Hunt launch. What do I do now?

I had 1/10 be inaccurate when I did that, which is still not good enough. Its definitely something that can be addressed. Not easy, but fixable. Thanks for bringing this particular query to my attention.

mcrowe | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: I had a successful Product Hunt launch. What do I do now?

I always value critical feedback. Thank you.

I think you mean that you found a name that was suggested that was not actually available. Unfortunately, this does happen, but in my experience it is less than 1% of the time. The zone files for TLDs are missing some domains which are actually unavailable.

Sorry that you had a frustrating experience.

mcrowe | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: I had a successful Product Hunt launch. What do I do now?

Yeah. I agree on both counts, though. I think .com is still far more important, and adding other TLDs shouldn't take away from its prominence. For the short term, making this super clear is a good way to go.

mcrowe | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: I had a successful Product Hunt launch. What do I do now?

Wow! This is super helpful. Thank you so much for to ideas, genbit.

Loved your feature suggestions. Definitely some things to move to the top of my list there. I'm curious about what exactly you meant about "search domains based on an industry". Could you elaborate on that?

Great tips on improving the business model, too. This is super valuable for me. Thanks!

mcrowe | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: I had a successful Product Hunt launch. What do I do now?

Thanks a lot for your thoughts!

You're right. I would recommend the same thing to others launching on PH from now on. I didn't have any system in place to engage with users after they try it out. My product was easy to get started with, but also easy to forget.

Glad my mistakes can be lessons for others ;-).

My short term goal for NameQL is to make a really great free offering: support more TLDs, smarter suggestions, and to check for related trademarks, etc. For profitability, I was hoping that affiliate links would be enough to generate a decent revenue. It doesn't seem to be very effective, though. I'm considering adding value-added features for a small price, but I haven't planned out what those will be.

mcrowe | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: I had a successful Product Hunt launch. What do I do now?

This is really useful to know. You're right, I think an engaged user might use a product once a month or so. The challenge is to stay at the top of their minds the next time they look for a new name. Having a login with value-added features may help with that.

mcrowe | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: I had a successful Product Hunt launch. What do I do now?

Yes! You're absolutely right. Probably my biggest mistake was not thinking about retention before launching on Product Hunt. I suspect that your experience matches that of most visitors through Product Hunt. Your suggestion about query updates may be a good one to try, and I will brainstorm other ways to make the product give more long-term value.

And yes, it is .com only for now (plans to add other TLDs soon). Thanks for the feedback that this could be clearer.