I built a free tool for developers as a "lead magnet". Can I get some feedback?
A couple months ago I launched my 2nd product - https://weightless.so. Basically, it's a form to capture email addresses on static sites.
In order to drive some traffic to it, I built another tool which I hope developers might find useful. Here it is: https://up-to.date.
If you are a developer, could you take a look at https://up-to.date and let me know if you think it could be useful for you. Or if not, is there anything I could change to make it better?
Hey Giorgi 👋
Cool & small tool.
When it comes to my way of dealing with this, I'm using rather
Dependenciestab in my IDE though.Previously set up the RSS feed, then a TweetDeck list. GitHub has something called Explore where you can track releases too. But personally, I had trouble checking the release notes on a regular basis.
PS. How about tracking Kotlin, Java, or Angular? :)
Hey Rafal, thanks a lot for your feedback!
Can I ask for more details about your
Dependeciestab approach? I don't think I know how this works.Will try to include everything that people ask for, and can be tracked programmatically (at least, can be confidently scraped from an official website).
For now my process is not automated, so I only took a limited set of frameworks: top 10 GitHub repos + a couple more. Hope enough people find this useful so that it makes sense to continue building.
Sure, so there's a tab in the IntelliJ for Gradle or Maven-based projects (not sure about others like npm, etc.). In that tab, you have the list of the dependencies you're using in the project and suggestions about potential version upgrades.
Got it, thank you. There's also GitHub's dependabot that takes this to the next level and can be automated.
This is why I don't want to focus only on dependencies with UpToDate. Instead, I want to include things like browsers and OS, hardware, etc. Anything that has versioning and people are into, really.
Yeah, in GitHub-based projects
dependabotis really helpful. With its notifications, automated PRs and stuff.Got it, Giorgi. One thing though. How is it related to
Weightless? The common target audience or something more than that?It's related because both target developers. The way I am using UpToDate to promote Weightless is using Weightless forms to subscribe to updates.
For example:
Go to https://up-to.date/react/ and you will see that you can subscribe to updates, and that the form is powered by Weightless
Cool, now I get it 👍
Today I stumbled upon a website with a pretty similar purpose. Straight from the Google search. Take a look:
https://command-not-found.com/ansible-playbook.Maybe search optimization is something you could utilize too?