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Best product launches of Jan 2021

The best indie products launched in January 2021, ranked by the community.

  1. Ideas AI

    Ideas AI

    GPT-3-powered business idea generator

  2. Colour Contrast Checker

    Colour Contrast Checker

    Check the contrast between different colour combinations against WCAG standards

    0comments3,117views
  3. Underdash

    Underdash

    JavaScript snippets for collection manipulation

    0comments1,937views
  4. Web Code Tools

    Web Code Tools

    The ultimate web code generator

    0comments3,060views
  5. Accessible Color Palette Builder

    Accessible Color Palette Builder

    Create color palettes that follow accessibility standards

    0comments2,688views
  6. SVG Wave

    SVG Wave

    Generate beautiful SVG waves

    0comments2,589views
  7. React Spring visualizer

    React Spring visualizer

    The missing visualizer for your react-spring UI animations

    0comments2,576views
  8. Warp SVG Online

    Warp SVG Online

    Wrap SVG images on your browser

    0comments2,551views
  9. Better Mobile Inputs

    Better Mobile Inputs

    Experiment with different combinations of the related type and inputmode attributes

    0comments2,337views
  10. Turndown

    Turndown

    Convert HTML into Markdown with JavaScript

    0comments2,328views
  11. VS Code to Prism Themes

    VS Code to Prism Themes

    Convert your VS Code theme to Prism CSS or React components

    0comments2,297views
  12. Keyframes

    Keyframes

    Dead simple visual tools to help you generate CSS for your projects

    0comments2,244views
  13. Generate Data

    Generate Data

    Generate large volumes of custom data in a variety of formats

  14. Valutico

    Valutico

    Measure and create value for your clients

    0comments2,099views
  15. Blobs

    Blobs

    Generate random blob shapes

    0comments2,089views
  16. OpenGraph

    OpenGraph

    Preview and generate Open Graph meta tags

    0comments2,058views
  17. Ninja Cookie

    Ninja Cookie

    Reject cookies and remove cookie banners automatically

    0comments2,033views
  18. Wireflow

    Wireflow

    Create beautiful user flow prototypes

    0comments1,951views
  19. Animista

    Animista

    Collection of pre-made CSS animations

    0comments1,948views
  20. System UIcons

    System UIcons

    Collection of icons designed for systems and products

    0comments1,912views
  21. Snap Search

    Snap Search

    Search the web privately

    0comments1,902views
  22. Easings

    Easings

    Test common CSS easing curves on a range of interfaces

    0comments1,885views
  23. unDraw

    unDraw

    Open-source illustrations for everyone

    0comments1,816views
  24. QR Menu Creator

    QR Menu Creator

    Make a QR code menu for free

    0comments1,815views
  25. Basicons

    Basicons

    MIT-licensed icons for product design

    0comments1,799views
  26. Iconhub

    Iconhub

    Customize and download from huge set of SVG icons

    0comments1,777views
  27. 3D Book

    3D Book

    Give some perspective to your book cover

    0comments1,696views
  28. Snippet Shot

    Snippet Shot

    Generate screenshots from your code snippets

    0comments1,564views
  29. YAML Checker

    YAML Checker

    Validate YAML files with syntax highlighting

    0comments1,268views

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Hi Folks! Please help me decide a new tagline for @SimpleURLTech (branded links, QR codes & bio pages). Which one sticks with you? What we do: branded short links, QR codes and bio pages. Your name on every link instead of bitly, so people trust it, click it, and you can see which clicks become customers. If you saw this on our homepage, which one would make you want to try it? A) Get branded. Get trusted. Get clicked. B) The shortest path from click to customer. C) Own every click. D) Brand. Click. Convert. Plot twist: we might use two together 👀 "Get branded. Get trusted. Get clicked." "The shortest path from click to customer." Does the pair work, or is it too much?. Vote below 👇 and (Optionally) if you could please tell me why. Any new suggestions are welcome.

We all know the friction: a friend shares a Spotify link in WhatsApp, but you use Apple Music, YouTube Music, or Tidal. You either manually search for the track or ignore it. I built SongFlip to make this completely effortless: • 0-click background redirects on Android • 1-tap via Share Sheet on iOS • Supports 10+ streaming services • 100% open-source (GPLv3), private, and no account needed Launching next Monday here on Awesome Indie! Check it out and let me know your thoughts: https://awesomeindie.com/product/song-flip

Batch consistency is the part nobody warns you about. One photo with a clean white background looks fine; ten photos where nine are #FFFFFF and one is #F7F7F7 look broken on a grid. Three things that fixed this for me: Pick one target value and check it, not "white". #FFFFFF is 255/255/255. Sample five points with the eyedropper - corners, centre, both edges. If the edges read 250-252 you have a soft falloff, not a flat fill. Normalise the export, not the source. Resize and compress last, and use one setting for the whole set. A JPEG at q85 can drift flat white to 253 while an adjacent PNG stays 255, and the seam shows in a carousel. Watch shadows. A soft grey drop shadow under the product is correct; a grey cast across the whole frame is not. Keep the shadow under the object and the rest at target. Full disclosure: CleanWhiteBG is my product (https://cleanwhitebg.com) - free, no signup, white-background replacement. Weigh the tip accordingly.

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