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Best product launches of Feb 2021

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

  1. Device Shots

    Device Shots

    Create high-res device mockups in seconds

    0comments5,950views
  2. Glitterly

    Glitterly

    Create short animation filled videos

    0comments2,436views
  3. UTF-8 Icons

    UTF-8 Icons

    Find UTF-8 symbols to use as icons in your application

    0comments3,112views
  4. Color x Color

    Color x Color

    Generate color palettes in HSLuv color space

    0comments3,070views
  5. BEM Cheat Sheet

    BEM Cheat Sheet

    Naming-suggestions for CSS classes using BEM

    0comments3,002views
  6. Color Contrast Checker

    Color Contrast Checker

    Analyses and suggests colors that meet the required contrast ratio

    0comments2,557views
  7. Llama Life

    Llama Life

    A fun, flexible, task manager for desktop web

    0comments2,105views
  8. Cubic-bezier

    Cubic-bezier

    A better tool for CSS cubic-bezier easing

    0comments2,063views
  9. Tiny Tools

    Tiny Tools

    A big list of CSS animations

    0comments1,999views
  10. TheSeoLabs

    TheSeoLabs

    Website guest post list

    0comments1,958views
  11. Switch for macOS

    Switch for macOS

    Keyboard-driven commands to navigate your mac

    0comments1,863views
  12. Color Cube

    Color Cube

    Color accessibility checker

    0comments1,798views
  13. Characters

    Characters

    Look up keyboard short cuts for special characters

    0comments1,775views
  14. Git Command Explorer

    Git Command Explorer

    Find the Git commands you need

    0comments1,764views
  15. Font Flipper

    Font Flipper

    Preview Google Fonts on top of your own designs

    0comments1,729views
  16. Copychar

    Copychar

    Click to copy special characters to your clipboard

    0comments1,688views
  17. Explain Shell

    Explain Shell

    Get detailed help from terminal commands

    0comments1,637views
  18. Shake

    Shake

    Fix reported bugs faster and automatically

    0comments1,422views
  19. Gitignore.io

    Gitignore.io

    Create useful .gitignore files for your project

    0comments1,373views

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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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