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Best product launches of Oct 2021

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

  1. POPSMASH

    POPSMASH

    Easiest way to run Instagram giveaways

    0comments2,076views
  2. ScrapingBytes

    ScrapingBytes

    Web-scraping at scale with premium rotating proxies

    0comments2,220views
  3. Graphite Note

    Graphite Note

    Predictive Analytics without coding.

    0comments2,209views
  4. Fire Hunt

    Fire Hunt

    Discover product launches from all over the web at one place

    0comments2,200views
  5. tooltipr

    tooltipr

    A browser extension to understand acronyms

  6. Communitable

    Communitable

    Uncover 1000+ Communities to Promote your Product

    0comments1,946views
  7. FindStorageFast

    FindStorageFast

    Online marketplace for self-storage

    0comments1,531views
  8. Unnon

    Unnon

    Chat-based, open social app with real-time translation

    0comments1,525views
  9. SpruceJoy

    SpruceJoy

    Easily engage & monetize your audience.

    0comments1,523views
  10. Qwaiting

    Qwaiting

    We Simplify your Queue

    0comments1,265views

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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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