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Best product launches of 2020

The best indie products launched in 2020, ranked by the community.

  1. CSS Effects

    CSS Effects

    Ready-to-copy CSS effects

    0comments3,448views
  2. Patternico

    Patternico

    Generate background patterns

    0comments2,511views
  3. Screenshot Rocks

    Screenshot Rocks

    Create beautiful browser and mobile mockups in seconds

    0comments2,174views
  4. Grabient

    Grabient

    Generate linear gradients

    0comments1,944views
  5. C# To TypeScript

    C# To TypeScript

    Convert C# code into its TypeScript equivalent

    0comments7,777views
  6. SVG Path Editor

    SVG Path Editor

    Create and edit SVG paths on you browser

    0comments5,243views
  7. MyColorSpace

    MyColorSpace

    Enter a color and generate nice palettes

    0comments4,115views
  8. Heroicons

    Heroicons

    MIT-licensed icons

    0comments3,934views
  9. Ratio Buddy

    Ratio Buddy

    Calculate CSS aspect ratio's

    0comments3,178views
  10. CSS Arrow Please

    CSS Arrow Please

    Create and export CSS code with an arrow

    0comments2,614views
  11. Calendar Icons Generator

    Calendar Icons Generator

    Generate calendar icons

    0comments2,508views
  12. LCH Colour Picker

    LCH Colour Picker

    A web-based color picker

    0comments2,465views
  13. Mailtolink.me

    Mailtolink.me

    Simple markup generator for mailto links

    0comments2,410views
  14. Hero Generator

    Hero Generator

    Create a nice hero image for your site or app

    0comments2,236views
  15. Shape Divider

    Shape Divider

    Export a beautiful SVG shape dividers

    0comments2,199views
  16. Copy Paste List

    Copy Paste List

    Quick, updated, copy and paste-able lists

    0comments2,195views
  17. Can I Include

    Can I Include

    Understand the WhatWG HTML specification

    0comments2,164views
  18. Embedded Google Fonts

    Embedded Google Fonts

    Embed encoded Google Fonts into CSS

    0comments2,095views
  19. CSS 2 JS

    CSS 2 JS

    Transform between CSS, JavaScript, and JSX

    0comments2,078views
  20. Box Shadows

    Box Shadows

    Generate CSS box shadows

    0comments1,874views
  21. CSS Layout

    CSS Layout

    A collection layouts and patterns made with CSS

    0comments1,870views
  22. 1 LOC

    1 LOC

    A huge collection of JavaScript utilities

    0comments1,836views
  23. Mermaid Live Editor

    Mermaid Live Editor

    Flowcharts, sequence diagrams, class diagrams, and more

    0comments1,828views
  24. HTML Cleanser

    HTML Cleanser

    Remove unwanted HTML tags

    0comments1,819views
  25. Selectors Explained

    Selectors Explained

    Translate CSS selectors into plain English

    0comments1,818views
  26. SVG Backgrounds

    SVG Backgrounds

    Customize and apply SVG backgrounds

    0comments1,817views
  27. Color Namer

    Color Namer

    Easily lookup variable names for your colors

    0comments1,745views
  28. Calndr

    Calndr

    Dead simple add to calendar links API

    0comments1,627views
  29. How to Target Email Clients

    How to Target Email Clients

    Use crowdsourced email development techniques

    0comments1,624views
  30. Userfront

    Userfront

    Auth access control without complexity

    0comments1,615views
  31. 2QR

    2QR

    Generate QR codes from URLs

    0comments1,594views
  32. iHateRegex

    iHateRegex

    Look up common regex patterns

    0comments1,587views
  33. UITest

    UITest

    Test your website in more than 80 tools

    0comments1,581views
  34. BrowserFrame

    BrowserFrame

    Wrap screenshots in browser frames

    0comments1,578views
  35. Illlustrations

    Illlustrations

    Open-source illustrations kit

    0comments1,572views
  36. Chmod Calculator

    Chmod Calculator

    Convert Linux file permissions between different formats

    0comments1,552views
  37. Colouris

    Colouris

    Convert a colour into other web formats

    0comments1,471views
  38. Get Waves

    Get Waves

    Generate SVG waves

    0comments1,464views
  39. Namae

    Namae

    Check availability for your domain ideas registries

    0comments1,403views
  40. Trianglify

    Trianglify

    Generate low-poly backgrounds, textures, and vectors

    0comments1,400views

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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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