This is how I brainstorm new feature ideas

[@Distortie]

I like the Scary Story Generator spam! It's great to see all the details that go into fleshing out an app and everything that comes with it.

[@FlorinPop]

Cody is favorite creator / developer / indie hacker. I wanna be like Cody when I grow up!

[@WebDevCody]

The first step is to stop running so much, then you’ll become like me

[@yassinesafraoui]

Another marketing idea is that after a user creates a story ask them to share their story to multiple social Media plateforms to get free credits.

[@WebDevCody]

Good idea!

[@rns10]

1 amazing feature you could also add as pre-prompt. like as user could say The theme of generated images, like a horror then always use dark shady color or black and white images, or all images around dark forests so the story video remains consistent among multiple images.

[@WebDevCody]

Good idea

[@diegoarf_]

For the watermark idea, you could do the tiktok approach of changing the location every few seconds. Maybe a different location for the watermark on every segment? Nice product!

[@oSpam]

Woo nice! Came up with what, like 5 ideas just while talking to us, dang man you really are movin fast

[@Suzi-QCodes-gh9rp]

i had / have a scary story narrated channel, and got a TON of connections from scary stories channels on reddit. There are a lot of variations of teh scary story channels. I would ask permission to narrate and kept a spreadsheet. So while many are just reading them there was no shortage of writiers. But 1:1 outreach takes time. This is a great marriage of 2 different interests!!

[@ZodakZach]

i 100% agree the best way to make a good product is to be the number one user of it. best problems to solve are yours because you’ll better know when u got the right solution when u no longer have the problem. currently thats my struggle i don’t really know of a problem i have that i can solve lol or product i need to create. but i have been thinking of making a platform where u can link your social accounts and get the analytics all in a centralized place but i’m not even a content creator so i wouldn’t even have a use for this type of platform so idk

[@earljoves6895]

I’m a new PM in my day job, and I am learning how to code on the side. Ironically, this video is helping me more with PMing than with coding (but maybe that was point)

[@ezwa]

Hey! I like seeing these side projects! Would be nice to see implementation with other payment gateways other than stripe, one that doesn't require business as some of us are just developing solo. Or does stripe have this? Or is there a workaround this?

[@AlfieWebDev]

5:08 is such a good point about like making the feedback easier to get. I'm defo gonna implement that on my own SaaS products

[@SeibertSwirl]

Yessss scary story generator!!!! Good job babe!!! Love it and you ❤

[@WebDevCody]

I love you babe!

[@aminejafur7225]

Hey, thanks for sharing! I'm curious-will this project ever be made open-source? There are so many technical challenges and architectural patterns that could provide an incredible learning opportunity for others. It would also be really valuable to see the reasoning behind each chosen service and understand why certain decisions were made

[@vishaldinesh]

Hey cody, you are an inspiration for me, I always get excited to create projects whenever I see your videos but then I realize I have no time to do them, how do you manage your work and get enough time to spend on these side projects ?

[@WebDevCody]

Use cursor

[@vishaldinesh]

I'm still a junior so I don't wanna let AI write code for me yet. But even though you were working on them before you started using cursor. How did you manage time then ?

[@yassinesafraoui]

As your app grows, when users use the feedback feature you probably want to allow them to include a screenshot of the app in case they're reporting a bug. Maybe even have some way of including the state of the app somehow but I suppose that would be overly complicated for a non-giant app

[@piotrn2491]

Hi Cody, can you share with us how you decide if a project idea is worth working on?

[@WebDevCody]

I scroll through Twitter and find apps people have posted good MRR on

[@Scapben]

I like your content so here is a little comment for the algorithm :)

[@tableharmony]

I really like this website but I would also love some other products

[@WebDevCody]

Such as?

[@tableharmony]

@@WebDevCody more educational maybe, AWS lambda functions and S3 Bucket or the SQSQ you used for scary story generator

[@CodeZakk]

good. does also affiliate marketing work the influencer get a cut when ever user pay who got through the influence. i think that could be another opportunity?👍👍

[@WebDevCody]

Not a bad idea

[@EditsByShobhit]

I'm curious if you have a template you use for privacy policy and terms of service pages on your projects

[@WebDevCody]

Yeah I just copy and modify ones I’ve used on other projects. It’s not too hard, just literally read through the sections and understand what it says

[@nark4837]

Idea: build an abandoned checkout auto-emailing SaaS and make videos on it (will make money trust me) I found it a pain in the ass implementing my version of this for my SaaS and this was gonna be my next SaaS to make an easy tool to automatically send transactional emails on checkout abandonment but you may have the idea sir! 😊

[@Mrvituhmincguy]

You could come up with a more generic "story generator" for subreddits like Tales From TechSuport, AITA, pettyrevenge, etc. Make a bunch of templates

[@DigitalAlchemyst]

Do you currently have any users for your app that you have a line of communication with?

[@DigitalAlchemyst]

I am asking because as a hobby I like to write horror themed d&d modules I could easily use AI to convert those over into a story script and run a couple through the app. I am just in a bad financial situation atm so I cant even spare $5, I have my first SaaS project complete code wise but waiting to launch because I cant spare an initial funding for the AI key =/ But thought id offer anyway if you wanted to set up an account with a few credits. Ive just been following the project since you started showing off and think its really cool so thought id offer. Hope this does well for you either way very cool project Cody.

[@WebDevCody]

Send me a message on discord or email

[@DigitalAlchemyst]

@@WebDevCody Ill do that in the Am I missed this comment when I was on earlier.

[@crazyfox55]

Allow people to share videos directly in your app and search for videos. Probably hard to do this.

[@WebDevCody]

That’s on my list, good idea

[@crazyfox55]

@WebDevCody I have no idea how it would work, but a KZbin clone might be really hard to make. I'm not sure if KZbin would let you use it like a CDN.

[@crazyfox55]

Let users link their own KZbin accounts?

[@SaifurRahmanAkash]

Cody I miss you on Twitter, when you're gonna come back?

[@ShivamSingh-y3z]

Can you make a video on why you went with replicate over directly using openai or anthropic? I would assume it’s the flexibility and marketplace? How much more expensive is replicate?

[@WebDevCody]

OpenAI dalle is $0.08 per image, replicate is maybe 0.003 per image

[@elonmask7271]

halfway through-why not just build a bot that replies to every message on the subreddit with a generated video (using their story ofc)? atleast some gotta be super-interested right?

[@WebDevCody]

Not a bad idea, but I’m assuming I’d be banned quickly

[@rishabsharma5307]

One feedback: Design for the scary story generator is horrible

[@WebDevCody]

That’s a very generic statement with no facts stating what exactly is horrible about it 😉

[@rishabsharma5307]

@@WebDevCody Color contrast, background image are making readability difficult. Didn't like much the font as well but I understand the website theme is related to horror, so ig that's fine.

[@digidope]

I'm quite sure that i have NOT opt-in in many sites and yet they do send me email. They do have then opt-out option in the emails i get

[@WebDevCody]

Pretty sure that’s illegal in many countries in EU, but I could be wrong. Getting marketing emails is supposed to be an explicit opt in action a user needs to take during registration. Even having a pre checked checkbox for marketing emails is violation of that law.

[@digidope]

@@WebDevCody i'm in EU and afaik it's illegal, but US companies dont seem to care. Here companies seem to be more strict about it after GPDR law came in effect. That said, we cant even save login emails/names without opt-in.