Hovercode is a QR code generator and analytics platform. We're a small, profitable company that's based in the UK and is trusted by tens of thousands worldwide. It's a pretty simple business compared to most on here and right now it's just me running it.
We're seeking a full-stack developer (mid level) who's language agnostic. Your primary focus will be improving our existing integrations and creating new ones. Integrations on our roadmap: Chrome, Figma, Airtable, Zapier, Make, and possibly more. If that works out, you will start to work on the core product, which is built with Django, Postgres and some Golang on the backend with mostly HTML, Alpine.js, HTMX, and vanilla JS on the front-end (and Tailwind).
Hovercode isn't a startup per se, but a small software business, so it's a calm working environment and part-time is an option. This makes it well suited to someone who wants more time and energy for life or to hack on their own projects etc.
One of the hosts of this podcast (https://softwaresocial.dev/) is building a file upload widget and is getting most of their early trials from the Heroku marketplace. Worth a listen and maybe even reaching out to compare experiences
People define it differently, but generally I think of indie hackers as people, usually technical, who are building or are aiming to build smaller tech businesses. They generally either bootstrap or raise small amounts of money. A lot of indie hackers are would be happy with a business that makes 5-10k USD per month per founder
There could be categories of things people want without many solutions in some marketplaces. For example, in the Hubspot marketplace, there are many WhatsApp widgets in their marketplace. Someone made one for the Pipedrive marketplace and it’s doing very well. There would be similar missing apps for Pipedrive, or there would be other platforms where a WhatsApp widget could do well.
To give you an idea of revenue, it’s about as much as I’d be getting paid as a junior-mid developer in London and requires a day or two of work a week unless I’m adding a new feature, redesigning etc.
https://screenjar.com is also making a small amount of revenue, but nothing meaningful yet.
My former employer's support department uses TeamViewer with customers. A web-based equivalent would be a game changer for them, if you can go real-time.
It was a stupid mistake I made in the CSS after lazily copying it over from another site I made which was doing some weirder stuff with horizontal scrolling
I copied it from a previous site that had some weird scrolling requirements, so the top HTML element had width: 100%; height: 100%; overflow-y: hidden; on it, while the body element had overflow-x: hidden; width: 100%; height: 100%; on it. Getting rid of that fixed the issues (unsurprisingly!).
I can't imagine many other sites made this mistake!
Hovercode is a QR code generator and analytics platform. We're a small, profitable company that's based in the UK and is trusted by tens of thousands worldwide. It's a pretty simple business compared to most on here and right now it's just me running it.
We're seeking a full-stack developer (mid level) who's language agnostic. Your primary focus will be improving our existing integrations and creating new ones. Integrations on our roadmap: Chrome, Figma, Airtable, Zapier, Make, and possibly more. If that works out, you will start to work on the core product, which is built with Django, Postgres and some Golang on the backend with mostly HTML, Alpine.js, HTMX, and vanilla JS on the front-end (and Tailwind).
Hovercode isn't a startup per se, but a small software business, so it's a calm working environment and part-time is an option. This makes it well suited to someone who wants more time and energy for life or to hack on their own projects etc.
More details and a short application form here: https://hovercode.com/careers/full-stack-dev/