I parsed 968 launches from /r/SideProject and analyzed them with Claude 3 Opus
The data:
I searched for all posts from /r/SideProjects that contained these strings:
"I built", "I made an alternative to", "I created a clone of".
Most posts are <=1 year old.
Reddit API does not allow parsing older posts hence the amount "968" I wish I could parse more.
The list of clones of popular apps:
Loom (screen recording app) (6‼)
Typeform (form builders) (7‼)
Resume/CV apps (3)
Pastebin (5)
Habit trackers (12‼)
Link in bio (5)
Screenshot making tools (3)
Todo lists (3)
Bookmarking tools (8)
Website builders 29 (‼‼)
Notes taking tools (10‼ classic )
Health, fitness, and wellness apps (19‼)
Feedback gathering tools (10‼)
Time tracking and invoicing tools (4)
Patreon alternatives (2)
Bookmarking tools (8)
Twitter (16‼‼‼ wtf?)
Product Hunt (6‼)
Pomodoro timers: (1)
Categories:
Language learning (4)
Directory/list (7)
Chrome extension (21)
Crypto or decentralized (5)
Finance (15)
Dev tool (26)
Self-hosted (14)
Growth or marketing tool (11)
Open-sourced (37)
Some stats:
B2C: 69.8% ↔ B2B: 30.2% (please do b2b!!!)
AI tools: 108 (10.8%!)
Most boring title:
"How I stumbled upon my startup idea: A casual chat"
Most inspiring title:
"I taught people to code for 10 years. So I started my own learning platform for fun and it got REALLY BIG."
Least catchy title:
"I made an alternative free WordPress theme directory"
Most catchy titles:
"I made a multiplayer game, got beaten at my own game, then made a bot for my game so I could finally win"
"I made a chrome extension that makes music sound like it's coming from another room"
"Too lazy to post daily, so built an app to do it instead" Sorry for the ugly formatting. HN is not suitable for this type of post. You may generally write it all up in blog post somewhere and link that here to overcome the formatting issue. The post is topical to HN btw. Thanks for the tip. I was too paranoid to link my blog here. You can read the post on https://twitter.com/alexanderisorax/status/17722497842517773.... I also added the link to the JSON data there.