All the products I made
jasonleow • 18 Feb 2023 •
A list of everything I’ve ever made over the years – all 35 of them.
And only 3 are still making money currently:
- Outsprint
- Plugins For Carrd
- Lifelog
That’s a hit rate of only 8.5% for making profitable products.
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| Started | Project | Description | Outcome | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | PopcornPrez | Presentation design services | Success. My very first business. Lasted 1+ year, killed it to join government as a designer. | Closed |
| 2015 | Outsprint Design | Consulting service for gov/non-profits | Success. Still my main income stream after all these years! | Live |
| 2018 | Outsprint Store | Ecommerce store selling design tools for public good | Failed. Made a handful of sales. | Closed |
| 2018 | Public Design Vault | A curated directory of 500+ design tools for public good, all in one place | Went viral but didn’t maintain. | Closed |
| 2018 | Public Design Forum | A global community of designers and innovation professionals for public good and social impact | Failed. No demand. | Closed |
| 2018 | Public Design Jobs | A mission-based job board for design & innovation jobs in the public sector, worldwide. | There’s demand but too time-consuming to maintain. | Closed |
| 2018 | UX Storyboard | An online productized service to help designers and innovators tell better stories of the UX of their product/service through storyboarding. | Won #1 on Product Hunt, went viral but didn’t know how to grow it. | Closed |
| 2018 | Coffice City | An inter-galactic city guide for the top 10 best coffices (cafe-as-an-office) to get real shit done. A strictly curated handful of cafes that I want to keep going back to. | Failed. Fun but not viable. | Paused |
| 2018 | Space Nomads | A [fictional] space travel tour agency for the masses. Galactic-class launches, flights, trips. All in one service, to all places in the universe. | Fun personal project, that’s it. | Closed |
| 2018 | Grant Hunt | Easiest way to hunt down that grant for your social impact project, using a chat bot. | Success. Made v1. Few years later, got seed funding from a philanthropic org to build v2. | Live |
| 2018 | Public Design FAQs | Complete ebook guide to practitioner tips & hacks on #publicdesign & #govdesign | Failed. No demand, lost interest then. Might pick it back up again for LinkedIn. | Closed |
| 2019 | Your Life In Months | Share your monthly goals. See your life timeline. Live an intentional life. | Iterated it to Lifelog. | Closed |
| 2019 | Keto List Singapore | Singapore’s local directory of LCHF, keto-friendly bakeries, restaurants, cafes, supermarkets and online retail outlets. | Popular and made ad revenue. But lost interest to maintain. | Paused |
| 2019 | Sweet Jam Sites | A productized service to build JAMstack websites for aggrieved Wordpress site owners. | Failed. Lost interest to maintain. | Paused |
| 2020 | Tools For COVID19 | A directory of tools & resources for small-medium businesses to weather through COVID19, by quickly innovating new service/product offerings. | Failed. No demand. | Paused |
| 2020 | Dabao Dash | A community board matching freelance, independent delivery folks with hawkers & small-medium F&B shops affected by COVID-19. | Success. Got featured a lot in media. | Paused |
| 2020 | Majulah Belanja | to help employers and dorm operators support and encourage their workers through COVID-19 season by granting wishes to boost morale. | Success. Got featured a lot in media. | Paused |
| 2020 | VisualAid | VisualAid is a resource of illustrated translations to enable better communication between healthcare workers & migrant workers affected by COVID-19. | Success. Got featured a lot in media. | Paused |
| 2020 | COVID19 SG Survey | A survey project to help ground-up movements and policymakers in Singapore create more effective safe distancing and hygiene initiatives against COVID-19. | Useful for non-profit partner. | Paused |
| 2020 | It’s Raining Raincoats-C19-Migrant Workers Help | Resources to help migrant workers during COVID19 | Useful for non-profit partner. | Paused |
| 2020 | COVID Hiring | Job board to support unemployed individuals due to the COVID-19 pandemic | Failed. Partner didn’t take it up. | Paused |
| 2020 | Free COVID19 websites | I’ll build a not-for-profit, COVID-19-related website for you in a day, for FREE. Yes totally free. Anything that would help people be more informed, supported, safer or supplied. | Success. Got many requests during COVID. | Paused |
| 2020 | Lifelog | Write 100 words a day, every day. A writing community for creators to develop a daily writing habit. | OKish. Was main project but couldn’t make it work, so now it’s a side project. | Live |
| 2021 | Safe Distancing SG | The latest safe distancing rules all in one place. | Success. Went viral, earned >$1k donations for it. | Paused |
| 2021 | Plugins For Carrd | Plugins, widgets, components to extend your Carrd site. | Success. Revenue growing steadily. | Live |
| 2021 | Restobio | Restaurant link-in-bio made on Google Sheets. | Failed. Unsure how to grow cos not in F&B. | Closed |
| 2021 | Social impact patronage | A Buy Me A Coffee patron project to make digital products for social good. | Success. But unsure how to proceed now that COVID over. | Live |
| 2021 | The Giver Quiz | A quiz to find out giving profile, made using nocode calculator tools. | Useful for non-profit partner. | Paused |
| 2021 | 5am creators | 5am club for creators, indie hackers & makers to chat about sleep biohacking, public accountability. | OK. A hobby project. | Live |
| 2022 | Plugins For Webflow | Like my Carrd plugins but for Webflow. | KIV on product-market fit. | Validating |
| 2022 | Sheet2Bio | Create a link-in-bio using Google Sheets. For creators & indie hackers. | Failed launch. But will pivot in 2023. | Validating |
| 2022 | Mind My Millions | A hobby project and Telegram chat group to learn and build good money habits and mindsets, to allow for wealth to enter your life. | Lost interest. | Paused |
| 2022 | Trick Deck | Unlimited design & support for Carrd websites | Unsure how to proceed. | Validating |
| 2023 | Career Conversation Cards | Cards to prompt meaningful conversations about your career | The one product from Outsprint Store which had demand. Bringing it back in 2023. | Validating |
| 2023 | Jason’s Indie Solopreneur Journey | Sharing my indie solopreneur journey and growing an audience on Twitter and Substack | Just started as a way to collect emails and hedge against platform risk on Twitter. Not sure if monetizable. | Active |
Comments
That’s quite a list. I think anyone who sees this list will know much more about where your interests truly lie. #keepgoing.
therealbrandonwilson • 18 Feb 2023, 1:50 pm
@knight Yes must find a place to put all these!
@therealbrandonwilson thanks Brandon! Yes indeed… dead giveaway is the social good projects for sure.
jasonleow • 19 Feb 2023, 6:38 am
see makerfolio is important!