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MakerBase

MakerBase

A database of makers. Tell the world what you made.

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Launched in 2015View 3 launches
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This is the 3rd launch from MakerBase. View more

Makerbase

Like a user-editable IMDB for product makers
Makerbase was ranked #2 of the week for August 4th, 2015
Makerbase was ranked #1 of the day for August 4th, 2015
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Eric Willis
Anil Dash
Gina Trapani

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David Spinks
David Spinks
CMX

CMX

Love the concept. Curious, how are you building the community of "contributors"? It seems like others who have tried this model have failed if they weren't able to consistently motivate people to contribute, keeping the content relevant/up to date. Especially considering for IMDB, movies and casts don't change. For products, features and teams can change constantly. What's motivating people to continue to manage the content?
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Anil Dash
Anil Dash
Fastly

Fastly

Maker
@davidspinks Great question -- we've been thinking a lot about that. There are a few ways we think we can be of service over the long-run to creators. First, we'll be giving more tools to makers that can help them show off their creations and have a great place to list all their work. I don't presume people have a ton of time to randomly edit pages on the Internet, but I do know creative people are very interested in telling the world about their work, and that's the primary motivation we want to serve. Second, I do think a big challenge is the fact that software has new versions. (Although I guess George Lucas released a bunch of Service Packs for his movies, too.) Right now we support having a date range to list when a person contributed to a project, and we can imagine maybe adding support for versions, so if you contributed just to version 2.0 that would be listed. Finally, I think there's a tremendous amount of potential in wondering "how the heck did you do this?". So many of us learn from our friends and mentors and inspirations, and finding a good way to tap into that impulse could certainly animate and energize Makerbase for a long time to come.
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Jordan Singer
Jordan Singer
Automator for Figma

Automator for Figma

This is great! You could put the Clearbit Company Logo API to really good use here: https://clearbit.com/docs#compan...
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Jordan Singer
Jordan Singer
Automator for Figma

Automator for Figma

@jsngr I also feel that the profile should be more of a portfolio of the things you made, and less of an activity feed.
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10yr ago
Ryan Hoover
Ryan Hoover
Product Hunt

Product Hunt

Great work @ginatrapani and @anildash. Last time we chatted about Makerbase, you said it was a "20%" side project, second to ThinkUp. Is that still the case? Also, upvoting this statement: Great products (and businesses) are built by teams of people in engineering, marketing, design, product, sales, etc. We all know this but so often in tech the focus is put on the "developer" with disregard to other functions.
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10yr ago
Gina Trapani
Gina Trapani
Yap

Yap

Maker
@rrhoover thanks Ryan! Leading up to launch we spent more time getting Makerbase ready, and now we'll split our time between ThinkUp and Makerbase based on how the products are resonating with our users and customers. ThinkUp is doing well, and not going anywhere.
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10yr ago
Daniel Schildt
Daniel Schildt
@ginatrapani @rrhoover Nice to see new projects from you, Gina. Your projects & articles have given good amount inspiration during years. :)
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MakerBase Launches

Makerbase
Makerbase Like a user-editable IMDB for product makers

Launched on August 4th, 2015

Makerbase was ranked #2 of the week for August 4th, 2015
Makerbase was ranked #1 of the day for August 4th, 2015
Makerbase was ranked #2 of the week for August 4th, 2015
Makerbase was ranked #1 of the day for August 4th, 2015
Makerbase
Makerbase The IMDB for Apps

Launched on July 3rd, 2015

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