Boomrang – Automated Intelligent Prank Calls – Indie-Hacking Corona Project

Hi HN,

Boomrang is a one-man product built in about 1 year, next to my job. It provides automated prank calls with an AI component (The prank calls actually listen to people).

The system consists of a backend in Golang running an Appengine, a web FE in React & Next.js (https://www.boomrang.app). And an iOS and Android app written in Flutter. I’ve also build data pipelines for daily reporting purposes (BigQuery / DataStudio) All systems have their own repo with CD, so there is almost no manual work in getting things live.

I wanted to show HN members that a single person can build a backend, web, and apps in their spare time these days.

Some background on traction. It currently has around 50k users, and 10k MAU. I’m currently mostly getting users through ads, but it is profitable. So I’ve left my job to focus on this!

hoofhearthed 4y ago ↗

Great job man, hows the solo founder path for you working out? Any tools/utilities/apps you can recommend that helped you bootstrap faster and easier?

TeeWEE 4y ago ↗

Thanks a lot! These tools helped me a lot, especially in the design-graphics-area:

- Logo / Brand material generation:

  https://looka.com/

  https://brandmark.io/

- Previewed.app:

  Generating app screenshots & marketing material:   I love this product. It saves a lot of time and gives my professional images and promo videos:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uop3MffO04k

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v82bBjW5ngs

- UI Framework for web:

  https://mui.com/

  I've build the complete website in under a week using React / Vercel and especially MUI

- https://coolors.co/palettes/popular

  Finding a color palette that doesn't completely suck.. I know my color palette is not the best yet, but at least it was very cheap ;-)

- https://easyappicon.com/

  Creating app icons for multiple resolutions and Android and iOS

- Gitlab.com

  Gitlab is super cheap and super useful for managing deploy pipelines

- Google Cloud - Startup program

  Google cloud gave me credits because i'm a startup. I also really like AppEngine and BigQuery. They are quite cheap. The most expensive thing i run is the Redis instance.

- Fiverr:

  Whenever I need help, i find freelancers here for single shot assignments.

- Smartlook:

  For seeing how people are using my product.

- Firebase / Google Analytics 4:

  For analytics, A/B Testing, Push notifications.

Boomrang – Automated Intelligent Prank Calls – Indie-Hacking Corona Project (boomrang.app)

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