I built a 1‑dollar feedback tool as a Sunday side project
Details
- External ID
- 46348900
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- I built a 1‑dollar feedback tool as a Sunday side project
- Website domain
- onedollarfeedback.com
- Launched
- Dec. 21, 2025
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 21
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6612595419847328
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
I’ve always found it funny how simple feedback widgets end up as $20–$30/month products. The tech is dead simple, infra is cheap, and most of us here could rebuild one in a weekend.So as a “principle experiment” I built my own today as a side project and priced it at 1 dollar. Just because if something is cheap to run and easy to replicate, it should be priced accordingly, and it’s also fun marketing.1$ feedback tool.Shipped today, got the first users/moneys today, writing this post today. Side Sunday project, then back to the main product tomorrow.
Enrichment
- Theme
- indie hacker passion projects
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- feedback collection tool
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A tiny embedded JavaScript widget that posts customer feedback to a lightweight backend database is a classic weekend starter project well within vibe-coding capabilities.
Discussion
5 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: AppSumo, budget tools with branding removal options
Concerns raised: Smaller teams are price sensitive, Whether branding customization would actually sway tool choice
Feature requests: One-time purchase option to remove branding, Free plan tier with paid branding removal upgrade
Competitors
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Launched 52 days after the earliest competitor.
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