Screenshot of https://pagetally.vercel.app/, a website to tally the number of pages you have read.
Finally felt the motivation to build something again. Nothing fancy, nothing profit oriented. I had an idea and I built it just because. With PageTally you can get the total number of pages you have read. pagetally.vercel.app #booksky
Nerd moment. First ever open source contribution 🥳
Not if you use Python 😁
Not everyone uses Google or GitHub, so I would say definitely still relevant. I've walked away from a few products without registering because of the lack of an email option that isn't tied to Google.
For me personally: lack of time & focus and the fact that dev is only a part of what it takes to run a business
I don't have a clear cut answer for you, I do think this is a valuable resource. I used it when I was still working in digital analytics. Hope it helps www.freshegg.co.uk/blog/analyti...
It helps to know more about your app and what your goals are. An app focused on content will benefit from a different tracking setup than an app focused on ecommerce, just to give an example.
Working on not touching my IDE and spending some time on additional idea validation instead. I'm failing at the first part 😅
I struggled with this with pip and switched to uv a few months ago. It's a way smoother experience, can highly recommend having a look
What are you working on that you would like free feedback on? My specialties are data engineering & web analytics, but I can also have a look at your landing page or something else. #buildinpublic
I did some minor tweaks to mailly.fly.dev Nothing AI related, just a simple link shortener meets mailto button to create prewritten email templates that you can have as a draft in your email client with one click.
Spent more time than I had hoped to this morning adding a simple black bar to this short Mailly demo to cover up my email address 😫 I think there might be a gap in the market for video editing for noobs (such as myself) #buildinpublic
Now that I tried it on /r/saas I see the difference. On /r/seo the results are nearly identical. Fyi the ideas page loads perpetually when using Firefox with enhanced tracking protection turned on.
I tried it out because it sounded interesting. The result seems to be the posts from a subreddit, minus the comments. How is this more insightful than scrolling a subreddit directly?
Sounds like you should get #failedinpublic trending to hit people with a dose of reality.
12?! What were you even building/selling?
Maybe don't focus on getting them to really care as they're in it for reasons that don't align with you and focus more on finding the subset of people who do care about community?
Sounds like you have your answer 🙂 With regard to being part of a community, that's a tricky one. I think - non-validated opinion incoming - that a lot of people start building in public because they've read the success stories, so they start from a self-centred place.
An hour ago I'd never heard of keygen.sh and now I'm binging their blogs. It's a mix of interesting, funny and insightful. This one in particular I think is relevant for many 👇 #indiehackers #buildinpublic #sideproject #startup
Do you still believe it has potential? And more importantly, are you still excited about continuing with it?
Spent an evening debugging and refactoring. Got it working but did end up spending extra time on a bug that turned out to be a Firefox mobile feature 😫 Maybe one day I'll love #frontend work, but today is not that day.
It would be great if you could demo your product on your own site. Maybe that's already on your roadmap though
Thought I was done building this project but the frontend had a major bug on desktop and mobile. Fixed it on desktop, still an issue on mobile. Meanwhile my backend doesn't care if your device is desktop/mobile/carrier pidgeon. #webdev people, how does this not drive you mad? 🫠 #buildinpublic
Make a plan before you start coding. With a close second piece of advice: read the docs.
Love the red panda! Did you make it yourself?
Question for the #seo experts. How do you go about finding pages that don't have any pageviews at all so don't show up in analytics? Only methods I'm aware of are (1) ScreamingFrog's paid option and (2) semi-manually matching analytics data with the sitemap.
Been eyeing #n8n for years, but never had use for it because I always code in Python. Had a project idea this week where it fit perfectly to create a prototype and I love it! It allowed me to make a simple & quick prototype for a project idea - ignoring 1 bug costing me too much time 😅 #nocode
So what did I build? See the description in the preview below. Maybe my next challenge should be about learning to become a better frontender.
Can't stress enough that I'm very much not a frontend person. (There's a reason I work as a data engineer). Considering this is a learning project and not an actual product I've decided to say 'good enough'. I did at least accomplish my learning goal, which was to learn to work with websockets.
#buildinpublic Went through my old repos, looked at some code and decided that yikes, I can do way better now, let's give this a quick touch up. The backend was done in no time and I'm happy with it. The frontend has so far taken multiple evenings and it's still not exactly the way I want it.
Apparently the #bluesky butterfly is likely dead 🦋
