Helping humans be human For most of my career, my work has been about helping people produce things.

Red the full post here
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When everything can be generated instantly, the question stops being “Can we make this?” and becomes “Does this actually matter?”

Morning brain: "Right, let's get some things done"
Me: "Let's go! Which things?"
Morning brain: "All the things..."

This feels like a cheap, gimmicky email subject line.
I get what they’re going for, but calling it “easy” just isn’t accurate.

I'd like to meet more founders/devs/marketers in Edinburgh

I'm going to be starting a monthly pub meetup soon

Anyone in Edinburgh meet this description and fancy meeting up?

I've seen this a few times and wondered the same. Tends to only be on ones where they ask you to enter it twice

Hndmark - tinylaunch Sketchy markup for screenshots

Launch alert 🚨

My hndmark.com app is scheduled to go live on Tiny Launch on Monday

Can you help me with an upvote?

You can click "Notify me" on the launch page to get an email reminder on the day www.tinylaunch.com/launch/9861

Thank you 🙏

It's that time again – add your recent wins to @usewinnny 🙌

How do you manage ads on small sites?

I manage about 8 monthly subscriptions for ad panels, across 2 of my sites

The monthly subs are via @Gumroad and @lemonsqueezy but I never know when a customer cancels a sub

So I set up a small Zap automation to email me when they do

Even better → 1K page views/uses on @userrstory since launch a month ago 🔥
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Me reading through each omgstats.com stat, even though I've read them all already

Starrt – The best Carrd templates, tips & tools New to Carrd or looking for ways to make it even easier to build? Take a look through our collection of curated and hand-made Carrd templates, tips and inspiration.

This was just posting my blog back catalogue for Starrt.co, one a day, on my @Starrt_co acc

I've been trying to set that up as a custom API workflow for ages, but it was taking too long - did it in 5 mins with Claude
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I've now added gif option to the downloads on userrstory.com

This looks promising on userrstory.com

Have you noticed?

AI didn’t really replace work.

It replaced the waiting.

Now drafts are instant, turnaround is assumed,
and everyone expects more, faster.

My prototype userrstory.com has had a good number of uses in it's first month 🚀

— It's a free app to explain your product ideas through a visual story framework

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Me researching and adding stats on omgstats.com over the weekend

I've now implemented a Weekly Nudge email on Winnny.com for users who've signed up

Just a simple automation, done with a free plan on @emailoctopus

Tried although I’m not trying to make a community yet - more about personal tracking

Winnny Capture and resurface your small wins.

Need to log these for the future – I made winnny.com for that

Hndmark - Hand-drawn markup for screenshots Hand-drawn markup for screenshots. Turn your shots into authentic work-in-progress with sketchy circles, arrows, and annotations.

When you share your build progress

The markup shows your reasoning

"Moved this here because..."
"Testing this variation..."
"Still broken but shipping anyway"

Annotations = narration
Makes your build log actually readable

hndmark.com

An OMG stat for sure

Hndmark - Hand-drawn markup for screenshots Hand-drawn markup for screenshots. Turn your shots into authentic work-in-progress with sketchy circles, arrows, and annotations.

Feedback from a hndmark.com Pro user:

"I'm using this daily. Simple, quick and looks great"

POV: You're a designer and someone just gave you feedback

Small Wins Don’t Matter (Until You Forget Them All) Everyone tells you to “celebrate small wins”. Productivity gurus on social, or the relentlessly positive friend who appears to have their…

Everyone tells you to “celebrate small wins”

Productivity gurus on social, or the relentlessly positive friend who appears to have their sh*t together

But let’s be honest, we don’t...

Well, I do now, as I built winnny.com to help me

medium.com/@markbowley...

I did a literal OMG while adding this one

omgstats.com

Three Random Words to Get Past Blank Page When Writing Fiction Last year I wanted to start writing tiny, short stories. Just for myself, for creative reasons. To stretch a part of my brain I don’t use…

Last year I wanted to start writing tiny, short stories in spare time

Just for myself, not to share
To practice more creativity

So I made a small tool to help me do it

medium.com/@markbowley...

I've added a bunch of new stats to omgstats.com