Instatus just reached $1K MRR! I've been waiting for this milestone for so long, and it was my goal for 2020 :D I'm 2 months late, but never late than never 🥳

Instatus

Reached $1,000 MRR

If you didn't log it, did you even do it?

I've played with Slate in the past and always found it such a battle to wrangle the nodes and achieve what you want to achieve.

I persevered this afternoon and managed to get a basic editor working with ordered/unordered lists and text formatting (italic, bold, underline) 🙌

I'm hoping to expand on this a lot more until I'm happy with a solid set of base features 💪

Working lists and text formatting with Slate

Still lots more ahead but it felt great to have people responding positively and buying.
As noted in [my launch post](https://higgins.medium.com/24hourhomepage-com-an-experiment-in-advertising-sales-and-uncomfortable-work-d4b3864a3fb6), I don't know anything about sales/marketing but I do know people like to hear new ideas and receive some valuable offer.

So I've been reaching out to EVERYONE I think would be interested. Naturally, I've encountered a few folks who don't like getting "cold emailed" but overall the response has been positive and supportive!

Tools I'm using:
- [Streak CRM](streak.com)
- Google Sheets

Lessons learned:
- Don't be afraid to cold email, provided you have something of value to that person/company
- "Qualify" who you reach out to and ask if they are interested

What I'm still learning:
- How much to say on the initial outreach! Some of my first messages have been big walls of text with multiple links others have been shorter and sweeter. Since most of my emails are hand written (with some parameterization), I'm not tracking which work better/worse.

What is your experience with initial cold email outreach?

24hourhomepage.com

First sales this week!

100 000 registered users on SpaceHey!! That's incredible!! 🤯

Thank you very much everyone for your support!! 🥳

SpaceHey.com

Reach 100 000 users

Still some minor polishing to do before officially launch it but that's a milestone!

Budg

Apple accepted iOS #budg mobile app 🎉

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Got some great tips from @kevcodez to help improve the performance of #launchafrica

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Add hex codes to product colors #makerlog

You can now use hex to set product colors.

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created a super-simple DB for #creadoresfans

The easiest way to accept donations and messages of support from your fans. 🖤

creadores.fans

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Hi. 
Do you listen to music while working? Does that distract you or helps you focus?

If you listen, which genre/compositions?

I personally found a few sounds which I can listen to, but it's hard for me to stay on some specific genre :)

Do you listen to music while working?

I'm trying to start a new mobile project with an idea that I have had for many years and I want to develop it utilizing new technologies so I can learn something new. I don't do a lot of mobile development but so far, I have used Android (in the Java times), Xcode (Objective C), Ionic Framework and React Native.

What are your thoughts on Flutter?

For the back end, I want to learn AWS Amplify. I have been using AWS heavily in my main job and this will help me to continue learning about AWS technologies. I'm specially interested on having my back end serverless and using Cognito, DynamoDB, among others. 

Thoughts?

Flutter? AWS Amplify?

Budg mobile app is not officially launched but app is already available on the App Store. I would love get feedback from some makers using iOS 🍎

https://apps.apple.com/fr/app/budg/id1554878530?l=en 

Please do not widely share it before the official launch 🚀 🙏

Budg mobile app feedback

I would love for a service/product that could take my project (NextJS/ReactJS) and analyze the bundle size and the provide me with some actionable tasks!

I struggle to fix this issue and I know my project does suffer from a large bundle - people have said.

I have used `@next/bundle-analyzer` which prints a pretty picture but no idea what to do.
![Result](https://i.imgur.com/A25NWjg.png)
From: https://launchafrica.io/

I have followed many blogs about what one can do but nothing I do seems to change anything!

Anyone have some advice here? Anyone know some quick things I could do?

Bundle Analyzer

Lately I've been wondering. How do you guys handle slow CI-deployments and the reliance of updating both the front- and back-end at the same time?

We are using the gitlab CI, along with private runners. Usually they deploy around the same time, but in cases when one of them might not be caught by our private runner and use a shared instead, they will increase in build time, as resources aren't the same between the two.

Thus making, say, the front-end be deployed a lot faster than the back-end, meaning problems will arise with them not being compatible.

I know that I'd simply not remove old API-paths, but will still not work the other way around, if the front-end is deployed faster than the back-end. Which is mostly what happens. ☕

How to handle CI and reliance of deployments?

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