- slack integration
- landing page improvements (demo mode for our embed right on our landing page - try it out! https://welivio.com )
- infra for chat/status/emojis/etc
- roadmap for the next 6-12 months
- connecting with potential users and interested parties 🙌

and more coming!

Livio got a gallery of websites (OSS from github, html5up and carrd.co) showing how the nocode videocall integrated into these different layouts of websites would work.

This helped to spot few issues and test the Cleanslate CSS styles.
More features coming!

Now you can create multiple "rooms" (that's how we call it) and use them on different pages/different websites. For example, you might have one for a daily standup in your community and then another one for patrons and then another one for admins.

Or one room that you use in your course software for beginners, another room for advanced course.

Livio gets a minor project structure cleanup. Ended up with 2 (AMA) frontend projects to make sure the #nocode integration would not hog your website +1 Mb of data.

Had some good reading on theory and JS (reading Eloquent JS now and I kind of like it) and redux/mobx comparison. Anyone got the first-hand experience with both and chose one in the end? Why?

I like that article and idea of using native fonts (native to device's OS) https://blog.prototypr.io/8-rules-for-perfect-typography-in-ui-21b37f6f23ce

Keeping it simple and also functional to get things working asap and have some space for extensibility later.
As usual, Figma is 🔥

Figma delivers as usual.
I love how many thoughts and details come to light when you start doing something as abstract as rectangular shades-of-gray mockups for functionality you _thought_ you knew.

Also - @sergio - sorry to bother you again about streak logging - is there anything I can read about it? I have a feeling that I'm missing something to use this feature effectively and lose it every week

Used this long weekend to get some energy and use it later for the output.
Spent some of that time thinking about marketing for #livio.
Fellow makers, what are your tips for marketing and promotion when you don't have a large twitter audience yet?

We now have DB + migrations + API + authentication/authorization on routes - all nerdy stuff to help with streamlined API and data model changes.
Sounds like overkill but it took about 2 days to set it up (had previous experience) and I know this will save us a lot of butt pain going forward.


On another front - Livio got its first widget. Preact + Typescript + some fancyness (Snowpack). Actually like how simple it turned out.

Found great example of doing that with React and Webpack https://github.com/seriousben/embeddable-react-widget - and built similar solution with Preact.

React + Webpack -> 300kb.
Preact + Snowpack -> 30kb.

Size- and buildtime-wise preact + snowpack rocks.

How do you like it?
Would you use it?

Going to work on some promotion tomorrow to get users' feedback and determine if that's something people need.

@kp on twitter suggested that as a side project and I like short challenges like that.

Here we go - https://frontporch-ch.herokuapp.com

Livio meanwhile got data storage and API + swagger :)

Data storage (API + Postgres) to store branding and customizations per user.
That should help users install and customize video calls experience to fit their brand.

Also - lost the streak, probably because of the weekend? Need to read more on how that works

Going through user UX and making some notes about technical details.
Ideally, we want our styles and behavior not to be distracted by any other CSS or JS on that page where we embed.
I don't think we want to try iframe approach at all - there are too many concerns about security, -cookies-, analytics, customizations.

Wondering how do you make that first UX flow w/out having first clients?

Now things are working properly. Added user name display into dashboard, fixed layouts on login screen etc.
Overall just some foundational improvements everywhere.

Started working on the dashboard page to copy the no-code video embed. #livio

Livio (welivio.com) got foundation for layout and styling today!
✨ Login page, dashboard, all responsive, theme-aware and all that nice that comes with TailwindCSS
🔑📱📨WIP authentication using Firebase (I actually love the Firebase Auth part)

#livio

- SSL on landing page (static, gitlab + gatsby)
- SSL on API (Heroku + Nest.js + Typescript)
- Email form using Sendgrid (I really didn't like it but for now it's good)
- Some basic analytics to see if anyone is hitting landing at all