How makers stay productive

Had to look up what "chintzy" meant… 😂

Goals for October 2020

• Continue polishing Eager.app (a helpdesk / knowledge base app)
• Work on the marketing aspect for the app
• Gain +25 prelaunch emails (feel free to help me out!)
• Make it through at least 50% of a Flutter course I've been planning on doing

Some confessions

• I bought TWO domains for side projects in September. So I'll be listing some old unused domains for sale somewhere (have to first come to terms with this first).

Pitch: Manage databases without knowing SQL

I am building the same product (hurray for sticking to it) for 7 months now. dwata has surely matured and now I am trying to finish authentication/authorization features so that I can get adoption.

Goals

• Encourage a CTO from a 40 people German company to adopt the product
• Reach out to more founders
• Finish local setup scripts and documentation for those who have shown interest to try
• Aim for Grouping, Aggregates, Pivots and Formulas, all without knowing SQL

I would love feedback from all of you here who might have had to do queries, even simple looking ones like "Show me Orders from last year where Item value was above $50" - that usually needs 3 tables to be JOINed in SQL. dwata can do that automatically for you.

Links:

• Product site
• Community edition on GitHub

Thanks

Working on building a secondary marketplace for events TixGator with options to compare the prices across different websites like StubHub, SeatGeek, Ticket Masters, Ticket Network, VividSeats, and more.

As well as continuing to work on scaling the monitoring engine for Downtime Monkey I've started work on a new project - Twitter as a service. The idea is to provide fully managed Twitter for businesses and individuals who don't have the time, knowledge or inclination to do it themselves.

I've completed a basic version and am testing it on a few of my own accounts at the minute. This month I aim to roll it out to a few clients I run SEO campaigns for before getting it out there.

Still working on Gigle, the "Google" for gigs!

With 1 search, instantly find jobs from all of the top freelance sites: Upwork, Toptal, Flexjobs, Fiverr, Solidgigs, Freelancer, Taskrabbit, Guru, and more.

I want to help make it easier for new freelancers -- who typically don't have a built-in client base -- to find their first gig(s). For now, I'm focusing on saving people time searching for jobs that match their criteria. Currently, there's no way to do that without searching every site separately. What a headache! If I can even help people cut down on the hours spent just doing searches, I'll take that as a win.

I'll also be publishing a newsletter called "The Daily Gigle". It'll be a curated digest of freelance gigs posted by top employers, plus tips from top freelancers on how they got started and what they learned on their way to finding success.

Business as usual for me.

• We're building our authentication and payments platform EasyAuth.
• We finally set a hard date for the launch — Oct 31st.
• We're building Stripe, Zapier, Sendgrid integrations along with passwordless logins.
• We also got into an accelerator program and are doing a bootcamp now.

I didn't have as much time as I wished to work on Soundescape, as I spent more time than planned on new Photogram features. Anyway I am happy with the progress I've made: I started implementing a new UI/UX for the main part of the app, which is based on feedback and hotjar recordings gathered from my first "marketing strategy" (if that's what you call posting valuable content to relevant sub-reddits to find early adopters). I also decided to postpone my PH launch, as I want to focus on a different customer segment for now. In October, I want to finish the new UI (which is already nearly finished) and plan and execute marketing strategy II, hopefully reaching the traction goals I've set.

Hi Sergio,

My plan for this month is to invest more time in building and recreating my own personal website with NextJS. I use Gatsby now, but I want to learn and use NextJS more often in the future. So this is an interesting exercise. Besides that, I plan to participate in the Hacktoberfest. What about you?

I'm working on growing TaskBill.io. It has moved beyond MVP after getting feedback from real clients and now I'm ready to start a marketing push. I need to design some landing pages and work on SEO. I'm also working on starting an affiliate program to try and grow the client base as well.

This month I have been already productive:

• I put a small poll app online to get myself a good shipping momentum (announcement on IH)
• I put together an article about AI in Python
• And my plan is to work hard this month to get some progress in writing my book Efficient developer (which I didn't work on lately as much as I wanted)

Hey, everyone.

For this month, I will working on the following projects:-

1. I built a new project, Learningin.tech which will have major focus. I need to make sure that it reaches the people who need it the most. It is a free resource to learn new technologies!

2. For Designtack, I will be building more exclusive content marketing guides for the users to simplify their content marketing problems.

3. For my newsletter, Psych, I will be diving deep into more psychological insights and studies which can help our lives. Very interesting, for sure!

And have University work to manage too. But we are makers, so let's do this!

I'm thinking about learning more about Javascript programming since it has become so important. Recently I've got no time and had to move houses, but now it should be easier :)

Adding basic keyframes to the video editor, focused on the ken burns effect.

I am recreating a similar UX to Canva/Sketch in terms of the artboard, grouping elements, measurements between elements.

Releasing free video editing tools as a marketing play. Creating more content to drive some SEO traffic and make sales.

You can play around with what I've built in the free demo, no account required https://storycreatorapp.com/demo

Launched Listnr's Affilaite campaign recently and although got screwed by PayPal (they're keeping 1000s of dollars from me Illegally) Details here So decided to launch Listnr on Gumroad, to make up for the lost/held amount. Listnr on Gumroad

With @exdeve, we have just launched Undersend. It's an email marketing platform based on users' activities for SASS web apps. It's time to focus on marketing. In October, we want to:

• Improve Landing Page content - make it more clear and increase conversion
• Start a cold mailing
• Add our app to products listing (like BetaPage, BetaList, etc.)
• Setup Google Ads

Focused on getting more clients for endorsive.com. 10-15k mrr in the next 4 months is pretty realistic. We also just got an office 2 weeks ago.

Our product clariti.app is almost set for launch. We are testing our ad strategy with different platforms. In the meantime, we are also adding another feature to our product called orbit chat. This feature allows the users of our product to easily converse with nonusers. This will help improve the versatility of Clariti.

I build my newsletter of meme products at ObiTruman.com. The plan is to grow my prelaunch list to 1000 subscribers before the 1st of November. Can anyone help me with that?

I'm focused on networking and team building. Looking to find the right technical cofounder to help build yocloud.app with me. I'll be taking many lunch club meetings, connecting on twitter, OpenLand, MakerLog, IndieHackers and Kismet. Any additional suggestions?

I'll also be exploring launch strategies for webpage. Seeking a way to capture physical address from user on website interaction + email address to inform user + neighbor users when app is launched in their building. Strategizing calculated launches for locations w/ highest anticipated interaction with product.

Beginner! I've been building a SaaS product all by myself from 5 months now.

Dev almost complete. Trying to launch by the end of the month.

I am thinking of close launch, collect feedback. Is this any better?

Spent the first half of October on finishing a big update for our Spanish-learning app ConjuGato. Now it's time for a new project – an app for personal knowledge management. This time I'm going to post the progress to the Makerlog. 😎

I started working on SaaS Manual a place where you learn how to build SaaS products from the ground up. Previously I was VP Engineering at Cloud9 which got acquired by AWS. It's time to share the knowledge with you 🚀.

The first goal was to build the landing page on Notion and announce on Product Hunt.

Hey!

This has been a challenging month for us at Product School. Apart from organizing our ProductCon LA event which will be in November, we also launched our Proddys!

The Proddys are our version of award shows where we announce the BEST products for Product Managers every year.

I would love to get some feedback and help from you by voting for the best tools!

Here's the link!

To launch a Testflight MVP for Sidebrain.app

Working on Release on Nov naas.ai . A product to allow anyone who is stuck with zappier then ifttt then X then Y then doesn’t work… To write and use LOWCODE in simple env in python .

Goals for October 2020

• Prepare Launch
• Do user research to improve landing
• Get feedbacks

We've built a virtual fair for a client. Stack:

• Unity for the pavilions (there are 6 of them with a max of two floors)
• Next.js, DatoCMS, and Zend for the web applications and content for fair
• Hubspot CRM for chatbot and lead generation

Soft launching Glitterly 2 - the video maker for makers, digital marketers, YouTubers, and pet lovers,.

Starting with a select few beta testers from the early access list.

I wrote a notion document for the full product manifesto blog post here Here 😅

Soft launching IndieData, get a scraped database instantly

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