Jason Leow

Indie hacker, solopreneur | Creating a diverse portfolio of products + services.

DMed LinkedIn contact for opportunity to freelance on a 3-4 month (Nov-Jan) user research project related to news consumption habits

Day 999 - One tech stack to rule them all - https://golifelog.com/posts/one-tech-stack-to-rule-them-all-1695698560505

Day 998 - Ambitions of a digital konbini - https://golifelog.com/posts/ambitions-of-a-digital-konbini-1695633381058

Another ad purchased since forever for Keto List Singapore - 3 months standard ad for S$45... thanks ketogrocer.my !

Customized and emailed primer document to potential client to showcase past work relevant to their needs

πŸ’³ YES! Got approved for fee-free discount on Stripe! Stripe will refund all processing fees on the next $50k I process on the platform. But can be only applied to one account/product within Stripe so I applied it to Carrd Plugins. This fee-free discount will be eligible for 12 months from the time you activate it or until you exceed the total amount of the discount, whatever comes first.

🍟 Side project weekend: Added more celebration modals for various streak milestones - 365, 100, 30, 7 days. Visual design needs more work but good first step to celebrating writer's efforts!

🍟 Side project weekend: Added a link to the 1000 day streak profile badge, to trigger the gold badge + confetti modal, so that the user can look at it time and again

🍟 Side project weekend: Confetti optimizations to prevent lag, and some style tweaks to the 1000 day streak modal

πŸ’΅ Sold yet another single license testimonial slider Carrd plugin (US$15 + $3 UK VAT via Payhip-Stripe)...thanks Steve!

πŸ’΅ Sold yet another single license listings with filters & search Carrd plugin (US$30 via Payhip-Stripe)...thanks extractwise!

πŸ’΅ Sold yet another single license mega navbar Carrd plugin (US$30 via Payhip-Stripe)...thanks extractwise!

Day 997 - 100 days left of 2023 - https://golifelog.com/posts/100-days-left-of-2023-1695546574542

Day 996 - The power of a side project - https://golifelog.com/posts/the-power-of-a-side-project-1695439637330

🍟 Side project weekend: Someone in our community hit 1000 consecutive days of daily writing (and 2 more upcoming)! Made and deployed to Heroku on same day a profile badge and a celebration modal with badge and confetti just for them

Scheduled weekly newsletter to publish on Saturday later today - https://jasonleow.substack.com/p/dont-dont-quit

Got rejected for job application for Senior Product Designer at Open Gov Products, GovTech (probably due to lack of past UI design work)... oh well, gotta move on πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

Attended DT|UX Summit by Singapore Polytechnic for some networking and also to see the legend Don Norman speak

Day 995 - New Twitter experiments - https://golifelog.com/posts/new-twitter-experiments-1695335923908

Scheduled to have an informal talk at the Schalk Neethling's next indie founders support group meetup (https://meetup.com/indie-founders-support-group) on Fri 13 Oct 4pm. To talk about what I learned as an indie creator working on Lifelog, Carrd plugins, and Outsprint etc.

Applied on MyCareersFuture job portal for Senior UX / UI Designer position in the Central Provident Fund Board - whatever it takes to feed the fam and stay in the game - https://www.mycareersfuture.gov.sg/job/design/senior-uxui-designer-central-provident-fund-board-227cf973e96712611dec20514e524452

Felt I could do better, so wrote a cover letter, improved my portfolio and cv and re-sent it for Service Designer role for OCBC Bank

Got referral from a tech for good friend for an interesting (unpaid) opportunity to be on Digital Advisory Panel for National Heritage Board. Emailed to chat more