Jason's indie solopreneur journey

Sharing my indie solopreneur journey and growing an audience on Twitter and Substack

Call with CTO of createacademy.com on possible fractional (0.5-1 day/wk) Vue frontend work for the site #indiejourney

Added count up and period loader animations to give user hope and frustrate them even more ๐Ÿ˜ˆ - https://jasonleow.com/bluescreenofdeath/ #indiejourney

Gif - https://postimg.cc/9rZKCq3W

Added Open Sans font for iOS/Mac devices. Added media query for extra wide screens. - https://jasonleow.com/bluescreenofdeath/ #indiejourney

Updated "20% complete" to "99% complete" because that's what Windows do. Updated ogimage and footer - https://jasonleow.com/bluescreenofdeath/ #indiejourney

Made a blue screen of death site for satire/memes, in under 30min - https://jasonleow.com/bluescreenofdeath #indiejourney

Published weekly Saturday newsletter - I give up - https://jasonleow.substack.com/p/let-it-cook #indiejourney

๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿง ๐Ÿ”ฅ Wow I worked 4 jobs today: 5-8am, 9am-4pm, 5-7pm, 8-10pm. Brain fried #indiejourney #decodingcoding

It might not sound like much, but my first ever pull request as a web dev freelancer just got merged and is now live.. tiny milestone, tiny win #indiejourney #decodingcoding

Created viewable timesheets on Google Sheets for web dev clients and pinned to their Telegram chat for easy reference #indiejourney

Onboarding to Podseeker (https://www.podseeker.co) as a frontend dev freelancer... using Rails and Tailwind! My brain's in max learning mode ๐Ÿง โšก๏ธ #indiejourney #decodingcoding

Best ever Substack pledge! Things like this keep me going... thanks @vladp ! #indiejourney

4am Saturday morning. Up early for deep work. #indiejourney

โ€œI donโ€™t have talent, so I just get up earlier.โ€ โ€” Henry Rollins

Scheduled weekly newsletter to publish on Saturday later today - I give up - https://jasonleow.substack.com/p/i-give-up #indiejourney

6am video call with Sanjay, founder of Partly (https://www.withpartly.com) about possible freelance frontend work in future #indiejourney #decodingcoding

Download, install Cursor AI code editor! Can't wait ๐Ÿค“ #indiejourney #decodingcoding

Met local indie maker for possible freelance software dev work #indiejourney

Woke up at 3.30am for 4.30am call with @shl about possible dev work for Gumroad - whatever it takes to feed the fam #indiejourney

Scheduled weekly newsletter to publish on Saturday later today - https://jasonleow.substack.com/p/we-contain-multitudes #indiejourney

Scrolling, understanding the new codebase for freelancing work. Asking lots of questions using GPT. Checking Vue dev tools. Cmd+clicking through to component files. Got familiar enough. Will dive deep into coding my first feature next week! #indiejourney #decodingcoding

Onboarding call with @_lhermann to get set up to start coding for Stagetimer! ๐ŸŽ‰ #indiejourney #decodingcoding

Realised personal website jasonleow.com isn't responsive so added viewport meta tag, added status tags to mobile #indiejourney #jasonleowdotcom

[Post-dated] Video call with Lukas from Stagetimer.io to talk about possibly working with them as Vue dev #indiejourney