Jason's indie solopreneur journey

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

Tweeted about hunting for web dev work for Vue/Nuxt/JS - https://x.com/jasonleowsg/status/1808069279386161568 #indiejourney

Created profile on reverse job board, Vue Developers (https://www.vue-developers.com) to find freelance part-time work as a web dev. Profile URL - https://www.vue-developers.com/developers/4d235e1c-c00c-49ed-a223-fb521d7fc8ef #indiejourney

Scheduled weekly newsletter to publish on Saturday later today - Indie dad's day - https://jasonleow.substack.com/p/indie-dads-day #indiejourney

Researched, read up on PHP API authentication - normal user auth for login/signup is simple enough but protecting api endpoints and access control is the key step to moving fwd for my approach #indiejourney #decodingcoding

Reading up and research on PHP auth - trying to find a simple, lightweight, framework-agnostic and database-agnostic library that's in between hashing/salting my own auth, or PHP_USER_AUTH vs overkill like Auth0. Maybe this (or something like this)? - https://github.com/delight-im/PHP-Auth #indiejourney #decodingcoding

Completed PHP REST API tutorial! 🥳 Built CRUD api endpoints, but no auth yet - https://youtu.be/zfHaBuzcz58?si=M21Cp62e9H7VGvZC #indiejourney #decodingcoding

Some good progress today learning how to build a PHP REST API app.. got the 2 api endpoints working - Indian programmers on YouTube are so underrated - https://youtu.be/2EJ03wM0erI?si=KhmCSmxYzdhvDEWU #indiejourney #decodingcoding

Oh hello there, old friend – download Filezilla... again. #indiejourney #decodingcoding

FINALLY! Debugged custom domain connection to my php api app 🤜💥🐞💥🤛 It's always the little things that take the most time, not even the code itself #indiejourney #decodingcoding

Scheduled weekly newsletter to publish on Saturday later today - https://jasonleow.substack.com/p/my-dream-tech-stack #indiejourney

More PHP lessons: Change SQL query to prepared statements with parameters to prevent SQL injection attacks #indiejourney #decodingcoding

🎖 Achievement unlocked: First time on Trending (aka Explore beta) section on X for my tweet about SQLite - it's been a wild week talking about PHP, SQLite and my atypical, non-JS tech stack choices - https://x.com/i/trending/1803153196363231605 #indiejourney #decodingcoding

Topped up my Medisave as part of contribution for self-employed #indiejourney

Scheduled weekly newsletter to publish on Saturday later today - https://jasonleow.substack.com/p/play-to-win-not-to-play #indiejourney

Learn how to build, deploy a quick & dirty JSON API using PHP, SQLite, Apache. Now live on the internet in under 1 hour, and didn't crash. No node_modules, no build step, no dependency hell. JS boi in me is amazed 😮 #indiejourney #decodingcoding

Danced with Xampp, Digital Ocean, Apache, and echo-ed my 1st hello world using PHP! Ain't much but honest progress 😌 #decodingcoding #indiejourney

Bought $5 VPS from Digital Ocean for PHP and SQLite. Let's see what this bad boy can do.. #indiejourney #decodingcoding

Internet research and asking best way to build REST API app using PHP - https://x.com/jasonleowsg/status/1800099233657487703 #indiejourney #decodingcoding

Scheduled weekly newsletter to publish on Saturday later today - https://jasonleow.substack.com/p/what-10km-buys #indiejourney

Scheduled weekly newsletter to publish on Saturday later today - https://jasonleow.substack.com/p/building-in-public-is-dead-and-its #indiejourney

Scheduled weekly newsletter to publish on Saturday later today - https://jasonleow.substack.com/p/back-to-wanting-1000000year #indiejourney

Scheduled weekly newsletter to publish on Saturday later today - https://jasonleow.substack.com/p/resting-into-rest #indiejourney

Scheduled weekly newsletter to publish on Saturday later today - https://jasonleow.substack.com/p/biggest-struggle-as-an-indie-hacker #indiejourney

Just setting up my new Macbook Pro... first and last time in a long time I see my desktop this clean 😍 #indiejourney