Interesting new beta feature on Substack - you can now create AI-narrated video assets of your newsletter issues to post on social media! 😯
Cleaned up Twitter to try to help with the shadowban situation - deleted replies to some accounts who are new, removed tagging to my products for recent past tweets, remove a few weird followers
Scheduled weekly newsletter to publish on Saturday later today - https://jasonleow.substack.com/p/my-very-first-business
Arrange call with Mac Martine to chat about indie hacking and indie families
Scheduled weekly newsletter to publish on Saturday later today - https://jasonleow.substack.com/p/summer-slowdown
Did video call with Schalk for his Mechanical.Ink indie hacker community in South Africa.. podcast next!
Bought Evan You/Vue.js a $5 coffee on Github to thank him for making Vue which helped me build indie products
Bought new domain psi.sg to create a social good app for the haze situation in Singapore
Published weekly newsletter - https://jasonleow.substack.com/p/unfair-advantages
Scheduled weekly newsletter to publish on Saturday later today - https://jasonleow.substack.com/p/my-kind-of-ambition
Hit 999 days of daily writing! One. More. Day...
Scheduled weekly newsletter to publish on Saturday later today - https://jasonleow.substack.com/p/dont-dont-quit
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.
Went to unverified followers list on Twitter and removed ~10 fake followers. Shouldn't remove too many in a day else get flagged or shadowbanned
Scheduled weekly newsletter to publish on Saturday later today - https://jasonleow.substack.com/p/diversity-vs-concentration
Asked for help for freelance remote work on Twitter, Telegram, Facebook - frontend dev, web design, writing
Applied for freelance writing job by IAPWE on Remote OK (https://rok.co/hz). First one! Had to revive my Medium profile as resume, by removing paywall to my posts - https://medium.com/@jasonleow
Created profile on Remote Ok to find + apply for remote design/dev work - https://rok.co/@jasonleow
Sent out second job application - whatever it takes to feed the fam and stay in the game
Scheduled weekly newsletter to publish on Saturday later today - https://jasonleow.substack.com/p/passive-vs-aggressive
Sent out Facebook post to seek help from friends for freelance web design gigs to supplement income
Hey friends. Finances had been a little tight lately, so am thinking of restarting my side hustle of building websites for friends or friends of friends.
Please let me know if you need a website.
Happy to build it for you or someone you know. 😊
Please let me know if you need a website.
Happy to build it for you or someone you know. 😊
📊 Just realized there's Makerlog stats that's pulled but not displayed on profile page - wow I've logged over 5400 tasks for 34 products, and got a rest day balance of 187 🤯
{
"done_tasks": 5428,
"remaining_tasks": 0,
"tasks_today": 2,
"done_today": 2,
"streak": 1720,
"praise_received": 3538,
"follower_count": 130,
"rest_day_balance": 187,
"products_made": 34
}
Go to https://api.getmakerlog.com/users//stats/
"done_tasks": 5428,
"remaining_tasks": 0,
"tasks_today": 2,
"done_today": 2,
"streak": 1720,
"praise_received": 3538,
"follower_count": 130,
"rest_day_balance": 187,
"products_made": 34
}
Go to https://api.getmakerlog.com/users/
First time experiment: A different media format for tweets using Canva.. static image on video background for algo boost - https://twitter.com/jasonleowsg/status/1697938459284120060?s=20
Also found this! https://www.clippulse.com/video-screenshot
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Author
Verdict after 2 days: Engagement was slightly better than normal (~6k impressions, 50 likes), but wouldn't say viral. Jury's still out on the effectiveness of this hack. 🧐
Scheduled weekly newsletter to publish on Saturday later today - https://jasonleow.substack.com/p/everything-is-a-wrapper-of-a-wrapper
Won a AU$500 (~S$400 / ~US$292) giveaway suggesting possible names for another indie hacker's new product! - https://twitter.com/Timb03/status/1696671859197239377
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Author
It is right? Enjoyed coming up with it. And yeah man it's crazy the conversion rates
