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I would love to add a point on this. Make another group to promote products, another group for all this talk. It would diverge the topics & it would create the main group WIP with the best content.
I don't use Flutter yet but a RN guy. But I think its still in Alpha & lots of stuff is not yet done. It took RN 2-3 years to reach where it is & I think if you are using Flutter now, you are on your own. Still you should post it to their group. I am not sure if anyone here is even trying Flutter other than you so I don't think you will find an answer. Also, the community of Flutter is quite defensive. See github.com/flutter/flutter/is… for that.
Something that I posted before on Reddit will give you an idea
Exactly this. WIP branding will help. If Marc can provide a subdomain (blog.wip.chat) that might help too. I also don't care who curates who posts maybe there can be volunteers & some startup success stories or launch stories about why we made the product that we did & what will it be used for. It would help more with Visibility too because as WIP is a closed group so maybe WIP Blog which would be fully open will get more visibility & its beneficial for everyone. Since we get visibility for our products, our sales might help with that too.
It will be like WIP Blog = Failory + IndieHackers. The main issue will be not spamming because we have a lot of products every month. So we need to be careful of how we do it. We can do question formats like IndieHackers does or we can be more personal.
Also, we can have Top 5 products of the Week or Top 5 products of the Month. It has a lot of potential. I don't think anyone alone could do this because of the frequency of the products that get released every week so we need people to volunteer. This would be really awesome though. I am all for it.
The most cheapest solution if it grows is github.com/freeCodeCamp/mail-… otherwise SendGrid, MailChimp, TinyLetter. I think its free for 1000 people or so. Check out their pricing pages though.
Unpopular opinion but here it goes. Idk why Streak is so much hyped. Its all in the mindset.
I joined Github & was consistently coding for getting those Green Marks on my profile even though some of my commits were pure crap 💩Eventually I lost it somehow because my internet was off & it was a great thing because I wasn't doing anything productive. I was just committing my code on Github for those Green Marks. Although, it got me many offers but it didn't feel right because I wasn't doing anything productive.
The streak should help you commit good stuff & not some garbage. I like @swizec's idea. @wimgz's thing won't work because as human nature goes people will wanna go up the streak so they will make everyone else go down. Lots of spammy thing which you Marc won't be able to control. Or you can assign 2 people to check on each other but what if someone goes off of WIP. Then again problem problem. Also, other than Swizec's idea anything else like "Fake Ship" or "StackOverflow style downvoting" would be a problem as people complete a lot of todos in a day.
Anyways guys & gals Streak is all in your mindset. Being on the top of leaderboard won't give you anything. So losing streak is not a bad thing to do. Believe it or not WIPs biggest strength is its community, not streak. Sorry had to say it someday.
Idk why everyone's obsessed with Pieter's #life streaks LOL😂
Bdw just like Pieter's #life I'm starting my own #workout streaks too😜
And I #workout everyday🤪
Yep a Medium publication for visibility & we can write WIP success stories & all the product launches so if someone wants to write about their product they will get more customers which means more money💰as WIP has more than 700-800 active members right now. This will also help WIP itself.
Same & many links from Places To Post Your Startup & Which MarketPlace
The more the merrier. Although sometimes negative backlinks can ruin the SEO, you can't know for sure where your customers hang on. You just need that one customer who has a big following in the market that you are targeting.
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Well if you have internet connection, then you should surely checkout all the Free Stuff Internet grants like awesome.re, github.com/ripienaar/free-for…, medium.com/swlh/300-awesome-f…, startupstash.com, etc... & use whatever resources that are needed for the SAAS you want to build
I don't think Electron would be 70-80MB. It will be close to ~45MB. But still other than Electron, you can use NWJS which makes it like 6-7MB. I haven't tried it but Gitter is made in NWJS.
Will give NWJS a try. If it's indeed 6-7 MBs, it should solve my issue.
There is one problem though. Not a lot of APIs & lower level stuff like Electron provides. Read it somewhere.
I did try to get started with it but the
nwjsbinary is itself 180 MB (on mac). Looking at the docs for packaging an NW project, it seems to suggest that I will have to bundle thenwjsexecutable (180mb) with the project too. I don't see how it is going to be 6-7 MBs that way. Am I missing something?Personally I don't know how to do it. But yes it is 6-7MBs. There is a video by Egghead but it is paid so if you already have a subscription you can watch it. You can check the companies using NWJS here which will give you an idea about size but it is less than Electron. Messenger which uses NWJS is 1.5MB. Checkout awesome-nwjs that might help you. I never used it so can't say about that.
Once you start doing anything with Electron it will be around 140mb.
Nope I actually made apps with it. Hello World is ~45MB or so. Bdw you should check VSCode size. Its 65MB for MAC & less for Windows & Linux & its a full blown editor.
Checkout there.pm. Its Electron & ~68MB.
Source: github.com/therepm/there-desk…
I think I have made my point 😂
Are there some resources on optimizing Electron build size? I remember I first saw electron builds at ~50MB when trying out webtorrent but I wasn't able to reach that size myself.
Try & build a Hello World app. Its like ~40-45MB which I don't remember but I built it. Some of my simple examples can be found here, here & here & I think it was very less in size.
I made a short blog a year or so ago about reducing size. If you know React/Preact I have a ready made boilerplate with Webpack Support I just created.
If you're getting a size like Pugson says then you're obviously doing something wrong with your code. You can find a nice list of resources at awesome-electron & if you don't know anything about Electron & as the docs suck then get started here.
If you still don't get the size reduced take a look at VSCode & Atom, its like 70MB with so much stuff.
Also, take a look at Electron Builder & if you still aren't getting any size reduction then show me the code. I'll take a look.