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Austin Grandt
@doomxpatrol
I use wagtail on all of my projects and it is amazing to work with:
Streamfield is how I think more CMS's will go in the future. It's basically building blocks (that you make as a dev) that allow you to create every page to be unique in layout, content, etc.
Only caveat is that it wants to handle a lot of the URLs for you (I guess what CMS doesn't) so if you have anything else custom going on in your Django app need to be aware of that.
wow this is awesome, thanks for the resource. I will definitely be checking it out.
I know people do it with iframes, but like....how do I check that it's a paying customer (referral url?) and make sure that I can't get hacked, it's my real customer, etc. I'm just a n00b when it comes to this specific type of development
Ohh i made this on contactbox
Basically, iframes duuudes.
- The snippet I provide has two thing 1. it create a script that is called from my server. 2. it runs a function in the js on load with an ID parameter identifying the customer:
<script>
(function(b, o, x){var js, fjs = b.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];
if (b.getElementById(x)){return;}
js = b.createElement(o); js.id = x;
js.onload = function(){box("HJId52J7m")}
js.src = "https://contactbox.co/js/loader.js"
fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs)
}(document, "script", "feedbackLoader"))
</script>
so the function box() called on load create the iframe for my widget. and use this iframe to send the customer ID (via postMessage.
On my website, i get the customer ID, verify it (using also the referrer url), get all customer info needed, and build the widget that is shown in the iframe.
Also since my widget size change, i have some event pushed thought the iframe to resize it.
roughly, its the idea, lmk if you want to take a look at the code
I use Mint to track my net worth. I don't really like it for expense tracking but it's nice to get a complete overview of everything. Expenses I mostly use my own spreadsheet that I am really bad at filling out on a consistent basis.
My main goal is to make sure i'm directionally moving forward and saving $x/month, hence why I like Mint cause I can see retirement, investments, etc. all in one spot.
Interesting. If Mint were more suitable/friendly for expense tracking, would it make any difference for you (how much you use, the value the product delivers, etc)? or would you just stick to your spreadsheet?
this is interesting. I really (right now) only carry my camera with a small lens, and one other bigger lens for farther away shots. My setup is very small and I don't want a bag that is camera-only.
I've seen the peak design everywhere and may go check it out tonight actually. I want an all around bag that can carry a bunch of different things and it looks like this might be able to do that. One bag that recently came out that I"m thinking about checking out is this one:
The most common time that people suggest is 12 AM Pacific Time (Product Hunt local time) on the day you want to post. This gives you the most time to update, interact with people, etc.
Thanks for the response. I feel like I have a lot of experience building things, but most of the ideas I come up with are very content (lots of work, little growth up front but growth accelerates over time) vs service based. It feels hard to gauge success of a project like #financialtoolbelt right now because I haven't monetized yet and traffic while decent, is still pretty low. Any thoughts specific to more content heavy businesses or does the same framework apply?
I think the same framework applies. Instead of adoption you'd be looking at consumption, how much the content is shared, conversion rates to newsletters, etc.
If you find it hard to decide whether to invest more time, ask yourself what date you'd need in order to make that decision either. For example, if you don't know yet how passionate people are about the content add something to gauge this. (newsletter signup, etc)
@marckohlbrugge has answered this much than I. I have the same problem. My take - creating good content every day or week is really difficult. So a project that requires fewer content updates seems better to me, but with some really good content for marketing and SEO.
I am a big fan of the Beautiful Soup python package. Tons of flexibility and super easy to learn and use
This playlist from Liam Wong is really good work playlist:
open.spotify.com/user/liamw0n…
I also sometimes listen to this "coding" mix someone made on spotify as well (although it can get repetitive):
I normally go to Dribbble and then try to emulate something I find interesting. If I don't know how to do something design wise you can normally Google and stack overflow enough to get an idea of how to make the design you want.
I also have this book and I think a lot of makers really like it:
hellowebbooks.com/
basically a tl;dr of getting design done for your side project