⚗️ Experiment: Started manually sending pre-payment notice emails to customers to offer free trial extension for the undecided. The aim is to: - remind customer to use app cos people forget - offer goodwill cos nobody likes surprise charges - opportunity to engage for feedback - reduce potential cc disputes #lifelog

Day 950 - Nobody really knows anything - golifelog.com/posts/nobody-re… #lifelog

Took the better part of the day but finally managed to squeeze blood from rocks to FINALLY get a wonky gif render #chartpics

Day 949 - Thank you Vue.js - golifelog.com/posts/thank-you… #lifelog

Deployed to Heroku all the weekend fixes to the md and rich text editors #lifelog

Day 948 - Growing in figureoutability - golifelog.com/posts/growing-i… #lifelog

Added several fixes to UX and functionality for recent text editors - e.g. copy paste online image feature to rich text editor #lifelog

Scheduled weekly newsletter to publish on Saturday later today - jasonleow.substack.com/p/shor… #indiejourney

Day 947 - Body, teacher - golifelog.com/posts/body-teac… #lifelog

Added confetti and final revenue figure animations. Next: Add gif.js library to snap a gif of the whole animation #chartpics #pluginsforcarrd

Day 946 - Bread & circuses - golifelog.com/posts/bread-and… #lifelog

Set up YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/@pluginsforca… #pluginsforcarrd

Renewed domain coffice-city.com and pluginsforcarrd.com #cofficecity #pluginsforcarrd

Day 945 - Sleeping well is easy - golifelog.com/posts/sleeping-… #lifelog

Spent half day trying to cajole ChatGPT and Bing to help me animate the chart from left to right, but no deal 😩 #chartpix

Day 944 - Sacrifice - golifelog.com/posts/sacrifice… #lifelog

First attempt at generating a chart animation to show my monthly revenue – Next, figure out how to animate it from left to right, month by month. Then, how to record a gif/mp4 from it. #pluginsforcarrd #indiejourney #chartpix

Day 943 - August 2023 goals - golifelog.com/posts/august-20… #lifelog

CC charge got declined (cos of name change to X?) so had to update billing for Twitter Blue. Happy customer for past 5 months! Impressions before Mar 2023 was hovering ~500k or less. Started climbing in Apr to 800k after Blue, and now for July it's 1.84M! #indiejourney

🤹🏻‍♂️ Launched logo carousel Carrd plugin on 16 channels - logocarousel.carrd.co/ #pluginsforcarrd