After a few weeks of break from working on #shortofthemonth, shipped a minor improvement. Viewers can now easily navigate to the next or previous film using arrow navigation. Might add a keyboard shortcut next.

Reach 180 organic clicks in 28 days. 📊 #shortofthemonth

Started working on a new client portal for #indieshortsmag using AuthJS and Shadcn with Next.js 15.

Added a Leaderboard page and ranking details for the five most-voted films. #shortofthemonth

Bulk email sent to filmmakers who submitted to #indieshortsmag, inviting them to submit to #shortofthemonth.

Delete Dokploy server and completely moved to Coolify. #aceboxmedia

Sent estimate for a new project to an existing client. #aceboxmedia

Reduce pending customer support email from 286 to 237 for #indieshortsmag.

Prepared a list of filmmakers to email inviting them to #shortofthemonth.

Got EIC (Export Import Certificate). Soon moving #indieshortsmag to Stripe.

Convinced an existing client to migrate his WordPress site to Directus for CMS and NextJS for the front end. It wasn't easy; the presentation put together by the team helped. #aceboxmedia

Built an internal tool for the intern working on setting up a headless CMS for a client. Existing tools didn't have an automatic copy, slowing him down slightly. #aceboxmedia

Added a new footer to #shortofthemonth with additional links and content.

Added submission alert admin email notification to #shortofthemonth. Next, add a sign-up alert and re-enable the welcome email.

Approved all the films received for review until October for #indieshortsmag. Currently manually emailing filmmakers using templated emailes. Time to set up a database and automate this. #soon

Added a new page on #shortofthemonth where users can view all the films they have voted for.

Added a steps section to the homepage. This content was already included in the FAQ page, but visitors were not checking this, and support was receiving such questions. Hopefully, this will fix it. #shortofthemonth

Updated the list of Oscar-qualifying short film festivals on #indieshortsmag www.indieshortsmag.com/oscar-…

Removed the social media automation cron job due to Cloudflare Turnstile blocking external cron job requests. Will trigger the script manually for now and consider migrating to Vercel Cron jobs if necessary. #shortofthemonth

Trying some cross-project marketing. 🤞🏻 Added an automated email(triggered after a day) to #indieshortsmag submissions flow inviting filmmakers to submit their films to #shortofthemonth. Started using Plunk email for this, and will slowly move all my emails from SES to Plunk for all my projects.