Marc Köhlbrugge
PRO
@marc
Glad to have a fellow Rails developer join our community!
What projects are you working on right now? Curious to hear what you plan to ship next.
Oh that would have been good to mention in the intro.
I'm currently building a tiny app (one may call it a "micro-SaaS") that's sole goal is to delete old tweets off of twitter.
I call it Tweet Sweeper — tweetsweeper.app
The core features are built, and I have a small handful of paying customers (about $100 ARR), but no where near profitable yet.
My main goal is to get better at product positioning and learning different marketing channels. I'd love to build a handful of apps to replace freelance and consulting work.
I see. Cool. Have you considered allowing sweeping of individual tweets containing certain keywords?
You'll frequently see celebrities getting in hot water for old tweets containing terms or views that are (no longer) politically correct and they end up getting cancelled for it.
Would be useful to scan for those.
My bet is that virtually all of your tweets are useless after 24 hours.
Twitter's homepage (when logged out) advertises "Happening now", and Dan Rowden of ilo recently tweeted that after 24 hours Twitter stops surfacing every tweet, regardless of how popular it is.
twitter.com/dr/status/1513371…
Twitter is a chat room and all chats have some sort of context. Old tweets that get surfaced don't usually get surfaced with all the context of the time.
It's also really hard to know today what will be politically incorrect 5 years from now.
With that said, I'd consider the opposite approach. Pick keywords that you want to keep on the record (like for you it may be #buildinpublic, or something like that) and delete the rest.
Ugh! Sorry to hear about your Twitter account getting hacked. I believe @camerondare had a similar problem. Cam, did you ever get it resolved?
I'd love to know if @camerondare did! In the meantime I have setup a covert one 😬 - see how long it evades the bots!
I'm happy to announce I'm the first follower of the covert twitter account :)
Hahahaha! If you can find me that easily, I have doubts as to how long I have before they find me! 😂
If I was genuinely up to no good l, I’d be less annoyed but I was doing nothing wrong and Twitter don’t have a decent system in place to fix this stuff! 🤦🏻♂️
Hi Nasser, finally got a chance to review and publish your intro! Welcome again to WIP!
How's Ruby on Rails treating you? @AndreyAzimov also switched to it a few months ago 👍
I love it! It’s a great experience! I still learn new things about Rails every day 🙏
Interesting niche 👍
My initial impression is that there's very few recipes on the site yet haha. So yeah you'll definitely want to add a bunch more. Also, since you're focussing on high-protein contents I think you can design your site around that. So for example on your homepage you might want to add the protein percentage big and bold for each recipe. Or taking it a step further you could have different recipes for "cutting" and "bulking", etc. Basically double down on whatever is different about diet for fitness people. Set yourself apart and go all in on those differences.
Curious if @jelmerdeboer has any feedback on this concept itself? He has a background in fitness and diets and might be able to shed more light on what role high-protein meals play in someone's diet.
The main “gotcha” is that some parts work a bit differently from what you may be used to with Heroku, so the first time around getting set up with Render might take some more time.
But after that I think it’s a superior product in many ways. More affordable, great customer support, active developed, etc.
I guess the two things that can still use improvement are having an add-on marketplace like Heroku has (I’m sure that will come) and better metrics (they are working on this).
But they will get there whereas Heroku’s development seems stagnated. So yeah Render seems like a better long-term option 👌
All makes sense! But I still think it will be very challenging to get people into the habit of going to Throw when it's not geared towards a specific topic.
I think people aren't wired to think "Oh I have a question, let's go to a Q&A site". I think they are much more likely to think "I have a question about $topic. Let's go to a $topic site"
Similarly when someone does happen to come across Throw randomly (like me right now), it doesn't necessarily immediately resonate or is mentally bookmarked because it doesn't feel relevant yet. Whereas if I would randomly come across a site that's about a topic I'm interested in, then I might (mentally) bookmark it.
I believe if you start out within a specific niche it will be easier to expand from there, rather than when you start off very broadly.
Thanks again for the insightful feedback Marc! It certainly helps!
- Page seems to load very slowly (maybe my internet?)
- Screenshot didn't load on first try. Had to refresh
- Not sure what a "calm community" is
- Is this landing page meant for community creators or people looking to join a community?
- There's a lot of text on the page and honestly I'm not sure what's most important (lacking visual hierarchy) so I don't read any of it
- The "public communities" link links to a 404 page
- Click a thread in the demo loads very slow without any loading indicator. At first I thought it wasn't mean to load anything
- The demo has "hello world" content instead of real content. Which is never a good look and doesn't really demonstrate the product well
- Not entirely sure what the product is or who's it for. Seems like some type of forum service, but there's so many community platforms it's unclear why I would choose Booklet over anything more established
- I like the old school UI, but it doesn't seem consistent. For example the fading in/out of the buttons feels too modern. If you're going for this retro aesthetic you need to go all the way.
- Loading of a song can take a few seconds (depending on internet speed I guess), but there's no indicator that it's loading
- It feels like just a regular app with some random mp3s. If there's a benefit to it being blockchain-based, show it. If the files are loaded from IPFS etc, please give me a peek behind the scenes so I understand why it's cool
- No genres to choose from?
- The "connect" page feels sloppily designed. But if you're going to ask people to connect their wallet you should inspire confidence
- How am I supposed to scan a QR code that's shown on my phone screen? 😅 (let me connect with Rainbow/Metamask apps directly)
Hey Farid. A belated welcome to WIP! I see you're into web3 and Solana specifically. Have you seen @adamq_q 's theportal.to ? One of the most exciting Solana projects right now I think.