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 👍

@nilsw

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.

• 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)

My main piece of feedback is that I'm unclear why I should care?

I don't go looking for random questions or random questions. If I have a specific question, I go and find a person or a community of people who's opinion I trust on the subject matter. A big group of random strangers is probably the last place I'd go.

I think the concept would make more sense if it was geared towards a specific industry where people can't use their real name for some reason and where experience/expertise is less relevant. Not sure what that would be, but that's for you to figure out.

Don't automate these emails. People can tell and they won't respond. Even the WIP email you mentioned gets a very low response rate despite it being short and personal.

It seems like you only got a couple dozen email subscribers, so you should be able to manually email them. Research them for a bit (google their email address, but don't go over board into creepy territory) and make the email personal. About them.

It's a lot more work and not scalable to do forever for a large amount of subscribers. But for those first 100 subscribers or so, you should totally be able to do it. And you'll get a much better response rate.

I don't have any relevant experience I'm afraid, but what I will say is that you don't need to jump right in immediately. You can just go for an extended holiday somewhere and see if you can find the necessary amenities and services to remain productive while also caring for your child.

If that works out well you can consider staying somewhere for a longer time period, etc. No need to take huge leap. Just baby steps (pun intended).

I'm not sure if there's any nomad parents on WIP (although there might be), but I'm sure you'll find some on @levelsio 's nomadlist.com – there's a very active Slack chat group with I'm sure plenty of people able to answer your question more in depth.