Recently I really struggle. I usually have only 45-60minutes of the free time for working on anything side-project related. It’s hard with doing activities with family and wife (I don’t have kids). Usually I start solving problems and then I need to switch to doing something else.  It’s super har...

Hi! i m new here! How has your experience been with the wip community? How has it helped you in your indiejourney? Any tangible results might be good to share.

Hey WIP, Bad day today. My Heroku console has 1803 critical errors :( Are critical errors common? Looking at the specifics: a) I'm using 1X professional heroku dynos. Surely they can handle this level of traffic? b) I made a big mistake with images. Trying to write them to Heroku. Hopefu...

Not really a question, but just wanted to invite anyone who wants to join watch me build a startup on Twitch at 8 PM eastern tonight and every other Tuesday night in the future at the same time. I'll be building one of my WIP projects ( ) on a weekly basis. The link is: https://twitch.tv/ben_mak...

As the title describes, when can you add the "As Seen In" badges? I've noticed a number of large companies have signed up and are using my app. In order to add badges for social proof, do you reach out to these companies and ask for permission or did you say fuck it and added them once they used ...

I've been coding since the early 2000s. I started coding in ruby on rails in 2013 and never looked back. I still use jquery for all my front-end. It bugs me that I haven't made the leap to react/vue or the like, but all projects I worked on so far (freelance + side projects), I didn't have a goo...

How do you know that your production website or platform is up, performing well, and functioning correctly for your users?

Currently trying to differentiate when to use Servers & when to go Serverless. Serverless will scale infinitely, although it has 1 small cost of cold starts but if the site is used regularly then cold start is not needed. Servers are inherently costly. Even if we don't use it to its full potent...

When scraping jobs, you encounter job descriptions in different formats, also from different ATS. How are you showing them in your job boards? Are you taking the original job post and feeding it to AI to ask it to "format" it to your liking? How are you handling the scraping of all the page con...

There are arguments that bootstrap is a bit too heavy. Any suggestions?

I often reuse the same code across multiple Rails apps. From simple service objects to stylesheets. I’m wondering what an easy way would be to share those across different apps? I guess I could put them into ruby gems, but that seems convoluted? Having to build/manage the gem. Imagine I just wan...

Recently I am seeing a lot of SAAS grow & I am thinking of launching one as a side project. It can be one off like whole automation thing that I make once & forget & it makes me money or it can be something that I have to keep updated like Web or Mobile Templates. As this group has a lot of maker...

It took me a while to understand but good colors make the project look a lot better than one with poor design. Nowadays I am checking out Coolors & Colour Hunt for Inspiration. How do you choose your colors for next project?

Hey. I've just discovered Render.com, it looks wicked. I tested it and it is super slick. To date, I've been using Heroku to deploy software products. Render seems to be cheaper and better, but wondering if anyone knows of any gotchas in the long run vs Heroku? Thanks, Tom