As you might know we started doing weekly WIP voice calls with the community. Each Friday we pick a topic and discuss it for an hour. We'd like to know which topics you'd be interested in? Some examples of previous topics: • Sales for founders • Dealing with the ups and downs of bootstrapping a...

I've added Tailwind CSS and ViewComponent to the WIP codebase. What started out two weeks ago as a "quick experiment" soon turned into a long rabbit hole of refactoring large parts of the codebase. With each change, affecting something else in the codebase, requiring another change and so forth....

In the previous post I explained I want to take a more data-driven approach when it comes to product development. But which metrics should I look at? Ultimately the goal of a business is to generate a profit. Setting aside costs, we can just focus on revenue for now. In case of WIP, that's our m...

Now that we have Product Updates on WIP, I figured I'd share a monthly report. Here it goes… Metrics Numbers are a little down compared to March. This was to be expected as we launched last month leading to a lot of new members and increased activity. Overall though, the numbers look really go...

Too lazy to click? No worries. You can now use Gmail-like keyboard shortcuts to navigate across WIP! The following keyboard shortcuts are currently supported: • Type gp to go to your pending todos • Type gd to go to your done todos • Type gh to go to the homepage • Type gq to go to the questions...

⏰⚡️ Streaks now support time zones! Set your time zone by sending your GPS location to @wipbot (we don't store your location). Your streak will then be calculated based on your own time zone. Make sure to complete at least one todo before midnight, local time. ⛔️ This feature is in BETA. Use at ...

Starting today you can invite your team mates to WIP and collaborate on your products! Here's how to get started: 1. Visit your product page 2. Click the edit button 3. Enter your teammate's username in the additional makers field 4. Your teammate will receive an email asking for confirmation 5....

A central place to discuss your ideas for WIP. • Have a feature request, bug, or feedback? Add a comment! • Each top-level comment should discuss only ONE idea. Add multiple top-level comments as needed • Upvote a suggestion by using the ❤️ button • Reply to a suggestion to discuss or add more de...

Today I'm introducing the beta of Product Updates, a better way to share your most important product changes, milestones, and other changes. Todos are a great way to share incremental updates on your product. Whether it's a bug fix or small feature. However, some changes deserve more attention t...

When it comes to product development and deciding what to work on next, I have never really followed a specific methodology. I just fixed the bugs that seemed the most annoying, and built the features I thought people wanted. That kinda works, but I'm always wondering: is this really the thing I...

With over 1,000 products on WIP it can be hard to stay up-to-date on your favorite ones. So starting today you can follow products. By following a product you will get notified of their Product Updates. You also get a handy list of all the products you follow. 

As previously discussed I'm looking to make my product designed more data-informed. One metric I'm especially interested in is WIP's activation rate. That is: what percentage of new users actually become active community members? It's pretty hard to grow a community if new members leave right af...

When you're in the zone you might forget to log your work. So what if you could connect your GitHub account, and at the end of the day you'd receive an email with all your commits. And based on that you can write the todos you completed that day. (e.g. just by replying to the email) Two question...

If you enable the daily digest email, you will receive a daily email summarizing that day's activity. It shows you all the pending todos you added, and the todos you completed. Starting today, you can reply to this email to log more todos. Every line is considered a separate todo. Todos are pre...

Three years ago we added the "Product Updates" feature which would let you share important milestones, announce new product features, etc. Basically anything where a short todo wouldn't do it justice. It was a bit hard to find though and I think the naming was a bit confusing. So today we've gi...

WIP's streaks are always a decisive topic. Some people claim it's what finally made them a productive maker while others dislike the unhealthy incentive to work every single day. For the people that do like streaks, it can be very demotivating when they eventually lose them and have to start fro...

We’re going to try something new. Have a specific topic for some of our weekly hangouts.  Which topics would you like to discuss? We might try and invite an expert to answer your questions. Thanks @ben for the suggestion!

Ideas for sticker designs are welcome, but also any other crazy ideas you might have. 😁 #wip

When you finally launch your product on #wip that's something we should celebrate and share with the community. What should it look like? Where does your launch appear on the site, and what information should it include?

I'm in the process of simplifying WIP. The reason is that over time the codebase and UX gets more complicated as we add more features. It's important to sometimes also REMOVE features to keep things lean and progress on-going. Pending todos (i.e. todos that aren't completed) have been part of WI...

Currently, for each todo you post on the site, we include the UTC datetime that it was posted. We format it as a "relative date" so it says something like "2 hours ago" or "3 weeks ago", etc. Some people have asked for an option to see the "absolute date" (e.g. 23:02 on 16 November 2023". Also...

If WIP had an AI chatbot that knew about your projects and completed todos. What are some of the questions you'd ask? I'm wondering if it would be useful. Want to collect a list of use cases first. Some ideas I thought of: • Ask it what to work on next • Let me specify my goals and ask if I'm ac...

There are a lot of talented people in our community, but it isn't always easy to find them. What if we allowed you to add your skills to your profile? Then later we can add filters, so then when you have an SEO question you can quickly find all members who are experts at that. We can also start...

Hey everyone, I wanted to share some updates on what I've been working on recently. It's been a mix of bug fixes, design improvements, and some exciting new features across a few different projects. Here’s a breakdown: WIP 🛠 Bug Fixes:  • Fixed a bug where clicking on an avatar would download...

I've been toying with three related ideas for WIP to grow the community and get more (relevant) people onboard: Idea 1: Free Currently, anyone considering to join WIP will need to commit to paying $20 per month. This is great in the sense that we don't get any spam, and the majority of new memb...

When I first started WIP about four years ago I never thought it would turn into what it is today. It was a just a Telegram chatgroup, free for anyone to join. Pretty soon though, some very kind people (many still active members today!) asked if they could donate some $$$ to WIP in the hope to i...

I'm considering creating weekly reports that will show you a high-level overview of what you worked on that week, based on your WIP todos. The goal is to give you an overview of your progress, while also giving you something to share with your audience (blog, Twitter followers, etc) to update th...

I notice a growing concern in the maker community (not WIP specifically, but in general) of people's work being blatantly ripped off. It makes people hesistant building in the open, sharing the revenue numbers, etc. So I had a crazy idea inspired by Twitter's new view counts. What if you could ...

There's a new WIP feature I've been contemplating. Would love your feedback! The idea is to pick a topic each month and we all work on todos related to that topic. For example, one month the topic might be "SEO". At the start of the month we share our SEO-related goals, throughout the month we s...

Today, Jankees added search functionality to WIP. You can search through all todos, products, and makers. Click the "More" button in the sidebar navigation and then "Search". Search is really nice to quickly find your own stuff, but it's also a great way to find other makers that might be able ...

WIP currently shows you their daily tasks and occasional milestones. What other things would you like to see? I'll list some ideas below, but I'd love to get your suggestions too! • Revenue / MRR for each project • Other metrics like user growth, engagement, etc • Weekly/monthly recap of their ...

When I initially added the #hashtag feature to WIP the idea was to group all your product's todos together in one place. That's still what most people use them for. However, more and more people have started using them for other creative usecases like #life (non-work related todos), tracking the...

PRO members gets access to various deals including many discounts to SaaS services. What services would you like to see included? I'll try and reach out to them to see if they can offer a nice discount for us. Also, you can add a discount for your own project.

I wanted to let you know about some changes to WIP membership that will help us maintain the quality of our community and ensure the long-term sustainability of our platform. Starting today, we will be moving to a paid membership model for all new members. Existing members will be grandfathered ...

When you join an accelerator like Y Combinator you not only getting funding and mentorship, but I believe they also offer various services like legal advice, setting up payroll, etc. Their goal is let you focus on your core business, and they take care of all the secondary stuff. VC firms do the...

Just wanted to give you all a quick explanation on WIP being down today and earlier this week. I've been in process of switching many of my smaller apps from Render to Digital Ocean, deployed through Kamal. While I'm still a big fan of Render and I think it's great for hosting profitable sites, ...

I think it could be useful for us to roast each others product. Provide critical feedback. Then as a maker you can go through each point and figure out a fix or how to prevent those possible problems. I’ll start with WIP.