Your site is really well done and and thought-out.. until I got to the very bottom. Those two massive white icons were never meant to get that big. I'd find other images to put in there, or reduce the size of those icons and put them on top of the copy blocks. IMO!
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Hi Peter,
Thanks for the kind words and the feedback - much appreciated! Regarding the icons, is your feedback based on the mobile version of the website, the normal version, or both? Either way, we'll look into it!
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Of course, happy to help. Haven't looked on mobile, but I was referring to desktop. See here: https://cl.ly/3N0E1w0p1z1w
Personally, I'd reduce their size by 80% and put them above the headlines, centered.
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Hi Clément, congrats on launching AlgoExpert together with Antoine!
My friend Jannine Chan, who's also an alumi from the Full Stack bootcamp in NY, shared this link with us. It's awesome that you guys have been bootstrapping AlgoExpert as a side-project while having what I assume to be fairly demanding full-time jobs.
My husband Chris and I left New York last June and returned to Vancouver, Canada to work on building CozyCal (https://www.indiehackers.com/product/cozycal) together. The journey of bootstrapping a SaaS is not easy for me as I don't have a tech background. But I enjoy the learning process and seeing CozyCal's gradual growth is rewarding.
I'm excited to see where AlgoExpert's heading next.
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Hi Kat,
Thank you! It's great to hear that a fellow Fullstack alumnus shared the interview with you.
And it's always awesome to hear from other entrepreneurs working on projects! I love seeing the way others have grown their businesses - super cool to look at your journey on your Indie Hackers product page.
Best of luck with CozyCal!
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Awesome stuff! Very inspiring! And yes the 2 big icons at the bottom need to be made smaller. Rest looks neat!
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Thank you for the kind words! And we're going to look into the icons; I appreciate the feedback.
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Very cool. Nice idea, great execution.
Just a feedback. On my far-from-latest, 2GB-RAM mobile the page seems quite heavy, meaning very sluggish scroll. Browser was latest Chrome.
Please check it out if time and priorities permit.
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Thanks a lot for the positive words!
As for the issue, we’ll try to take a look when time permits. What OS are you running? We haven’t heard this feedback before, so I’m wondering if it’s unique to an old OS version or machine.
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Would love to hear more about "Our metrics-tracking, monitoring, and alerting efforts are driven by Stackdriver and Slack bots."
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Stackdriver lets us gather metrics from the logs of our Docker containers in production so we can get aggregated counts per service / endpoint / status code. It also lets us set thresholds for those counts, meaning we get emails when a certain number of 500s (for instance) occur within a given time frame. On top of all of this we have a daemon that continuously runs integration tests on the production API, alerting us through Slack if any of those fail. This runs 24/7 and has been super useful during bad deploys, allowing us to roll back quickly with very little downtime. None of it is super fancy, but it really gives us confidence that the site is up and that the core functionality is there for our users with a few nines of availability!
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Thanks! Very cool setup.
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You can set up slack bots to monitor stuff and alert you right inside Slack (well obviously).
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Yes. I want the details. What are they monitoring, alerting on, etc
Congrats!
Your site is really well done and and thought-out.. until I got to the very bottom. Those two massive white icons were never meant to get that big. I'd find other images to put in there, or reduce the size of those icons and put them on top of the copy blocks. IMO!
Hi Peter,
Thanks for the kind words and the feedback - much appreciated! Regarding the icons, is your feedback based on the mobile version of the website, the normal version, or both? Either way, we'll look into it!
Of course, happy to help. Haven't looked on mobile, but I was referring to desktop. See here: https://cl.ly/3N0E1w0p1z1w
Personally, I'd reduce their size by 80% and put them above the headlines, centered.
Hi Clément, congrats on launching AlgoExpert together with Antoine!
My friend Jannine Chan, who's also an alumi from the Full Stack bootcamp in NY, shared this link with us. It's awesome that you guys have been bootstrapping AlgoExpert as a side-project while having what I assume to be fairly demanding full-time jobs.
My husband Chris and I left New York last June and returned to Vancouver, Canada to work on building CozyCal (https://www.indiehackers.com/product/cozycal) together. The journey of bootstrapping a SaaS is not easy for me as I don't have a tech background. But I enjoy the learning process and seeing CozyCal's gradual growth is rewarding.
I'm excited to see where AlgoExpert's heading next.
Hi Kat,
Thank you! It's great to hear that a fellow Fullstack alumnus shared the interview with you.
And it's always awesome to hear from other entrepreneurs working on projects! I love seeing the way others have grown their businesses - super cool to look at your journey on your Indie Hackers product page.
Best of luck with CozyCal!
Awesome stuff! Very inspiring! And yes the 2 big icons at the bottom need to be made smaller. Rest looks neat!
Thank you for the kind words! And we're going to look into the icons; I appreciate the feedback.
Very cool. Nice idea, great execution.
Just a feedback. On my far-from-latest, 2GB-RAM mobile the page seems quite heavy, meaning very sluggish scroll. Browser was latest Chrome.
Please check it out if time and priorities permit.
Thanks a lot for the positive words!
As for the issue, we’ll try to take a look when time permits. What OS are you running? We haven’t heard this feedback before, so I’m wondering if it’s unique to an old OS version or machine.
Would love to hear more about "Our metrics-tracking, monitoring, and alerting efforts are driven by Stackdriver and Slack bots."
Stackdriver lets us gather metrics from the logs of our Docker containers in production so we can get aggregated counts per service / endpoint / status code. It also lets us set thresholds for those counts, meaning we get emails when a certain number of 500s (for instance) occur within a given time frame. On top of all of this we have a daemon that continuously runs integration tests on the production API, alerting us through Slack if any of those fail. This runs 24/7 and has been super useful during bad deploys, allowing us to roll back quickly with very little downtime. None of it is super fancy, but it really gives us confidence that the site is up and that the core functionality is there for our users with a few nines of availability!
Thanks! Very cool setup.
You can set up slack bots to monitor stuff and alert you right inside Slack (well obviously).
Yes. I want the details. What are they monitoring, alerting on, etc