How many of you working on a Sunday? What is "that" can't wait for Monday? Curious 🤓
👋 Indie-hackers
It's 2: 30 AM in my city, so technically it's Monday - but I am working on some design fixes, and writing a jingle for Habitate
If you, too, are working on the weekend, mention your startup and share what are you working on.
The team and I committed to finishing a new feature before this weekend, but couldn't. Guess it's going to take three more days to complete. Meanwhile, I wrote a jingle, made audio with the help of fiverr freelancers
Usually, I work every single day from around 9:00 - 14:00 and then from around 21:00 to 2:00.
The time in-between is reserved for family :-).
Working most of days, except taking occasional days off :) There are still more ways to improve our product OrgPad. Today, I fixed a few remaining bugs from our list of bugs and started working on analysing the data from our users better. I want to build some graphs and computes some metrics in the next few days, before starting to work on the next big update: a completely new amazing simple text editor, supporting images, tables, etc.
Is it like a whiteboard? Miro? I recommend a headline on the landing page buddy.
What's the tech stack? We built a clean editor into our product using Vue.
At the moment, OrgPad is like a very powerful whiteboard for thinking, organizing everything, working on project, etc. We are already using it for most of our work at OrgPad, and more will be possible in the future. Compared to Miro and similar software, we are beautiful and simple to use so people don't spend their time with non-sense options, controlling everything, etc. This simplicity will allow us to grow since our long term plan is to become "iPhone of software". OrgPad will be a place where most people can accomplish 99% of their work at computer, by combining different tasks into one simple tool where people can work around their problems, instead of spliting them into multiple complicated apps.
Everything is build on Clojure and Clojurescript, so we get extremely fast development and it is a lot of fun (I love hot code reloading and interacting via REPL) . Backend is Netty + PostrgeSQL, frontend is React + Clojurescript wrappers (Reagent, Re-frame) + Material-ui for components.
I use Miro a lot, for laying out my marketing plan, product roadmap, and everything. I will sign up and try your product some-time then.
Cool, if you would have any questions or problems, please let us know :). We are very responsive and feedback often has immediate impact.
OrgPad looks nice and helpful. I also like the showcase video. It helps get the idea of the product quickly.
I'm been using Obsidian.md for a personal knowledge base for the last couple of months. Would you consider it a competitor?
I've also submitted OrgPad on SaaSHub https://www.saashub.com/orgpad-alternatives. You can verify it to improve the listing. Cheers!
I have never seen Obsidian.md before (reminds me Roam) but my first feeling from landing page is: it is increadibly ugly and the visualization seems useless. You are just building your own personal wikipedia in markdown while looking at that ugly autogenerated visualization. Since it is autogenerated and changes over time, you can never use it effectively to make sense of things.
In contrast, in OrgPad, you build the visual structure itself, so it makes sense to you and you can find anything extremely quickly (building on top of visual memory). And since everything is very simple and nicely designed, you don't have to spend any time setting up colors, font, etc., so you can just concentrate on your problems. Also, we have an amazing algorithm which automatically improves your layout and pushes things away from each other to make space when you want to open something.
We don't really care about competitors much, we are just trying the build the best product possible and talk with our users what they are missing and what they want to improve. We recently got 1000 registred users which does not seem like that much but we are launched only since December and spend $0 on advertisement. If I would think of a competitor, it would be Microsoft Office or similar tools. We are moving fast enough and have superior design to not care about anyone in mind mapping/note taking space :). My co-founder @KamilaHerkova checked pretty much everything over the years and she haven't found much interesting stuff out there.
Thanks for creating the page on SaaSHub, we will improve it little bit.
One of the main reasons I use Obsidian is that all data is stored on my machine. I'm a bit cautious preserving "all my knowledge" at a third party.
Sure, that is understandable, quite a lot of our users put important private data into OrgPad. We do not offer running OrgPad on your machine. Our policy is that our users have full control and ownership over their data and we offer them security, convenience of backups, running the service, frequent updates, etc.
The system is not build as zero knowledge (well, you would have to trust us anyway :)). We are tracking some stats, what people do in OrgPad, which functionality they use, etc.. With great power comes great responsibility, and we protect the privacy of inserted information. This requires trust from our users which can be hard to get as a small startup; hopefully will get easier down the road. For some serious business application, we offer running a dedicated OrgPad server at customer's infrastructure for a custom monthly fee.
i work every day.
Of course, you do. Lol, What's on the cards today?
a few administrative things... a meeting and then family. writing, of course.
@Deepak09 commendable that you are wroking on the Sundays to chase the dreams. I'm in line with you thoughts and same like you I also work on the side.
I mostly devote my Sunday time to Side Hustles. The one thing that can't update for the Monday for me is, my Side Hustle Blog Growthfunda
I am committed to deliver the vlaue to my audience. So recently I have worked days and nights to finish, and launched my Side Hustle course, Side Hustle Beta
Glad connecting with you.
Cheeras!!
Wow, looks like you are doing a lot of things. Cheers. I ♥️ the idea Side hustle Beta.
Let's connect on twitter and chat?
If you love what you do you'll never work a day in your life.
So I'm always on vacation 🤙
I work on my project Saturdays and Sundays as its the only real time I have when I'm productive - I try working in the evenings after my full time job but never really make a huge amount of progress.
I'm working on a new crash and error reporting service for developers, no matter their development stack being focussed on being simple and lightweight (no huge amounts of bloat of complicated features or useless data being collected in reports) and focussing towards solo developers and startups primarily.
If you wanted to check it out its at crashcatch.com (not actually ready for use yet)
I have done this before, about three years ago. I had a full-time job and parallel trying to start a company. I didn't have a co-founder at that time either. It was terrible for me, but looking back -- the dots connect.
I shared your product to my co-founder, he leads the tech. Will share his thoughts to you.
Yea it's not easy trying to find the time to do everything. Especially the marketing stuff as I have no experience in that, and thanks, much appreciated. Look forward to hearing back
Hey, I am now taking a course on Coursera on marketing. It's on branding from the author of contagious. I love it -- it's free unless you need a certificate [ who needs that ].
Ah cheers. I'll check it out thanks
@Deepak09 We are working with various teams now — Community management form Canada, ML and Cyber Security from the Middle East, R&D in Germany, Operations and Dev from APAC. Sunday is my only day off(ish). Or at least I receive less request and plan fewer meetings on that day. It's never the less a full working day.
We are working on our open innovation management platform. It's also part of R&D focused on helping us find out more about how innovations use. We then share all our findings with our community and hope that your platform will hell us produce cool and fun ways to share our insights.
Check out https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/the-good-workshop
And DM us for early access to our community :)
I am really impressed by the number of meetings you take in a week. Don't you feel exhausted buddy?
Getting there — this week is about another round of housekeeping, going through all our new ideas and either throw them back to our anti-roadmap page on confluence or move them forward. But chats with people like you and new insights about our product during research are just worth the time!
Plus, I just painted a clock! You heard me a real, physical item and I used real paint and no #HEXvalues :) :) :)
Wow, share a photo.
I work every day, but weekends are the bulk of my work on my indie project because my week days are primarily for my day job and nights are for my daughter.
So I get as much as I can done during the week on Primcloud my platform as a service to compete against Heroku.
Hey, the page looks neat but I am unable to access the pricing tab.
That's because there is no pricing. We're working on the infrastructure and application right now, We'll be adding more content down the road when we have it.
I work every day, but yesterday was crap. Just pushing buttons...
Did nothing in 4 hours.
I'm building Skyhop. It's simply more convenient for me to work on weekends given that is when most recreational aviation activity happens. With on average one aircraft departing every two seconds that gives me plenty of realtime test data to build new features.
Sunday is no more special than other days right now. In fact, if I want to take a day off it's better to do it during the week, when every store is open and most restaurants have a business lunch deal.
Smart.
Working the week on my primary work leaves me only weekends and evening to work on https://midnight.pub :)
I work most days. I'm earn my living as a freelancer and partner in a couple of businesses so I try to keep normal office hours for them. During non-regular business hours, I tend to work on my own projects in between raising two kids. Some of them are in the design phase, some of them are in the launching next week phase.
My launching next week project is a redesign of https://dittos.io/ which is a site for educators, teachers and parents to be able to communicate that isn't that other social media site. I literally just finished the refresh 20 minutes ago and pushed it to our test site (https://dittos.dev) for final testing while the new splash page (also from fiverr) is being integrated.
Yeah I can't really take days off either.. :)
Lately I've mostly been working on my latest project: https://hideandseek.world/
Besides that updating my old iOS apps and looking for a full-time job (sadly not a full time indie yet)
The game looks fun 😅!
I too work most weekends on my projects (convertcsv.com, convertjson.com). I'm either fixing bugs, doing small enhancements, or working on the next release.
I work on my projects when I'm in the mood, and that's almost every day (with exceptions). I've modified my work techniques to make them fun and relaxing, so I don't find it tiring, or overworking myself in any way.
Weekends are just easier to work on projects since there's way more free time.
What are you working on?
I'm working on a video game called "The king is gone" (https://darkdimension.itch.io/the-king-is-gone).
It's pretty fun working on it, as an indie I can get away with experimenting on new techniques.
@YCSchoolGraduate really dig Habitate! Would love to learn more about your stack.
Thank you, my ID is deepak09 though 😅. The tech stack is Vue & Java.
I work everyday, but only one hour 🤣 checkout one hour saas to find out more!
Not really just one hour, but is for this challenge, and having fun so far.
:-) Nice question. I have to publish my newsletter for tomorrow morning.
What's it about?
"The Day’s Best Ideas for Bootstrapped Startups"
I don't normally work Sundays but we had seven prospects contact us last week and I need to get three proposals out.
🔥What are you working on?
Following "It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work" never work on weekends. The weekend is for family and fun. Sometimes I in doubt that I can lose some opportunities this way, but then I walk it away and feel fine again
Have a nice weekend then 🍕.
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I just checked out hackstack! totally with this idea of yours. I got some ideas too. Shall we connect on a zoom call or something? I couldn't find your twitter account.
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I did write an email but the delivery failed, stated email doesn't exist.
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