I built a product in 6 hours

It's been a little I was experimenting with various tech stacks to figure out what fits me best. HTML, PHP, React, Vue, Gatsby, Next.js, you name it - I tried it.

Lately, it gives me more and more comfort to design my landing pages in Notion and wrap them up in a Next.js project. I think that way I get both the speed of creating content quickly in markdown and the familiarity and extensibility of Next.js.

That's exactly what I did with my latest gig Articles Swap (https://www.articlesswap.com/). As it is a platform to exchange content with other startup founders, a sleek landing page was a important bit and got that sorted quickly with Notion. Then the next important bit was to build the matching system. I would normally use Node.js but Next.js got it all bundled up so no need for babel, express, nodemon and all that stuff. I then built the emailing functionality with Next.js API routes there and used Google Cloud Scheduler to periodically call them and have founders notified for new opportunities and about exchange completions.

More precisely:

1. Started off my Next.js template that has Stripe Subscriptions ready-to-go
2. Created a landing page in notion inspired by various examples online
3. Added SEO title, description and image + integration with Google Analytics
4. Hooked up a Chilli Pepper form and connected it to Notion table
5. Build the email automation on Next.js, nodemailer and Google Cloud Scheduler

It's the first time I'm finishing a project in a day 🎉 🎉