So, yesterday I was about to work on my micro SAAS and I saw that my family was going to be away probably the whole day, and that meant zero distractions.
They Pop Ups are made for Tailwind CSS and are 100% free!
So I decided to challenge myself to build the product and this what I had to do:
Optional.
And then.
I tweeted around 9.44 about the idea, and around 10.30 - 11.00 I was already working on the popups. I had to do some dad and husband things after they came home and it took away time from the challenge.
I was done around 23.30
It was fun feel free to ask me here or on twitter:
The exact opposite of procrastination. Well done, Michael. :)
Thanks bro!
impressive.
are you going to continue to work on it or
Yes, in fact, I am launching it on Monday for fun.
How did the launch go?
I was 5th!😂
oh that's really good
Actually, I just sent an email celebrating the success because it has had around 600 downloads....
Congrats! This is a great example to follow. I tried to build something, but it took more than two days. I shall try to complete the next project within 24 hours!
Thanks for the words.
You should do it again!
This is so cool and such a great idea
and fun!!
Congrats again Michael, it is admirable!!
cheers Yucel!
Love your designs, great work!
Thank you Francisco!
Congrats on your launch!
FYI: I can't load the site at the moment from Europe
it should work now..!
Thank you David!
is not working for me either now adn the DNS looks liek it hasnt propagated...but it was....
https://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/wickedpopups.com
Thank you!
Seems to be working now indeed, thanks!
issues with Netlify
Congrats! I challenged myself to also build an idea in just 24 hrs.
It was great to just build a simple version of my idea and get it out to the world. I launched it on product hunt, got some feedback, and motivation.
I think we as indie hackers sometimes overthink, and because of what others have done, compare our products with theirs. As a result we share way too late.
I think it is a good practice if anything, just to get some validation, and see if your time is worth the effort.
thanks mate.
Agree, we do overthink, and I am guilty of that...
that's so impressive Mike, huge congrats!
🙌🏼🙌🏼
Vow. this is good!
it was really fun!
This is awesome and inspiring!
cheers man!
Congrats! That is an impressive feat!
P.S: Couldn't help but notice the broken 'next.js templates' link in the footer, would have loved to take a look at those
P.S2 : Thanks for the shoutout on twitter for my blog :)
thnk you!
Ohhh the links. I am so sorry
Ill see them here:
https://www.wickedtemplates.com/nextjs
shout out? when? :-)
ahhhh yay!
I want to learn it, I looked at it and found it interesting.
Well done, what an impressive feat.
Thank you Matt 🎉
Amazing challenge Mike! Motivation for me to do this someday too!
Bray!
Go for it, it was really fun!
The popups look great. Awesome designs.
How do you expect people to use them?
BTW: Your html file loads alpine.js, but I don't see any tags using it. Is /js/app.js intentionally not included, but the reference left in the code?
So what I am wondering is what steps do you expect the user to take between downloading your .zip file and integrating your popups into their site?
well i made this long long documentation
https://wickedpopups.com/documentation.html
I made the first navigation with Alpine, then forgot to remove it because I havnt used it.
Hi Michael,
yeah I saw your extensive documentation :D
I think this is a really cool 24h project, but I really don't understand what your customer segment is and how your customer should interact with your product:
Let's say I am a front-end developer and already have an e-comm site and I want to use your fancy e-mail popup. How would I go about it? As I currently see it I would have to manually copy paste the "section" from the html body and some Google Fonts from the html head. Please correct me if I am wrong.
I really like the designs, if only the result was more usable from a developer's perspective. I would love to have the popups wrapped into some ready-made React components (including basic interactivity like closing the popup).
So this is just me telling you what I love about your product (the design) and what still stops me from using it (the developer experience). I wish you all the best and would love to see your 24h project turn into a commercially successful project.
Interesting.
Well yeah, all you can do right now is to copy and paste them on your Tailwind CSS project.
About react, I had very short time, so this is what it came out on less than 24h.
I am redesigning the popups and make them more "usable".
I will extend the docs too, that's for sure, i just...didn't had the time.
Congratulations Michael, it's insane what you can manage to complete by breaking down your tasks
yeah, breaking down helps a lot, because you can see a clearer scope of the project.
Congrats Michael, how do you feel after launch?
Tired. 😅
Congrats man. Where there is a will, there is a way.
word.
Congrats!
Also HUGE respect for wickedblocks!
thank you Chișinău!
Awesome stuff! Love the 1day, 7days challenges.
What stack did you use?
I simply used Tailwind, Gulp and Handlebars.
cool! Thanksss!
yeah, it was fun actually!
Congratulations! Takes alot of discipline to do that man! I can't even sit still for an hour. Now, you can best Pieter Levels! Instead of 12 startups in 12 months, 365 startups in 365 days! Haha
haha well, I really wanted to achieve, and if there is a will there is a way :-)
to be honest is doable, if the product is little as this is.
Congratulations Michael, insane you managed to do this in a day💪
it was fun!
Congrats on launching something in a day, Michael!
🙌🏼 !!
Cool designs, great work :)
cheers Hugo!
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Lemon Squeeze was lovely to use to be honest, I really like the checkout, very clean and not a modal.