[My monthly review] iPad-only Project challenge: tech stack and stats
Hi, here the latest updates of my iPad-only challenge and stats:
My Takeaways
- I don’t need a laptop as I’m not coding
- Impossible to work on iPad without a keyboard
- Mouse scroll function doesn’t work on iPad. That’s why I decided to not use it
- I think I'm far from make any money
Stats
My latest stats from May
- 41 Subscribers
- 35 new Twitter followers
- 98 total views latest article, comparing to 50 the one before
1. Idea
End of April, with no laptop for side-projects and time in hands after being furloughed, I decided it was time to launch something out of an iPad only and make it profitable
Ok, but now what to launch? Well, time has passed, May 5th and I came across an article about the world’s oldest companies still operating. Combining my passion with entrepreneurship, reading stories about companies, listening to a variety of podcasts, I wrote a post about those companies here and received a good few votes. If you want, read about my motivations to launch
2. My Newsletter Stack
Research
Safari/Firefox/Chrome
Edition/Revision
- Google Docs
Where the action happens. Each edition is edited and reviewed here - https://substack.com/
Editions to be distributed via email - Google Slides
All images/screenshots are marked up using Google Slides - Google Sheets
Where I keep companies’ data I’ve written about and my insights
I plan to launch a website later this year with all companies’ cases - Imgur
Images are uploaded to Imgur. Then I can add images to IndieHackers and others like Reddit
Distribution channels
Indie Hackers, Newsletter, Twitter, Reddit
3. What have I written?
5 articles so far and quite a few tweets
4. Why iPad?
- Portability
- Constraint makes you look for the more user-friendly apps, no-coding tools
- Don’t spend time learning a new framework/coding if you don’t have this knowledge and are productive enough
5. Why laptop?
- Google apps (Sheets, Docs, Slides) for iPad don’t have the same functionalities as on the web. Things like semi-transparent colours,multiple object selections are only covered on web version
- Web browsers (any) on iPad refresh the page when you change tab. You might lose data when editing if you change tabs
- Some websites are not responsive
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