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What did you work on in April?

April is almost over. So, what did you worked on? Were you productive? Share your challenges.

I finally started to sell online and earned my first $$$. I decided to sell a pre-release version of my book Deployment from Scratch and also delivered 3 updates throughout the month. My biggest challenge would be to make May even a better month.

on April 28, 2021
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    Working on offdesign after a month off.

    • Now I'm adding more Templates based on Hugo SSG (Static Site Generator)
    • More content for blog and resources side
      May will be a more productive one 'cause I'll be sharing more info on Twitter and other plateform.
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    Working in https://boolu.app/ , beta soon, funny project for this month :P

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      I think this has a lot of potential, good luck!

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        Thanks man!

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    Congrats on the first sales!

    • I created a new podcast: generationremote.fr (french speaking)
    • I launched a new product (5th of my 6 in 6 months challenge): PipeSocial
    • I continue to build an audience, just pass 4k on Twitter
    • I published regular content and buidinpublic threads on blogs, social media etc…
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      I love podcasts, would try, but I don't speak french, unfortunately. 4k is serious number (to me who has 400 hah), good luck!

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    Hello,

    I worked on launching a web hosting company.

    My challenge:- I have a partner and at first I thought it was the best choice but I started to get irritated because I didn't like the pace we were going at.

    Solutions:- I like to work alone. This means I get easily irritated when anyone I am working with does something in a different way. Once I understood this about myself, we have been able to work together smoothly.

    We have set up everything, right now we are just struggling with coming up with a good logo and prices.

    By two weeks, we will launch.

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    I got a fair amount done on https://boardcentral.app/ (which is my b2b SaaS app that provides a set of tools that help boards of organization govern better while reducing effort for both staff and board members alike).

    • Added Terms and Privacy pages to the marketing site and some updates to the landing page (needs more details and specific module/tool pages of course).
    • added stripe billing and business model code
    • a new skin/theme (though that was mostly in March)
    • an admin backend
    • some internal metrics/analytics (no reporting or dashboards yet, but the data is being collected)
    • Added rollbar for error monitoring and reporting.

    Right now I am evaluating a move to fly.io for hosting so I am testing/planning that. I intend to do some feature dev work and I need to decide on a corporate form and structure (sole prop. vs corporation) so I can finalize my stripe setup and be ready to turn on billing.

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    Congrats on earning your first money from the internet!

    For me April was:

    • Getting distracted from my main priorities to build justtherecipe.website
    • Started compiling a list of subjects on which I would like to create educational material (writing, videos, courses).
    • Finally started on my first SaaS product, which I've been thinking about for years - Status Tracker
    • With all of the above I started my #BuildInPublic adventure.

    Wow, I hadn't really thought about it until I read your post, but April was a pretty good month for me. Thanks for posing the question!

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    Launched the landing page for my e-book -- 7 Habits of Highly Effective Tweeple.

    Got 7 pre-orders so far, and almost 15 interviews🙂

    Here's the link if anyone wants to give an interview and get featured in the book.

    https://gumroad.com/l/sTFzn

    You also get a 50% discount if you do🤗

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    Finally! Released my little site for selling domains :). http://bignamesupply.com/ I'm still working to make logos and post about 20 more. Mucho Worko... but happy to have it released.

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    I started and finished https://30daypushupchallenge.com for tracking my daily push-ups.

    I plan on starting another in a couple of days for May, but that one will likely span multiple months.

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    Well, I have been working on my project,

    wickedtemplates.com

    I have been passing all the templates to next.js and a templating engine.

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    Worked on www.killswitched.com, beta coming soon.

    Brief Demo Here: https://www.loom.com/share/42b4f1657efe41e6977c7b8e4803a63c

    Every company I've ever worked at that has native apps in production has always needed to build some form of force upgrade mechanism. Typically this looks like a single API endpoint, that then triggers a modal or something in a native iOS or Android app.

    I decided to build a force upgrade system as a service but with much better tooling around it. I'm looking for iOS and Android devs to test this out to get some feedback for how best to turn this into something worth using in production.

    Would love your thoughts.

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    At ContactLink, we spent April helping users onboard and removing friction from the process. Making something that "just works" means accounting for a lot of strange things users can do, seamlessly. Definitely worth the time spent.

    If you need a better "Contact Us" page for your business, check us out at ContactLInk.com and get in touch with me for an IH special coupon.

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    I bit the bullet and launched the MVP of https://mastershot.app. I had been going back and forth in my head debating whether or not I wanted to launch it. Once I realized that I was falling into the well known trap of just-one-more-feature-and-then-launch, I sealed up some minor loose ends and opened it up to the world.

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      I think you are better off to launch. My book is also not finished, but I could get more feedback and even some money by just being out there.

      I wanted to try you app, pity you need log in. The thing is I don't really have videos to edit right now, but if there is demo like functionality, I would try it.

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        Yeah, it seems that just getting it out there was a good move. I’ll let you in on a secret. Currently there’s no email verification so you can put whatever you’d like into the registration form. Shhh :)

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    Added the ability to share polls on https://minipoll.co/ via QR codes! This was a common feature request from people hosting webinars/conferences.

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      I like the minimalism.

      But I opened a different browser and could vote again.... (I realize you cannot prevent it 100%, but I think you can prevent double votes from different browsers).

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    I'm working on foxyapps.co.
    I've upgraded to Sveltekit and now I'm integrating Supabase and some basic admin so that I can add new apps more efficiently.

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    Congrats on the book!

    I spent a good chunk of the month implementing Gmail integration to Newsletterss but decided to put it on hold, because I'm not sure that's in the best interest of my users as my product is privacy-focused.

    I also added replies, my most requested feature. On the downside, this is the longest I've been without acquiring a single subscriber. New user acquisition tanked in the past two weeks and I'm still unable to find why.

    I'm going to start testing Apple Search Ads to see if that helps, but I don't feel truly confident about starting paid acquisition campaigns.

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    Congrats on earning your first $$$

    I've actually been working on something I'll be releasing for free. Bootstrap-like CSS classes, on top of Tailwind - TwelveCSS

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      Following because I'm a huge fan of Bootstrap

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      That's actually interesting. I found Tailwind so messy I returned to Bulma. This could make it better!

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        Yep, that was the main inspiration. People don't like the bloat of the html classes. TwelveCSS will likely only be able to help with some of it.