🕯️Why you should use Clicky, Fathom instead of Google Analytics, Add light/dark mode switch & animations by using this CodePen

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Today I am very happy as its the first time, someone bought me a coffee. So I worked extra time to polish my newsletter further.

• You can add light/dark mode switch & animations by using this CodePen. An example site here.
• Use everydomain.co for finding domain names. It checks over 400 different URL endings to show you which ones are available. (41 likes) by @brunezy
• You can increase your cold email response rate just by adding this line recommended by Jason Cohen "Let me buy an hour of your time at whatever price you name". Almost no one asks for the money, but most of them reply back by @hassanprocesslogic
• Use Slidetosubscribe, a free tool to embed a sign-up form in your medium posts. And it integrates with MailChimp, MailerLite etc.
• If you want the attention of any Twitter user, turn on the notification for their tweets/replies. And when they tweet, immediately tweet mentioning them. In this way, chances of retweet increase a lot like this person did and got 1300+ followers by @TheNakedPoet2

What analytics tool(s) are you currently using? by @bojidarist
Most of us use Google analytics but smart Indie Hackers use these tools.

1. UseFathom - Fast, simple and privacy-focused website analytics
2. Clicky - It shows how visitors interact with the site. You can see which pages they visit before signing up for a newsletter. Or how many days it takes for them to go from discovering the blog to buying a product.
3. Splitbee.io - because of its A/B testing abilities

Stop Blogging on Medium if You Care about SEO by @pablo358
For SEO purposes, always publish the content on your own site first and then use Medium's "Import" feature to get it into Medium (you can find it in "Stories" under "Import a story").Imported posts automatically apply a canonical URL that references the source URL. This consolidates the duplicate articles and makes sure your original article gets the search engine benefits

How to polish my frontpage skills? by @alialhussain
Check Mozilla for documentation. Start with Free Code Camp or use Codecademy (paid) which I really enjoyed and also think it's one of the best resources online.

Mistakes founders make while building an MVP by @MeetChopra

1. Selling my remote job board (500+ registered users & $400 MRR) by @Chkrlee

2. Mozilla Investing $75k & $16k in Startups + Projects by @lightninglu10

3. Free lifetime account of SimpleTasking, a multi-project management platform by @steban

4. UX design - Free consultation & feedback by @iammoaziz

The advice you wish someone gave to you..

• Success is a derivate of consistency
• Our product doesn't need to be perfect before we launch it.
• Don't dwell on a lot of things. Just go and do it.

1. How important is Google Analytics? (read comments) by @rcoold

2. How I Drove 1,000+ Organic Visitors Per Month to My Site by @notlhw

3. I launched 20 newsletters in 20 days -- here's what I learned by @rosiesherry

4. Should my startup have its own blog? by @silindsoftware

5. 12 startups in 12 months: here's how digital nomad is f**king doing it (2014) about @levelsio

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