Briefcake
Daily newsletter from your favorite websites
Big news for http://briefcake.com!
- Leonid joins me as a cofounder, he brings his design skills and great personally onboard.
- Free package has been further extended, so rush and try it out without lifting a credit card.
A bigger version of this announcement could be found here:
https://briefcake.com/changelog/2022/06/25/new-cofounder-and-strategy.html
Finally, did some landing page tweaks:
- Changed project subtitle to "Daily newsletter from your favorite websites" (since newsletters now are all the rave)
- Focus more on "why briefcake" instead of "what's briefcake"
As a bonus, I managed to drop a lot of code and update a lot of dependencies. These things help ensure long term stability.
Currently working on configuration page to house all the settings related to integrations.
I managed to separate landing and content pages from main app.
Those static pages are being built by Jekyll and hosted on #Netlify. Netlify redirects feature was a huge time safer!
Main app could be found at https://app.briefcake.com !
Landing page is almost the same as it was, but...
...it will help me evolve main application without breaking landing and content pages and vice versa.
Handcrafted landing pages also seem like a waste of time, eventually it could be replaced with a page builder (like webflow).
- (in progress) moving landing page/content to a static website
- increased concurrency of a web client
- (in progress) fleshing out youtube/instagram integration
It's quite tough to improve UI while landing and app front end relies on same code. I often fix one part of the app, at the same time break something on a landing page.
Moving landing and content pages to a JAMstack framework would make it easier to evolve app UI further, with more stability.
Had three new paying customers for http://briefcake.com in a week. Timing suggests that it could be related to stability and speed improvements I did recently.
Besides usual puma tweaking, I managed to improve timeout settings for bunch of components.
Zero errors whole week!
I managed to move entire project to Heroku and rewrite async worker to use good_jobs (and love it!).
But never actually tweaked settings to properly utilize resources that Heroku offers.
This has been integrations week for me. I'm trying to syndicate websites that usually don't have RSS/Atom feeds (or they are "hidden").
- Adding a beta version of instagram feeds
- Adding ability to find YouTube feeds, based on url provided.
Retrieving Instagram's feed is a particularly tricky integration to get working reliably.
2 Comments
Congrats! Your landing page is really fun.
Can you also see the summary on your website, without receiving an email? I feel like I already get too many emails.
@XCS Thanks for your feedback.
We're primarily focused on emails now. We've been considering if we should add summaries to our interface and nobody so far has ever requested this feature.
But we added your feedback to our database, and we might consider building it. :)