Endpoint Services

I wrote some tutorials on how to use the product and they got some good traction on Twitter. Several people have now executed code on my platform, and I have a few famous followers.

One tweet was how to build an API in 30 seconds in a browser

the other was how to make a Twitter bot

I have helped others and built up a good reputation on observablehq.com. It helps my social media impact making friends and also its just a great tool to use.
In recognition of my passion for their platform, I was accepted into the first batch of Observable Ambassadors

https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/building-community-announcing-ambassadors

I hope this will amplify my voice and maybe give me additional channels for marketing.

I was #2 and #8 on the top 10 most viewed notebooks of 2020. For my SaaS tutorial and for an earlier Hackernews post that went viral (most favorited hackernews posts of all time) )https://observablehq.com/collection/@observablehq/2020-most-viewed-notebooks.

This gave me social credit in the Observable community and made me think I could actually build useful things.

I got my first donation through my Stripe integration tutorial! I figured, if developers were reading the stripe tutorial they would like to know it works. What better than testing the tubes by 'buying me a coffee' win-win!

I noted that many people go to the checkout and don't follow through, but some do! Wow. First internet money made by myself :)

I was off sick from work for 3 weeks. I used the time to explore Observablehq.com more. I fell in love. I realized it was an amazing platform for general purpose coding, not just #dataviz. However, everything is in public. This makes it difficult to do secure things, but because of my Cloud experience, I knew there was a way.

I wrote an extensive tutorial on how to write SaaS (https://observablehq.com/@tomlarkworthy/saas-tutorial), and integrated stripe. It went nuclear!