Released Llama v1.0!

10 months ago, I gave myself the challenge of learning to code, then to launch a product from scratch. Today I'm celebrating the launch of Llama v1.0! 🎉

Llama is a productivity tool that helps you power through lists, not just make them.

The name comes from one of my favorite travel experiences to Peru where I visited a small town to learn about their culture. While I was there, Llamas were roaming around their village - those Llama's looked so relaxed and were leading the best life 🦙⛰

This is my attempt at leading a 'Llama life'. I find a huge correlation between my mood and my productivity levels during the day. During these Covid times, being productive has been all the more challenging and important, so I built Llama.

It's been a journey - from knowing no code to learning html, css, javascript -> React, flexbox, styled components, webpack, git, node.js/express, Stripe integration for payments, Firebase for user authentication and database. The hardest part for me was learning how everything related to one another - eg do I host my frontend and backend together, where does the server go? These might sound like newbie questions, but going through it the first time, you just don't know what you don't know.

Want to give a shoutout to fellow Indie Hacker, Jen @lunchbag, who helped point me in the right direction by giving tips about her setup and helping troubleshoot when I got stuck.

Cheers all, and hope you enjoy Llama! www.llamalife.co

Any and all feedback is welcome!

Marie