IndieLog
A community for makers to vlog our indie journey together
During COVID-19, lots of people are WFH. Previous IRL social interactions are gone temporarily. Lonely dev is a place where you can talk about your day, also see each other around the world so you don't feel lonely.
Today I submitted IndieLog to HN to celebrate myself crossing 100 vlogs milestone. I didn't really expect to hit HN front page. I never achieved that, and this is my first time.
Till now, my post's been on the front page for 7 hours, #7 right now. Traffic is mind blowing 馃槺
I will share more update after this.
Created a page to support people who are both IndieHacker and YouTuber. We call them IndieTuber.
If you have a YouTube channel, feel free to drop us your channel. Only requirement is to upload an intro video to our IndieLog community. We can't wait to have your channel in our list 馃
Yesterday I sent out an email to all lonely.dev members. The purpose is to get their feedback on our new name IndieLog. The whole email is below:
Hi friends,
Sorry for the back and forth first! But I want to be transparent with all of you because we are a community. I am still thinking maybe we could have a new brand for our community. It's mainly for two reasons:
- The term "lonely": I know it may resonate with some people at first sight. But for those people who are not lonely at all, they may stay away from our community. Because once they join in, it's like attaching a negative "lonely" tag to them.
- The ".dev" extension: It makes people feel our community is only dev-centric. If you are not a developer, you may have a feeling that you will never belong to our community.
However, our community is neither to promote loneliness, nor to serve developers only. Our goal is always to make our community to be a platform where all people can share their indie journey. You don't need to be dev. We actually have designers, content creators, marketing folks, no coders all around. You can be in any role.
Last week, I got a new domain indielog.com. You can tell from the name, it's for indies like us to log our journey. Would you mind simply replying to me 1 (I like it 馃憤) or 2 (I don't like it 馃憥) ?
Really appreciate your feedback!
Cheers,
Damon
The overall feedback is very very positive. However, still a few people really like our previous name. But I want to say it's just the name change, nothing else. We will still serve the indie hackers community, and we still focus on videos. Looking forward to having more devs/makers/designers/content creators/no coders/etc to join us 馃
Since I posted my 1st video on 04/07/2020, till now, we have 104 video uploads from 22 lonely devs 馃コ
Thank you all your contribution 鉂わ笍鉂わ笍
@rogovdm
@bighitbiker3
Thomas Cutting
@8bit
@rosiesherry
@genemachine
@BrandonClapp
@MichaelBrooks
ERosner
@JoshTernyak
@qabil
Michael
@zzz
Vineet
@petecodes
@paul1664
@storycreator
@rideg
@andreigaspar
@lynnetye
@Menda0
@heylorenzut
For anyone who first heard lonely.dev, we are a community for indie hackers to vlog their startup journey. Every video is up to 2 minutes. Let's share our journey together!
Yesterday I shipped the Product feature. Each product has a logo, either it's uploaded, or name initials. But it may be even attractive if there is a pitch video attached. I will help people to quickly know what your product is about. Also, it can be a good practice for makers to brief their product in 30 seconds. So I made it today 鉁岋笍Makers now can submit a 30 seconds elevator pitch video to their products!
Now you will be able to add your product to your profile, associate your videos to each product. It will become your VIDEO todo list. Text is boring and not memorable, try video logging your product on Lonely Dev.
This is a place where people can discuss the same topic. The 1st topic I set is "How is your work and life in Covid-19 quarantine?". For everyone who submitted, we will have weekly lucky draw, the winner will get a free lonely.dev logo-ed T-shirt.
Who wants to join? Check below 馃憞
Lonely Dev is launched on Product Hunt today! Link is below:
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/lonely-dev
It's been a crazy week since I launched Lonely Dev on 04/07. Everyone is pouring their love and ideas into this community. My brain聽cannot just shut off during the night as I have been聽always thinking how to improve the product and grow the community.
Thank you all for being聽so supportive. And thank聽you all for loving Lonely Dev when it is still like an infant. Can't really thank you enough 馃 (virtual hug) !
I appreciate it a lot if you could come over to Product Hunt and cheer for us.
Check out Lynne's video: https://lonely.dev/video/b1d4vNdk02eVOrdhHEFe02e5IP01A7F00JXWQh4NRPL4GRU
This is the 1st female founder's recording on lonely.dev. Definitely a milestone here. In future, I will try to make the community more gender diversified. I hope more female makers, developers, indie hackers could join us!
Previously, you can only post text-based comment in someone's video. But now, you can reply a short video as a comment. Sounds cool, right? Not sure are we the first community which support video reply? Check out this feature announcement here: https://lonely.dev/video/hTKYpNbkkgMJiM7s01naShGpzrRfgc4CKxjgQXPlbKMQ