HayBale

I'm changing the name of my little app from Mail Bale to Hay Bale.

Originally I built this to help people in my office format email lists - I've broadened that slightly; after some helpful and smart input on a previous post https://www.indiehackers.com/post/615d06dc92,
to include anyone who has to format large lists (data entry type applications). Mail makes less sense for that, so I asked my wife about it, and after some chatting she said "How about Hay Bale?". That name fits the concept perfectly, so it's a no brainer to swap it up a little.

I took some of the feedback from my previous posts. Odds are if you can clone a repo and implement the original script you can probably write it yourself.

So I decided I'd build a UI to use the feature and make it more accessible to a broader user group. I used JS instead of Python to build the UI, rewrite the logic in the script. There's also lots of room to add some formatting buttons.

Skeleton css was really useful here. It is just unique enough that it stands out from the typical Bootstrap styles (which I use all the time). I recommend branching out to Skeleton if you want more freedom with your style and markup options.

Adding the option to donate money to me was oddly easy. I thought asking for money would be harder - it may still be, this is just a button on my page that is voluntary, but I'm still excited to have it there.