Mowned
A journey to phone nostalgia
I've decided to change the overall layout of the site and to revisit each section of the site.
Started with multiple parts and ended with a complete overhaul. From basic components such as forms, dialogs, inputs.. to landing page. I've tried to focus for a better and cleaner look.
After / before photos:
Phone edit
Phone delete
Showcase
Device (mobile)
Showcase (mobile)
Here we go https://mowned.com
I've finally switched from CSS animations to Framer Motion - a great library for React webapps.
It took me some time (about 10 days, but most part time) and I've managed to work on 74 project files for this :D
After:
https://mowned.com
Before:
https://mowned.com/evo.html
.. and was a total failure.
- no upvotes
- 1 comment (positive)
- 13 hits via web, a few more from hacker news mobile apps
2 factors that maybe contributed to this:
- the day I've posted - Sunday
- the project niche - not everyone is really into mobiles/smartphone passion.
Maybe I will delete this post after a while.
A new section is brought to life - Time Explorer, users can browse thru years and see top mobile devices, popular brands and quick facts.
The quick facts list is still work in progress - i want all important things mobile to be covered here.
All stats / tops are based on users cellphones.
Even if the product itself didn't went too good in terms of rankings (I have no network built), the product was featured in the daily digest.
Received about 1300 visits and about 100 new registered users, mostly due being included in daily digest.
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Great to see hobby websites being created, not only the "next big unicorn" ! Keep up the good work !
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Thanks man!
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Celebrate the wins, regardless of how small. Glass half full!
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Yes, I was happy that I've got selected in daily digest! That's a win for me.
And i am aware that this niche is small.
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It's been a long long time, years, but Mowned hit signup number 15.000!
Most of the signups are from word-to-word (for example, John shares his timeline on facebook, Mack and Anna like that and they start creating an account) and from forum signatures.
After about 2 years of pause, I've decided that it's time to invest more time in the project, so I came up with a new skin and multiple improvements.
I've prepared a simple change log section including copies of old versions, so if a user want to see how Mowned was looking before, they can do that, thanks to the React SPA :)
It was time the site needed a major redesign.
I've started learning React and decided to remake the site: a SPA powered by React and Redux and write a simple REST API.
It took me several weeks to get all up and running.
In this process I've learned lots of new things regarding frontend web development. It was a game changer for me.
It took me about 9 days to code the basic and get the site up and running. I've made a simple (and ugly) design.
At that moment, the main focus of the site was the tool that generate a jpeg that contains all the phones added by the user.
The backend is powered by PHP.
I've been active on forums and observed that people liked to put history of owned devices in their signature..
... so I was thinking that i can build a site where users can put their own phones then generate a jpeg that can be used as signature in forums.
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