Project Wallace
CSS Analytics for Design Systems
Added a new feature for PRO/Starter users to manage the complexity of their CSS. Wallace will now visually show you if, and how much you've gone over your filesize/complexity budgets!
This is great, because Wallace was built to monitor your CSS complixity in the first place and now there's finally a visual clue to tell you that you've gone over budget!
Recently I started adding a bunch of methods to sponsor Project Wallace to projectwallace.com/sponsor and to the funding.yaml in most of my GitHub repos. I created the following sponsorship options:
- GitHub sponsor: https://github.com/sponsors/bartveneman
- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bartveneman
- PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/bartveneman
- Open Collective: https://opencollective.com/projectwallace
It didn't take that long before my first patron arrived and I'm so grateful that Project Wallace means something for someone else.
So I just released the first feature ever that is only available for paying customers only. I've always wanted to do this, but I was hesitant because of the extra logic it takes. You know, basic access management, which I absolutely dread to do. But I did it anyway, and it turned out not so hard to build.
The first responses are hopeful and a couple of customers already made their existing projects private. I haven't seen any customers upgrading yet for this feature, but I'll keep marketing it and they'll probably come in time.
The introducing blog post: https://www.projectwallace.com/blog/private-projects
🎉 The first paying custmomer has bought a yearly subscription to the Starter-plan!
Responding on Twitter to the redesign of CSS-Tricks yielded a lot of new traffic and new account. No paid accounts so far, but at least it means that a lot of people are interested in Project Wallace as a product.
I'm currently in the process of setting up a password-forgot workflow. That in itself isn't hard, but the amount of stress I'm experiencing for setting up DNS records for email and such is beyond me. I hope to close this chapter soon so I can focus on building a great product again.
Yesterday evening I introduced paid plans on the website. After you've registered you can now upgrade to a paid plan, which for now allows you to have more projects than a free plan.
There are two main reasons for the paid plans:
- Covering costs. Eventually, this project should be able to give me some fun-money on the side. At the very least, it should cost me nothing more but my time.
- Dedication. I hope to get some serious usage out of the website. I need the feedback from active users to improve the site. My hope is that paying users will be a bit more generous with feedback than free users. After all, you're spending a bit of money, you might expect a working product for that in return.
Fingers crossed!
A lot has happened in a year, but finally the core of Project Wallace is now on NPM! This is my first package ever published to NPM, so I'm perticularly proud of that. :)
Previously the heart and soul of Project Wallace was a secret PHP fork of Parker and CSSStats, but now it is a Node module. It is based on the AST that PostCSS provides. And it is no longer private, but publicly available in GitHub!
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