SocialSplash

Today was the day I received the first paying customer for the service. It was a simple Stripe notification on my phone saying someone made a payment for 4,99 euros.

At the moment, it feels weird and at the same time good because someone was willing to pay for something you made with your own hands.

This also gave a huge pressure to not stall and make a good service. I was not expecting this to happen with the current state of the platform.

The platform itself is working. People can make their own templates, generate images from them in seconds without a problem. Although, there are a lot of missing pieces that need to be made. I don't know yet if the customer is satisfied with its purchase and the subscription will be canceled but I'll keep an eye on it.

Lauching the first version of SocialSplash. For this first release, the objective was to have a platform that generates images from predefined templates made with HTML and CSS, then taken screenshots of them.

Knowing this wouldn't scale when I'll need to allow users to make their custom templates. But for a first shot, it was well made, it worked and it was in production. So a big win!