ODNC week 1 update! 🎉

✅ IndieBooks v1.2 pending review in the Chrome store!
🎛 Ability to adjust settings, filters and location
📈 Integrated @googleanalytics so that I can see which stores are getting the most action
📣 Link for easy feedback

#buildinpublic #ODNC1 @beondeck

📚 DEMO TIME! 💪

I spent the last 2 days on the options/preferences menu on @IndieBooksApp. Now you can choose how many shops to display, ability to view bookstores with or without ecommerce websites and ability to change your location!

#buildinpublic #chromeextensions

Updated the settings popup for @IndieBooksApp today. I found after some user feedback that some would like to see bookstores that don't have ecommerce sites and wanted to have the ability to view more options. Still need to wire it up, but here's how it's coming!

#buildinpublic

@spencerrwise @beondeck @thisiskp_ @5harath @cuhpajo Thanks! It's been a really awesome project to build over the past month and really got me into focusing on #buildinpublic which is not typically my go-to method of building things haha!

If you would like to join the beta, shoot me a DM! I'm always looking for good early users 🤙

@5harath @beondeck @thisiskp_ @cuhpajo Super excited!! It's been an awesome first month of building and sharing my work and I'm stoked to find out what it will look like after 10 weeks of #buildinpublic with @beondeck 🤙🏼

If you are interested in joining the semi-open beta, sign up at indiebooks.app and you'll receive a link to the beta within a couple of minutes.

#buildinpublic #NoCode #ondeck

Super stoked to accept my offer to be a part of the first @beondeck No-Code fellowship!

Thanks @thisiskp_ for the opportunity and thanks @5harath and @cuhpajo for the bit of encouragement!

I cant wait to keep working on indiebooks.app and more!
#nocode #buildinpublic

The ISBN13 is actually calculated using the old ISBN10 num. So with a little bit of math, it shouldn’t be a problem 👌🏼 It may actually be a bit faster since I can get the value from the URL instead of scraping the page itself!

2/2

#NoCode #buildinpublic
sciencing.com/denary-number-…

Bad news: Apparently Amazon removed the ISBN-13 number from the book product detail pages which IndieBooks was using in the l bookstore links... completely bricking the extension.

Looks like I’ve found a fix, tho! The ISBN-10 number is in the URL 😏

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#NoCode #buildinpublic

I'm about to launch the IndieBooks beta... Any tips on testing a beta with early users?
📊 How to get early feedback? Quantitative and Qualitative.
📢 Gathering suggestions, ideas, potential features?

#buildinpublic #nocode #chromeextension

I was stupid and didn't look at the pricing for @umsohq... $29/ MONTH.

Opinions on @carrd vs @dorik_io? Dorik's templates seem closer to where I want my end result. What is the benefit of using one over the other?

#NoCode #buildinpublic

I think IndieBooks is getting to a point where it is ready to launch.

🚀 How do you determine when your project is in a good place for launch?
🧩 Do you have a framework that you like to follow?

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📊📈📉 I'm exploring analytics for the IndieBooks chrome extension. Was looking at @googleanalytics and @SimpleAnalytic...

Any suggestions for cheap/free and simple analytics platform?

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I'm struggin with the copy on these buttons. They're pretty small which I feel is impacting the copy... should I stack them? Then I could fit copy like "Buy at Bookshop.org" and "Buy at local bookstore"

I definitely need to work on their colors too 🤔
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The last think I did was play around with the popup and adding the ability for the user to change their zip manually. So now users can support local bookshops in locations other than their own... so like their favorite shops in their college town or vacation spot! #buildinpublic

I added a few other small updates to help with the ux. Like a little spinner while the user waits for their bookshops to load :) #buildinpublic

I've been working on this project for a week or so, but here is my first #buildinpublic post

An idea to build a Chrome extension came out of a conversation and a quick IG poll

IndieBooks: A chrome extension that finally gives local bookstores a chance against Amazon

🧵 Thread:

@yodanparry This is awesome! Today is my first day of #buildinpublic and I definitely should do something like this to keep track of all of my projects...

Is it a @NotionHQ site??