✨ Updates on Founder's Bookshelf

😖 I saw a lot of people get confused at what to type in the search box.

🤩 So I added a different placeholder. Hopefully this will give some direction to new users!

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It's been 3 days since launch of Founder's Bookshelf. 🚀

Here's some stats from analytics:
✨ Bounce rate seems quite good at <14%
⏰ And it seems people are exploring the books!

I got some great improvement ideas already! #buildinpublic

Barely able to be on Twitter the past week. 😅

✨ Some progress from MailDigest:

🏷 Introduced a pricing plan for MailDigest starting with $15/year for the first 5 subscribers.

🤩 This feels exciting, will keep you updated on how this experiment goes !!

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@_justlilian Some needs to go on the fly, specially those #buildinpublic tweets. Others I put a few days in advance.

🔔 Updates from Founder's Bookshelf

🏷 Making the books searchable by topics relevant for founders means, manually tagging and writing description. For all of the 350+ books.

🧑‍💻 In this thread I'll give daily updates on my progress, and keep myself on track.

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🔔 Updates Updates from Founder's Bookshelf

📚 Similar books was probably the most algorithm intensive part of the product. I'm surprised at how good it already is. Will add more changes based on feedbacks.

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🔔 Building the share options for Founder's Bookshelf

🤔 I was wondering what are your thoughts on multiple share options vs a few focused (2-3) share options ?

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📝 Self-note on why I shouldn't code while tired:

💭 I kept refreshing the hosted version instead of localhost after making code changes

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🔔 Updates from Founder's Bookshelf

✅ Done with the book page design

This took some time, because I've been indecisive about what to put on it. So I just decided to put whatever comes up in the query and then change later 🙈

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I recently learnt about the 12 column layout for desktop design.

This helps so much in cutting out decision on where to put various components.
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What design systems do you use to make designing easier ?

@marc_louvion It's great to see you build. BuddyCrush was a prime example of what's possible with #buildinpublic

🔔 Updates on Founder's Bookshelf

✅ Started implementing the autocomplete. Got the mock list to work. Now time for deepdive 🤿

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I bring to you... more updates on Founder's Bookshelf 🛠

✅ Added tags to Book Cards 🏷
✅ Added description 💬
✅ Made it render well for small screens 📱

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Updates on Founder's Bookshelf 🛠

✅ Sometimes I obsess about the little things and create little details like this "E" avatar for all topics.
It's responsive and everything 🥸

Okay I need to get back on track!

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Okay this is taking shape.✨

Updates on Founder's Bookshelf🛠

✅ Card Display for books
✅ Fixed and aligned images. A big thanks to @JannisBetschki for all his help with this. 🤗

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What do you think about the design ? 🙈

Hear ye! Hear ye!🔔

I bring to you the stack I'm using to build Founder's Bookshelf:

👨‍🎨 Design: Figma
🌏 Frontend: @GatsbyJS
📀 Database: Airtable
🚀 Deployment: @vercel

Using Gatsby wasn't much of a technical decision, I just thought it'd be cool to use. 🥸

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Updates ! Updates ! On Founder's Bookshelf. 🔧

✅ First build of individual Topic pages. Pretty basic.
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I find myself procrastinating on a hard feature, the SearchBox. 🥸

What do you guys prefer:
💪🏻 tackle the hard things first ?
🐢 finish the easier things ?

Updates from Founder's Bookshelf. 🔧

✅ Design for page on each Topic

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Should I do a breakdown of the stack I'm using ? 🤔

Build in Public updates from the book site:

✅ Named it Founder's Book Shelf
✅ Created a lo-fi mock design.

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Give me your best roasts about the design 🙊

@ManjhunathRavi A year ago I avoided Twitter like the plague !

Then I found the awesome #buildinpublic community 💪