Someone is repeatedly trying to login to stackblocks 😠

I run out of limits and mailgun blocks email sending for a while, which means no one will be able to login

rate limiting is the solution?

These stuff happens only when I'm on a time crunch 🤦‍♂️

#cryinpublic #buildinpublic

While talking to @StackblocksApp customers I realised that lot of freelancers recommend this to their clients.

They face trouble in getting the client setup the account so that the payment can be on their name.

Maybe right time to add login with password

#buildinpublic

Great morning to start Block Party by @nocode_weekend to build a powerful @notionhq workspace over this weekend.

Will try to #buildinpublic with this being the start for the thread

lets goo 🚀

Slowly getting back to building and I'm working on adding more guides for @StackblocksApp

I'm now generating these pages programmatically. Lots of pages to add.

And definitely gotta work on this guides home page.

#buildinpublic · stackblocks.app/guides

The embeds that @StackblocksApp gives you are going to be faster than ever! Migrating them to Astro.

@astrodotbuild is unbelievable.

NextJS
Size: 306kB
Time: 891ms

Astro
Size: 5.6kB
Time: 156ms

5.7x faster and 55x smaller 🚀🚀🚀

Releasing soon!

#buildinpublic

Added a Showcase featuring few of the awesome websites using @StackblocksApp embeds ✨

stackblocks.app/showcase

#buildinpublic

@StackblocksApp One interesting thing thought - I use plausible to track the visits on these embed.

I was on a 10k views per month plan and this happens. 😲

Luckily, I cancelled the yearly subscription few months ago as I'm moving to umami 😁

#buildinpublic

Building features for @StackblocksApp this weekend.

Started with
- transparent backgrounds so the embeds look native
- now this RSS feed support

#buildinpublic

I was trying to make some updates to the default theme for email archives (or sites) built with @letterhive_app and I couldn't make much progress.

Because, I only had vague ideas in my head.

Stopped coding and wore a design hat 👒

(pic - before, after)

#buildinpublic

Okay, monitoring uptime turned out be crucial.

There was slight down time for the @StackblocksApp embeds and I was notified on time. Resolved it quickly and made changes so it wont happen in the future ✌️

#buildinpublic twitter.com/aravindballa/s…

I am making a handwritten font. With my own hand writing!

And I’ll build that in public 😉

#buildinpublic

Till now, these is no way for @StackblocksApp to remind people that the trial is expiring.

People’s who fall in love immediately pay.
Others need time to decide whether it's actually useful for them.

Building an automation that sends trial expiry email like this

#buildinpublic

I've been working on @letterhive_app's landing page.

Drew a few rough sketches to brainstorm how I want it to look.

And then directly coded it up and made few changes.

#buildinpublic

🛑 I've had a user tell me they see an error while using @StackblocksApp but there is no way for me to see that. I had to explain what a console is and make them take a screenshot.

Not any more, I've setup @getsentry & capturing errors should be easy!

#buildinpublic

The welcome emails for people trying out my side projects are now powered by @n8n_io

(A table in Notion is the intermediate emails database which saves state on whether the email is sent or not)

#buildinpublic

I was feeling a bit down today, just until this arrived.

I love it when people find things I make helpful 🥳

#buildinpublic

I'm thinking of changing @letterhive_app's tagline from "a permanent archive for your email newsletters"

to

"A permanent home / SEO-friendly blog / Password protected archive for the emails you send"

I feel this is clear and explains well.
#buildinpublic

Quick update: made a few improvements to the sites.

The archives generated by @letterhive_app are fast and optimized, by default. ⚡

#buildinpublic

First run (or first harvest) of @letterhive_app 🎉

I setup an archive for my weekly newsletter, which is here - hackletter.letterhive.com

youtu.be/sLCEd4V1I2M

#buildinpublic

Customizing the website/archive is mostly done for @letterhive_app

✅ Custom CSS
✅ Head tags
✅ Adding content (near head & footer)

Next up - deploying and subdomains to the websites

#buildinpublic