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The OUTCOME after 2 months
of focussed building on @cloakist & @sotion_so

⭐️ 3 MASSIVE new features
💛 Support for 5 new platforms
🌼 Better checkout & security
🌟 New Showcase & UI/UX revamp

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details below 👉
v0.4 Admin Dashboard ✅ Done

🎉 Users can now select the "Gumroad Payment" option and connect their product with Gumroad Ping.

👨‍💻 Still running on `localhost:3000`, but launching soon with a small group of users.

📝 Next/last todo: docs & blog post

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v0.3 we’re getting there!

✅ Sotion + Gumroad integration is working nicely.

♻️ Busy wrapping up the admin dashboard, documentation, blog post, and early adopter email.

👀 Soon you’ll be able to sell Membership access to your Notion content with Sotion.

#buildinpublic #notion twitter.com/bruce_v3/statu…
v0.3 we’re getting there!

✅ Sotion + Gumroad integration is working nicely.

♻️ Busy wrapping up the admin dashboard, documentation, blog post, and early adopter email.

👀 Soon you’ll be able to sell Membership access to your Notion content with Sotion.

#buildinpublic #notion twitter.com/bruce_v3/statu…
@ThePeterMick 👋🏻 I’m an Engineering Manager by day and Indie Hacker by night (and weekends;)

Building:

Sotion.so : Membership Management for your Notion content

Cloak.ist : Rehost any site at your own domain

Tweets mostly about #buildinpublic #NoCode #microSaaS
Yes, v 0.1 is supposed to be this ugly.

Step 1: backend to handle Gumroad Ping: ✅ done

Step 2: integrate front-end: ⏳ in progress

Step 3: dashboard & admin: 📝 todo

Step 4: website & marketing: 📝 todo

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Don’t feel bad if you’re not being your most productive for a period of time. Sometimes it’s good to slow down a bit or take a break.

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In true #buildinpublic spirit, sharing successes & failures…

Last week I did some data cleanup and accidentally deleted two customers’ sites.

I’m on Supabase free plan, so no backups.

Had to restore them manually and ask the affected customers to create new DNS records.

🙈
Seeing a nice uptick in traffic for both Cloakist and Sotion..

--Cloakist--
Impressions: Jun 11.5k → Jul 16.7k
Clicks: Jun 608 → Jul 813

--Sotion--
Impressions: Jun 5.3k → Jul 6.2k
Clicks: Jun 288 → Jul 295

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Why? ...
Seeing a nice bump for this past week

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Created my first tracking event in @usefathom to see how many visitors view the new walkthrough video on the Sotion landing page.

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Sotion.so
For the past few weeks, I've been working on implementing Membership Management for Notion pages

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Here's a brief overview of how it works...
Landing page refresh for Sotion.so

🎥 Added a walkthrough video to showcase the new Email Signup for Notion pages

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New vs. Old
Want to see how to do #buildinpublic ?

Learn from the best, check out everyone mentioned in this tweet & the comments…
Master Building in Public by following these 11 makers:

🎪 @dr
🎪 @5harath
🎪 @thisiskp_
🎪 @arvidkahl
🎪 @JanelSGM
🎪 @code_rams
🎪 @monicalent
🎪 @alexwestco
🎪 @MeetKevon
🎪 @damengchen
🎪 @SimonHoiberg

Who else should we add?
Lots of small fixes deployed today:
- better input validations
- show/hide password
- back to dashboard button
- bounced email webhook

All based off requests from customers.

Small changes that contribute to a better app overall ⭐️

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✅ Three big items checked off.

👀 This week focusing on some improvements to Notion support.

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📤 Almost done implementing email automation for Cloakist

This diagram shows a simplified version. Edge cases, multiple sites in different states, subscription quotas, etc. are also handled.

For this I chose @sidemailio, it's lightweight and has an awesome API

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Today’s was one of those: “fixing stuff while chatting to customer on web chat” days 😅

Also… transactional email automation is starting to take shape. This will reduce support efforts by at least 1 to 2 days per week 🤖

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@consultantrhys @microacquire Thanks Rhys, I’ll me share everything as I go… #buildinpublic style:)
⭐️ 20 Weeks of #buildinpublic
🎯 20 EPIC WEEKS OF #BUILDINPUBLIC UPDATES 🎯

It's been an awesome journey so far. I've learned so much, and met so many cool people.

Every day I'm amazed at what people are building, how they are sharing & helping each other grow.

See my whole 20 week journey here 👇🏻