Quick tip for founders:

Make it easy for your users to send you feedback 🗣

User feedback is essential to growth, so don't make your users have to find your email address or your social handles just to report an issue.

Less friction = more feedback

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Homepage Hero Showdown - 1st edition! 🐨

Which of these 4 heading options seem better / more clear to you?

(also open to suggestions!)

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Trying to figure out how to do that for these days - I'm very much not a marketing guy 😅

Does anyone have tips on ethical marketing strategies that do not rely (or at least not heavily) on advertisement?

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My goals for Tuesdays are to:

- come up with 2 blog article ideas;
- outline (and research) one blog article;

You can expect to see an article about dark patterns (inspired by @harrybr's work with @darkpatterns) come out on Koalati's blog in the next few days..!

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Someone reached out to me after discovering @koalatiweb's website from an open-source package I published on NPM.

I thought that was pretty cool, so I figured I'd share on here. 🤓

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Just sent out my first cold email to a potential user... but I couldn't force myself to send something generic. It felt wrong.

So I recorded a short personalized @loom video and sent the link in the email.

It's probably not sustainable, but... it feels right.

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I'm not great at content and marketing; I had to set myself a clear task schedule for @koalatiweb.

So I made a Trello board with recurring tasks for each weekday.

Yesterday I came up with 2 article ideas, and outlined one of them.

Today, these are my two goals.

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Alright folks, here's a first MVP that you can try out!

It's not fully optimized and doesn't take taxes or discounts into account yet, but it's a good start nonetheless!

Let me know what you think / if you run into any issues!

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magicrr.koalati.com

All of my syncs have worked correctly since I set it up last night.

If you'd like to have your Paddle subscription data synced to ChartMogul automatically, let me know: I'm ready to let 2-3 people in as a first "beta" test!

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Cleaned up a few rough edges, made some minor improvements, and now I'm ready to ship.

Just created a 5$ droplet for it, but no time to set it up tonight. Tomorrow though, this puppy is gonna see the world for the first time!

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Just submitted the forms to incorporate my first company.

2022 should be an interesting year!

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Best part about building a SaaS for yourself is that you have your first « customer » right from the start.

I just used Koalati to QA the new marketing website, and found a few bugs.

If I wasn’t my own user, it would’ve taken much longer to detect that!

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Solo founders and #BuildInPublic folks:

Do you have any tips about incorporation for a first startup?

- When did you do it?
- How did you plan for it?
- What are the essentials one should know about?

For some context:
- Bootstrapped;
- No business background;
- in Canada

Built a phone in @webflow today.

Trying to turn each feature page for @koalatiweb's new website into an experience for the visitors.

Pretty happy with how this one turned out!

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Building the new marketing website for @koalatiweb...

What do you think of my "Loading speed" feature page?

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Today was another great example of why streaming your #BuildInPublic work can be useful.

I was working on the new beta for Koalati, and a viewer on my stream also checked it out.

He spent 1-2h testing it, reporting a total of about 15 issues and potential improvements. 🤯

Streaming my first full-time week of development of @koalatiweb on Twitch has been good for me.

- A viewer helped me fix a Docker image publishing issue
- Two other viewers helped me validate my idea
- It kept me focused on the projet from 8AM to 4PM everyday.

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Today’s #webdev stream is starting: come and hang out as I work on my SaaS platform for developers and agencies!

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twitch.tv/cunrakes

Working on Koalati on stream again today.

If you want to get a preview of the upcoming beta, come hang out!

twitch.tv/cunrakes

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Here's what I did today on stream:

- Made the sidebar responsive
- Finished initial version of all dashboards
- Hid/disabled not-yet-available features and sections
- Fixed display of tables in recommendations
- Fixed tool service Docker auto-build
- 3-4 bugfixes

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