Here's the June update of Making Indie 🏗

Next big decision: whether or not to go freemium 🤔

#buildinpublic #indiehacker #freemium

making.indie.io/posts/slowly-b…

I'm getting there, slowly but surely 🦥

✅ Edit account + logout button ✏️
✅ Mobile responsive account area 📱
✅ Profile photos 📸
✅ Site + account deletion 🗑
✅ Revokable user sessions 🚷

#buildinpublic #rubyonrails #tailwindcss

There’s still a todo list before reaching beta but I’m getting there! 🚀

☑️ Emails
☑️ Account deletion
☑️ Mobile friendly account area
☑️ Flash messages
☑️ A handful of fixes and design tweaks

#buildinpublic #beta

This is my favourite feature so far,

✅ Emoji picker for your blog’s icon + favicon

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We now have,

✅ Functioning editor 📝 with...
✅ image uploads 📸
✅ links 🔗
✅ and autosave 💾

#buildinpublic #buildinginpublic #blogging

Two months in the making: indie.io has its first blog 🎉

Indie’s a little rough around the edges 🏗 and not quite ready for beta users, but it’s alive!

#buildinpublic #indiehackers #openstartup

making.indie.io/posts/making-i…

indie.io isn't an original or ground-breaking idea, and I'm okay with that. It means there's a proven market.

I'll be bootstrapping and building in public – not trying to raise a VC round.

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✅ WordPress plugin approved and V0.1 deployed 🎉

PHP + ReactJS + SVN + a little patience, and you too can have yourself a WP widget plugin ✨

wordpress.org/plugins/userna…

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✅ WordPress plugin submitted for review 🤞

Backlinks, e.g. "Powered by...", need to be an opt-in feature, so I may not get the SEO goodness I was hoping for.

But I'm intrigued to see if there are other benefits from running a WP plugin 🤔

#buildinpublic #wordpress #seo

First steps towards a WordPress plugin! 🙌

TIL that WordPress widgets are build using React 🙃

More work than expected but the UX will be much, much better than I'd anticipated 🤩

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First steps towards a WordPress plugin! 🙌

TIL that WordPress widgets are build using React 🙃

More work than expected but the UX will be much better than I anticipated 🤩

#buildinpublic #buildinginpublic #wordpress #reactjs

✅ Start learning how to create a WordPress Widget 📚

PHP → Ruby → PHP again ♻️

Hello old friend!

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✅ Learn how to create a WordPress Widget 📚

PHP → Ruby → PHP again ♻️

Hello old friend!

#buildinpublic #buildinginpublic #wordpress #php

✅ Build embeddable HTML widget so users can add username checks to their websites 🔍

The idea is that widgets backlinking to available.fyi will give an SEO boost and drive organic traffic 📈👀🤞

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✅ Get feecalculator.io featured in @BetaList 🎉

With a mad dash to deploy a bug fix and link back to my twitter profile 😅

#buildinpublic #buildinginpublic #rookieMistake #shipit

✅ Add social media card and meta tags 📢

Testing 1.. 2.. 3... available.fyi/claim-inactive…

#testing #buildinpublic #buildinginpublic

Standing desk - rainbows included! 🌈

And yes, I get more mileage out of that printer box than the printer 🖨

#buildinpublic #standingdesk #rainbows

✅ Add copy and fancy-pants table of contents ✨

Next is to SEO the heck out of it with structured data 🧙‍♂️

#buildinpublic #buildinginpublic #seo #indiehacker

✅ Build the first of many content marketing pages for available.fyi

Not my area of expertise but maybe I'll learn along the way 📖😵‍💫

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Must...
resist...
urge...
to start...
another...
side project

I mean, how many is too many?

3 more can't hurt, right? 😅

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