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✨ Ship Day! 🚀
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So, the entire month, I was super excited to get this out.

But today, I was nervous AF ruminating on everything that might go wrong.🫣

I did it anyway.

kva-design.com/chara

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Day 30!
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✅ Review theme & guide again
✅ Promo material for theme guide
✅ Add testimonials to final shop page
✅ Finalize theme product page

✨ Launch day is tomorrow!

🚀Day 5 of #WomenMakeChallenge

Launched the landing page!

Launch your blog in 3 easy steps:
1️⃣ Link your Notion account
2️⃣ Write content on Notion
3️⃣ Publish!✍🏼

Focus on content, we'll handle the rest!

Get early access👇🏼
#Saas #BuildInPublic #blogging
vixion.pro

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Day 29
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✅ How to use theme guide walkthrough
✅ Promo material
✅ Start on mini vids for SS platform walkthrough
✅ Include additional platform education materials as suggested

✨ 1 more day! ✨

🚀Day 4 of #WomenMakeChallenge

✅ Landing page is 80% done, deploying it tomorrow
✅ Connecting to @gumroad
✅ @NotionHQ integration complete 💕

#SaaS #BuildInPublic #WomanInTech

I wasn't sure if I was going to make it, but I was able to get my new website live before the end of the month. The backend uses Strapi (hosted on Heroku) and the frontend is built with Gridsome (hosted on Netlify). #WomenMakeChallenge #buildinpublic melindagolden.com/my-first-blog-…

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Day 28
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✅ Implemented about 80% of what testers suggested and/or quality check stuff like broken links
❎ Did not do a quick walkthrough on the platform bc my voice keeps breaking. Hope I'm not getting sick!

2 more days!

@ProductHunt #WomenMakeChallenge #buildinpublic #buildinginpublic

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Day 27
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✅ Relax :)
✅ Got feedback from trusted testers today. I will implement tomorrow.

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Day 26
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✅ Edit video for Figma how-to.
✅ Reach out to trusted testers. So grateful!
✅ Create client portal on Notion for other tier.

Here is what the client portal looks like. What do you think?

@nextacular @SendGrid @mailjet @VixionHQ 🚀Day 3 (contd.) of #WomenMakeChallenge

Now integrated with @NotionHQ API 😎

#Saas #BuildInPublic

@nextacular @SendGrid 🚀Day 3 of #WomenMakeChallenge

✅Switched to @mailjet ✉️ (hassle-free, thank you)
✅Building the landing page
✅Twitter: @VixionHQ

(Women's month is almost over -- this month was hectic. Will do my vv best to launch this month)
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Day 25
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✅ Record vid on how to edit included graphics on Figma.
✅ I rearranged the layout for 2 pages on the theme so it flows better.

I'm probably 95% done. 5 more days to go!

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Day 24
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✅ Finish CSS guide
✅ Create another post-purchase PDF w/ link to the Notion guide for other pricing tier.

More QA tomorrow.

We're soooo close. 6 more days! 👀

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Day 23
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✅ Test checkout workflow
✅ Create post-purchase PDF w/ link to Notion guide.
✅ QA on Theme Guide

Tomorrow is more QA.

7 more days! 👀

Website is live!! #womenmakechallenge #nft #buildinpublic #discordannouncements @women_make_ frensfeed.com

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Day 22
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✅ Final, final product page
✅ Shop front page

Here's a section of the Shop's front page.

8 more days! 👀

Ooh this is as fun as I'd hoped! :D I think I'll weaken the thruster in the balloon so it floats a little slower. Also need to add a visible string (it's just a physics joint at the moment).
I swear things just look prettier in Unreal!😍#WomenMakeChallenge #BuildInPublic

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Day 21
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✅ Finalize product page
✅ Finalize mockups

It was a late start today. I'm happy to hear feedback on the page, if you're keen to offer.

9 more days! 👀

I finally started building my blog using Strapi, Gridsome, and Tailwind CSS. I have never used Tailwind before but so far I'm enjoying it. It made it easy to add a light and dark theme. #WomenMakeChallenge #buildinpublic

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Day 20
✅ Finalize theme guide

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Day 19
✅ Finish editing all mini-videos

This was difficult to focus on because it was so repetitive. 😩

Enjoy your weekend!

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Day 18
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✅ Record all mini-vids.
✅ Edit in Premiere.

I finished recording all the mini-vids needed today. All that's left to do is to finish editing. Should be done tomorrow.

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Day 17
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✅ Start recording mini-vids w/ Loom. Edit in Premiere.

I wanted to complete all the mini-vids today, but I only had time to record & edit ONE. 😅

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Day 16
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✅ Finished written guide. Onto mini-vids tomorrow.

Here's a preview. I wanted it to be as minimal as possible. I think I achieved that. 😅

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Day 15
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✅ Write theme guide content 2.75/3 😅

15 more days! Let's goooo! 🚀

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Day 14
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✅ Clean up theme guide layout
✅ Write theme guide content 2/3

Here's a preview.

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Day 13

✅ Rest day ✨

Yes, taking some time to rest is part of building in public.

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Day #12
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✅ Complete 1/3 of Theme Guide

1/2 Theme guide will be bite-sized to avoid information overload. Other themes include lengthy vid tuts.

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Day #11
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✅ 3 Additional Pages (Cover, Blog, and Link in Bio)

I revisited the pricing structure and decided to make some changes to it. With that, I added a few more pages to the theme.

19 days to go 🚀😌

I made some progress on my blog design tonight. I have a dark mode and I started on the mobile version. I learned that I can test my color contrast for accessibility using the Stark plugin for Figma. #WomenMakeChallenge #buildinpublic

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Day #10
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✅ Start writing Theme Guide in @NotionHQ
✅ Create custom icons for Theme Guide in Illustrator

20 days to go 🚀😌

@minaopada will be building her SaaS on top of Nextacular starter-kit for #WomenMakeChallenge

Her SaaS is a blogging platform that will take advantage of @NotionHQ as the CMS

#BuildInPublic #SaaS #WomenInTech #WomensHistoryMonth 🎉

🚀Day 2 of #WomenMakeChallenge

✅ Purchased domain 😉
✅ Leveraged @nextacular
❌ Hit a bump with setting up @SendGrid bec my email got flagged & their verification process is not bootstrap-friendly

#BuildInPublic #SaaS #WomenInTech 👩🏻‍💻

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Day #9
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✅ Optimize for tablets

This took longer than expected.

🚀Day 1 of #WomenMakeChallenge

Building a ✨SaaS platform✨that allows you to create a personal blog or website using @NotionHQ as CMS 👩🏻‍💻
✅ Tech stack + idea

brainstorming the name 😉

Drop a 💟 if you want early access 😊

#BuildInPublic #SaaS #WomenWhoCode

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Day #8
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✅ Complete About page in Figma
✅ Complete About page in SS
✅ Clean up CSS
✅ Optimize for mobile

Almost done w/ this theme. 🤞🏼

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Day #7
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✅ Start About Me page in Figma
✅ Sneak peek IG
❎ About Me page production in SS
❎ Optimize for mobile, CSS

I wanted to get all done today, but had a full schedule.

Hope you had a great Monday! 🙂

I continued working on my blog in Figma today. I have used Sketch in the past. I learned that you can create text styles. Whenever you update the style, it will update all of the text that has that style. #womenmakechallenge #buildinpublic

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Day #6
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✅ Started Theme 1 Design
✅ Support, shop, and legal pages done
✅ Mockup products

I had a difficult time staying focused today so I did what I could and saved the rest for tomorrow.

Hope you had a great weekend!

I'm using Figma for the first time as a designer. I'm used to being handed off designs from someone else! 😆 I'm starting with the home page for my blog. Do you prefer the gold or teal background? #womenmakechallenge #buildinpublic

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Day #5
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✅ Created feedback form in Typeform
✅ Create post-purchase campaign in ConvertKit
✅ Create post-purchase workflow in Notion. Integrate SS w/ Zapier.

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Day #4
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✅ Outline post-purchase journey
✅ Write copy for post-purchase email campaign

Hope everyone enjoys their weekend. 🙂

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Day #3
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✅ Theme guide template on @NotionHQ
✅ Product page shape up (pen & paper)
✅ Product page production on @squarespace

More details here: bit.ly/3C8UDq1

🚀 Day 1 #WomenMakeChallenge
I built a plan! Each day has one main task assigned. This is based on the things I have learned building other products, like the Business Plan that was #buildinpublic
You can follow my journey-or duplicate-the planning ↓ bit.ly/3svFmfM

It's Day 1 of the #WomenMakeChallenge!

Throughout October, I will be building Start Designing Today, a collection of resources for knitters and crocheters who want to get started designing and selling their own patterns.

I'll update this thread with my progress! #buildinpublic

#buildinpublic update : 2020/10/19

Landing page for @ReaderieHQ is now live at readerie.com 🎉🥳

It took waaay longer than it ought to have, and there's a long way to go before it's ready for users...

#makersneakpeek #WomenMakeChallenge

🚀 Just F*ing Ship It 🚀

30 days to build and launch something!

Discover all the Twitter threads from the participants of the #WomenMakeChallenge who are sharing their progress publicly. #buildinpublic #WomenMake

womenmake.com/posts/c3cnBA4c…

#buildinpublic update 2020/10/24

I usually ❤️ using a well designed theme/template to accelerate front-end work. It's much easier for me to tweak a template to match the idea in my head than start from scratch...

#WomenMakeChallenge #togetherwemake

✨ Remember back in October when I had a #buildinpublic thread going about my progress on the #WomenMakeChallenge?

I built and launched startdesigningtoday.com in October.

Here's a 🧵 recap of what tech used and how it went! ⤵️