Bill Nalen
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Solopreneur building lots of small bets. + many failed
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@marc_louvion
You're my hero 😂
- Hosting -> Vercel $20/mo
- Database -> MongoDB $3/mo
- Analytics -> Plausible $10/mo
- Newsletter -> Beehiiv $0/mo
- Assistant -> Co-Pilot $10/mo
- Marketing -> Twitter + Typefully $8/mo
I should move to Bali next.
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Hi. My name is Bill and it’s been 0 days since I last changed my tech stack.
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When everything needs to be charged so you have no choice but to watch
@marc_louvion
while waiting.
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I'm struggling to focus. Switching tech stacks again, lacking deep work time, neglecting workouts, unable to come up with app ideas, and more.
Living in a van with my wife adds complexity, but I think I’m missing something.
Time for change.
Perhaps I should take
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Also made 3 sales last week and they weren’t people I know. It’s still super exciting to get Stripe notifications. 😀
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In today's episode I detail how to start making the ShipFast boilerplate your own.
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So fast to ship an idea these days: My modified ShipFast stack JavaScript/NextJS/Vercel/Vercel Postgres/Vercel Blob/Resend/NextAuth/TailwindUI/Stripe/GitHub/VS Code/Copilot
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Not sure if I posted this yesterday, but this was my office. Spent the morning working at Panera, then moved to the park (someplace in PA).
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I wrote up how I switched from Mailgun to Resend in the ShipFast boilerplate template. Nothing complicated. Takes about 15 minutes per app to make the switch and I'm pretty happy with Resend.
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@searchbound
Have you seen the guy on TikTok (Caden Boof) who tests side hustles? He did vending machines, car flipping, etc. I’m not sure he’s done ice machines.
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@PLBompard
@render
cron jobs. Does 1 thing really well, saves me the pain of running jobs locally or trying to manage a VPS.
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Switched one of my apps from ShipFast MongoDB to ShipFast Supabase in about 2 hours. Pretty painless to switch and I like SQL better and MongoDB Atlas was having timeouts.
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Hiked and worked around Mount Rainier National Park last week. Had perfect weather and wildflowers.
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I can find endless ways to procrastinate.
I just bought the DaisyUI dashboard template to see how they did the sidebar. And I added sidebars to all my apps a few days ago.
Truth is, none of my apps need sidebars.
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Focusing on multiple projects in parallel is hard, multiple projects in series is easier.
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Some days, I struggle to stay motivated to work on my previous apps.
But when a Stripe notification comes in, I get reenergized. I just need this to happen a bit more often.
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@daniel_nguyenx
Yes, but more importantly, I'd love to know why you decided not to build them.
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Tried to buy my own app today and found 2 bugs that would stop a user from getting access after purchase. Guess I should test all my apps.
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I have 4 main apps I’m working on. Tonight I changed all the prices to one time fixed prices. Next I’ll update the copy on each site.
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I like using a template because it makes me focus more on the messages and less on minutiae of CSS. Now I need to update the messages I have here and apparently the meta bits too.
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When I bought the MacBook Pro last year, I knew it had great battery life but I didn't think much of it.
After working from McDonald's, Panera, Planet Fitness, and public libraries for the past 9 months, it has become my favorite feature.
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Tomorrow we start our 26 hour drive home. Sounds like a lot but we have 23 days to get there.
Every day will likely be 1 hour drive, 4 hours deep work, 4 hours exploring.
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@searchbound
@carrd
Carrd is so good for this. And I was shocked at how inexpensive it was for all the functionality
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@mattmerrick16
@marc_louvion
The leaderboard is driving so much traffic and I'm halfway down the list.
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Spent the whole morning in deep work on a new project. Feels really good.
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Okay, Beehiiv might have become more expensive for some, but for me on the free plan I now can add my API key to .
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Cloned 2 repos to my fresh Mac so far, and I remembered to make a copy of the .env.local files before I wiped the drive. 😀
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Tomorrow I’ll update my other 2 apps to the ShipFast template. That’ll put all my apps back on the same footing. Have I finally learned that the framework doesn’t matter to anyone but me?
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Continuing my journey to find the nicest development framework/language/stack thing. Trying Rails now.
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Wrote a newsletter post this morning. Then spent the rest of the day packing our camper van and running south from the snowy cold in Wyoming/Colorado.
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@afonsolfm
Visited SF last summer. It was awful. I'd never move there. People walk around like zombies, heads down, no eye contact, no one talks.
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Having trouble setting up Mailgun with ShipFast? I've got you covered with my latest newsletter post.
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I can't decide if moving from MongoDB to Postgres is more trouble than learning nosql. I already know SQL so there's no learning curve to Postgres, but moving data is painful.
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Decided to keep going with Hey email. I previously setup all my other accounts through it and now I’m moving my email archive from Fastmail to iCloud. Then I’ll cancel Fastmail’s renewal.
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@dvassallo
I'm not surprised. In today's world
developer = someone who builds app using chat gpt
dev ops = someone who clicks settings in a PaaS
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Added simple filtering for my expired domain name tool. I went brute force and sent 2k domains to the browser and filter with input onChange.
I put this off a long time thinking I would have to build an API. Works good enough.
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Looking to create pages for my app with guides, info, and SEO content. I want to avoid markdown, so I'm checking out options like Sanity, Feather, WordPress, etc. Always looking for new tools to make my life easier.
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@sergey_kaplich
@beehiiv
I like it a lot. I like the writing interface and I like the webpages generated.
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I've been collecting historical temperature data for places across the US. I use these data points to figure out places with nice temperatures to travel to. Today I'm at 112,720 data points in MongoDB Atlas costing me $0. I use these in my app
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I think instead of YouTube and tech Discords I’m going to watch all the SmallBets recordings and get more involved in their Discord
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Okay I’m going to mesh this and
@searchbound
‘s class on starting. Step 1: I bought a domain to use as a test. Step 2: I threw up a site on Carrd though it needs a lot of work. Updating on 𝕏 as I go. Name & idea:
My favorite process to validate a startup idea:
- build an extremely simple proof of concept in a weekend
- record a demo video
- put it on a simple landing page
- share it with potential customers (drive traffic to the website)
- accept pre-order if I’m confident with the
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Need a good work day tomorrow. Critical for that to happen is sleep.
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@MeetKevon
I always feel like these are automated and it doesn't feel real. A lot even ask for a response to that initial email and I figure they won't ever read it.
How do you make it feel more real?
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Got bored and started a new SaaS using ShipFast. Took about 30 minutes to get live, ran into an issue with MailGun.
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My monthly expenses for creating and releasing apps to the world. These are all optional services, so I could potentially be running close to $0.
- Vercel: $20
- Plausible: $10
- GitHub Copilot: $10
- Vercel Storage: $3
- Render: $3
Total: $46 per month
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Finally got my second app updated to Supabase. Just couldn’t find time over the last week. On the plus side I saw another rocket launch.
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My first ProductHunt launch is live! I’d sure appreciate any upvotes you can give. Doesn’t cost anything, you just need a Google account.
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On a mission today to get my domain name scraper setup as a Vercel cron job.
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Made some updates to changed pricing, added feature list. Thought I fixed SEO. Next I’ll add some blog posts through ShipFast.
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Today’s task is to find a new idea to work on. This is the hardest part for me.
I think it’s because I’m old and I’ve either worked out issues I’ve had or I think a solution would be too big instead of just jumping in
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Decided to just keep working with NextJS. So much less daily frustration in working with something I’m already used to. I don’t have any real issues with the framework at this point.
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I'll be watching this one for sure.
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@adamwathan
True, I've only bought a few things from people I follow. I follow because I'm learning a lot from them.
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@searchbound
How many hot tubs do you think you could manage at once? Assuming decent work/life/onion balance?
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Today I replaced all the UI in my new app with TailwindUI. I feel like all small SaaS apps are starting to look alike. I like TailwindUI though.
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I'm sitting here writing a list of problems that solopreneurs have so I can find one to solve.
Then I realized I answer a *lot* of questions in the ShipFast Discord. I can probably data mine those and find the common issues everyone is having.
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So far I think my site built with NextJS and Supabase is superior to the one I built in Bubble. Same functionality and about the same work but I have more control, lower price and much faster site than the no-code solution.
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Bought and installed Screen Studio. Going to make some demo videos for my app. I like them much better than screenshots.
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@PLBompard
@marc_louvion
I bought it for the same season - was hoping it would solve my procrastination. I wasn’t even going to join the Discord (cause 1 more thing to check). The community is worth more now than the template.
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Going to bed early so I can get up and write another ShipFast newsletter.
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Added blogs to a couple of my projects using AirTable. I really like the setup. I’ll tweak it a bit more and then write about it.
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I wrote about the next step in creating a ShipFast application - Setting up MongoDB Atlas. I walk through the setup step by step with lots of screenshots.
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@marc_louvion
I would have thought YouTube hit its peak for BiP a few years ago. Wasn't it supposed to be TikTok now? I wish there was an easier way to find BiP YouTubers.
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VanLife costs for January 2024. We unexpectedly had to drive FL to NM to WY to FL so that added to fuel and eating out. February is looking much cheaper.
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Great work day today:
- Updated my app with screen recordings instead of static images
- Added a feedback button
- Did a bunch of support on the ShipFast Discord
- Changed my cron jobs to render
- Posted and replied on 𝕏 (cross post to LinkedIn)
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