Enhanced audio transcription with LLaMA 3.1, modern UI, and optimized API

• Switched to LLaMA 3.1 70B Versatile model

• Redesigned recording layout with modern aesthetics

• Migrated to AI SDK from LangChain

Audio queries updated

• Fixed a minor issue with the way the recordings where fetched from Supabase

Updated documentation to reflect new structure and deployment mode

Added automated SQL migrations in migrations/supabase directory to standardize database setup

• Reorganized project folder structure to improve code organization and maintainability

• Expanded documentation with detailed step-by-step deployment instructions

• Updated README to include comprehensive setup and configuration guides

• Added clear deployment walkthrough for new developers

• Streamlined overall deployment process through improved documentation and automation
  
  

These changes significantly simplify the setup process and make it easier for new developers to get started with AnotherWrapper.

Credit System Implementation into Advanced AI Chat App

Added a credit-based system to prevent API abuse and manage access to resource-intensive features like web browsing and premium AI models (GPT-4, Claude Sonnet).

• Chat messages are now processed through a usage-limits handler that tracks credit consumption, where free models (GPT-4o mini, Claude Haiku) remain accessible while premium features require credits.

• Implementation uses response headers (x-credit-usage) for real-time credit tracking and integrates with the existing streaming architecture.
  
  

This update enables sustainable API usage through credit-based rate limiting while keeping core chat functionality accessible, with real-time credit balance updates through toast notifications.

PDF Vectorization Batch processing

Implemented batch processing for PDF vectorization to handle large documents reliably.

• Documents are now processed in configurable chunks (default: 100), preventing Supabase timeout issues and enabling reliable processing of large PDFs (500+ pages).

• This update makes PDF processing more reliable and scalable while maintaining existing functionality.

ImagenMIA has gotten a lot better. Lots of code improvements, pipeline, lots of new packs + also using Flux as base model gives ultra-realistic generations.

Will write more detailed post soon!

Been a little while since I worked on IndieLogs - but I took some time last week to improve data fetching, security and make it a bit faster.

It's gotten quite a few users since I stopped using it lol so maybe it's time for some improvements. Maybe I could add AI into the editor to reformat what you write?

Planning to use it more often again now as a changelog for anotherwrapper.com

Let me know!

Feature Added: Generative UI support in the Chat AI app.

• Allows searching through Anotherwrapper data to suggest relevant demo apps for building solutions.

• Provides an example of how to use generative UI to display widgets in chat, enabling users to create their own variations for similar use cases.

Refactor: Migrated payment-related functions to /lib/db/payments/

• Consolidated functions used in the payments app for consistency with the previous file restructuring changes.

• Refactor: Removed hooks/reduceUserCredits and hooks/uploadToSupabase
  
  

  • Added their functionality to lib/db/mutations/ to maintain alignment with the updated file structure.

Changed xAI Grok Integration to use Vercel AI SDK

• Vercel AI SDK is a charm to work with so added a demo app

• Includes a custom demo app with tailored output.

• Not visible yet in dashboard but will launch it soon

Flexible User Image Generation

• Removed backend filtering in UserImageGeneration. Now filtering is handled on the front-end for greater flexibility.

Sidebar Improvements

• Sidebar now includes chat history for enhanced functionality.

Old Chat App Removed

• Deleted outdated chat app.

• Moved PDF-related components to components/pdf/.

• New components/chat/ folder contains files for the updated chat app.

SQL Migration Files Generated

• Created new SQL migration files to streamline deployment setup.

• Super easy to set up DB now. Tutorial coming soon!

New Advanced Chat App

• Introduced a multimodal, multilingual chat app using OpenAI, Anthropic, Llama, and xAI's Grok models.

• Features internet access, and built-in document creation (Canvas) functionality.

• Uses Serper API for search

• Integrated Jina AI for scraping and easy extensibility.

Renamed Documents Table

• Updated documents table for PDFs to pdf_documents for better differentiation from chat_documents.

Supabase Types Added

• Added Supabase types for stricter typing and better consistency across the app.

Enhanced Input Forms

• Upgraded the automatically generated input forms of the demo apps to be more beautiful.

Improved App Info Cards

• Redesigned app info cards for a more appealing and professional look.

File Uploads Tracking

• Added file_uploads table to track all file uploads (images, audio, PDFs) across apps.

• Updated useFileUpload hook and relevant API routes.

/lib Folder Reorganized

• Restructured /lib for better organization:

  • /lib/clients for all clients.

  • /lib/ai for AI utilities.

  • /lib/db for database queries.

Next.js Caching for Data Fetching

• Implemented Next.js caching to optimize data fetching across all AI apps.

• Reduced redundant queries by leveraging caching for Supabase requests, improving performance and user experience.

• Works seamlessly with the newly centralized query structure in @/lib/db/queries.
  
  

This update makes data fetching faster and more efficient, enhancing scalability and responsiveness for all demo apps.

Centralized Supabase Queries for All Demo Apps

• Moved all Supabase queries into a centralized directory at @/lib/db/queries for cleaner and more maintainable code.

• Introduced dedicated query files:

  • general.ts: Handles general queries like session state and user credits.

  • chat.ts: Manages all queries for the new chat app.

  • generations.ts: Unified logic for GPT-4.0, DALL-E, SDXL, Llama 3.1, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and xAI Grok apps.

  • audio.ts: Contains all queries for the audio app.

  • pdf.ts: Handles queries for the PDF app.
    
    

This update simplifies data fetching, reduces redundancy, and improves scalability across all 10 demo apps.

Switched to Slugs for Demo Apps

• Updated demo apps to use slugs instead of IDs in routes and database queries.

• Enables better support for programmatic SEO, allowing cleaner and more descriptive URLs for user-generated content.

• Simplifies navigation and improves readability for both users and search engines.
  
  

This change significantly enhances the SEO potential of demo apps and prepares them for scalable content generation.

Implemented xAI integration through OpenAI SDK

• Implemented through OpenAI SDK.

• Marks the 11th demo app added to @anotherwrapper.

Centralized File Upload Logic

• Introduced a new useFileUpload hook to handle file uploads for images, audio, PDFs, and other file types.

• Consolidated file upload logic into a single, secure implementation used by all API routes.

• Simplified the codebase, making it easier to manage and extend upload functionality across different apps.

Improved API Route Documentation

• Added detailed comments to all API routes, explaining their purpose, logic, and key functionality at the top of each file.

• Improved clarity and readability for developers to better understand the flow and responsibilities of each route.

Improved Webhook API Route Documentation

• Added more detailed comments to the LemonSqueezy and Stripe payment webhook API routes to clarify its functionality.

• Made it easier to understand the purpose of each section and how webhook events are processed.

Centralized Authentication Middleware

• Created a new authMiddleware to centralize authentication logic, reducing code duplication across API routes.

• Applied the middleware to all API routes, ensuring consistent and secure authentication handling.

• Streamlined the codebase for improved maintainability and scalability.
  
  

This update simplifies authentication management while enhancing security across the app.

Stripe Payments Added

• Implemented Stripe payments in the premium repo, fully integrated with the existing credits system.

• Offers users the flexibility to choose between Stripe or Lemonsqueezy as their preferred payment provider.

• Documentation updated to reflect the new feature: Stripe Payments Docs.
  
  

Happy building! 🫡

Optimized PDF Vectorization Process for Chat with PDF demo app

• Implemented batch embedding for improved performance and efficiency during vectorization.

• Enhanced error handling and input validation to ensure smoother processing and better stability.

• Improved text sanitization to handle non-printable characters while preserving common whitespace.

• Added detailed logging for easier debugging and tracking issues during processing.

• Optimized the Supabase insertion process for better database performance.
  
  

These changes should improve the reliability and efficiency of the PDF vectorization workflow.

Changelog does not reflect current state. Will add updates soon.

Console Errors Fix

• Resolved React SVG errors by updating all instances of fill-rule, clip-rule, stroke-width, etc., to fillRule, clipRule, and strokeWidth for proper attribute casing.

• Addressed Punycode deprecation warning in the Supabase package by implementing a workaround based on this.

• These fixes clean up the console logs, ensuring a smoother development experience and fewer distractions during debugging.

Made demo apps programmatic SEO-ready

• Updated the schema and database to store title, subtitle, and description for each generation.

• Adjusted the generations page ([id]/page.tsx) to dynamically fetch and display this metadata.

• Meta tags are now generated based on user-created content for better SEO optimization.

• Removed unnecessary hooks and routes (getAIresponse.ts and fetch/route.ts), streamlining the backend logic.

• Suggested strategy: Use internal backlinking for user-generated content pages to improve search engine crawlability.
  

This update makes programmatic SEO easier and opens up new possibilities for leveraging user-generated content. 🔥

Generation History for Text-Based Generations (LLMs)

• Added a generations history feature to the dashboard for GPT, Llama, Claude, and Vision apps.

• Allows users to view their previous text-based generations directly within the dashboard.

• Improved the UX by centralizing and simplifying access to past content, enhancing productivity and tracking.

Big update to folder structure

• Restructured app organization: Front-end and API routes for demo apps are now neatly organized under a unified (apps) directory for better logic and clarity.

• Unified dashboard: Consolidated all apps (except GPT and Chat) into a single, streamlined dashboard, enhancing navigation and user experience.

• Repo updates: The GitHub repository has been updated to reflect these changes, ensuring alignment with the new structure.
  
  

Try out the new setup on anotherwrapper.com! Documentation updates to follow soon.

UI adjustments for demo apps on the unified dashboard

• Refactored layouts to ensure consistent styling and alignment across all demo apps.

• Updated footer implementation to dynamically use toolConfig for better configurability and cleaner code.

• Improved overall dashboard aesthetics to enhance user experience.

Codebase cleanup: Removed unused layouts

• Deleted outdated and unused layout-old.tsx files across multiple apps, including audio, llama, and DALL-E.

• Streamlined the codebase, reducing unnecessary clutter and improving maintainability.

• Ensured a cleaner structure aligned with the new unified dashboard architecture.

Major update: Unified Dashboard for All AI Apps

• Consolidated 10 separate AI apps into a single, unified dashboard.

• Centralized access to text, image, PDF, audio, and other capabilities, eliminating the need to navigate between multiple UIs.

• Streamlined the user experience for faster and smoother building and testing of AI apps.

• Designed with clean, intuitive UX to enhance productivity and reduce friction.
  
  

This is the biggest upgrade to anotherwrapper.com yet! 🚀

Launched!

Lots to update. Coming soon

Image generation history added to DALL-E and SDXL apps.

• Introduced a dashboard to display the history of previously generated images for DALL-E and SDXL demo apps.

• Users can now view and manage their past generations, improving usability and tracking.

• Added support for fetching and displaying generation metadata in the UI.

Sanitization added to Chat with PDF app.

• Implemented text sanitization before vectorizing PDFs to prevent issues with non-printable characters or extra whitespace.

• Ensured cleaner and more robust embeddings by handling invalid characters during processing.

Upgraded all GPT-3.5 demo apps to new GPT-4o-mini.

• Switched from GPT-3.5-turbo-1106 to the newly released GPT-4o-mini for all relevant demo apps.

• Ensured immediate adoption of OpenAI's latest model for enhanced performance and accuracy.

• Updated app descriptions to reflect the transition to GPT-4o-mini. 🚀

Supabase local DB schema support added.

• Added SQL schema to the repository, allowing users to push their database using the Supabase CLI without manual copy-pasting.

• Updated to the latest Next.js v14.2.5 for improved performance and compatibility.

Added safety check to redirect.

• Updated generateAIResponse to include a fallback mechanism for toolConfig.toolPath.

• Ensured safer redirection logic by dynamically verifying the existence of toolPath before constructing the redirect path.

• Made systemMessage optional in generateVisionResponse for greater flexibility in usage.

New AI App: Text-to-Speech in 26 Languages with 1,000+ Voices! 🔥

• Just added the 10th AI demo app, introducing lifelike voice generation.

• Supports 26 languages and 1,000+ unique voices, powered by ElevenLabs integration.

• Adds AI voice capabilities on top of existing AI text, image, audio, and vision features already available.

Google OAuth flow refactored.

• Moved the redirectTo logic into a centralized function using getRedirectUrl for dynamic URLs based on environment.

• Replaced direct Supabase client calls in the GoogleSignInButton with an API route (`/api/auth/google`) for better separation of concerns.

• Enhanced maintainability and debugging by centralizing the authentication logic in the API route.

Emails converted to lowercase on purchase.

• Ensured all email comparisons use toLowerCase() for consistency.

• Prevented potential mismatches caused by email casing in profile queries and updates.

Chat Model Configuration Update

• Replaced hardcoded model (`gpt-3.5-turbo-1106`) with a dynamic model reference from toolConfig.aiModel.

• Ensures flexibility and consistency by using the centralized configuration for the chat model.

Improved Contact Creation for Loops

• Updated logic to allow adding contacts to Loops without requiring a name.

• Ensures contacts are still created using just an email while dynamically adding a name if available.

Claude 3.5 Model Update

• Upgraded AI model from claude-3-20240229 to claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620 for enhanced performance and functionality.

Product growth update:

• Got first couple of sales

• Added new demo apps

• Posted on different directories

• Closed sponsorship deal with AIDirectories

Dynamic OG Banners

Implemented dynamic Open Graph banners using Next.js OG for better link previews and enhanced sharing experience. 🚀🎨

Anthropic & Claude 3 Support Added

Feature request received for Claude 3 integration.

- 5 min later: Integrated Claude 3 using demo app code.

- 30 min later: Customized the demo app and turned it into a brand-new application. 🔥

✨ Introducing ⇢ AnotherWrapper

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But it's more than just a wrapper - it's a complete AI starter kit that makes it easy to build new AI apps.

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It packs 15 months of AI app building:
✅ 8 ready-to-use demo apps (text, image, vision, voice, .. )
✅ Integrations with OpenAI, Replicate, Groq
✅ Beautiful landing pages & UI components
✅ Essential features: auth, payments, emails, storage, analytics, ..

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APIs, vector storage, databases, file uploads, AI platforms, ... you name it. All of this takes time and effort to get right.

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So I built this to make my life easier. Now, I always have a demo app I can leverage, no matter the kind of AI app I want to build!

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The code is easy to modify for rapid prototyping:
- User input forms generated automatically & sent to AI
- AI output displayed automatically, regardless of JSON structure
- Core services ready to go

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For example, building a unique generator app can be done in less than an hour! I simply change the prompt, schema & toolConfig.

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That's for a completely new custom generator. Setting up any of the 8 already included demo apps only takes minutes!

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+ it includes a bunch of beautiful landing pages & UI components! ✨

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Future ideas:

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- Claude integration
- SDXL with Controlnet
- More tutorials or how-to guides

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I've been experimenting with lots of AI models - there's a lot of stuff to choose from! Really excited about this project.

Never really ended up happening sadly. But would be cool to have the challenge sometime. Still got the domain lol

Been a while since I posted an update, but I've been working on this project almost daily for the last 3 months.

Can't wait to share more!

IndieLogs is going live on ProductHunt next week! 🎉

In anticipation, I am:

• Redesigning some core parts

• Fixing some speed issues

• Fixing double data fetching issue on profile when switching projects

If you want to help me out, please subscribe here: https://www.producthunt.com/products/indielogs

Introducing: Indie Wars! 🎉

You can now compete with fellow makers to see who shipped the best product update of the week, month, and year all while:

✅ Gathering user feedback

✅ Increasing visibility of your products

🎉 Major and exciting updates! 🚀

• Added onboarding flow:

  • 🗣 Asks for language, age, goals, other info

  • 📆 Subscription checker

• 🥗 Added ability to generate recipes from ingredients through a photo 📸

• 🌍 Started working on the translations

• ✏️ Editing meals

Still need to:

• Full translations to FR/NL/ES

• Implement payments

• Embeddings

• Landing page/Insta page

Bought two funny domainnames.

Got a good idea of how to approach this one in terms of marketing/launch.

But this will be a side-side-side project for now.

🔥 Hungry but in the arena trying stuff

Hope to have the MVP ready soon - got a bit distracted by some other projects that had a higher priority.

Still left:

• Editing meals

• Removing meals on other days

• Adding meal manually

• Analytics? Week overview?

• Improve quicklinks

• Branding/texting

• Eventually: embeddings so it can search all your data

But step by step. Will keep it limited here!

Got two complaints from users today that were not getting their images 😅

I don’t know what the issue is with ImagenMIA but it seems like every couple of weeks something stops working even though I did not change anything.

Until yesterday everything was working & I haven’t touched the code this week. Will try to figure out what the issue is in the next 24 hours. On localhost it works, but deployment is not working + no logs at all.

Otherwise I’m refunding all of today’s customers.

UPDATE: fixed! ✅

Deployed the endpoint on my own VPS separate from my NuxtJS front-end. Issue was payload being too big - weird especially since this has never happened earlier.

Now I can go to sleep.

✅ V1 category section is ready!

Also fixed category issue on edit startup page

OG Image was having errors because I converted all images to .webp

So converting back profile pics + startup logos to JPEG to handle this. Will keep other images as WebP

Planning to launch IndieLogs on ProductHunt soon

So working on some finishing touches:

- Rewriting the entire messaging & copy to be more SEO-based

- Categories page

- New buying modal

- New pricing

Will probably also get rid of the AI generated articles and write some content myself

The plan:

• Get rid of free plan - work with credits instead - allow ppl to upload 3 logs or sth for a project - after that they need to pay

• Get categories page working (started months ago but never finished)

• Change all copy

• Get og-images generator back working (idk why it stopped)

• Start listing on a bunch of directories pre-launch

• All profile pic images should be stored on my own server to avoid fetching/loading issues

Worked a bit on the new free tool.

Should be ready to launch now! Just need to record a small demo.

Building on telegram is awesome! App was ready in a day. But decided to make some optimization and leverage some of the built-in features on it.

Will be have it ready soon. Will probably launch it after IndieLogs ProductHunt launch!

Sadly Meta keeps refusing my verification.

So I decided to rebuild everything in Telegram. I spent the day on it and re-built most parts. Telegram seems like a much better fit - developer friendly + buttons are super useful.

Trying to get WhatsApp Business Verified but they are making it difficult for me.

Keep refusing my documents. Otherwise I could have launched the bot by now!

Added the ability to:

• Manually log macros

• Retrieve macros from other days

• Edit macros of other days

• Delete dishes of other days

A small update ✅

• Connected history of text AI model & Image AI model

• Added the ability to:

  • Add macros

  • Edit macros

  • Remove macros

• First implementation of payment system

Managed to get a permanent API key. Was quite a struggle to get this lol.

Some other progress:

• Managed to format output as JSON from the AI model

• Added temporary cache/storage for if user wants to store macros

• Connected supabase for storage

• User can now track his macros
  
  

Some important considerations for in the future:

• How to implement payment & or rate-limiting

  • Probably have a first-check when person tries to use bot & cross-check w Supabase - should not be too hard to implement

• Modify macros if person deems estimate too low/too high

• Delete macros

• Add dish name to storage of macro entry

• Graphs and stuff
  
  

Also would be good to find a name + some keywords I could eventually target for SEO. So far nothing great found.

Will keep it simple at first. See if ppl use it. Only then expand further

Switched over from Telegram to WhatsApp. Also decided to build it in Python instead of n8n.

Done so far:

• Backend running in a Docker container & accessible through webhook

• WhatsApp connected & Bot made

• Connected it to AI language model

• Connected it to AI image model

• It can analyze images and provides answers based on that

Next up:

• Store user data

• Connect it to DB

Made first n8n flow using Telegram yesterday - just playing around for now - will see how far I can take this

Made some changes to the hero based on this:

- Shorter H1 tag
- Better/more actionable CTA
- More focus on social proof

Thanks @imudayyyy

New free tool almost ready!

Will probably launch next couple of days & start doing email marketing.

Then will also do Product Hunt launch within the month!

✅ Migrated all storage into CloudFlare R2.

Ok - lot's of updates for IndieLogs! 🚀

1) First, I attempted a hero redesign which got completely roasted on Twitter.

Guess I'm keeping the current one haha.

2) Improved current landing page based on that feedback:

• Changed titles and headings

• Improved the copy

• Added some more color to break between components

• Changed the messaging to put more focus on integration on your own website

• Removed the feed

3) Improved the onboarding flow to make it easier for new users

4) Been working on a new free tool - hopefully to be delivered soon!

Started working on admin panel for PTs.

Might pivot into a tool used by PTs to generate workouts and track their custo,ers

✅ Set up Cloudflare CDN (even though I'm not sure if done correctly) + migrated storage to R2.

✅ Some updates:

• New footer design (copy-pasta from InterioresIA)

• Some small design changes to Pricing

• Fixed broken link in Pricing component

• Converted all previous images to WebP to optimize loading times + reduce bandwidth

Next up:

• Categories

• Likes

• New free tool

• Feed - do not load everything at once

• Marketing? Maybe 😝

Workout Generation back functional!

Fully migrated and deployed on my own VPS now! 🎉

Both front-end & supabase.

A couple of notes/thoughts on ImagenMIA:

• Looking to migrate everything to my VPS. Will have to do a checkup and see what can be removed from my storage first to make it more efficient (20+ GB of images)

• 2 days without sales - coincides with a small price increase I did. Will wait a couple more days to see, otherwise might cut back down if it turns out ppl are very price sensitive

Ideally, would like to migrate & have everything on my own VPS within a week. But will wait a bit to see if everything is stable with my smaller projects!

I'm cutting my monthly costs by more than 80% by self-hosting everything

I started indiehacking a year ago & was using mostly free services for my projects:

- Vercel

- Supabase

- PostHog analytics

- AWS EC2 first year free for micro instance

But over the last year, my projects have finally started getting some more traffic + my free credits on AWS ran out. I am looking to scale even more so I know costs can get out of hand pretty quickly (+ I have seen some scary stories here recently).

Monthly, I would have, on average:

- $50 for Supabase (5+ projects)

- $45 for my AWS EC2 instances

+ variable costs for renting GPU for my AI projects

+ I also just surpassed the limits of the free plan on Vercel in terms of bandwidth, Image Optimization & Speed Insight points

The only project that's (finally) making some money so far is ImagenMIA, and with only 60% margins or so due to high model training costs (+ still early phase).

On the one hand I am super happy that ImagenMIA is starting to generate some money on its own (all organic, SEO-based traffic) but on the other hand, infra costs are starting to climb up and are only going to get worse as it scales.

Luckily I saw a post from @dobroslav_dev mentioning Hetzner and Coolify. So I started digging into it and have migrated the first couple of projects to test everything out.

Here is my setup:

- One small VPS (€3.98) for Coolify

- 2vCPU

- 4GB RAM

- 40GB SSD

- 20 TB Egress traffic

A bigger one (€14.51) to host all my projects:

- 8 vCPU

- 16 GB RAM

- 160 GB SSD

- 20 TB Egress traffic

I will be self hosting everything:

- Supabase

- Front-end

- NodeJS Express API Endpoints

- N8N

- PostHog

I was a bit afraid but tbh, Coolify makes things so much easier (OS alternative to Vercel/Netlify) + now I no longer have to worry about extreme bandwidth costs in case of traffic spikes!

Looking to migrate my bigger projects over there hopefully the next couple of days!

Played a lot around with:

• VPS (Hetzner)

• Docker

• Self-hosting supabase

• Coolify

Looking to start self-hosting everything so that I am able to cut costs!

Spent a lot of time the last two days on:

• Experimentation with model settings

• Self-hosting supabase
  
  

Will move to self-hosted supabase to cut costs. Will also migrate my VMs from AWS to Hetzner as that seems to be a lot cheaper to just have everything on my own VPS over there.

Finally, I managed to significantly improve image generation quality. 🎉

After countless iterations and days/weeks I finally managed to significantly improve my models. Models were good for some but quality was not nearly as good as I would want. Did countless iterations of Dreambooth training settings and managed to increase resemblance significantly.

Still some finetuning left to do but will be able to start providing significantly better images & pivot towards photorealistic CV/curriculum pictures soon!

On top of that, the first customers that have used the new model were very happy with their results 😄

✅ My gameplan next:

1. Image optimization & compression on the backend + filtering on frontend

   • Currently still stored as PNG and big size - slow to load + consumes too much bandwidth

   • Duplicate images check

   • Corrupted images check

   • Filter and check for bad images on client-side

   • Add big modal explaining bad input = bad result. Still too many ppl send very bad images.

2. Write and add 20-40 high quality prompts on top of the current ones to generate a variety of CV images (80 to 160 images)

   • Add styles to landing page & highlight more

   • Add styles to Uploading section + add select all + add possibility to select type (profile pics vs. avatars/anime/ ...)

3. Start email marketing

   • 7k emails from current users who have never been contacted. Time to change that

   • Goal would be to start a bi-weekly newsletter with info about AI models + improvements on ImagenMIA + discounts + refer to InterioresIA too

   • Need to have at least mails for the first 4 editions before I start the campaign - to allow for a good buffer

4. Start running ads

   • Purchased a course and will start consuming it & sharing notes

5. Programmatic SEO per image & background (similar to what I did for InterioresIA.com)

   • Step up the SEO game even more

   • Improve copy

✅ Integrated settings into the profile page!

You can now edit your profile and select a theme straight from your profile page. Trying to make things as easy and intuitive as possible!

That script is magic. I now have:

• 1300+ different room x style combinations

• Which means over 2600 (EN + ES) pages ready to be indexed by Google

• And tons of new styles for users to try out on their rooms!

Built a new script to automatically generate new styles + image. Had it running for a couple of hours today.

Total of more than 900 styles across multiple different room types.

Now sitemap contains more than 2713 entries:

• 824 blog articles (Spanish only)

• 1886 styles (divide by two - once in English once in Spanish)

Had neglected image optimization and compression for IndieLogs

This resulted in slow page loading times + extremely high egress bandwidth.

So working on implementing image compression when uploading + webp conversion.

✅ Testing it out now and it works!

Has been implemented across:

• Log image uploads

• Profile pics

• Logos
  
  

Next steps:

• Figure out a way to optimize and reduce size of all images that have been uploaded in the past, without fucking everything up lol

Spent the last two days trying to improve the models 😅

And man, this shit is hard. Been doing a lot of iterations on training settings and playing around with parameters. I have managed to make some slight improvements, but far from being where I want my models to be.

Also spent a lot of time prompting to generate new and good prompts for professional photoshoots/CV pictures.

That's much harder than avatar profile pictures. With avatar profile pictures you have some room for error since it's an avatar/cartoon/anime version of the user. Here you don't!

Will keep at it and let's see where we get! This is important to be able to pivot into more CV type pictures, which is what visitors of the site obviously want!

Will also be good for me as I will be able to start charging more. Currently at 5-6$ per sale does not leave me with a good margin.

Other to-do's:

• Add image filtering on client side

• Failed models error handling

• Start mailing

Updates:

• Translated everything that was left into English

• Changed color palette

• Improved base-slider to be more clear

• More blogs generated (824 in total now)

• Some SEO optimizations

Made some copy modifications to the hero section.

To do next:

• Startup "gallery"

• Categories
  

✅Also started identifying directories to launch and writing copy.

First ones are done:

• DevPost

• HackerNews

✅ Implemented new endpoint for startup validator. Previous one had some issues with AWS.

Almost live 🎉

• Translated everything into English

• LemonSqueezy store activated

• First beta testers started using it

Made quite some progress yesterday:

• Deployed custom AI model - understands depth a lot better + uses SDXL now

• Implemmented orientation fix and base 64 conversion for image uploads to fix iPhone orientation issue

• Generated and published 350+ articles

• Added infinite gallery loop on all pages so that ppl can just use keyboard to go left/right to increase engagement on page
  
  

Main things to do now is:

• Wait for LemonSqueezy store to be enabled

• i18n to English

To add:

• Resize image & convert to JPG after generation (reduce BW)

• Double image check at input

• More CV styles

Have been neglecting IndieLogs a little bit as I'm focused on ImagenMIA & InterioresIA

The next step for IndieLogs is to basically get more visibility, exposure and traffic. Will start posting on different repositories and also schedule a ProductHunt launch in the next month.

It's all about marketing now for IndieLogs. Have noticed my posts about it on X are barely getting any views compared to early during launch. I guess the 'wow' effect of it is gone or I've just become really bad at X lol 😜

In any case will make sure to find a way to get a good amount of traffic for IndieLogs as well. And at the end of the day, it's something I really like using to document my own journey - so it's always a win.

🚀 SEO traffic is flying + conversion is starting to improve!

Small steps still - but reaching first major milestones for ImagenMIA and I am very happy with it.

From GSC, analytics and my own data it is very clear what users want. So will need to pivot ImagenMIA more towards CV pictures.

To do this, I need to:

• Improve AI model

• Experiment and get new, better styles/prompts of images

Currently discontinued the AI-based workout generation functionality due to high server costs.

Will move server somewhere else and get it back running some time. But no real usage so not really a priority for now. Will do it when I have more time

Made some super good progress, very happy with it:

• AI model is better at understanding depth now

• Gives better overal rooms and styles (even though some look like each other)

• Started working on programmatic SEO
  

Approaching it like I approached ImagenMIA but optimized and with the learnings of the last couple of months.

I expect to be able to get some good organic traffic from it.

Almost ready for launch! 🚀

The actual core feature has been ready since day one. I spent the rest of the time working on the landing page, dynamic pages and making sure I was building everything targeting specific SEO keywords.

✅ Done so far:

• Over 350 SEO-optimized dynamic pages targeting different styles and rooms

• 19 room types supported

• 15+ styles

• Supabase

• Analytics

• Blog

• LemonSqueezy test

• n8n workflow integrations

• Landing page 90% ready

• Payment & credit system up and functional

• Backend & image generation up and functional

• Backlinks built using other projects

👇🏼 Still to do:

• Waiting for LemonSqueezy store activation

• Downloads +zoom on generation page

• Sitemap and indexing

• Refine and finetune styles

• Logo

• Generate blogs for programmatic SEO

• Upscale some before images

• Scroll down to generated image on mobile

• Convert images to JPG + compress them to improve SEO

• GSC and Ahrefs integration

✅ Progress today:

• Dynamic page mockup

• Initial image generations to display on site

The app is basically ready and functional. Now I am focussing on programmatic SEO to ensure I get some organic traffic in a couple of months.

Still to be done:

• Finish dynamic pages

• Finish landing page

• Translate to English/i18n (not a priority)

• Finetune styles

• Blog generation for SEO

• Auto-index pages

• Logo

✅ Progress today:

• Credit system implemented and functional

• Initial dataset for dynamic page generation + data structure

• Generation of living room designs in different styles

• Image generation flow in n8n implementation

✅ Fixed:

• Home page redirect issue

• Buy button on landing page

✅ Progress today:

• Supabase set-up

• Google Auth set-up

• Analytics done

• Icon generated through ChatGPT

• First implementation of credit system

• n8n payment flow implementation

Had a busy couple of days again. Not a lot of time to work on it yesterday.

But had some time today to:

• Finetune landing page

• Further work on image generation

• Structure dynamic page knowledge base

TO-DOs:

• Landing page

• Dynamic pages for programmatic SEO

• Supabase connection

• Credit-system implementation

• Blog generation

Project progress going well! 🔥

Will be focussing on building a single feature - the most important one. After that, will let SEO kick in and not work on it for a little while so I can move on to other projects

✅The core MVP for this project would contain:

• SEO optimized landing page

• Programmatic SEO targeting long-tail keywords (articles + image displays) - aiming for around 1000 pages.

• The backend image generation engine (almost ready)

• Payments
  

Will avoid building too much before the idea has been validated. Only after seeing a good traffic spike + initial sales, will I further optimize the project.

🚫 That means:

• No image storage

• No gallery/dashboard

• No super-advanced image-processing engine

• No upscalers

• ...
  
  
  

Trying to avoid previous mistakes and keeping scope limited!

New project coming soon! 🔥

It's another AI-based image generation project. I found some good keywords to target in Spanish again. Will be building everything based on SEO research!

✅ Done so far:

• Identified high potential key-words

• Experimented with possible AI pipeline

• Tried out 30+ prompts

• Bought domain name

• Initial landing page draft

🔥Major update for IndieLogs profiles!

You can now add a custom theme to your profile. Each one of us is unique. Your page should be too. You can now choose between 35 different themes! 🎨

✏️ Other updates:

• 🛑 OKLCH theme colors from DaisyUI are not supported on older browsers. Added a fallback theme in my CSS file to support older browsers too.

• ✅ 4 extra themes added

  • ChainVision

  • ImagenMIA

  • Sunset

  • Nord

  • Dim

The changes I deployed last week made conversion worse, not better.

In a rush before my vacation last week, I redesigned the entire website and I deployed the updates with the end goal of boosting conversion rates.

But the opposite occurred. Not a single sale during the entire week. I wasn't too bothered about it as I thought it was just a random drop/seasonality effects or something similar. Until my sister came to visit and I asked her to test out my website.

That's when I realized there were 2 issues:

• It wasn't rendering properly on older browsers (OKLCH not supported)

• Google Auth was no longer working for new users This resulted in lower activity on the website, less sign-ups, and less sales.

I did the following to fix this:

• Re-implemented Google Auth integration with Supabase

• Added fallback CSS code to my TailwindCSS file to handle fallback scenarios for DaisyUI on older browsers
  
  

Result: woke up to 3 sales and currently have 5 sales in the last 24 hours! 🔥

✅ New, simpler UI/UX implemented!

This should make it easier for end-users and avoid confusion. Previous UX was a bit confusing.

The idea is to now start building a better image processing engine and figure out how to make realistic headshots.

Have been playing a lot with upscalers and image restoration models in the last couple of days.

Once that's ready; I'll start the full-scale email marketing campaign. Have 5k user sign-ups - time for some good marketing!

Played around a lot with upscalers and image restoration models last couple of days.

It's good to restore deformed faces by AI, but gets rid of detail in ppls faces. Looks like you have a filter on.

Planning a pivot towards professional headshots 📸

Profile pictures are cool, but nobody pays for them. Also quite clear from the data that this is what people want:

• Every customer has purchased the realistic package. Other packages have 0 sales.

• All Google traffic is targetting keywords related to professional headshots.
  
  

I'm getting some good traffic from Google, and am pretty sure I can monetize it a lot better than I currently am. I have known that I needed to pivot for a while but I was too lazy/distracted with other projects to actually do it. Now it's time to really double down on this project as it's generating the most revenue/getting most traffic.

✅ Action plan:

• Short term:

  • New styles - have a variety of corporate headshot styles for people to use

  • Update landing page to reflect pivot

  • Update pricing to reflect change

  • Get rid of studio idea - instead focus on simplicity

• Long term

  • Improve ressemblance for ControlNet

  • Add poses, styles, backgrounds

  • Improve processing backend

Will work on the pivot and implementing the changes first before I start doing email marketing. I expect conversion to be higher then.

For tomorrow, these are the actions I'd like to take:

• Start experimenting with the new styles - have at least 10 combinations

• New landing page:

  • Pricing

  • Testimonials

Worked on implementing the upscaler today.

The more expensive package comes with an 2048 x 2048 images now!

Did some research & compared different email marketing providers. 🔍

Here are my findings:

• MailChimp: seems like the best/strongest player, but also the most expensive one. Would be around 150$/month my 4500 users

• Loops.so: super userfriendly and intuitive interface. Easy to use + strong integration with Supabase. But also a bit expensive, only 1000 users on free plan, 49$ for 5000 users. Very good so using it for IndieLogs as it is still below 1000 users.

• Sendgrid: cheapest solution, contains a bit of everything, but not very user friendly. Steep learning curve

• Brevo: this is what I'm going to use for ImagenMIA. 19$ for unlimited mails & unlimited contacts. Automation marketing campaings limited to 2k users tho. Will probably find a workaround, splitting my users in 3 groups or so. Also have to look at finding a way to integrate Supabase and directly import contacts into it. Will see what I can do for that with their API.
  
  

To-do tomorrow:

• Finish Brevo set-up (automations, marketing campaigns)

• Write first 3 mails & send first one

• Look into FB ads

• Brainstorm on what to add/edit to ImagenMIA

Just checked ImagenMIA stats after a month of neglect and... SEO is pure magic:

• 115K impressions

• 6K clicks

• 4.4K users

• 70 sales
  
  

Now, time to level up. Conversion is really bad. I want to improve conversion and get more sales out of the traffic I am getting.

Next steps to achieve this goal:

• Email Marketing - find a good marketing provider & start writing some banger mails

• Facebook Ads - heard it's supergood at reaching users. Will give it a try.

• App Improvement - make it more user friendly + think about something to offer for free before payment.

IndieLogs updates:

💡 General improvements:

• Restructuring of landing page

• Latest active user card

• Display or hide heatmap on profile

• Landing page UI improvements

• New navbar menu icons

• Changed navbar color scheme to make it more friendly to multiple themes

• Profile background add
  
  

✅ In the pipeline:

• Ability Different themes for user profiles
  
  

☑️ Next on the to-do list:

• Select which logs to display or not on change log of website

• Migrate from iframe embedding to JS snippet

• Improve editor - links, hard breaks not super easy as of now

• Caching

• AWS S3 storage

• Fix log refresh issue

• Start e-mail marketing

• Implement mailing system for new users

Got back to work on IndieLogs!

Next-up on the planning:

• Themes for profiles

• Categories & discovery

Some good progress:

• Onboarding almost done

• Fetch assets

• Build dashboards
  
  

Will continue working on it from time to time as it's a free project with no clear plans to monetize yet. Token launch? Maybe that's a way. But would need to have an obvious use-case or utility, and for now, I don't see it.

Also not very good in smart-contract stuff. So would probably need to invest some good amount of time to learn or work with someone else. We'll see what it gives.

Most likely it just continues to be a cool project I work on in my free time.

Working on building a combination of ChainVision & IndieLogs.

The idea is to build a crypto journalling platform where ppl can journal their trades publicly. More of a fun project to get back into building after a two week break!

Started working on a re-brand and pivot for ChainVision

Still not entirely sure what direction to take, but I do know that I want to build something in web3 eventually. Will take it slowly and just work on it from time to time.

Added a second free tool - Business Model Canvas Generator 🎉

What else do you want me to add?

Categories coming soon to Indie Logs! 🎉

If you haven't filled in your category yet, please do, so that you can get featured in category pages & get more visibility to your startups!

Added the free tools section 🎉

You can expect a lot more free tools to drop over here in the coming weeks/months.

Feel free to let me know anything that is useful and you'd like to see!

Startup Idea Validator is launching tomorrow on Product Hunt! 🎉

Would really appreciate your support tomorrow 👇🏼

Click here to get a notification 📢

Finished writing the launch text for the Product Hunt launch

Next up: make some good looking images!

IndieLogs latest updates:

💡 Landing page:

• New demo videos + bullet points 🎥

• Smaller cards - less room 🔹

• Added changelog + emphasis on the ability to integrate live updates in the overall message

• Upgraded to DaisyUI 4.4

📝 Feeds:

• Cleaner UI - names displayed differently 🧹

✨ Marketing:

• Started running ads (very small budget) to experiment and learn

• Announced Startup Idea Validator, launching this Sunday on ProductHunt.com
  
  

☑️ Next on the to-do list:

• Select which logs to display or not on change log of website

• Migrate from iframe embedding to JS snippet

• Improve editor - links, hard breaks not super easy as of now

• Implement caching

• AWS S3 storage

• Fix log refresh issue

• Fix login double re-direct

• Start e-mail marketing

• Implement mailing system for new users

Introducing Startup Idea Validator 🎉

✅ Validate your startup idea in just 20 seconds

Supercharge your startup idea with:

🔍 Idea & market assessment

🌐 Competitor overview & differentiators

🛣️ Personalized action plan

📊 Laser-focused strategies to reach your target market

Launching on Product Hunt this Sunday!

As an indie maker, competing against big companies is tough.

Any help is greatly appreciated Subscribe now and don't miss out 👇🏼

https://www.producthunt.com/products/startup-idea-validator

Still to do before launch:

• Make launch images for Product Hunt

• OG Banner

Ready for launch.

Scheduling it for next Sunday so I can build some anticipation and hopefully have some people subscribe to the launch.

Buidling a new tool to help founders validate their startup ideas.

Done so far:

• Basic UI front-end

• Research & decision on content to provide founders

• API back-end implementation
  
  

Still needed:

• Fine-tune response

• Improve UI front-end

• Get some beta-testers

• Marketing?

To celebrate the first 100 users on Indie Logs and 2000 followers on X, I am building a new free tool for solopreneurs and indiehackers.

Can you guess what it is? 🤔

✅ Public feed that displays all the latest updates from various startups is now LIVE!

The feed is supposed to cut through the noise & only present the key information - no likes, no comments.

The idea is to further drive more visibility into your projects as this will ease discovery of your feed.

My goal with Indie Logs is twofold:

• Help founders build trust by making it easy for them to showcase consistent progress

• Give them additional visibility by rewarding people who constantly ship.
  
  

Click here to go to the live feed!

What do you guys think? Feel free to let me know! 🙏🏽

Travelling today, but still managed to get some work done early in the morning:

• Optimized the logs fetching function

• Editor UI improvements

• Generated 50 blog articles

• Finished working on the feed. Will be live soon! 🔥

New updates for Indie Logs!

💰 Pricing

• Previously: 1 startup free, €4.95/month for unlimited startups

• Now: 1 startup free, €24.95 for premium lifetime access^limited

🏞️ Image compression

✍🏼 New editor

• Add links (https://indielogs.com/rankings)

Center stuff

• Underline, and italic

• Strike and addthingslikethis

• Code highlight:

<html> code </code>

🛣️ Next-up on the roadmap:

• Pin logs

• Select which logs you want to display on your website

• All updates feed

• Add images in editor

• Startup directory browser

• Build 4-5 free tools to use for marketing

• Removed scrollbar for live embeddings - much cleaner effect.

• Feed for all makers going live soon - almost ready.

Working on something new 😎

Done today:

• Generated another 100 blog posts to help with SEO

• Indexed all new profiles

• Improved fetching

• Removed startups without logo's from the rankings

• Recorded new demo

Continued working on the photo studio this morning. If life allows me, I hope to get it working soon!

It's been one-week since Indie Logs launched! 🎉

Time for a quick recap.

✅ 3 feature requests implemented:

• Dynamic OG banners per user

• Consistency heatmaps on profile

• Embed live startup updates on your own website (select from 30+ themes)

⚒️ Improvements to Indie Logs:

• New logo

• Added timeline to landing page

• Improved data fetching on server side for SEO

• New ranking page for active founders and startups
  
  

📊 Some numbers:

• 299 blog articles published (AI-generated)

• 240 pages already indexed by Google (blogs + user profiles)

• + 1.200 unique visitors since launch

• 41 startups submitted

• 104 startup updates logged

• 64 users

🥇 Most active founders of the week:

• Nathan Robinson: 11 updates

• Nathan Geckler: 11 updates

• Aurélien Rommelaere: 6 updates

• Sergiu Chiriac: 3 updates

• Áron Csatlós: 2 updates

• Matt Gibson: 1 update

Adding timeline to WorkoutPro!

Improved embedding flow - you can now see how the 30 different themes look like before selecting them!

Timeline embeddings for your project is now LIVE! 🎉

You can now embed live startup updates on your site in less than 20 sec. with Indie Logs!

• Share progress from your Indie Logs profile

• Choose one of +30 themes

• Showcase your updates in a timeline that fits your brand's look.
  
  

Easy!

Next on the to-do-list:

• Highlight feature on landing page

• Add theme/style demos when selecting

• New logo - don't like this one tbh

• Figure out S3 storage

Building a cool new feature for Indie Logs today: embeddings!

You'll be able to embed your project timeline on your own website, and be able to select different styles so that it matches the style of your own website.

No need to build your own log updates/timeline system. You can just share everything on Indie Logs and easily embed it into your own website.

✅ Improved onboarding experience.

Getting good amounts of traffic but conversion not optimal. Hope this helps!

Here is how it looks like:

I have been getting a lot of traffic from Google for ImagenMIA, but have not been able to convert much of it into paying users. 😕

Most people will create an account, but after seeing the paywall, they will drop off.

Currently, these are my stats:

• 2100 unique users on my landing page

• 940 created an account

• 4 sales

Clearly, conversion is not great 😅

As I am starting to see more and more traffic from Google and SEO is starting to pay off, I have decided to improve the onboarding experience to see if that improves free user to paid user conversion.

I will also be implementing and introducing an AI photo studio sometime in the future.

Initial MVP done!

Time to build those ranking pages!

Worked on some RPC functions in order to be able to flexibly query stitched data from multiple tables.

Not a lot of visible work for now, but will be implementing it soon across flexible rankings! Should be good.

Added heatmaps + dynamic OG images!

Experimenting with calendar heatmap!

While working on dynamic OG's I realized I was using SSR incorrectly.

It took me a bit longer than I would have liked but managed to:

• Fix SSR issues

• Dynamic OGs almost ready

Working on dynamic OG banners again. Got a good base design that is dynamically generated for each user. However, it still needs to be implemented and correctly read by Twitter and other social platforms.

No idea why, but when sharing, it does not display the dynamically generated OG banner, even though the meta tags contain the correct URL.

Updates:

• Some security improvements

• Improved ranking queries and added flexibility for future use

• Posted on Reddit

• Had multiple conversations with different early users to understand needs & have product improvement ideas

Affiliate program running!

Today I'm (pretending to be) doing some marketing. Will post on Reddit and think about what strategies I can leverage to get more people on Indie Logs.

Started using TagParrot to automatically index my pages.

I have about 1400+ pages that need indexing. Let's hope this gets me some organic traffic!

New logo using DALL-E!

I was able to improve dynamic OG generation, however, it keeps timing out for Twitter.

Therefore I'll make sure to pre-generate them and store in S3 once I have figured that out. So it will have to wait for a bit.

Other than that, I am going to record a new demo video today and publish on Twitter that IndieLogs is now available for everyone!

FYI - here is how the dynamic OG banners will probably look like:

First attempt at generating dynamic OG images 🤣

SEO is starting to pay off. Happy with the first spike!

This log will be used to track popular feature requests:

Feature requests:

• Dynamic OG banners

• Buildstreak

• Like/comments (2x)

• API to link it to Zapier and other automation platforms

• Emojis

• Tag @indielogs on Twitter and automatically display them over here

Done:

• Double redirect fixed (/app)

• Multiselect dropdown for categories

• Added valid URL checks for domain and logo

• Added logo uploads for startups

• Added Youtube video support

Time to get going again!

Will implement some feedback I got yesterday.

Will use this log to track feedback I have gotten from users + stuff I think needs to be added/improved:

To fix/edit:

• Categories -> select instead of free text

• Logo -> Add logo uploads instead of URL

• Fix /app double redirect

• Startup URLs: automatically add https:// if not included

• Add local time + 1 hour difference issue

Other:

• Record up-to-date demo for landing page

It took me way too long to get the S3 image bucket uploads to work. I tried CloudFlare too, but somehow I just couldn't seem to be able to get it working.

So I decided to go for Supabase storage in the meantime.

This is not ideal as egress and storage costs are much higher compared to AWS S3, but at least this buys me some time to figure it out at my own pace and the product does not have to be delayed because of a simple image-uploading feature.

Tried S3 and R2 Cloudflare but could not get it working before going to work. Will try again later.

Implementing image uploads for logs today!

Let's see how this S3 bucket thing works.

Finished the landing page!

Now it's time to start getting some users.

I'm hoping to have the first fully functional MVP ready today after coming home from work.

What's left for the MVP:

• Avatar photo uploads for profile

• AWS S3 bucket image upload for logs
  
  

What's left for the next 7 days:

• Marketing

• Marketing

• Marketing

• Improved ranking (filtering based on category, time, .. )

Done today:

• Avatar uploads

• Programmatic SEO

• Fixed some bugs

• Fixed my laptop

Could not get it working. Time to go to work - will check after.

Woke up at 6:30 today to start working on Indie Logs before heading to my 9-5 - but the Sonoma MacOS update ruined everything. Nothing worked after the update: VSCode, NodeJS, GitHub Desktop, Discord, ...

I spent +2 hours trying to fix it, some things started working again so I can do some dev work, but still lots of basic things like copy pasting something on Finder, formatting VScode etc does not work.

Not a lot of progress made today. Some troubleshooting of an auth bug and added Twitter auth + logo.

Tomorrow should be better.

Done today:

• Implemented subscription model

• Onboarding flow done

• UI/UX improvements

• Blue design color

• Added support chat

• Landing page finished

• Added FAQ

Overall, good day even though I didn't have that much time.

Starting to look more and more like a finished product!

Still not entirely happy with the landing page, colors and hero image overall.

Playing around with some SEO optimizations + layout fixes & i18n implementation, even though this project will most likely be only in EN.

Some ideas to make it fun:

• Founders of the day, week, month, .. (most logs)

• Founder of the year - most startups or most revenue?

• Revenue rankings?! maybe this is a bad idea lol

Anyway, some rankings should make it fun and give some incentive to ppl!

Some good progress:

• Fixed name change issue

• Further landing page improvements

• Implemented onboarding flow

• Created settings page

• Improved ranking component to also display top founders and not only startups

I have probably spent way too much time on WorkoutPro over the last couple of months, with little to no reward.

I have recently managed to gather a lot of feedback and spend a good amount of time implementing all of it. Now it's time to stop devving too much and focus more on marketing.

This is how I am approaching it:

• Programmatic SEO (+1400 pages generated with animations + steps for each exercise)

• Content marketing (my friend and co-founder Fehmy Fatnassi does the marketing side and will be pushing a lot of content on Instagram, Youtube and Tiktok)

• Influencer outreach

• Affiliate program

• Free tool marketing (will be generating simple but cool GPT wrappers and launch them on ProductHunt to get more traffic)

Let's see how it works out!

New bugs:

• When changing startup name, logs do not display.

• Difference in time between logs and edit modal - only when you change time yourself in edit modal (displays 1 hour less in logs)

WorkoutPro is a platform that makes personalized fitness accessible for everyone through AI.

It's pretty simple to use:

• Fill in the initial fitness, health and goalassessment

• Wait 5 minutes

• Get a personalized fitness and meal + strategy

After this you can start tracking your workouts, see your progress by making use of our analytics, and periodically generate new plans as you progress!

Added analytics. I use PostHog for all my projects. It's free + gives you tons of features!

Since I am using my self-made boilerplate, it is already integrated and all I need to do is change the API key!

Improving copy with ChatGPT like a pro. I used Dan Kulkov's marketing prompts structure to create my own Copy Generator.

Not perfect but after some back and forth with ChatGPT you get some decent results!

Basic landing page mockup is ready. Re-used components I had in my self-made boilerplate. Now time to finetune & improve copy!

Fixed all bugs. Nice!

Up next:

• Add image uploads + avatar

• Landing page

• Home ranking component to rank founders too

• Analytics

• Logo + OG Image

• Onboarding

• Make it mobile friendly

• Ranking pages in table, category

• Add links to logs? Not sure about this one

• Brainstorming about marketing

• Limit number of startups to add based on subscription

• FAQ

• LemonSqueezy store

• Crisp chat

Think I'll be ready with everything within a week! Will be the fastest I have ever built something 😎

I was doing some SEO research and realized I could just build products targetting the Spanish market and easily rank for some of their keywords. Competition was much lower over there - so I started searching for possible startups I could build where I would also learn some new things.

I realized there was no AI based profile picture generator targeting the Spanish-speaking market and thought it would be a good entry-level challenge to get to know how image AI models work.

It was a long struggle, but I managed to get it working. You can now easily generate profile pictures of yourself:

• Upload + 20 images

• Select styles

• Model gets trained and images get generated

It was a fun project to work on, and I am starting to see some decent traffic even though I have never posted about it anywhere. I even made a couple of sales!

The project is in early stage, with room for improvement:

• Optimize storage (currently on Supabase but eating lot of BW)

• Improve resemblance - pretty good already but want to take it to the next level

• Automate a couple of things

Ideally I would like to build out a full-fletched AI photo studio for the Spanish market!

Day 3 of working on IndieLogs.

What I did today:

• Improved log page layout

• Started making the landing page - looks horrible as of now

• Build the ranking component - can rank startups based on category, # of logs, latest update etc

  
  

Also, what's a startup without bugs right? I found the following ones so far:

• Updating the date leads to the rest of the info being deleted (this was painful, I had written a long text that I lost)

• Even startups with 0 logs still display 1

• Log count are not updated

• Creating a new log, does not have its actual ID, therefore you can not edit it!

Next on the to-do-list:

• Adding startup details to logs

• Further improve landing page

• Onboarding flow + payment and subscriptions (copy from WorkoutPro)

Allright, second day of working on IndieLogs.com, and I am pretty happy with the progress so far. I feel I have gotten much better and faster at building new products after a year of building consistently.

This is what I have done so far:

• Built the individual project page

• You can add, edit and remove logs from

• You can add, edit and remove startups

• Implemented WYSIWYG editor

• Got a nice UI looking over here

Tomorrow I will continue and hopefully finish the core indielog page. After that, I need to build the following for the MVP:

• Landing page

• Onboarding flow

• Rankings (based on most logs, categories, latest updates, ..)

That's it I think. Will try to limit the scope of the MVP and launch ASAP - my other projects I have worked months before launching. I want to do it differently this time.

The coolest thing would be to make profit with this startup while using it to document the entire process. Fingers crossed!

Started playing and adding a WYSIWYG editor

Not working super properly right now, because I can't see bulletpoints for example. However, I know they are being added, see below:

• Bullet point 1

• bullet point two

• bulletpoint three

Ok it looks like it is working. It's not perfect yet but at least it's not giving errors.

• Bullet points work

The only things that is not working so far is:

• Links

• Adding min height to the description component

So pretty happy so far

You can now edit your logs directly from your page

Testing if videos work on IndieLogs. Hint: they do! 😎

I had a dream about building a platform that would allow you to easily showcase project updates and progress you have made in an organized manner.

During my dream I dreamt the project was called IndieLogs. I woke up, checked the domain - it was still available! So I took it as a sign to buy the domain and start building it. BUT: this time, I am building a single feature. Not wasting time like in the past. Gotta validate it first.

ChainVision was my first ever project and the project I used to learn to code.

I spent almost 6 months on it, for it to eventually end up with no active users lol. The good thing is I did not really expect much out of it, as my main goal with the project was to learn to code, and in the meanwhile, to build something I thought was cool.

One day I'll probably spend some time on it again (once I am ramen profitable) and see if I can turn it into something that is actually useful!