Watch your uptime rise and your hosting costs drop dramatically — It really only takes a few minutes to setup a Dokku server & migrate from Heroku, using all of the same workflows, concepts, and even many of the same CLI commands. It’s insanely cheap for personal projects and we’ve scaled it to billions of monthly requests / terabytes of transfer…

I just signed up for a thing this morning. I was excited about it. I tweeted about it. I wrote a blog post about it. …

A Few Simple Tips & Tricks when asking for payment during onboarding — During the signup process for Typeshare.co, a social blogging platform, I encountered an otherwise wonderful onboarding flow, interrupted by a “payment-related friction event”. In conversion-rate optimization / design, this is pretty common. The TLDR; is — when you ask people for money, their brain freaks out for just a bit…

Instead of manually reaching out to customers for testimonials, let your customers bring their testimonials to you. — Testimonial.to is the easiest way to add social proof to your website, without the constant need to beg your customers for quotes, and permission to add their logo to your website. You can catch new customers right when they’re most excited about your product, and ask them to leave a…

Instead of manually reaching out to customers for testimonials, let your customers bring their testimonials to you. Works with Twitter, popular website builders, and the tools you already use. — If you’re anything like me, you’ve been through more website redesigns than you can count. Personally, there’s one step that I dread, more than others: begging customers for testimonials to put on our website.

Quickly get listed in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, Amazon, Pandora, and more — What is Indie.am? Indie.am is an app for iOS that lets you get your personal Audiolog up and running quickly. It’s best for first-time podcast creators, or creators who just want to get things set up quickly. We take care of all the complicated bits, like RSS feed formatting, audio cleanup, encoding, hosting…

Use four simple No-code tools to create your own Visitor Management Kiosk, complete with document signing and badge printing! — At Meeting Room 365, we create a simple visitor management kiosk for enterprises around the world. During a recent hackathon, we challenged ourselves to recreate as much of the current visitor sign-in experience using No-code tools, to see what we could learn. The result was a re-imagining of the Visitor…

Performance on desktop is might not be great, but you can fix that by using the built-in Progressive Web App for Chrome — This article was originally written for Notion, and expanded to include other popular Electron apps, such as Slack, Discord, & Microsoft Teams. The instructions are the same. What is Notion? Notion is a collaboration application built for the web, which describes itself as an all-in-one workspace where you can write, plan, collaborate and…