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Hey everyone! 👋 How much time do you spend on developer experience when creating a plugin or tool? What benefits and problems did you encounter? 🤔 We’ve got a fresh blog post up about building products developers love! Check out our latest blog post here: https://lnkd.in/eWhsNiX8 #BuildInPublic #DevEx #DeveloperExperience #APIDesign #flottform

#buildinpublic We will lose some of our users We’ve built a tool to convert Designs to Code CodeParrot (YC W23). Over the last 2 months, we realised there are different ways CodeParrot is being used. Major ones are - 1. Building websites, landing pages. It requires very high accuracy for styling, integrations with payment options, form submissions. 2. Product Builders want to improve an existing product. They want full control over code quality - has to match the coding standards of their existing codebase, tests and documentation. 3. Building Internal dashboards, CRMs. Want speed of low-code tools but flexibility of custom code, often without design files. Picking an ICP (ideal customer profile), or who are we building for, unfortunately means deprioritising others. Might result in a short term drop but nobody wants to use the second best product and that requires razor sharp focus. The challenge that we now face, is to choose the use case we want to solve for and double down on their needs.

🚀 #DevDiary Day 8: Website Deployment & Responsive Design Ahead! 💻 Exciting news! Successfully deployed my website on Netlify. You can check it out here: [ https://lnkd.in/diMQWVTY ] Bug-Fixing & Optimization Odyssey: The entire day was a journey of bug fixing and optimizing performance. Every issue tackled brings the site closer to perfection. Tomorrow's Mission: Responsive Design! 📱 While the website is functional, it's not yet responsive. Tomorrow's goal is to make it adaptive for users across devices. New Skills Acquired: Figma Basics! 🎨 Embraced the basics of Figma today. Learning design fundamentals to elevate the visual appeal of my projects. Excited to share this progress! Stay tuned for more updates on this coding adventure. 🌟 #CodeJourney #WebDevelopment #NetlifyDeployment #ResponsiveDesign #FigmaBasics

🥚✨ Ever stumbled upon a secret within your software or favorite website? Easter eggs in software are those little secrets waiting to be discovered by curious users and keen eyes. They represent a playful bridge between developers and users, filled with humor and surprises. Take, for example, Adobe Photoshop and its hidden banana tool. Just a quirky surprise lying in wait for those who dare to explore beyond the surface. 🍌🎨 Google's not far behind with its "do a barrel roll" search command, sending your screen spinning in a neat 360. 🌀 One of the most famous of these secrets is the "Konami Code" - Up up down down left right left right B A start. Originally a video game cheat, it's made its way into various digital platforms, unlocking hidden features and Easter eggs, sparking joy and nostalgia for those in the know. 🕹️ These digital Easter eggs remind us that innovation isn't just about functionality; it's also about creating moments of joy, surprise, and connection. They invite us to look closer, explore deeper, and appreciate the playful human spirit behind the code. 🌟 So next time you're navigating through your apps or the web, keep an eye out and maybe try a familiar cheat code or two. You never know what Easter eggs you might uncover. And when you do, it's like sharing a secret smile with the creators themselves. 😊 What's your favorite software Easter egg? Have you ever tried the Konami Code on a website? Share your experiences and let's celebrate the creativity in coding! 🎉 #Innovation #SoftwareEasterEggs #CreativeCoding

2023’s Most ‘Unforgettable’ Glitch Projects Since 2017, Glitch has been offering a browser-based tool to build applications for the web. And last month the company celebrated the year gone by with a blog post recognizing “the projects that the Glitch community dreamt up over the past twelve months.” It’s a fun list described as “a love letter of sorts to the creators and projects that made 2023 unforgettable…” But it also shows how an easy-to-use platform that encourages code-sharing can create a community empowered to turn their inspirations into applications. Glitch Across a wide range of technologies, there’s now a vast repository filled with millions of viewable code samples that continue fermenting and fusing over the years, into more and more applications. And along the way, it ends up proving that when you’re expanding the universe of developers, you’re also growing the pool of available ideas. Or, as Glitch writes, in 2023, “So many apps and websites were created that intrigued us, inspired us, made us chuckle — or made us gasp, and in general made us smile.” A Walk on the Human Side For example, one site promised “a collection of Google Map reviews of places that closed before I moved to my neighborhood.” The site is surprisingly philosophical, with a long wistful note about how we never see the people that our loved ones used to be — a feeling like “watching the leaves change color and fall only to wonder what it would be like to put them back in the tree again — isn’t that what love is?” It was created by Philadelphia-based Elan Kiderman Ullendorff, who by day is the product director at a nonprofit news organization about America’s criminal justice system and teaches product design at Penn State’s College of Engineering. “I wouldn’t really call myself a developer at all,” Ullendorff said in an interview with The New Stack. “I’m primarily a designer, and I have a side creative research/writing/teaching practice…” As part of that effort, Ullendorff publishes a newsletter called “Escape the Algorithm”, which urges its readers to find “a more human side of the internet” — and it was that same thoughtful mindfulness that led him to build his application. “When I walked around South Philly I could feel the ghost places haunting me,” Ullendorff writes on the page. “So I embarked on a mission to summon them, or at least their simulacra, back from the dead: a digital seance, if you will” It won the award for “Most Beautiful App” — and it obviously took some effort to create (“I paid a data broker $5 to let me download a spreadsheet of local closed businesses and cross-referenced those with their Google Maps listings.”) The glowing reviews were fondly curated and geolocated, and then — with a simple mix of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — transmuted into an app called “Love Letters to Places I’ll Never Meet.” A bittersweet nostalgia hangs over every one — reminders of neighborhood treasures gone but not forgotten. (“Albert h...

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To be honest, I don't want Modul.so to be hyped.   Let me explain...   We're currently in a time where every product is trying to create hype when their product is barely ready or out...   They overpromise and underdeliver or they miss their launch date by months / years.   That's not what I want Modul to be.   Modul is created by The Honest Tech Inc. So I want to stand by our values.   Modul in its current state is a minimum linktree replacement.   It doesn't have pages, subpages, or even image galleries.   We showed you the designs of what it could be with music and book modules which are all coming in the future cycle updates.   Our pitch deck, which will be released soon, shares our vision for the future but that does not mean that the present product that you'll get on August 11th is at that state. (if you're early access)   Modul's private alpha will come with only 3 modules in all 4 sizes. One for Profile, one for Single links, and One for Multiple links.   That's it.   The reason we're going with this approach is that we believe in Jason Cohen's saying to build a simple, lovable, and complete product.   I've worked for 8+ startups with a lot of them burning millions and wasting years with an open waitlist but never delivered anything that could actually be used currently.   I don't want that for us.   That feels dishonest and disrespectful to the people who believed in u enough to waitlist your product.   Yes, our ultimate goal is to be an alternative to LinkedIn. But we know it's a huge goal.   So we're approaching it step by step. 1. Build a link in bio people can use right now as a light personal site.   2. Build more features so it can replace full personal sites not just link in bios.   3. Add social features like messaging between users so it can be more social.   4. Add networking features to match users according to their interests/values.   I wish Modul to be hyped for what it can do instead of what it promises to be.   I hope Modul could be useful to our users ⸺ not just a fad for the press to write about.   Lastly, I want Modul to be the most loved product instead of the most talked about.

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