Michel
kronto.bsky.social
Michel
@kronto.bsky.social
Building projects out of interest.
Recently finished
- https://mailly.fly.dev/
- https://lastmessage.fly.dev/

Trying to decide which of my ideas is next on the list.
Finally felt the motivation to build something again. Nothing fancy, nothing profit oriented. I had an idea and I built it just because. With PageTally you can get the total number of pages you have read. pagetally.vercel.app #booksky
June 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Nerd moment. First ever open source contribution 🥳
April 11, 2025 at 8:10 AM
What are you working on that you would like free feedback on? My specialties are data engineering & web analytics, but I can also have a look at your landing page or something else. #buildinpublic
January 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Spent more time than I had hoped to this morning adding a simple black bar to this short Mailly demo to cover up my email address 😫 I think there might be a gap in the market for video editing for noobs (such as myself) #buildinpublic
January 17, 2025 at 11:34 AM
An hour ago I'd never heard of keygen.sh and now I'm binging their blogs. It's a mix of interesting, funny and insightful. This one in particular I think is relevant for many 👇 #indiehackers #buildinpublic #sideproject #startup
Good SaaS Products Are Like UNIX Tools
Reusable, composable, single responsibility — these are all things good SaaS products have in common with UNIX command line tools.
keygen.sh
January 16, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Spent an evening debugging and refactoring. Got it working but did end up spending extra time on a bug that turned out to be a Firefox mobile feature 😫 Maybe one day I'll love #frontend work, but today is not that day.
Thought I was done building this project but the frontend had a major bug on desktop and mobile. Fixed it on desktop, still an issue on mobile. Meanwhile my backend doesn't care if your device is desktop/mobile/carrier pidgeon. #webdev people, how does this not drive you mad? 🫠 #buildinpublic
January 14, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Thought I was done building this project but the frontend had a major bug on desktop and mobile. Fixed it on desktop, still an issue on mobile. Meanwhile my backend doesn't care if your device is desktop/mobile/carrier pidgeon. #webdev people, how does this not drive you mad? 🫠 #buildinpublic
January 12, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Question for the #seo experts. How do you go about finding pages that don't have any pageviews at all so don't show up in analytics? Only methods I'm aware of are (1) ScreamingFrog's paid option and (2) semi-manually matching analytics data with the sitemap.
January 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Been eyeing #n8n for years, but never had use for it because I always code in Python. Had a project idea this week where it fit perfectly to create a prototype and I love it! It allowed me to make a simple & quick prototype for a project idea - ignoring 1 bug costing me too much time 😅 #nocode
January 11, 2025 at 9:29 AM
#buildinpublic Went through my old repos, looked at some code and decided that yikes, I can do way better now, let's give this a quick touch up. The backend was done in no time and I'm happy with it. The frontend has so far taken multiple evenings and it's still not exactly the way I want it.
January 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Apparently the #bluesky butterfly is likely dead 🦋
Please, enough with the dead butterflies! - Emily S. Damstra
We all have pet peeves, even though there's a lot going on in the world that makes them pretty insignificant. While acknowledging that there are many more
www.emilydamstra.com
January 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
What makes you want to build the Nth alternative to a well known platform (e.g. Product Hunt, indiehacker listing directory, etc)? Not judging, just wondering. I'd like to know what I'm not seeing #buildinpublic #indiehackers
January 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Me every single time when working on a project:
- idea phase: excited.
- building the backend: excited.
- building the frontend: not so excited.
- deploying: bit fed up with issues popping up last minute.
- marketing: *crickets*
#buildinpublic
January 5, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Finished building mailly.fly.dev 🎉 I built it due to my own tech curiosity, but now I'm thinking people might actually find it useful. Mailly lets you create a reusable email template that you (or others) can use with one click to draft an email. Feedback is welcome 🙂 #buildinpublic
January 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM