the fact that we can work from anywhere is just a big bonus, and makes it possible! 👨🏻‍💻🥳

@thsofficial.bsky.social @homeexchangecom.bsky.social

trustedhousesitters is what we use for housesits, and homeexchange for swapping places..

we’re real ambassadors for both platforms and can recommend it to anyone with a heart for animals and a desire to travel!

been doing that for the past 10 years on and off & 5 years with my gf now.. > was a great hack during covid!

in belgium everything was in lockdown, but people were still travelling and needed people to look after their pets..

we spent quite some time in portugal like that! 🇵🇹

anyone else doing housesits or home exchanges every now and then?

it’s a great way to travel slow and really get to know a place! besides, you can do it all over the world! 🌍

if you like to see the tool I'm talking about, you can find it here: mytravelagent.io

if you’re using @ClerkDev
’s authentication services, make sure to account for iframe scenarios! proactively handle userAgents to prevent similar issues.

learn from my experience, and save yourself the headache! 🚀

but the damage was already done. I likely caused a lot of bad ux and lost sign-ups during that time because of the error. it’s a painful lesson I hope no one else has to learn the hard way.

to fix it, I quickly wrote a function to detect the userAgent and hide the standard clerk sign-in/sign-up components if the app is accessed within an iframe.
once I implemented the fix, the issue was resolved—12 hours after posting.

I contacted @ClerkDev’s support team and found out that their sign-in/sign-up components aren’t supported in iframe browsers... this wasn’t something I anticipated during development or testing.

and here’s the problem: users trying to sign up saw a 403 disallowed_useragent error when accessing my app in the iframe.

worse, I didn’t know this was happening for hours until someone reached out to let me know. 😬

the linkedIn post got some traction—especially from people using the linkedIn mobile app. but here’s where things went south: links from the mobile linkedIn app open in an iframe browser.

after testing my app, MyTravelAgent, in production for 2 weeks with friends and family, I thought it was finally ready for public release. excited, I shared my journey on linkedIn 2 days ago.

i pushed back the sign in request, now you access the dashboard w/o credentials, can fill in trip details, and get a better feel on how the tool works.

thanks for the feedback! 🙏🏼

there are curated trips you can view to see what sort of information you get on mytravelagent.io/inspiration

and the demo on the landing page shows the dashboard you’d use when signed up..

thanks for the feedback! appreciated! 🙏🏼

try it here: mytravelagent.io
curious for feedback 🤍

can consider generating & printing some QR codes to leave behind wherever i go for offline marketing..

but yeah, VA - haven’t thought of that yet..

random people in a bar / coffee shop so far, but airport lobbies sound like a good idea!

will book a nice trip somewhere to do more field research, and put it as a business expense 👍🏼😂

icp isn’t super defined yet.. i throw it out there and see what works, and what doesn’t, not excluding anyone at this point..

i gather valuable information understanding why - or why not - ppl would be using my app by asking them after their try out