Jeff Kelley
jeff-kelley.bsky.social
Jeff Kelley
@jeff-kelley.bsky.social
Entrepreneur/Solopreneur
blindvalet.com (manage IRL poker tournaments and leagues)
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Added Hand for Hand feature to the Blind Valet poker tournament clock.

When play goes hand for hand the clock will stop and you can take 2 minutes off clock for every hand played.

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September 15, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Back home after a trip to the USA.

Did a little roadtrip in the south visiting some cardrooms and casinos in Florida then some Blind Valet users in Georgia, and the Carolinas. Learned a lot and it has helped me find some focus for my roadmap.

Closed it out with some family time. Great trip!
August 19, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Blind Valet stat of the day:

Over 200K tournaments on the platform since I started tracking it in 2016

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July 23, 2025 at 8:30 AM
On today's Twitch Dev/Support live stream:
- fixed sorting for Template menus
- fixed sorting for merge member menu
- Added new seat locking feature as requested by users. Lock players into their seats at the table so that they won't be moved by automatic table balancing.
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July 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Live on Twitch for a dev/support stream.

www.twitch.tv/blindvalet

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July 21, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Last week for blindvalet.com

Great month of July continues. I would like to think that it is because I started back full-time on the project July 1st, but hard to point to exact reasons why.

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July 21, 2025 at 7:23 AM
I'll be doing a dev/support live stream on Twitch tomorrow (Monday July 21st at 2pm CEST/8am EST)

Stop by and say hi!
www.twitch.tv/blindvalet

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July 20, 2025 at 8:57 AM
New Blind Valet home page is deployed. I moved the application functionality to the app subdomain and deployed a new GatsbyJS home page.

Performance before and after!
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July 18, 2025 at 8:21 AM
After a rough May/June for Blind Valet subscriptions, nice uptick so far in July!

Summer is usually slow, so it is really nice to see this.

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July 17, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Last week for blindvalet.com

Churn numbers are a bit deceiving as a lot of users only run 1 or 2 tournaments a year, so they will just subscribe for one month at a time. Not sure how to analyze this appropriately.
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July 15, 2025 at 6:21 AM
blindvalet.com is a passion project.

First version was just a blind structure calculator at blindvalet.fr

It's been a while!
July 13, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Working on a little uplift of the Blind Valet landing page. Performance is terrible as it is running on the same codebase as the rest of the app and is pulling text translations from the DB at runtime.

- App => app.blindvalet.com
- Blindvalet.com => fast loading GatsbyJS site.
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July 12, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Stat of the day:

Biggest week ever on Blind Valet had over 850 tournaments and over 12800 participants!

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July 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Achievement unlocked 😅
July 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Stat of the day:

over half a million participants in Blind Valet tournaments in the past year!
#buildinpublic #indiedev
July 10, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Last week for blindvalet.com

Summer is the slowest period as amateur poker clubs are often off during the summer
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July 7, 2025 at 8:50 AM
My first week back full-time working on Blind Valet since the pandemic!

✅ Setting up my payroll for paying myself :) (Payfit)
✅ Setting up my health insurance (Alan)
✅ Mindmap to dump my ideas on my business (Whimsical)
✅ Task planning (Trello)
✅ Accounting
#buildinpublic #indie #solopreneur
July 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM