AWS Simple Email Service is very good and cost effective. They also have a service called "Pinpoint" which wraps SES in more Mailchimp-like features if that's what you want.

The pandemic convinced me that I don't do well without being around people at least some of the time.

You're never too late. The hype train is still sat in the station gathering rust

A small % of features you can build just for your own dogfooding experience. Dark mode is in that %.

Couldn't agree more. Nobody knows your customers' pain points better than your actual customer.

Try clearing your entire browser cache for your production site. If had Google be weird if I'm logging in with different Google accounts in succession.

The hardest part about supporting switzerland is remembering that their country code is "CH". Two letters that appear nowhere in "Switzerland"

File transfer times on Windows

Go on ChatGPT and ask it to tell you some advanced features of [technology name] that you might not know about. It can become fun again. Works with nearly every programming language. Even basic really stuff like html I am constantly learning new interesting things to make it fun.

more details of how I set up Apollo on my blog: theindiebuilder.com/posts/how-to...

Limit "being active" to like 15 mins max. Anything more is procrastination.

Great linked article, this part rings especially true:
> Don’t feel pressured to implement every feature request from trial users

The number of times I forget that my ICP is a user who will actually pay. Don't build for people who are not your ICP.

Same, it's like suddenly rewinding 5 years of enshittification instantly.

Would love to join. Building usetopical.com

We are all a little bit Mark Corrigan.

”Brown for first course, white for pudding. Brown’s savoury, white’s the treat. Of course I’m the one who’s laughing because I actually love brown toast.”

"respect the subreddit rules and don't be a d*ck" is such a simple and correct piece of advice is shocking how many people get it wrong on Reddit.