Kerem

When we started building https://senja.io, I had the brilliant idea of coding our marketing website from scratch. I've always preferred having control over every element on a site. Building the site myself would mean having unlimited flexibility concerning design, performance, SEO etc. My only limitation would be my skillset. The moment I got a marketing cofounder though, everything went downhill very quickly. He handles marketing, so he needed the power to control the site's structure, copy and design. If he wanted to update a little text on the website, he'd have to message me. Then I'd drop what I'm doing, and make the update. He couldn't create pages or blog posts on his own. He'd need to write the copy, send it to me and I'd build the page. As his requests increased, things became a drag very quickly. I thought, no problem! I was still hell-bent on coding the website myself, so I decided I'd build with the Jamstack > Jamstack is an architectural approach that decouples the web experience layer from data and business logic. To simplify, we have a database with all our website content in a friendly UI, and the marketing website would just pull from that. That way, my cofounder could update the site without touching the code. By integrating a CMS, he would have control over all the site's content and there'd be much less back and forth. Even though it helped for a while, **this didn't solve the problem.** Building a rapidly changing site with the Jamstack has been nothing but a pain. - I have to reinvent the wheel for literally _everything_. Basic SEO, animations, performance, structure, navigation, image optimisation etc. - Building new things is just horrible. I have to constantly worry about backwards compatibility. I also have to create + maintain new components for the smallest additions. Rebuilding our landing (https://senja.io/blog/should-i-c...) page has proven to me beyond a doubt that coding a marketing site from scratch is just a really bad idea. At first I thought it was cool. Now it's just a pain and is keeping me from doing the thing I want to be doing. Actually improving my product. For a scrappy MVP, it might be worth it. But once things start to scale you'll get into trouble _very_ quickly. Just use Webflow/Framer/whatever floats your boat. You'll save so much time in the long run.

Hi! Yesterday morning, I opened my to-do list. There was one nagging task that I have been delaying for months: reply to all DMs on Twitter. There were roughly 100 missed DMs. People reach me out often there. Half of them ask questions about my project. The other half wants me to upvote their thing on Product Hunt. To people who need me to press "Upvote" I reply with a template. Here it is: > "Hey! I supported you (put my upvote) Good luck on your launch. P.S. Check my YouTube channel about launching on Product Hunt. I made an entire playlist of videos about this:

Hi Friends, I've been dreaming of becoming an indie maker since 2015, but other priorities got in the way. During this time, I worked a lot as a freelance developer and as an Amazon seller. Also, sold a startup for restaurants as a white-label solution. Moved to Canada with my wife, and even became a cat father . Meantime, saved enough money to cover our next 2 years for this dream. And finally, this year, I decided to make changes in my life. As a developer, I'm comfortable building products, but I also recognize the need to challenge myself and learn to launch products regularly. That's why I'm taking on the challenge of launching 12 startups in 12 months, inspired by @levelsio Today, I'm excited to announce the launch of my first indie product, ai2page.com. With the help of AI, I've created a small SaaS that uses ChatGPT to generate one-page websites quickly and easily. Since launching the MVP, I've received valuable feedback from beta users. 29 websites generated. I had 97 organic sign-ups. just made my first sale yesterday Please join me on my launch page: https://www.producthunt.com/post... I'd love to hear your thoughts and suggestions. Your feedback would make my day! Thank you for taking the time. Note: It would be a huge favor, if you could share the launch. Your friends might find the lifetime 40% off discount useful.