Thread by @MarkMagnuson

Hey everyone! 👋

Today I started the @makerpad September #t30 challenge

Project management tools for small teams need an upgrade

So I'm building cycles.so 👈 check it out

Tools:
@bildrHQ
@LottieFiles
@SendGrid
@mixpanel
@UseDrawKit

👇👇 Day 1 👇👇

1/9

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🔥 Landing Page w/ Waitlist

I built a simple landing page in Bildr & used @bildrHQ's built-in waitlist settings & user sign-up actions

Having all this built-in means that when it's time to start letting users in, I won't have to migrate any data!

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💯 + 🍌 Sign up success & error messages with @LottieFiles

Go ahead and give it a try by signing up
👉 cycles.so

Try signing up with the same email a second time to get the banana error 😅

lottiefiles.com/7434-confetti
lottiefiles.com/7481-banana-boy

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🎨 Wonderful images from @UseDrawKit

It's a pack of 20 images that I used for the home page and the SendGrid email template 👍

drawkit.io/grape-pack

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📬 Thank you email after sign up

@SendGrid templates made this really easy 💯

Clean 'thank you' emails to each person who signs up

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🎛️ @mixpanel self-serve analytics

Super simple setup, just copy/paste and you're done!

loom.com/share/370e4db4…

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🚀 Publish to Production

Bildr makes it super easy to publish to a custom domain

I already owned cycles.so on @Namecheap

Once the landing page was ready, I published straight to production

🥳🥳🥳

Free auto-renewing SSL on all Bildr projects is 🔥

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🔦 Building in public

I've never built in public before 😬

I thought it would be fun to have a page dedicated to my progress as part of the project:

cycles.so/builtinpublic

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Day 2 tomorrow:

🔐Authentication flow

- Sign in (with & without a password)
- Forgot / reset password
- Verify magic link & login
- Sendgrid email templates for the above
- Start building the main app UI

Shout out to @bentossell & @tomosman for pulling #t30 together. It's going to be a fun September!

Excited to take part 🎉