I finally have access to PaLM API!

A quick tour: 👇

The API comes with Text prompt, Data prompt, and Chat prompt with a bunch of examples. Text prompts: continue writing on existing text

on a mission to make screenshots on the internet better

experimenting with smart text wrap

looks terrible 😂

should I continue pursuing this? so difficult to get it right

A screenshot app, but very smart

How I manage time and context switching while running multiple products:

1. Do what really matters

Having multiple products, a long backlog, and limited time forces me to think really hard (in the background) before coding.

This helps me make better decisions. 2. Break big tasks into small tasks

90% of the tasks I work on are built, tested, and deployed within less than a day.

I deploy to production almost every day.

This helps to switch between projects on any day of the week easily.

I'm obsessed about screenshots and I get mad when I see a bad screenshot on social media. 😂

If you find my screenshots are beautiful and want the same, read this.

4 simple rules to have a beautiful screenshot

👇🧵 Rule 1: Padding!

- Have some space (breathing room).
- If the image has text, make sure the text is readable.

Example:

❌ Ugly (not enough spacing, look bad, text may get cut off in some social media sites)

Looking for a new email provider for my businesses and myself.

Gmail aliases + forwarder is troublesome.

HEY email is nice but expensive ($12/mo/domain, and I have 5 email domains in use + 20 aliases)

I'm thinking of going with Fastmail, as they offer unlimited domains 👀 I settled with Fastmail. It's just too good.

With $50/year I can manage 100 domains and 600 aliases (basically unlimited for me).

Automatic send-as for catch-all emails is just a huge time saver.

I moved all of my domains to use Fastmail within 30 minutes after sign-up 😂

Launching a new product today: 🚀

✨ EmojiAI.com ✨

EmojiAI will help you to pick the best emojis based on your text! 😁

I wanted something like this for my latest newsletter issue this morning! 😂

Ended up building one.

New fresh domain bought 9 hours ago 🥳🥳🥳 Show me your screenshots for some free credits 👀

How to come up with worthy business ideas:

Step 1: Get exposed to problems. Get involved in the process.

Don't just “looking for ideas”, do *something*. Commit 100% into doing it.

👇🧵 “Something” here can be your day job, or build an audience on Twitter, or run a restaurant, or relocate to a country, or travel, etc.

Alright, it's time for the lucky draw!

Let's pick 6 winners!

https://twitter.com/tdinh_me/status/1482951027464994817

The first winner is...

🎁 We are GIVING AWAY a Black Magic Personal Plan subscription for 1 year to 6 people!

@cogentgene loves the giveaway feature of Black Magic so much he decided to sponsor 3 accounts to 3 lucky people! I decided to match his sponsorship!

To enter:
– Like and comment! ❤️

(48hrs) @cogentgene Extra entry if you give @cogentgene a follow 😉

AWESOME!

Just onboarded a team to @blackmagic_so! 🥳

Took ~4 weeks to close this deal for $1,679.42 ARR

Since this is the first time this happens to me, I want to share the whole process with you all below! 😄

– 25 Nov: "The team" (she) reached out.

👇🧵 – 26 Nov: I was requested to register an account in their supplier portal (Coupa), I did.

– 29 Nov: she asked for a quote, I provided the quote (this image)

Thank you for 18K! 🥳

I'm super grateful to have you all with me here on Twitter!

Here are some tips that have helped me to grow on Twitter from 200 followers in the last 8 months:

🧵👇 1. Find a niche you want to be in, connect and engage with people in the same niche. For me, it's indie hacking & tech.

People grow an audience on Twitter for a purpose. Find yours, focus on what audience you want to attract, and what kind of content will be helpful for them.

If you want to get the "pitch deck" I used to get the $40k offer for Black Magic. Check the link below 👇

It has all the information including:
– Financial details (MRR, churn, cost, etc)
– Web analytics details
– Tech stack
– User growth
– and more

👇
tdinh.gumroad.com/l/blackmagic-i… To clarify, I share all this information a lot on Twitter from time to time (#buildinpublic), but a lot of people miss it and keep asking over and over again.

I thought it would be nice to share this 😄

❤️ Loving Tailwind CSS?

Here are 10 free and paid Tailwind CSS templates, components, landing pages, and resources for you to bookmark in 2021!

🆓 = Free
💰 = Paid

Let's get started! 🧵👇 1/ 🌿 tailwindtoolbox.com 🆓💰

Free open-source Tailwind CSS starter templates and components to get you started quickly to creating websites in Tailwind CSS.

Mostly free templates, some templates/components in the marketplace section are paid.

It's time to upgrade @blackmagic_so's server 😅

The new cost is $40/mo 💸

(the previous server cost was $15/mo) @blackmagic_so Just realized that I do have $5,000 AWS credits from the Product Hunt Maker Grant!! 🤯

I have moved the server + DB all the way to AWS. Enjoy the new speed!! 🚀💪🥳

New cost: ~$200/mo, maybe even more, who knows, AWS billing is complicated 😂

Learning web development can be very challenging, especially for people who are just getting started.

I received a lot of DMs asking how one can start learning to code.

Bellow is the top 10 free resources to learn to code for beginners:

🧵👇 1/ 📘 freecodecamp.org

First of all, FreeCodeCamp is my number 1 resource for people getting started. They have a complete learning path for you, that covers frontend, backend, data, QA, security, machine learning, etc. Highly recommended.

Are you a web developer?

Here is a list of web development tools that save you HOURS per week:

🧵👇 1/ ⚡ devdocs.io

Lookup 100+ API documentations in a fast, organized, and searchable web app.

Are you a solo developer struggling with design?

Here are 10 free/open-source UI, UX, and design resources to make your life better 🧵👇 1/ ⭐ shapedivider.app

Use this tool to create those fancy looking separating waves on your landing page! 😄

Side projects help you:

– Practice coding skills
– Standout in job search
– Learn new tech
– Potentially make money

Below are some ideas/inspirations for your side projects to practice, but also will be useful for your own use:

👇🧵 A note-taking app that works with your own note-taking style.

My recommended the tech stack and services you should learn/invest in today:

Frontend:
– ReactJS
– NextJS
– Tailwind CSS

Backend:
– NextJS
– ExpressJS
– pm2 (npm install pm2)

Database:
– MySQL for relational data
– Redis for key-value data

🧵👇 (1/3) Services:
– Error reporting: Sentry
– Web Analytics: Plausible, goatcounter, Google Analytics
– Domain: Namecheap
– DNS: Cloudflare
– Static hosting: GitHub Pages, AWS S3, Cloudflare Pages
– Servers: DigitalOcean (cheap)

The new landing page is out!

A bunch of videos, and still maintaining 99/100 Page Speed score ✨ (only on Desktop 😂)

Roast my landing page! 👉 devutils.app I still have a lot of items to work on the page to make it 100% my likings, but I'll have to accept it as it is for now. 😅

Need to move on to other stuff, otherwise, I'll be stuck at optimizing the landing page forever 😂