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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

1 year

Plunk's email editor just got a serious upgrade thanks to @steventey 's ! This would've taken me ages to add😅

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@driaug_

1 year

@JustJake @LinkedIn They have started implementation of work email verification but it isn’t really enforced yet

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

2 months

Just decreased Plunk's pricing by 500% Sending an email now costs $0.001 instead of $0.005 🫡 All users will receive an email with the details in the coming hour!

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@driaug_

7 months

Santa came early this year 🎅🎉 Hit the first million, onto the next!

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@driaug_

3 years

Published a short and sweet article on why @supabase_io is officially amazing! If you've never used it, you are missing out 😀

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@driaug_

1 year

Last night, Plunk delivered its 100.000th email and I can't be prouder! 😊 The countless long nights and semi heart attacks really were worth it. Onto the next milestone which I've put at 1M 🫡 #buildinpublic

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

2 years

My life has been quite the rollercoaster these last few weeks! 😅 - Joined Microsoft for an internship - Sold @joinlancero through @microacquire Let's hope there are some calm weeks ahead so I can put more focus on @joinonboarded 🥳

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

3 months

The most stressful days of my life are over. Our ticket got resolved and emails from Plunk are once again flowing. If I have your email then you will get a postmortem soon. I will turn it into a blogpost later today. Thank you so much for the support these past days ❤️

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

25 days

I’ve finished my last day at Microsoft

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

2 years

Small Victory! 🏆✌🏻 Thank you guys so much for the help, Plunk is now one of the trending startups on BetaList! 🥳 I don't think I'd be able to build so much cool stuff without you lot :) #buildinpublic

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@driaug_

2 years

Wrote a little blog post about using @useplunk with @supabase & @nextjs to send welcome emails to new users 🥳 #buildinpublic #indiedev #indiehacker

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

2 years

Tomorrow morning, I have an onboarding call with a company that wants to start using Plunk. Send thoughts and prayers because I still have no clue how I am going to tackle it 😅

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@driaug_

3 months

This is totally possible with Plunk btw

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

1 year

Last month, Plunk delivered the 100.000th email. This month, I raised the bar and added another 100K on top of that! 🚀 #buildinpublic

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

1 year

Recently moved Plunk to (without downtime somehow 😅) It's been great, you should try it! 🙃

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

3 years

A mysterious package landed on my doorstep today, can’t wait to shine in this t-shirt! Much love to everyone @supabase_io ❤️

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

3 months

Did I already tell you about those 2 million emails we've delivered to inboxes?

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

1 year

Plunk turns 1 today 🎂 In this year Plunk: ✉️ Delivered 250K+ emails 📥 Stored 100K+ unique emails Scrapped all the code and rewrote it from scratch. Threw out subscriptions and switched to usage-based billing. Can't wait for another year of shipping 🚢 #buildinpublic

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

11 months

Autocomplete, ain't that nice 😉 #buildinpublic

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

3 years

Thought I was immune to loneliness, but damn it hits harder than expected

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

2 years

It finally arrived!! Now, that is some good @planetscaledata merch 🤠

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

1 year

What in the...

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

2 years

Considering to frame my YC rejection and hang it above my desk as motivation

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

3 years

Don’t mind me chilling in my awesome @prisma t-shirt! 😎

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

3 years

@cdenv @AnneliesVl Een probleem dat recent werd aangekaart door mijn team op de hackathon van @federalepolitie . Jammer dat het weer talrijke keren moet mislopen voor er aanpak komt. Further read:

IT-studenten winnen hackathon politie

Slimme oplossingen voor betere interactie met jongeren en efficïentere rekrutering

news.thomasmore.be

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

3 months

Plunk is down due to AWS locking our ability to send emails. Our case has been open for 13 hours, they have just replied saying that they will need another 2-3 business days to make a decision.. I'm very sorry for this but it is completely out of my control at this point.

Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

3 months

Boy did I just discover the wonderful world of vender lock-in 😅

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

2 years

Somehow Plunk has ended up on the top of @ycombinator 's Hacker News show page 🥳 Guess we are not sleeping tonight 😴 #buildinpublic

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

1 year

Plunk on Product Hunt! This is your weekly reminder that Plunk will be dropped on Product Hunt on the 25th of April 😎 #buildinpublic

Plunk - Product Information, Latest Updates, and Reviews 2024 | Product Hunt

Plunk is the affordable, developer-friendly email platform that brings together marketing, transactional and broadcast emails into one single, complete solution.

www.producthunt.com

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

6 months

Kind of proud to announce that all services of Plunk have been migrated to EU DCs! 🇪🇺

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

1 year

We're LIVE on Product Hunt! Join me in celebrating the launch of @useplunk 🥳 It would be awesome if you could quickly drop an upvote or even a comment!

Plunk - Product Information, Latest Updates, and Reviews 2024 | Product Hunt

Plunk is the affordable, developer-friendly email platform that brings together marketing, transactional and broadcast emails into one single, complete solution.

www.producthunt.com

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

1 year

With Plunk's new webhooks you can easily create integrations for your own applications that trigger when contacts receive and open emails :) #buildinpublic

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

3 months

Long overdue but defaults are now part of Plunk! Automatically fallback to a default value if the key does not exist on the contact :)

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@driaug_

1 year

This is good right?

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

1 year

@ImSh4yy What's a database? I just store all my data in variables?

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

2 years

Lovely day with the gang 🥳

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

2 months

Tracking events in Plunk is now slightly faster From ~900ms to ~60ms

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

5 months

I am where I am today because I did hackathons as a student. Do cool shit and you’ll make it.

Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth)

@antoniogm

5 months

Hackathons are mostly a waste of time. Basically nothing created there goes on to become a success (with undoubtedly a handful of exceptions). If there’s value there, it’s merely introducing future co-founders to each other, with the hackathon being a selection filter.

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

9 months

Absolutely in love with these cute little charts I added to Plunk

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

6 months

Ever heard of JSX Email? I'm happy to announce that Plunk is now the official email partner of JSX Email!

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

1 year

Spent some time cleaning up the contacts page :)

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

10 months

@peer_rich They forgot option 3, try to slow down as much as possible and deliberately crash the car. Saving the baby, grandma and most likely all passengers of the car with seatbelts and airbags!

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

1 year

First list that includes Plunk 🥹

Joe 🚢

@joe_ashwell

1 year

Still amazes me as an indie hacker you can ship a full SaaS product for _almost_ nothing 👨‍💻 framework @nextjs 🌐 hosting @vercel 🎨 styling @chakra_ui 💿 auth + db @supabase 💰 payments @stripe 📧 emails @useplunk ✍️ blogging @blogstatic

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

1 year

A great part of Plunk's codebase is actually written to be as sustainable as possible. Just one of the little things I mastered at Microsoft! Should this be featured on the landing page or would it not make a difference to you?

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

3 years

Thanks to the amazing folks @vercel (looking at you @steventey !), it's now so easy to claim your own subdomain. Don't even have to write any code to host your waitlist, let Lancero take care of it! 💙 Get yourself on that waitlist right now! 😆

Lancero

@joinlancero

3 years

Validating your idea in no time, with Lancero's template pages! Pick, edit, launch!

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

3 months

@kimelnick

ImprovMX — Free email forwarding. Email aliases for your domain name.

Set up email forwarding in seconds and start receiving and sending emails with your domain name. Absolutely free. No registration. 24/7 Support.

improvmx.com

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

10 months

Building in public is failing in public! 🙃 Just like Hotmail's iconic "PS: I Love You. Get Your Free Email at Hotmail" moment, we secretly made a bold move at Plunk: ✅ Boosted our free tier to 9K emails/month ✅ Added a subtle badge to free plan emails Result? 📉 2 clicks

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

2 years

Another day, another @useplunk improvement! Not a big fan of coding and HTML? 😰 Use the drag-and-drop email builder to easily create designs that look good on all screens! ✨ #buildinpublic

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

22 days

Own that it is just you.

Rio @ LaunchKits

@riomadeit

22 days

using "we" on my landing page when it's really just me and a macbook

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

2 years

Part one of becoming a super villain: the weird pet

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

2 years

Being an indie hacker isn't about having the highest MRR or best product. It's about using Keynote and iMovie to create banging promotional videos 😆 #buildinpublic

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

1 year

Your product being the word of the day on Wordle is PMF right?

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

1 month

New icon in the footer

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

1 year

Small update to Plunk's Go package by @kayode0x and @trulyao , update to v0.1.6 to link contact data :)

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

2 years

Being able to use your own product while building it, is such a meta experience #buildinpublic

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

3 years

@MaartjeME Some might call it a surfboard meeting

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

1 month

Me when I get asked how big my side project is

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

2 years

Because .com domains are being hoarded by vultures that charge ridiculous amounts of money for something they never plan on using

Google

@Google

2 years

What’s in a (domain) name? Learn why these developers opted for .app and .dev ↓

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

1 year

The 1st Product Hunt launch for Plunk is happening in 2 days! I’m so excited!! 🤩 Click the link below and join 30+ people already waiting to support their favourite email tool 🥺 #buildinpublic

Plunk - Product Information, Latest Updates, and Reviews 2024 | Product Hunt

Plunk is the affordable, developer-friendly email platform that brings together marketing, transactional and broadcast emails into one single, complete solution.

www.producthunt.com

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

8 months

I’ve been working on this tool in stealth mode for some weeks now, opening up a waitlist today! I’m calling it Pile! #buildinpublic

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

2 years

Really proud of this little graphic I made for Plunk 😄 #buildinpublic #indiehacker

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

3 years

Lots of fellow students asking me how I managed to land a coding job as a student. Fellow young coders, what is your most valuable advice? Mine is to do something nobody else can Looking at you btw @aabbccsmith , @roberttwestbury , @benjaminakar , @hiettdigital 👀

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

1 year

January has been a crazy month for Plunk Emails: 11K -> 30K Contacts: 7K -> 13K I love sharing both wins & losses, but let's be real, success tastes so much sweeter :)

Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

1 year

Added these live stats to Plunk's landing, curious to see if they have any impact

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

2 years

Big Plunk Launch 🙃 Today is a massive day in Plunk's journey to becoming the no. 1 email toolkit for SaaS founders! #buildinpublic Read what is new below 👇🏼

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

3 years

I wouldn't even be mad if the vaccine contained a 5G chip. Amazing signal everywhere? Sign me up!

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

2 months

Can one of you tell me that Plunk is worth $5 billion so I can put it on my resume?

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

2 years

Big @useplunk launch 🥳 You can now easily personalise emails sent by Plunk with any data you want, completely customisable and flexible 😎 Stored with the user so set it once and reuse it in as many actions as you want to 🤓 #buildinpublic

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

6 months

I pay for my own usage of Plunk. If the product doesn't give enough value for the money, I would know

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

4 months

Something is up and I don’t know what..

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

3 months

Happy 48h birthday to the ticket! The weekend has begun so I’m not expecting a fix in the next 2 days. Been a great user for the past two years to get this red carpet treatment!

Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

3 months

Plunk is down due to AWS locking our ability to send emails. Our case has been open for 13 hours, they have just replied saying that they will need another 2-3 business days to make a decision.. I'm very sorry for this but it is completely out of my control at this point.

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

2 months

@linstobias For quick wins

Tremor

The open-source library for dashboards built on top of Tailwind CSS.

www.tremor.so

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

4 months

You should use Discord to provide support to your users. I do for Plunk and it rocks! 1. It's free 2. I have it open all day 3. Other users chime into the conversation and provide support for me

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

1 year

Getting close to a quarter of a million ✨

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

4 years

Twitter suggested I should tweet out my new profile pic. Enjoy my face!

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

2 years

Being able to build a solution for your own problems has to be the biggest reward of learning how to code 😆

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@driaug_

3 years

Thankful for the past year. Learned lots of amazing people, made connections that will set me up for life, and grew as a person... Like any good year, it wasn't without its downs. Went through some tough times and that is ok! Wishing you all the best for 2022 ❤️

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

2 years

Such kind words from our friends @PrismAIO about ❤️ Are you also looking to implement a waitlist and invite-code system in your application? Slide in my DM and let's have a chat 😎 #buildinpublic #SaaS

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

10 months

This is such a scumbag tactic by Instagram. I've been actively trying to reduce my time on socials, so I logged out of my account. Despite having zero unread messages, I'm now bombarded with these emails multiple times a week

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

2 years

I am no gatekeeper 🙅 If you are using another email marketing tool but want to use Plunk's markdown emails then you can now do so on the landing 🙃 No account, credit card or subscription needed 🤠 Find the link below 👇🏼 #buildinpublic

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

11 months

VC: “So, where did last round’s money go?”

GlitchyMagic 🪄

@GlitchyMagic_

11 months

Who needs a MacBook ? 🤔

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@driaug_

2 years

0% value 100% coolness #buildinpublic

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

1 year

This is the number of emails delivered by Plunk! 70K in total, not a lot but still so proud 😊 #buildinpublic

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

6 months

People don't ship fast because their stack is perfect, they ship fast because they are used to it. Don't fall for influencers trying to sell you their stack and promising it will make you faster.

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

7 months

Even though we've lost an amazing user at Plunk, I can't be prouder of the progress Tom has made. Congratulations, well deserved!

Tom Lienard

@tomlienard

7 months

Super excited to announce that @lagonapp and I have joined @Vercel to help build the next generation of Vercel Functions! Faster and more scalable functions, with a unified runtime and the full ecosystem compatibility of Node.js

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@driaug_

2 years

Just landed in a Plunk dash near you! 🥳 Click tracking! Works on full-auto without any config for both marketing and transactional emails 🔎 #buildinpublic

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@driaug_

1 year

Y'all told me to do things that don't scale

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@driaug_

3 months

Plunk is now tough on crime. If you live in one of these countries and know how to easily contact a cyber police unit, then I will personally make sure every single person that spams and impersonates gets what they deserve! - India - Brazil - Nigeria - Morocco

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Dries Augustyns

@driaug_

3 years

A quick little article on how to use @alistaiiiir 's Nextkit. An amazing library that you can use to create type-safe API routes for @vercel 's Next.JS with TS! It was easy to learn and oh so powerful! ♥ Article: Repository:

GitHub - alii/nextkit: Zero dependency API Toolkit for Next.js. Generate type-safe, error handled...

Zero dependency API Toolkit for Next.js. Generate type-safe, error handled Next.js API routes. - alii/nextkit

github.com

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@driaug_

2 years

I'm actually surprised at how much I enjoy using markdown to write my emails, it makes the process so much faster 🤠 #buildinpublic

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@driaug_

1 year

Some fake security researcher tried to report a bug and claim a bounty because he "found a bug" in Plunk's password reset Jokes on him, I don't even have a password reset 😎

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@driaug_

2 years

I wonder which one feels worse: - Having a great idea but no motivation - Having no idea but loads of motivation I'm back in the 2nd phase btw 😅

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@driaug_

11 months

Started working on a little OTP input with React & Tailwind, still needs some polishing but will make it open-source.

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@driaug_

1 year

Did some math, Plunk hit break-even on the 1st of March; all expected costs for this month covered on a single day 😮 #buildinpublic

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@driaug_

1 year

My 2023 tech stack 🚀 🔒 Auth: Roll it myself 🖼️ Landing: Make it myself 📕 Docs: Build them myself ✉️ Emails: @useplunk 🔔 Monitoring: @LogSnag // TS, Next.js, Tailwind 🚢 Hosting this mess: @vercel / @joinhop / @Azure

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@driaug_

3 months

I will never get used to Plunk being listed right next to the unicorns that I look up to 🥺

Rohit Ghumare | That #DevOps Guy✍️

@ghumare64

3 months

How to start your SaaS for $0/month with free tiers 🚀 Hosting: @vercel / @netlify / @flydotio Authz: @cerbosdev DB: @supabase / @neondatabase / @turso Storage: @Cloudflare / @awscloud / @supabase Mail: @useplunk / @resend Payments: @lmsqueezy / @stripe Thank me later 🎓✨️

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@driaug_

3 years

My friends are the best friends!

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@driaug_

2 years

Not to say that programming is bad for your heart but I did one pretty intense database migration today…

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@driaug_

3 years

Surrounding yourself with like-minded people is the most important thing you could ever do. Thank you guys so much for supporting me, the real pals know who they are! 🖤

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1 year

No sugar-coating

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1 year

I like my new intern

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