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Tobias Lins

@linstobias

2 years

Splitbee is joining ▲ Vercel to shape the future of analytics

Vercel

@vercel

2 years

Vercel has acquired Splitbee, the privacy-friendly analytics platform, to help eliminate cookie banners and third-party tracking on the Web.

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Tobias Lins

@linstobias

2 years

Engineer: Which tracker should we use? @Shopify : Yes

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What a time to be alive

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@ImSh4yy You can rent a $500 VM, do nothing, and burn money every month.

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This is a side project I've never released A rich text editor based on markdown with support for inline-math, custom types, linking & more

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1 year

Problem: My table was delivered to the street but I'm on the 5th floor without proper elevator. Unfortunately, it's too heavy for us to lift. Solution: Ask the crane driver from the construction site to help you out. Payment: A crate of beer 🍺

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1 year

Chrome now shows the memory usage per tab

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4 years

Just crossed 200MRR. Finally feeling some growth 👀 Next stop: 500!

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Learn how to animate code (and more) using Apple Keynote by using magic move! Thanks @asidorenko_ for pioneering this Also first time using @screenstudio

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@linstobias

4 years

is already a success for us because we had an amazing weekend building it! The launch also went just great 🐟 🎉

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4 years

Splitbee is now on 1000 websites! 😲 Thank you all for your support 😍 😍

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@linstobias

11 months

Excited to announce my new role as Observability Tech Lead at @Vercel I'll be supporting our teams to elevate our data-driven products to new heights 🖤

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3 years

Exactly one year ago we had 5 paying customers. Today our 75th user upgraded (15x growth!) Next year is going to be crazy 🚀

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4 years

🥳 @linstobias celebrating his fifth customer! Our little race is heating up... 🔥

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1 year

Added some cute animations👀

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@linstobias

1 year

Working on onboarding screens for an upcoming side project Made with @expo and reanimated Took some inspiration from @family

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Tobias Lins

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4 years

📸 We are super excited to announce screenshot support for ! 🎉 Users can now attach a photo of the webpage they're looking at. This makes it a breeze to debug UI issues, particularly when combined with the browser details 🤩

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1 year

Working on onboarding screens for an upcoming side project Made with @expo and reanimated Took some inspiration from @family

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@linstobias

3 years

We recently switched from @stripe to @PaddleHQ and we're more than happy about this. I can recommend every Indiehacker to do the same. ⬇️

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TIL: Achieve 120fps animations on @expo & React Native with one simple tweak in Info.plist I added this yesterday to my upcoming real estate app and its buttery smooth. How to do it ↓

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We simplified the usage of our SDK 🎉 → No more need to manually provide the request context or headers!

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@linstobias

1 year

Server-side events are coming to Vercel Web Analytics! Keep track of key events without relying on client-side JavaScript. E.g.: Signups, form submissions and redirects

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4 years

Something crazy happened today 😱 Both of my side-projects hit the exact same MRR.

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4 years

Last week we worked to improve the dashboard experience of We came up with a fantastic new layout that also works great on mobile. @splitbee @timolins

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4 years

One of the most satisfying things as an indie hacker is seeing a person come back to your product almost every day.

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2 years

and they don’t even show me a cookie banner for that 😵‍💫

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4 months

I've shipped 340 PRs since I've joined @Vercel 1.5 years ago 🤯

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@linstobias

1 year

Looking for a new challenge? Join us building the future of Analytics!

Careers

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4 years

Splitbee already reached the same number of active users as last month after 14 days 📈

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4 years

I finally crossed 100 MRR with ! We overhauled the pricing to make it more accessible for everyone.

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@linstobias

3 years

I didn't plan to rank for this, but I'll take it 😅

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@linstobias

3 years

I just tried out for the first time and I'm impressed. Sharing types between my backend and frontend has never been so easy. Great work @alexdotjs

tRPC - Move Fast and Break Nothing. End-to-end typesafe APIs made easy. | tRPC

End-to-end typesafe APIs made easy. Automatic typesafety & autocompletion inferred from your API-paths, their input data, & outputs 🧙‍♂️

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3 years

I would like to see what you're all building. 🔨 Post a link to your project and I'll try to give you some feedback👇

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@linstobias

5 months

What is the best chart library that you love to use? I know d3/visx is the 🐐 but when I quickly get something done, its just to much manual work I also tried recharts & nivo but nothing provides like all features that I need

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@linstobias

1 year

Server-side events are coming to Vercel Web Analytics! Keep track of key events without relying on client-side JavaScript. E.g.: Signups, form submissions and redirects

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@linstobias

4 years

The growth of @splitbee in the last 6 months 😍 👥 Over 600 people used Splitbee this month ✅ Over 100 daily active users 🌐 Exactly 200 new pages started using Splitbee this month

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@linstobias

1 year

You can now start tracking custom events with Vercel Web Analytics and dig deep into your data!

Vercel

@vercel

1 year

Web Analytics: Privacy-friendly, first-party traffic insights. ◆ View top pages, referrers, user demographics, and more ◆ Track custom events to measure user actions ◆ Works with any frontend framework or <script> Now generally available on Vercel.

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This is how I expected TS to work from day 1. Definitely the best update since a while

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TypeScript 5.5's type predicate inference is SO good omg

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1 year

Dynamic Routes are coming to Vercel Speed Insights! Now with support for @nextjs app router & other major frameworks.

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@linstobias

5 years

@reactnavigation v5 + react-native-screens = 😍 Thanks for your hard work. It‘s finally possible to nest a stack navigator into native modal! @satya164 @kzzzf @reactnative

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@linstobias

2 years

I've finally found the backend platform I've been looking for. @flydotio Combining simplicity with full control and insights into the entire environment

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Tobias Lins

@linstobias

4 years

Here some stats of our launch 📈 👥 Over 12400 unique users ⚡️ 34% clicked on a CTA 🔥 764 of all users actually signed up 💵 3 paying customers

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@linstobias

5 years

@adamwathan Looks like this :)

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@linstobias

1 year

Looking for a 🪄 engineer at @Vercel (only UK, DE)

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6 months

@lauridskern "Thin"

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@linstobias

2 years

It's crazy how one tweet can make such an impact

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@linstobias @Shopify almost fixed. we are down to 3. From an astonishing 61 across all our systems. Thanks for pointing this out. Sigh.

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Back in 2016, @rauchg first showcased @nextjs at a meetup in Vienna. It was truly legendary

What's Next? Exploring the future of React, now - Guillermo Rauch

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@linstobias

10 months

I can't wait to reveal what we're building 🗝️

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@linstobias

11 months

Excited to announce my new role as Observability Tech Lead at @Vercel I'll be supporting our teams to elevate our data-driven products to new heights 🖤

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@Shopify 🚨 New in 🚨 They just added a cookie-banner. Just a one thats not respecting eprivacy. No way to give consent, they just notify you 🙄

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1 year

The home indicator is just too memorable.

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4 years

Wanted to Tweet about how I finally managed to get 1k followers but now I just passed 1.5k. Damn

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1 year

I can’t believe that this was already 3 years ago

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🥳 @linstobias celebrating his fifth customer! Our little race is heating up... 🔥

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1 year

New MacOS emoji recommendations

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4 years

One of the best VS @code plugins out there is ErrorLens. It shows you all errors/warnings inline.

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1 year

Just met the 🐐‘s

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@linstobias

4 years

Some #openstartup stats about Splitbee: 👥 50 daily active users (about 280 monthly) 💰 6 paying customers 🧰 830 created projects ✅ 390 added to their website ↦ 47% activation rate 🤯 ⚡️ 2500 automations processed #buildinpublic

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@linstobias

3 years

I received over 40 freelance project offers in April from only one platform. This is getting crazy 🤯

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@linstobias

1 year

My story ↓ 18: Completed school with proficiency in Java and C++ 19: Volunteered with the Red Cross and developed a roster application using Ionic 20: Joined a payment service provider, primarily working with C++ and made efforts to integrate React 23: Transitioned to an

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TIL: It is possible to rename "node" process by setting ` = 'my-service'`. This can be quite useful for monitoring memory consumption when running multiple node apps simultaneously. Sadly this doesn't work for @bunjavascript yet

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We're hiring for the Logs team at @Vercel ! If you like @ClickHouseDB , are in the UK, and want to work with us, please apply here

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1 year

When I went to the construction site to "deliver" the beer and asked where the crane driver is, everyone raised their hand as soon as they saw the crate 😅

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@linstobias

4 years

It took me four months to get from 1,000 to 2,000 followers. 😍😍 My goal is to reach 5k by end of this year!

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@linstobias

11 months

@EffectTS_ is the 🐐 of Typescript - Rust style error handling - Retries, Concurrency, Steams, … - Missing standard library If you’re curious, come to the conf here in Vienna!

Effect | TypeScript at Scale

@EffectTS_

1 year

Exciting news! 🚀 Join us for the first-ever Effect Days conference on Feb 23, 2024 in Vienna. 🎟️ Only 100 tickets available! But wait, there's more! We're hosting a hands-on Effect workshop on Feb 22nd. Secure your spot on the waitlist now 👇

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4 years

One of our users just hit a 6-month streak! 🔥 I'm not a data scientist but I guess that's good retention 👀

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1 year

I fell in love with @elysiaJS even tho I haven't used it yet The Eden plugin also looks so good. Imagine a tRPC like client without a custom api 🧨

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2 months

@t3dotgg HMR on such simple pages always works. I want to see this in action on highly complex / large webapps

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8 months

New website finally showcases its potential 🤩

Effect – The best way to build robust apps in TypeScript

Effect is a powerful TypeScript library designed to help developers easily create complex, synchronous, and asynchronous programs.

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@EffectTS_ is the 🐐 of Typescript - Rust style error handling - Retries, Concurrency, Steams, … - Missing standard library If you’re curious, come to the conf here in Vienna!

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1 year

I guess that's what they call retention It's still mind-blowing that people use Splitbee almost every day for the past two years.

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@linstobias

3 years

My goal for this year is that @timolins and I could potentially live from Splitbee's revenue. I still want to reinvest most of the money as long as we can. What are your goals for the upcoming months?

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4 years

Releasing something new soon. I needed this for every project so far! Best of all, it will be completely free.

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3 months

@t3dotgg the promise is inspired by react-hot-toast from @timolins 🐐

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1 year

This is my home server running @ClickHouseDB for my smart home sensor data AMA

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1 year

Love the new gauge component @timolins made for @vercel

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1 year

I've been working on a new gauge component with @glennui ✨ Getting all the details right was trickier then I thought:

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Best thing you can hear from your fav CEO

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1 year

Every day I get to learn from @timolins and @linstobias about how to build delightful, fast products – best feature of working at @vercel

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4 years

😍 We are currently working on a new pricing model (predictable, agency support, ...)

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4 years

Just got my 6th paying customer for today! Every single one feels amazing! Also, something big is coming soon! Can you guess what?

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1 year

Already surpassing a quarter of a million weekly downloads 🤯

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7 months

We have the best Slack emoji collection at @Vercel

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3 years

With iOS 15 you can simply copy text/code from images while surfing the web 😍

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@linstobias

4 years

The first year of Splitbee just went great. We want to 20x our revenue by end of this year. Looking forward to this adventure ⚡️

Splitbee

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We started Splitbee exactly one year ago. We're now providing analytics for nearly 600 websites/apps! 119 new sites joined in December 2020

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1 year

I think I will create a proper personal website & start blogging. Let's see how fast I can get the thing from my head into production.

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4 years

@xiel @mxstbr @github something like that. So stars, tabs etc are accessible easier.

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4 years

Did some fine-tuning to 🎉 It was incredibly easy to archive that using Next.js by @vercel We've loaded critical @tailwindcss classes which improved the FCP.

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Something is on the horizon

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Every project that I‘ve started and succeeded in any way, was something I‘ve built for myself. It is easier to come up with great features, and most importantly, you will not give up early. When building something for money, it will almost never work out.

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I love these small details while toggling the new Dark Mode 😍 Well done @github

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4 years

Currently working on react-notion, a package that helps you render content from @NotionHQ Here a side by side comparison of the blog I'm creating for @splitbee Thanks to @samwightt and @_ijjk for the prior work!

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Can anyone recommend a well-made React component library? Preferred using @TailwindCSS under the hood. I can only find

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1 year

We're super excited about all the plans we have for Vercel Web Analytics 📈 We'd love to hear from you too! What features or improvements would you like to see?

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It’s that time of the year ❄️

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1 year

For @expo adapt `app.json` and add "CADisableMinimumFrameDurationOnPhone": true to ios.infoPlist

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1 year

@d4m1n @vercel Hey! Thanks for reporting. A fix is on the way and should land soon!

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1 year

I really like having widgets on MacOS Interactive once are major 🔑

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The simplicity of custom events in server actions is the 🐐 ✓ No need to await ✓ Linked to the client-side pageviews

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2 years

Sometimes I wish I could duplicate myself so I could work on multiple projects at once

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3 years

Turns out @mxstbr is also way too good at billiards 🎱

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4 years

We get a Telegram notification every time someone successfully embeds the script.

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- not sure what I should do with it, don't have the time to continue working on it

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@thedevgb prior Typescript 5.5 the inherited type was string | undefined 🫠

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@linstobias

1 year

Matter has support for linked notes🗒️ Typed notes is also something I'm excited about

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This is a side project I've never released A rich text editor based on markdown with support for inline-math, custom types, linking & more

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Just played around with GPT-3 🤯 Me: Splitbee is better than Google Analytics AI: It is lightweight. It is clean. It has all the features you need, but it doesn’t have a lot of decoration. It doesn’t have a lot of stuff that takes time for you to learn.

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Cloudflare is 🔥 They announced so much cool stuff in last days. • D1 - SQL DB for Cloudflare Workers • R2 - Object Storage (similar to S3) • PubSub - Distributed MQTT service • Worker Analytics Engine - Write and query time-series data from Workers

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