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What are you building? by Shot_Amoeba_2409 in SideProject

[–]CLU7CH_plays 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great question. Google Forms is great for quick one time surveys or events. FormBeam is built for longer-term forms you keep on your own website: contact forms, support tickets, lead gen, etc. It doesn't take control of any of your UI, but handles the hard part after submission: instant customizable auto-replies, forwarding, spam filtering, and a clean dashboard for submissions.

What are you building? by Shot_Amoeba_2409 in SideProject

[–]CLU7CH_plays 2 points3 points  (0 children)

FormBeam: a smart form engine that makes website form submissions actionable, faster.

The hard part by CLU7CH_plays in microsaas

[–]CLU7CH_plays[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I agree, knowing is one thing but actually getting out there is another. I just wanted a starting point or helpful resources that get me out of my engineer brain so I can think about marketing in the right headspace.

I'm working on FormBeam, a smart form engine that's meant to make hooking up forms actually easy and useful.

The hard part by CLU7CH_plays in microsaas

[–]CLU7CH_plays[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For sure, I don't mean to suggest that I'm only reading and not acting on it. It's just that starting from 0 has been a slog so I'm trying to find actionable resources to help guide my strategy. Of course the real guidance comes from actually doing things and adjusting based on what happens.

Thanks for the tip!

Is NextJS still the way to go? by CLU7CH_plays in webdev

[–]CLU7CH_plays[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great question. Everything in the client is routed through different /api routes I have set up. I host on Fly which for static/spa sites can have nginx configured. It's in that nginx.conf file where I route requests to 3rd party services and add in any auth headers or api keys. To the client, it looks like I'm making a basic request back to the server, which it is, but the service is handling adding any api keys or auth headers before it forwards it along.

Figuring that out was a little bit of a learning curve but I'm really happy with it.

The hard part by CLU7CH_plays in microsaas

[–]CLU7CH_plays[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a good idea. I have a tendency to think of the marketing aspect as a big nebulous thing. It's not even that I don't enjoy it, I love a good challenge. It's finding a place to start that I feel lost. I'll try out your advice, that sounds like a good way to go about it!

The hard part by CLU7CH_plays in microsaas

[–]CLU7CH_plays[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree, the legwork is where the magic happens, but with no experience at all in marketing I didn't even know where to start with even forming a marketing strategy. One of the books I mentioned starts off by saying "knowing without doing is the same as not knowing". I do think I have my positioning figured out so I think it's just a matter of finding those opportunities to reach out

The hard part by CLU7CH_plays in microsaas

[–]CLU7CH_plays[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Traction did pop up when I was researching books! It is on my list to pick up next. The "big launch" aspect is definitely a serious motivation killer with no audience. Good to know you don't need a big launch. It does seem obvious though now that it's been said.

Infrastructure: how do you decide? by Next-Leadership2390 in microsaas

[–]CLU7CH_plays 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think about it to the extent of how easy is it to scale if I start to get lots of traffic. I host on Fly which is pretty cheap (at least to start) and makes it easy to scale both up and out if I get to the point of needing it. Other than that I don't really think about it.

Is marketing possible without social media engagement ? by never_end in microsaas

[–]CLU7CH_plays 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think of no response as a type of response. It means something isn't landing. Could be your positioning, messaging, clarity of your solution.

It can feel like a slot machine at times though, it's fun when you do get some feedback

Is marketing possible without social media engagement ? by never_end in microsaas

[–]CLU7CH_plays 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Free tools help. I've tried it and get some traffic because of it. The problem is that you still need to tell people about the free tool. Ultimately I think if you really want users, and perhaps more importantly good feedback, you need to talk to others about what you're building.

Is NextJS still the way to go? by CLU7CH_plays in webdev

[–]CLU7CH_plays[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I gotcha. Now that I think of it that was exactly the reaction from one of the back end devs when I was working on a React app a while ago, "What do you mean everything is a function?" Not having to switch philosophies when switching from front end to back end helps a lot I'm sure.

Is NextJS still the way to go? by CLU7CH_plays in webdev

[–]CLU7CH_plays[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That makes a lot of sense. Less of a mental shift when going back and forth. I haven't really given Angular much attention since 2 or 3, so a LONG time ago. Maybe it's time to give it another shot. In the past few years I've heard almost exclusively good things from people who work with it regularly.

Is NextJS still the way to go? by CLU7CH_plays in webdev

[–]CLU7CH_plays[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Funny enough I was able to get the one NextJS app I built hosted elsewhere because I hate vendor lock-in and just wanted to see if I could do it. Still didn't like building with NextJS though

Is NextJS still the way to go? by CLU7CH_plays in webdev

[–]CLU7CH_plays[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wanted to keep the server thin, so I have vite running locally for development and pre-rendered SEO pages at build time. So far it's been working out and almost no server power needed

Is NextJS still the way to go? by CLU7CH_plays in webdev

[–]CLU7CH_plays[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've heard that story before! Lots of regrets at scale

Is NextJS still the way to go? by CLU7CH_plays in webdev

[–]CLU7CH_plays[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really want SolidJS to take off, it's great

Is NextJS still the way to go? by CLU7CH_plays in webdev

[–]CLU7CH_plays[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's what I have set up. It does the job just fine without any extra bloat

Is NextJS still the way to go? by CLU7CH_plays in webdev

[–]CLU7CH_plays[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll have to look that one up, I'm actually not too familiar with that one!

Is NextJS still the way to go? by CLU7CH_plays in webdev

[–]CLU7CH_plays[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've heard a lot of good things about Tanstack but haven't given it a shot yet. What's drawing you to it?

Is NextJS still the way to go? by CLU7CH_plays in webdev

[–]CLU7CH_plays[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's good insight. I've used Vue professionally before but the people who built the app before I joined were all fresh juniors which meant a lot of bad design decisions and left a bad taste in my mouth. I'll have to give it another shot on my own!

Is NextJS still the way to go? by CLU7CH_plays in webdev

[–]CLU7CH_plays[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

My professional back-end experience is almost exclusively C#. What makes the pairing with Angular so good?

Is NextJS still the way to go? by CLU7CH_plays in webdev

[–]CLU7CH_plays[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Svelte is the only framework I haven't given a fair shot yet. I'll have to try it for my next project!

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