The (dis)advantages of making your mobile app invite only It's a common pattern: making your app invite only. But is it desirable? It all depends on your app. You could ask new users on the website to request an invite by giving their email. Then, you can email users that are invited a
Dunbar1 The problem we're solving with FriendTime The problem Chaos Your contacts are scattered across all kinds of (social media) channels Privacy is gone Your data is sold and used to maximize profitability of you and your friends Sparse relationships The internet has grown the amount of people we interact with,
How much does it cost to build an app? It depends... Some apps can be created quickly. I created this one in just 26 hours. However, some apps cost millions. It can be anything in between. As a startup, you may want to keep it cheap and efficient. To keep it as cheap
My Coding Principles TFTSS = Too Fancy Too Soon Syndrome Many apps create very fancy solutions to problems that have far more elegant and basic solutions. DEP = Dont embrace perfectionism Perfectionism can be good if you can do it quickly, but it doesn’t always need to be
Geeky stuff How to scrape public information from LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter using Javascript For my app Dunbar I needed to scrape person information. The goal was to get profile picture options to show them in the app. It wasn't easy. A whole new world opened up to me. The world of data scraping! Puppeteer (Node JS) is
Install An Express+MySQL App on a remote server This is the way I do it, not all steps are necessary. Create a Linode Or DigitalOcean Droplet. They are both good.Initial server setup2. Install NGinx 3. Install Node 4. Install MySQL 5. Create database: mysqlCREATE DATABASE name;6. If you want emoji's
Geeky stuff Application Loader gone in XCode 11? This is how you upload your app now In XCode 11.1, application loader is nowhere to be found. Apple has removed it, seemingly for no apparent reason. This is how you can still upload your app: Install Transporter
How to set up mailchimp MailChimp Setup Going to the right URL To make sure people end up on yourwebsite.com/emailsuccess, please do this: In MailChimp, 1. audience 2. Manage audience 3. signup forms 4. form builder 5. forms and response emails -> confirmation thank you page
Booki The Human Network Explosion In the past 2 centuries, urbanisation, distance communication (telegram, calling, television, internet, flat communication) and accessible commuting speed has caused our networks to expand. As a result, we are digesting
Booki #to{anything} Lately, I've been working on my workflow a lot and gained a lot of consciousness on my screen habits. Then, I made some rules to make me even more conscious and less impulsive. The hashtagI now use #toRemember, #toSearch, #toSay when I have a
LECKR How I'm going to try to become 10x as productive within a month A few simple new rules are going to make me much more productive. Chrome max 3 tabs No other browsers allowed Freedom.to locked mode: No news, no communication, no
Geeky stuff The solution to the PO Fallacy - How to code more, and plan less As a solo devpreneur I find myself over-analyzing and planning + thinking too much. Even when working in bigger teams, I end up creating so many to-do's that I get afraid of starting because it's so much. I end up planning without executing. It's kind
Booki Screentime update, April 2019 In the beginning of this year, I've been online a lot. My average of january 2019 was a whopping 9 hours a day of screentime. All things I did required me to be on my phone and laptop all the time. I didn't sleep
Mindset & Lifestyle development The Hammock Experiment My housemate was looking funny at me when I told him I slept in a hammock last night. In the past 6 days, I've been sleeping in a hammock now. And I'm not feeling that bad at all! Millions of people sleep in hammocks
Mindset & Lifestyle development Daylight is good for me Daylight is good for me. In Scandinavia (but also in the Netherlands), a lot of people are depressed because they don't get enough daylight. Still though, people in the Netherlands
Science Fiction Deep Dream Devs I find myself dreaming that I'm programming My brain is training and improving its neural network I think predictive programming CNN (PPCNN) could be the future of programming. PPCDN could map a textual description of what you want to a set of suggestions of
Entrepreneurship Lean Life A nice song to play while I'm braggin' I'm getting more and more confidence in my own startup ideas. I'm learning quickly and applying new things fast. I'm quite confident
Booki About Single Tasking and Screen/Window Setup on your Mac and Phones Multitasking is bad for focus and productivity Single Tasking seems to be the way to go It is often said that having multiple screens is good for productivity. However, I
Entrepreneurship How to convince your next freelance project that you can work parttime Companies are often worried you can't focus and oversee a project if you don't work enough hours a week for them I like to work at 2 or 3 projects
Entrepreneurship Qualitative versus Quantitative Scaling in your startup One of the startups I work for went live in November 2018. Our USP is creating an universal way of canceling and switching of all your subscriptions in one app,
Dunbar1 What would a social network that's actually good for humanity look like? In this small post, I compared the current biggest social network (Facebook) with what I would think the perfect social network should look like. There are many big differences.
Entrepreneurship Why I think working at two startups is better than one One Startup Two Startups Focus Applying things in both. Learning a valuable lesson in one startup can help you prevent mistakes in the other. Commitment Enforced Commitment Still Possible The one thing (book) One thing makes you blind, it's better to see multiple viewpoints
Geeky stuff Redux Light and Universal endpoints This blogpost is still being written and isn't finished, but I already put it here for you to read. Redux adds a lot of layers and boilerplate, which increases time-to-context. Here are the pro's and cons of Redux in my opinion. In this post,
Geeky stuff What is the best way to test new features in your React Native App? In the past 2 years, I've worked on 9 React Native apps, and I've tried many different ways to test new features. All possibilities have advantages and drawbacks, so here
Geeky stuff I just made an app in 26 hours In the beginning of March 2019, I started with Dunbar. This post describes how it went.
