's update for the week ending on Friday, May 13, 2022

TinyPilot

Management

  • Hired a marketing agency.
  • Met with another indie hardware founder.
  • Reached out to a different indie hardware founder through Hacker News.

Software development

Sales

  • Paid affiliates for March sales.

mtlynch.io

PicoShare

PicoShare is a minimalist web-based file sharing tool I’m working on. I’m often frustrated that I can’t just send someone a link directly to a file because every file-sharing service tries to re-encode images/video or wrap their own viewer around other files, so I’m making a simple self-hostable tool that lets you upload files and share them with other people.

WanderJest

I’m picking WanderJest back up again because I’ve learned a lot of techniques from PicoShare that I can use to improve it. The first thing I want to do is migrate from Firestore to SQLite because I’m so much more productive with SQLite.

  • Added a mechanism for exporting full production data to JSON.
  • Started writing SQLite scripts to import data from JSON into SQLite tables.
  • Fixed e2e tests that had gone out of date because they used events that took place in 2021.
  • Refactored social-go unit tests for facebook, instagram, and twitter

rss-proxy

rss-proxy is a Google Cloud Function that I use to proxy RSS feeds. All of the podcast feeds try to tie you to their platform by giving you an RSS feed under their doman, so rss-proxy lets you run the feed under your own domain and proxy the request to your actual podcast RSS feed, giving you platform mobility.

Misc

  • Returned from vacation to Greenville, SC
    • I recommend it!
    • Very walkable, lots of nature nearby.
  • Deleted all of my old emails from Gmail
    • I migrated to Fastmail a year or two ago, and I’ve backed up all my emails, but I’ve been afraid to delete the Gmail copy.
    • I finally started reaching my storage limit, so I just deleted everything from Gmail. Hope I’m correct in backing everything up!