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DONE!
Carrd = a free platform for building simple, fully responsive one-page sites for pretty much anything.
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2000s: Learn to code
2010s: Learn to code
2020-2022: Learn to code
2023-: Learn to plumb a sink, frame a wall, pour concrete, farm
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CSS at 9AM
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
CSS at 4AM
position:absolute;
left: -18.245555px;
top: -24.99999998px;;
margin-left:5.333333px; /* ajdustment */
margin-top: -0px; /* idk???? */
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Running a startup is the fastest way to teach a perfectionist the concept of "good enough"
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When Elon Musk launches a fucking car into orbit and you still can’t vertically align shit in CSS
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How I improved my quality of life by like 900%
- Deleted facebook
- Deleted all social media apps off my phone
- Switched to just one social media presence, Twitter, that I treat like a 90s inbox (= check it a couple of times a day on my desktop and that's it)
- Deleted facebook
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Pro tip for anyone who makes things:
1. Make the thing
2. DON'T ship it – yet! Just sit back, take a break
3. Come back to thing 12-48 hours later
4. Fix/polish all the (now glaringly obvious) broken/rough shit you hilariously missed just 12-48 hours ago
5. K now ship it 👍
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Serious pro tip I wish I had internalized in my teens/early 20s:
FINISH.
THINGS.
Starting something is easy, but there are lessons and skills you'll only ever learn if you see it through to the end
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Building a site on Carrd + need some super nice images/videos?
Photos
👉 (free, Unsplash license)
Videos
👉 (free, Coverr license)
Illustrations
👉 (free, MIT)
Icons
👉 (free, MIT)
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1998: <blink><marquee>My Home Page</marquee></blink>
2002: <table><tr><td><table><tr><td><table>....
2006: <div class="sidebar">...</div><br class="clear" /><div>...
2009: <div class="row"><div class="col-6"><div class="row">...
2014: display: flex;
2018: display: grid;
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Realized the most successful folks I know have a natural tendency to simplify everything (work life relationships etc)
Least successful meanwhile have a natural tendency to complicate everything instead
Probably not always the case but man, having a hard time unseeing it now
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Reasons that factor into whether someone uses your product:
✅ It’s useful
✅ It looks nice
✅ It’s fun/easy to use
Reasons that don’t factor:
✅ You used whatever framework was trending this week
✅ You have 5000 years of javascript experience
✅ You indented with tabs
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"Those who can't do, teach"
Nah, more like
"Be thankful there are people out there who *could* be doing things, but instead choose to spend their time enabling *others* to do things"
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"Omg you built Carrd all by yourself??? Ur a genius!!"
Nope, just dumb enough to actually attempt it
Pro tip: you can be this dumb too
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Beginner devs: if you find yourself routinely looking up seemingly basic things like
remove last character from string
find value in array
reverse sort array
... don't feel bad cause these are literally things I've googled recently
(with 10+ years experience! 🤣)
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The difference between a junior and senior developer is the latter's ability to google the right shit
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FYI not romanticizing, just realizing we've probably automated ourselves out of the equation and may have to ask ourselves "now what?"
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Sooo yeah, I don't post Carrd's stats as much these days, but for those who are curious:
January 2018
🙋 8.7k new users
🌐 8.6k new sites
💵 $8.1k revenue
vs
January 2019
🙋 17.3k new users
🌐 38.1k new sites
💵 $23.8k revenue
(figures for just the month, not cumulative)
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Interesting changes since I've gotten older (though not "old" ... yet):
- All nighters 👉 Early mornings
- 12-hour marathons randomly hacking on stuff 👉 3-hour sprints focused on specific tasks
- Half-assing a bunch of projects 👉 Whole-assing just a few
Kinda digging it tbh
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My biggest work mistake was forcing myself to build stuff I truly didn't give a shit about
My best work decision was to never do that again
Not always feasible, but to go from waking up dreading the work day to being too excited about work to sleep ... can't put a price on that
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If you’re lucky enough to work on something you actually want to work on and even get paid to do it, remind yourself of your good fortune on the regular
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Random life pro tips that have helped me / might help you
✅ Delete facebook
✅ Unsubscribe from outrageporn
✅ Cut the cord
✅ Get a hobby that doesn't need a screen
✅ Read a book (extra credit: books)
✅ Write something (that isn't code)
✅ Hang out w/people IRL
✅ Go outside
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If this is you:
"Wow I've been following your work for a while and it's inspired me soooo much I'm gonna quit my stable 9-5 job with healthcare/benefits/etc and build a kickass web app"
OMFG STOP
Some important facts about me: 👇
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Nothing fulfills you like constantly creating
Nothing hollows you out like constantly consuming
I've said variations of this before but having just experienced both extremes in the last week, I've never been more convinced of its truth so protip:
GO
MAKE
THINGS
thx
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Look at the person to your left
Now, look at the person to your right
By next week, both of these people will launch new javascript frameworks
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If you want to become a developer, stop asking:
"how do I become a developer"
and start asking:
"what do I really, really want to build"
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Coding a new feature = 1 hour
Designing, implementing, and testing an interface so people can actually use it = 8 hours
Writing docs to explain wtf this even is = fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
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I know there's a lot of pressure right now to only build stuff that saves the world, but if you build something that saves even one person some time, a little money, a few minutes of work, or just makes them laugh out loud, I think you've built something worth building
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Pro tip: build things you truly, personally, actually give a shit about
Cause "don't give a shit" leaves a very distinct fingerprint on pretty much everything it touches (and users can tell)
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If you have time to regularly binge on Netflix you have time to binge on making something
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How to ship daily w/o burning out:
✅ Set a finite/realistic goal for the day ("add feature X" or "implement part Y of feature X")
🛠 Work until said goal is complete
🛑 STOP and go outside/read a book/do something else – even if you finished early and can squeeze in more work
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📈 6,002,696 sites
No ads, no marketing, just word of mouth and kpop fancams
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Life pro tip: don't be afraid to say
"I don't know enough to have an opinion"
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Never underestimate how big an impact getting your shit together on the life side (sleep, diet, health etc) has on the work side
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Beware of actions that feel like progress but actually aren't, eg.
- Making to-do lists with tons of filler items ("Check to-do list")
- Doing tutorials but never using what you learn to actually make stuff
- Tweeting productivity pro tips instead of being productive wait what
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There are people using Carrd to make more money than Carrd itself and that blows my mind in the best possible way
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Pro tip to get shit done (and get that shit done *well*):
Focus only on work when it's time to work
But more importantly, focus only on not-work when it's time to not work
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10+ years into this line of work and I still find myself googling how to do "hello world"-level shit sometimes
And I'm okay with that
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2018: Where someone with a good idea, a cheap ass laptop and a halfway decent internet connection can learn to code/design/etc *for free* watching youtube then use said cheap ass laptop to turn said good idea into a product that flips an entire industry on its head
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If Carrd ever becomes a huge thing consider this tweet a pledge that I'll never try to retcon some pretentious bullshit "Make The World A Better Place" type reason for making it
Cause imo the real reason is good enough: I just thought it'd be fun to make
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If you're not proud of what you're building right now it's time to build something else
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Me: Lol worst code I've ever written but hey it mostly works and I'll probably never have to deal with it aga—
Future me, dealing with it again: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
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Sometimes CSS feels less like a coherent language and more like a collection of magic words you yell at random hoping one of them will open a magic cave entrance or something
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Pro tip: try doing things you think you'll suck at
Generally, you'll suck a lot less than you think
Sometimes, you'll actually be pretty damn good
And sometimes, yes, you will in fact suck, but hey, guess what you *won't* suck at anymore?
Actually fucking trying things
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2017: Build something a startup w/$10M in funding, a team, and an office would build except w/o $10M in funding, just you, and maybe a couch
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Ah programming, where accidentally using = instead of == will cost you half a day and push you to the brink of an existential crisis
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As I get older I'm learning it's less about
"work for someone" vs "work for yourself"
And more about
"waiting to be told what to do" vs "knowing what needs to be done"
And, weirdly, that you can end up either way regardless of whether you work for someone or work for yourself
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Dev pro tip:
- Eat well
- Sleep well
- Take breaks and do non-dev shit
Dev shit tip:
- Pound energy drinks
- Pull all-nighters
- Do nothing but work because EXTREME DEV FTW wait this sucks oh god
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To everyone about to join the corona work from homeforce:
- Resist the urge to work in your pajamas
- Keep fixed working/nonworking hours
- Exercise throughout the day (because you can!)
- Cook your own meals (or learn how cause now's your chance)
- Say hi to your dog/cat for me
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OMFG finished!!!!
Say hello to Ethereal, a fully responsive SIDE-SCROLLING (!) one-page template for HTML5 UP
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Uh so, about Carrd
Sites built in 2017 = 31,968
Sites built in July 2018 *alone* = 31,130
Fuuuuuuuuuu
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Things I've learned bootstrapping, building, maintaining, and supporting a product by myself
✅ You can absolutely bootstrap, build, maintain, and support a product by yourself
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The secret to shipping is to accept there is no such thing as "perfect", only degrees of "less shit"
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I write all code knowing future me will some day stumble upon it, shake his head in disbelief, and rewrite the entire damn thing from scratch because present me was clearly a fucking idiot
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TWO YEARS AGO today, Carrd officially launched with this tweet 👇
Since then, it's grown from zero to:
🙋 55k users
🌐 75k sites
💵 >$100k
~80% of which came in the last 9mos 😱
None of this would have happened w/o your support, so I just wanted to say
THANK YOU 🙏
and ...
DONE!
Carrd = a free platform for building simple, fully responsive one-page sites for pretty much anything.
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Some of the most interesting things I've seen have barely any views, some of the most useful products I've used have no reviews, and some of the best places I've been weren't listed anywhere
Sometimes life is more fun outside the algorithm
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Signs you've made it: weirdly aggressive ads when people search for your shit
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Pro tip: ship one thing every day
New feature, minor enhancement, or even a bug fix -- doesn't matter. Just keep that momentum going
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Advice that took me a long time to figure out:
Separate what you do/make from who you are
Do this, and you’ll begin seeing (and using) compliments and critiques as signals of whether you’re going in the right or wrong direction, rather than attempts to stroke or attack your ego
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Boring products literally run the world so don’t be ashamed of making one
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Paradigm shifts in the just the last few weeks:
- Remote work: buzzword -> cross-generational reality
- Delivery apps: gimmick -> necessity
- Personal vehicles: eliminate -> validated
- Public transit: the future -> liability
- Cities: where it's at -> get me out of here (
@shl
)
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FYI none of this happened overnight. I've literally been working on Carrd for 6+ years and random growth spurts aside, it's been about showing up almost every day and doing what I can to steadily improve and grow this thing
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You never forget your first "omg someone actually just bought something I made" moment
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Uncaught ReferenceError: success is not defined
Gotta say, was not expecting to find inspiration in broken ass javascript but here we are
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Good = build things
Better = build things that help people
Best = build things that help people build their *own* things
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In the future the only degree you'll need is a Bachelor of Googling Shit
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In programming there are no beginners or experts just varying degrees of wtf
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A series of well-documented commits
vs
git commit -m "Fixed some shit lol"
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Random hobbies and side projects are the best way to remind yourself there's more to you than just your day job
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IMO building a product is the easy part nowadays. The hard part is quite literally everything else
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Person: How do i build something like Carrd
Me: Come up with an idea you like, do a quick/cheap MVP to validate it then take it from there
Person: No i mean step by step instructions to make something exactly like it what tutorial did you follow
Me:
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The worst professional mistake I ever made was getting caught up planning 10-20 steps ahead when I should have been focusing more on the next 1-2
The day I turned that around pretty much turned everything else around (for the better)
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2010 me thought he had to work 12-16 hour days and pull all-nighters to get shit done
2020 me learned he can actually work 6-8 hour days, sleep, and not only get shit done, but do so on a level that would melt the face off 2010 me
Pro tip: don't wait 10 years to figure that out
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BTW, didn't exactly wake up last Thursday expecting to increase my infrastructure costs but Cloudflare's very cool analytics page did reveal something interesting I didn't know:
Across all sites, Carrd now serves over 1 million unique visitors PER DAY (!!!)
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Carrd = now serving 100,000 sites (!!!!!)
(actually hit this a few days ago, but I exclude "lol just testing" type sites from the official count)
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"Wow I can't believe one person made something like Carrd you must be some kind of dev god"
Had I churned it out fully formed in a single weekend, maybe. The reality? *Four years* slowly iterating from prototype to barely working alpha to mostly ok launch to what you see today
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Coders should try no-code, no-coders should try code, and everyone should try both
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If you build something that solves a problem, no matter how small/seemingly trivial it may be, you've leveled up as a human
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What you ship matters, sure, but the fact that you're shipping at all means you not only put in the time/effort to make something, but overcame the "oh shit what if people think it's dumb" type thoughts that hold us back
And *that* matters a whole lot more
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