Norbert Jurga
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Software Engineer @stripe @lmsqueezy 🍋 Building Ugly Duckling nights and weekends.
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It's fun to watch all of this server drama while chilling on a $6 VPS.
I bet that most of these startup projects with 0 customers could run on the $4 one just fine😅
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Dear friends, it's a launch day! 🐥🎉
The new Ugly Duckling is leaving its tiny nest today, can we count on your support?
Come say hi on Product Hunt! 👇
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Next 6 weeks will be a journey from $0 to $1000 MRR 🚀
(I'll do my best to achieve it)
Was a bit less active last few days. Family time. Traveling.
Planning.
🐦 is great for social accountability but the single best thing I'll get from
@_buildspace
is the time constraint.
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I just finished the MVP.
Feels really weird.
I'll do some more testing but it looks like I'll deploy & soft launch Lucía today.
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@Dima_heyqq
I quit almost a year ago and I mostly agree.. although "fucking smokers" is a bit too strong 😅
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First orders from Product Hunt are coming through! Ugly Duckling just crossed $100 in revenue! 💸🦆
If you have not upvoted the Duckling yet - consider supporting me on Product Hunt today! 🙌
THANK YOUU!!! 🫶
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I'm going over some dev resumes, and their GitHub activity looks like this... and that's the case for about 75% of applicants. lol.
Why would you even include a link to your profile if it looks like that? Don't do that.
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Oh, hi 👋 Long time no see.
I might've built something over this weekend. Feels good to be back.
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Well.. Ugly Duckling was the
#2
Product of the Day.
Thank you to everyone who was there last Friday 🫶🥹 this truly means the world to me.
Some numbers* from the launch day:
- Unique Visitors: 1184 😐
- New Users: 92 (7.7% CR) 👌
- LTD sold during the launch: 10 🤑
-
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Let's sum up what happened yesterday.
💰 $240 total revenue (~$150 from PH).
7️⃣ place with 255 upvotes (❤)
👥 1k+ unique sessions
🐤 50+ new followers
Can you imagine the Ugly Duckling without its cute little duckling logo?
Special thank you to
@aliszu
- she's the one that
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just crossed 100 registered users.
Completely insane. Thank you! 🐥🎉
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Payments implemented in less than a day 🍋
I might be a little biased.. but IMO
@lmsqueezy
is THE way to go for indie devs.
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Yesterday, I had an urge to build something, so I tackled the first inconvenience that came to my mind and fixed it in under 3hrs.
I hate scrolling Twitter analytics in order to compare months.
I don't have to anymore 🤷♂️. It's my first chrome extension, pretty fun stuff!
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Just crossed 400 followers 🤯
300 → 400 in 7 days 🚀
200 → 300 in 18d
100 → 200 in 25d 👟
I got a little lucky this week, and I probably won't be able to replicate it anytime soon. I'll take it tho! 😅
April's target was 400 (+68% m/m), let’s try to get to 500 (110%)!
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Ugly Duckling's landing page has been roasted today by not one, but two of my favourite designers in the space 🤯
Which one should I implement? Left (
@aliszu
) or right (
@pierre_Jacquel
)?
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I made my first (and last) internet $ in 2018. But it looks like I made a comeback! 🥳
In the first 24h after I published version 1.0 of Ugly Duckling, it made almost $50 in revenue 🍾.
This is how I felt yesterday... but now let's get back to it and make it even better 🦆.
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Woke up to $116 in Net Revenue.
Which was unexpected as most of the trials aren't even close to expiring yet.
It's about time to raise the prices a bit - for users who sign up after 8AM UTC on March 4th, the base price will be raised from $29 to $39 ($14.5 -> $19.5 with a
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Afternoon co-working session 🧀🍷
Listening to
@_buildspace
interview with
@hthieblot
.
Trying to make integrating payments less painful 😅
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We're 4 hours in and the Ugly Duckling is still at
#1
. I'm getting overwhelmed here.. thank you so much for all of the support 💛🥹
Come and say hi if you haven't already:
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We're over 300 people strong now.
100 → 200 in 25 days
200 → 300 in 18 days
I feel honored by this! 🙏 I want to thank everyone. It's amazing how many people find some value and/or entertainment in my content!
Things start to compound!
300 → 400 in 13 days?
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We're still at the top spot! 🐤🔥
Our little Duckling is doing amazing, and I'm touched by the DMs, comments, upvotes.. all the support and love from you guys! 💛
Now's the hard part, keeping that
#1
spot.
If you haven't already -- you can still upvote on ProductHunt 👇
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30 days completely smoke-free 🎉
That was a hard fight, and I slipped a few times, but I finally managed to reach 30 days without a single cigarette. The best thing is that there are no cravings now!
Decided to treat health like a startup project.
Next: fix my sleep routine 👇
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No need to wait until January.
Let's start building new habits today 👇
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I've been in stealth mode for long enough! 🥷🎉
Just shipped a v1 of my Twitter Analytics Extension! It's still an early version, but it seems like I've managed to fix all of major bugs and code a good amount of new features ✨
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Let's quacking go! 🐤
Ugly Duckling has its launch on Product Hunt today! You've supported me for so long now at this point - this is the last push I'm going to ask for.
Thank you! This is the best community on Twitter 🚀
Link in next Tweet 👇
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It looks like we'll have a real Twitter competitor in the upcoming days!
Will you be trying Threads from Meta out?
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Huh. How did we end up here?
500 is really a lot... much more than I expected to achieve this year, and it's only May 🎉
Thank you! 🙏
---
Since you're still here, what do you think about tweets like this?
Although I love to celebrate my friends' successes, I'm terrified
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Time for a new startup!
I've used Excel for tracking my Net Worth for far too long at this point, I can do better than that 😅 and IMO there are solutions that are either too elementary or too complex for my needs.
📈 charts
👀 insights
🎯 goals
✨ simplicity
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Me: I'm building now this cool new project, look! ✨
GF: Awesome! How about this last startup project you showed me, have you launched it already?
Me:
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It ain't much, but it's honest work 🥹
Seeing that people actually like the Duckling is worth much more than the money this tiny startup project makes..
.. but the joy of getting this one or two sales pretty consistently is just so incredibly rewarding 🙏🔥
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Friends, Ugly Duckling's going live on Product Hunt in 24 hours!
LET’S QUACKING GO 🦆
Many of you have already clicked the "notify me" button (thank you! 🙏).
If you haven't done so yet, and would like to support me, I’d greatly appreciate it. The link is in the next tweet 👇
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This marketing thing is starting to grow on me, not gonna lie.
It looks like my little X analytics tool will cross 200 signed-up users even before the Product Hunt launch 🙀
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It's been about two months since I started a new side project, and I'm already feeling the urge to buy a new domain 😅
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A lot of crazy things going on in my life lately; haven't shipped anything in a while.. so let's go and code something 🙌
I have ~4 hrs to spare so let's make a new personal website for me!
Let's ship 🚢
#buildinpublic
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Every time I'm about to cross 1000 followers on Twitter.
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The idea to build charts with ASCII characters is so freaking cool you may expect some charts spam in the upcoming days 😅 Like, you literally can copy and paste it:
┊┊┊┊┊┊┊┊┊┊┊┏━━━━━━━ 680
┊┊┊┊┊┊┊┏━━━┛┊┊┊┊┊┊┊ 544
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✅ 45-day streak on X today.
Can't wait to see this chart completely filled.
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My X stats may be horrible, but at least they look good.
Get the new X analytics extension 👇
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In last 25 days, I've written 850+ replies and 30 tweets. Some days it was fun, on others I had to force myself to show up.
I feel enormously humbled by the positive interactions I've had with you over the past couple of weeks.
During these 25 days I've met another 100
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I love to see that Twitter / X has so many new users but why all of them are called Bella and want me to click some magical link in their bio? 😅
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See you on Product Hunt 👋 Thank you!! 🐱
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Ugly Duckling has a new home! 🐤
Although the previous landing page had a pretty good conversion (~8%) I was not too fond of the looks of it.
Let's see how this one converts.
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I'm overwhelmed by your support... you are amazing 🙌
Last 9hrs of my little side project on Product Hunt left, and I will try to catch a few hours of sleep now.
If you haven't checked it out yet, this is your last chance to support the Duckling! 🐤
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February was a good month! 🙏
A comeback to Indie Hacking, being truly active on Twitter and in the
#buildinpublic
community.
+112 followers
+32 active Ugly Duckling users
So grateful 🙇♂️
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Last week was crazy.
🐤 Ugly Duckling outperformed my expectations by A LOT:
👥 45+ users
👀 250+ page views
💸 $80 revenue
And we're pre-launch! I'll take it, with such small account as mine I'm very hapy with the results so far! 🤗
My new Twitter routine (or lack of it)
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Shipped! 🎉
Just deployed a "Public Profile" feature🐤 Now you can share your X analytics with your audience.
Check out my dashboard 👇
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@tibo_maker
What the hell, I can't imagine devs building Twitter tools now.. considering they can always plug off your app anytime, without even sending a 1-day notice 🤦♂️
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Taking the day (almost) completely off and finally catching up with this classic 🎮
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Coming up with UIs is usually the greatest pain point when building something on my own so I finally decided it's time to buy Tailwind UI. Will see how much friction it'll remove and if it will in fact improve my time-to-market 🚀
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This might be the most chill launch in my life.
If you like Changelog - it's on ProductHunt today! Come and say hi:)
Link below 👇
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Quick progress update:
💅 Added some social proof to the Upgrade page.
⚡ Switched from npm to pnpm - I don't have zero downtime deployments set up yet and npm has timed out a couple of times :/
📅 Added an option to turn off the trials (not pulling a trigger on this one yet).
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What is happening on Twitter right now makes me question if I'm doing a good thing by investing so much of my time here.. 😓
What other social platforms are you on as an indie hacker?
Do we have any other options besides a newsletter? 📧
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I just realized that I'm about to hit 200 followers soon.. and I actually don't know what most of you do! 😬 Let's fix that!
Are you working on any ongoing project?
If so - what is it that you're building? Is there any way I can help you in?
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🐱🐤
I've decided to re-launch Ugly Duckling on
@ProductHunt
!
It's been almost a year and Ugly Duckling has been completely rewritten. It's no longer a simple, scraping Chrome extension, now it's a web application with:
- beautiful analytics and consistency metrics
- weekly
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Remember to give credit where credit is due!
As a last finishing detail I've added a small "credits" page today to Ugly Duckling before tomorrow's
@ProductHunt
launch.
Thank you,
@aliszu
,
@morningmakersho
, and
@Mike_Andreuzza
for your amazing work! 🫶
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👑Shipping Saturday
I've just deployed a Leaderboard Beta, where you can compare your 𝕏 growth, effort, and consistency to other Ugly Duckling users.
This also means that next week is marketing week.. 😢
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🐥 Ugly Duckling updates:
Recap: Ugly Duckling is a simple Analytics tool, that's focused on helping you become more consistent on Twitter.
#0
: Statistics
Ugly Duckling has now 15 active users (trialing + paid) who have a total of 25,684 followers (+331 7D) and have written a
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I failed.
My disappointment is immeasurable, and my week is ruined.
⬜Total active users: 38 (+8)
⬜Weekly active users: 29 (+5) /50
I aimed for the stars, but shot the moon:
✅Paid users: 20 (+7) - I did not expect that!🎉
Ok, let's try this marketing thing😬
The KPI that I'll be chasing here will be the "Active Users in the last 7D". This way I'm not only focusing on the acquisition of new users but also prioritizing providing value to these users so that they keep coming back.
We're sitting at
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The first ban on Ugly Duckling 😬
It's not a feature I'd choose to build on a Friday night.. but sometimes some things just have to be done.
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I'd copy some of the new Ugly Duckling features as well🤫😂
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You can now link multiple X accounts to Ugly Duckling and switch between them seamlessly ✨
For now, it's only available in the Web App, working on adding this to the Chrome Extension soon™.
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@my_first_saas
90% of the time with music. But the best flow state I ever had was without music - although with headphones, I just didn't notice there was no music 😂
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Platform risk.
I have so many ideas for Ugly Duckling.. but I want Twitter to eventually update their stats too. I've tweeted far more times than 13.
A lot of people can't even access their data from previous months (past June!) in Twitter Analytics.
This is so
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What exactly does "Lifetime Deal" mean to you?
Do you really expect lifetime access when signing up to a SaaS?
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My yesterday's run ended up with Anaphylaxis.
Barely made it to my home, and as I did not have any episode in last 12+ years did not have any adrenaline in there.
Paramedics were awesome 🫶 they not only potentialy saved my life but they were also so kind and nice. I'm so
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I started running this year and initially made rapid progress, but then hit a wall.
So I did the most logical thing and signed up for a half marathon on September 24th. Goal: finish the race (in under 2 hours?).
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Experimenting with
@loops
- I've never been much of an email person, but implementing transactional emails turned out to be a breeze.. It'd be a sin not to try the rest of the features.
They're doing it right 💌+ I'm impressed with the OR% - thought no one used email anymore.
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The leaderboard just got a bit more competitive 🔥
New layout, new awesome creators (🫶), and just deployed new charts that show how your place has changed over time.
Onwards! 🐣
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I have reached 128 (2^7) followers! 🥳🎉
Although I missed the 100 milestone, as a developer, I thought it fitting to celebrate the powers of two 🤓
I want to thank all of you! ❤️
So much has happened, and so many wonderful people met in the last two weeks. Amazing. 🤯
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I should really start focusing on the marketing but I think I'll add just one last feature this week.
The Duckling launches on
@ProductHunt
in less than two weeks on April 19th😬
Get notified about the launch 👇
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Almost forgot how good purchasing a new domain feels.
🐐🐐🐐
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I really didn't like the old OG image of Ugly Duckling so I've quickly made a new version as today's tiny marketing effort.
It's not the final version by any means... but it's for sure an incremental improvement.
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Luck.
One of the most misunderstood things. The truth is, if you want to be lucky, you have to put in a lot of work first.
Put in more effort, take more risks, and create more opportunities.
This is how you increase your luck surface area.
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My recent tweet, "$0 to $1000 MRR in 6 weeks," went somewhat viral!
To those who are new here and don't know what I'm building yet: welcome! 👋
Introducing Lucia - an AI Spanish teacher. She's currently in closed alpha and got her first students today 🎉
I'm building it as my
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First proper glance at React today.. do you have any advice for a developer that's very used to Vue?
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✅ 100 upvotes reached
⬜ 69 comments (ongoing)
Thank you ❤️! I can't still quite grasp how much support I've gotten today. And we're just 4 hours in.
Let's push it just a bit further! 🚀
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I was excited to see that my newsletter has got a new subscriber, even though I have not started promoting it.
Well... I won't be picky.
Welcome, "hello
@example
.com". 👋
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March.
116% growth m/m.
1037 tweets. ~34 replies per day.
There are people who are growing faster. They write better, have better expertise, or are more handsome. Whatever.
But hard work still pays off. Step by step, day by day!
Month by month.
April. It’ll our month 👊
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Thank you so much! 🙏
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I used to waste my time on ideas I wasn't passionate about or that were just plain bad 😢
Then I came up with a simple rule:
Wait a week before starting to work on an idea 🗓️
If you still feel excited and motivated after seven days, go for it!
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It's time to look back at 2023.. and I can say that it's been a good year! 🎉
Health:
🚬 I've quit smoking (6 months smoke-free now!)
🏃♂️ I've lost 8kg and run a half-marathon
Finances:
💳 Paid off 61% of my debts. I can smell the freedom!
📈 Completely transformed my money
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Weekly update! ✨
It's a demo of the MVP and my gameplan for this week. To sum things up: I shipped it, but I fked up and somewhat believed that users will magically know how things work 🙌
So this week I'm working on the UX and making Lucía able to support and guide users.
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Almost a year ago, I made my first attempt to be active on Twitter. I gave up before reaching 40 followers 🤦♂️
I'm happy that I gave it one more try. It's amazing how many things can change with tiny gains and a bit of consistency.
Don't quit.
Perspective.
I started tweeting exactly two weeks ago.
While sometimes it seems as enjoyable as talking to a wall, when you zoom out, the progress has been amazing. +80% in two weeks. Thank you!
It's worth looking at more than just the absolute numbers. Onwards!
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Traveling is great, but this sneaky unlimited dopamine source can mess you up in just a few days.
I was only gone for 5 days and since my return I'm back to my default settings:
🎮Playing games until 3AM
🏃♂️ I haven’t exercised even once
💳My personal finances are a mess
📅 I
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My allergies and asthma season is finally over and I can start running again! 💨🏃♂️
I have 24 weeks to prepare for the Athens Marathon.
Plan for the next couple of weeks - get my weekly mileage from 0 up to 45km (28mi) / week as soon as I can without getting injured 😬
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“You’re so ugly that I like you. Will you go with us, and become a bird of passage?” -- Hans Andersen
So it did! Ugly Duckling joined the featured duck-yard on
@hunteddotspace
along with these amazing products!
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First days turned out much worse than anticipated 😅
Big surprise - users can't read my mind and I kind of forgot about it.
Already began to tweak the UX, I hope to roll out the first patch and demo tomorrow 🚀
No one remember failures, right?
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