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@danshipit.bsky.social
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Bootstrapping BlogBowl - easiest way to start your blog 🔥 Building blogbowl.io 👨‍💻

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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Working on a new feature for my product and Claude code is quite insane at brainstorming product design 🤯 Just described what I want to see and instead of producing tons of text it created a simple wireframe of how it might look like.
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
20:30: have an idea to add 2 new Google Search Console endpoints 21:00: endpoints added to API, skill is updated, documentation is updated. Claude fast, ship fast 😄
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
My SEO slowly starts to take off. Product Hunt launch gave a small boost, so I am now starting to focus more on the SEO and content. I mean I am dogfooding my own product 😎 What works so far: - listicles - competitor pages Just started publishing free tools as well
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Went with my co-founder Claude for a beer. we spoke a lot about growing our B2B product. He said that he'll add some new interesting features to our platform soon 😄
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Made almost ~$230 today. My SaaS makes some money 3rd day in a row. but still marketing is kind chaotic... don't have a system yet
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Umami @umami_software - privacy-focused analytics platform. Alternative to Google Analytics. Features 👇 - Real-time dashboard - Very small tracking script - GDPR-friendly by default - Self-host or cloud option 👉 GitHub: github.com/umami-softw...
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
n8n @n8n_io - workflow automation platform. Zapier-style workflow engine. Features 👇 - 400+ integrations - Drag-and-drop workflow builder - Automate internal processes - Fully customizable 👉 GitHub: github.com/n8n-io/n8n
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Supabase @supabase - your open-source backend. Firebase alternative built on Postgres. Features 👇 - Auth, DB, storage & functions - Real-time APIs - Secure access policies - Self-hosting available 👉 GitHub: github.com/supabase/su...
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Metabase @metabase - business intelligence for everyone. Business Intelligence and Embedded Analytics tool. Features 👇 - Beautiful charts & dashboards - Easy no-code query builder - Embeddable analytics - Works with any SQL database 👉 GitHub: github.com/metabase/me...
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Chatwoot @chatwootapp - open-source customer support. Alternative to Intercom. Features👇 - Live chat widget - Shared team inbox - Automations & workflows - Email, WhatsApp, FB, and more 👉 GitHub: github.com/chatwoot/ch...
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
BlogBowl - Manage your blog, changelog, help docs & newsletters from one place. Plug-and-play with your landing page. Features 👇 - Internal notion-like editor - Manage blog, changelog and help docs - Manage & send newsletter 👉 GitHub: github.com/BlogBowl/Bl...
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Feel prod that BlogBowl goes right after Gemini in Top of Best products of November on Product Hunt 😄 #buildinpublic
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
SaaS/Startup founders 👋 Pitch your product and share the link 👇 #indiehackers #buildinpublic
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Do you have a newsletter for your product? What's your open rate? Last email I sent open rate was 38.9%, it seems good Click rate is 5.95% #buildinpublic
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
BlogBowl collected 60 stars on GitHub... Open source way of managing your B2B blog, changelog, help docs and send newsletters 🔥 Star us boys and girls ❤️ #buildinpublic
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Me after building platform for 1.5 years and now having no energy for marketing it... #buildinpublic
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Nice, after #1 Product of the day on PH, I'm slowly increasing my DR 🔥 Expecting that to grow even more #buildinpublic
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
What happens to ur app after getting #1 Product of the day on PH 👇 - 22 trials for 1$ - +200 new verified registrations - 29 stars on GitHub - ~2k unique visitors Stats are right after launch, will share later how they changed in a week #buildinpublic
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I fixed that SHIT and HTML started to render correctly on the page. THANKS FUCKING CONFETTI for breaking my app and MRR $$$ 🤯
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
So i started look for a solution, it turned out to be very easy, i just had to dynamically import the component...
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
But it seems that even with 'use client' stated, it tried to import that package and was failing because document/window is not defined on the server side 👇
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I opened the web and tried to inspect page source and noticed that I only have FUCKING scripts in the returned HTML, which means that pages were rendered on a client using javascript. JS is shit for SEO. I was blaming everything - myself, nextjs, vercel and supabase.
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I checked the logs in the vercel and I noticed that error rate was around 80% which is crazy and I didn't do any breaking changes in the last months, i was shocked.
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
BUT THAN THIS SHIT HAPPENED. I started checking my Google Console to see how we're doing and I was seeing a huge drop in clicks from Google. I couldn't understand why: - Traffic goes down, amount of indexed pages as well. - I started seeing 5xx errors in Google console.
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Financially it was also doing good, i almost made $900 MRR in peak and it was growing, I planned to add additional products and hoped I would surpass $1MRR with that, it was very close.
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
So I had a directory which did pretty good for the last 12 months, I got around 500k clicks from Google organically and was really happy about that. Here is how my Google Console looked like 👇
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
I started BlogBowl because setting up and maintaining a simple blog or changelog for a SaaS product was way too painful. Too many tools, too much setup, and not enough focus on content. So I built something better.
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
🚀 After 1.5 years of building, BlogBowl is now open source. An all-in-one platform to manage your blog, changelog, and help docs - now free to self-host. 👇
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
I am trying to sell one of my projects on Flippa 😀 To be honest do not believe that I will be able to sell it for the reasonable amount, but just wanted to give it a try and see how it will end up. Anyone here had experience selling website on Flippa? #buildinpublic
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I’ve tried launching BlogBowl 3 times on Product Hunt… and never got featured 🫣 It honestly hurts - 1.5 years of work, fully open-source, solving a real problem. IT EVEN HAS AI INSIDE IT 🤖 #buildinpublic
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
I finally found time to start preparing open source version of BlogBowl 🔥 Let's see how it goes... #buildinpublic
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
I had a crazy and productive week. Lot's of calls, met a lot of new people and I am super happy that BlogBowl right now is at the point, where it helps me to connect with amazing people...
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
I finally had time to go over and prepare lots of listicle and comparison topics to boost my SEO. Now, BlogBowl will write and publish blog post daily completely with AI. No effort. No headaches. Just set it and forget it. i built a monster 🤯
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Honestly, it's soo easy to collect subscribers, write and schedule newsletter using BlogBowl. This is one of the ways I am dogfooding my own product. P.S. I am taking things seriously, I even started sending the newsletter with latest changes 😄 #buildinpublic
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
what do you guys use for analytics? I use umami and it's great and open-source #buildinpublic
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
This is so truuuee 😅 #buildinpubli #indiehacker
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Nightmare of every indie hacker 🫣 #buildinpublic #indiehacker
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
What is your plan B guys? My: become a goose farmer 😄
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Pretty good results for the first day, after taking a pause 😎 #buildinpublic
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Tell me if it happened to you already? 😅 #buildinpublic #indiehacker
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Building SaaS is cool. But living life is cooler... What fun did you get up to this weekend? I went wakeboarding 😎 #buildinpublic
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Today one guy contacted support to ask me on how to connect their website to subfolder. To be honest, I think that it might be a bit complicated for people, especially to people who use no-code tools. #buildinpublic
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Dream of every person in #buildinpublic space 😅
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
SaaS/Startup founders 👋 Pitch your product and share the link 👇 #indiehackers #buildinpublic
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
5. Check how google sees your web: right click -> view page source 6. Fix technical SEO - use a tool such as ahrefs to do it for free (up to 10k pages) 7. Do not embed youtube as usual iframe - optimize it 8. Use pagination
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
8 tips to boost your SEO 👇 1. Use structured data. Articles, breadcrumbs... 2. Localize your blog. Adding few new languages will boost your reach. 3. Do mobile-first site and check page-speed 4. For indexed pages use SSR as much as possible
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
I’m back. Honestly, it feels weird to post again. The last weeks have been heavy. My co-founder decided to step back, and for a while I wasn’t sure if I should keep going alone. But I kept building 👇 - Shipped v1 - Pivoted the positioning → AI blogging on autopilot
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
BlogBowl already includes: ✅ Blog, changelog & docs ✅ Newsletter writing ✅ Built-in analytics ✅ And now… AI auto-writer It’s a powerful stack, but the positioning might be getting too confusing...
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
We’re adding automated daily article generation using AI. You get fresh content daily. Real example of generate article is in comments 👇 Scored 78% human in an AI checker 🤯
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Dan @danshipit.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
🚀 I’ve spent the past year building BlogBowl — a blogging platform for busy founders. Now… it’s going AI-first, and it’s getting WILD. Here’s what’s happening 👇
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