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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 20/06/2025

We've probably all faced stale closures when working with React so I made a video about it: youtu.be/9BIk4ooIZDc

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How to Fix Stale Closures in React

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 13/06/2025

Learn how to set up typed, auto-updating route helpers in your Inertia.js Rails app using the JS Routes gem. This video walks you through installation, configuration, and usage, so you can stop hardcoding URLs and keep your frontend routes in sync with Rails. youtu.be/SjsA2jX_LuY

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Setting Up Typed Routes for Inertia Rails

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 06/06/2025

In this video, we’ll explore how to use deferred props with Inertia.js and Rails to speed up initial page loads and keep your app feeling fast. We’ll also cover how to use the usePoll function to fetch fresh data in the background without reloading the page. youtu.be/2oXSWOMSe9k

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Deferred Props In Inertia Rails for Faster Page Loads

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 30/05/2025

In this video I will show you how to use OJ Serializer to serialize props and pass them to Inertia Rails. youtu.be/Q0OIWsGu_sk

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Passing Props with Inertia Rails using a Serializer

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 30/05/2025

We hired his editing agency to help with our content and quickly realised the onboarding process was costing him big time... youtu.be/YpxkEhBoDtE

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Roasting Our Content Agency's Onboarding (Live Call)

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 23/05/2025

In this video I will show you how to use React with Shadcn UI and Tailwind in a Rails project with Inertia.js. youtu.be/lTSiqGRvuPo

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Inertia Rails with Shadcn UI

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 23/05/2025

We're excited to announce the launch of our new project manager this week! After lots of testing and fine-tuning, it's now live and already making work easier and more fun. We've also signed a new team member who'll help fuel our content and marketing growth. youtu.be/psWgeg-0xlM

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Progress Update - 23 May - Launching a whole new experience

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 21/05/2025

In this episode Darrell and I discuss 12 habits that are destroy productivity. youtu.be/l-UWMzX3ZhI

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12 Bad Habits to AVOID in 26 Minutes

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 16/05/2025

The best of both worlds - use React in a Rails project with Inertia.js. We have been migrating our frontend to React with Inertia Rails so that we can deliver the best UX possible while still using the tools we love. youtu.be/IP7FePduHGg

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Using React in Rails with Inertia.js

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 16/05/2025

Meetings and momentum this week. Prepping changes to our internal task system—turning it into a full-blown project management tool—and laying the foundation for a big leap in content quality. youtu.be/QNLd28XJPyk

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Progress Update - 16 May - Building a Content Command Center from Scratch - Bring on the Task Lists

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 10/05/2025

In this episode, we break down Figma’s bombshell update: a full-blown website builder (Figma Sites) inside @figma.com . No more exporting to Webflow. No more plug-ins or hacks. Just pure design-to-web inside the tool you’re already using. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQHw...

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What the Fizz is Figma Doing? the strategy of Sites, Buzz, Make, Draw at Config 2025

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 09/05/2025

Big things baking this week. Interviewed our first potential hires while still getting some work in. Darrell and I were in the same room at the same time for once. youtu.be/ZZdExFM3f9E

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Progress Update - 9 May - Building a SAAS from Scratch - Hiring our first team members

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 09/05/2025

In this video I will show you how to use tools with the RubyLLM gem in a Rails project. youtu.be/9CyCXVShX6g

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Using AI Tools with RubyLLM

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 07/05/2025

In this episode Darrell and I discuss why gaming is extremely useful when building skills for later on in life. youtu.be/h-GhmAvt0Qc

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Why Gaming is the key to being successful in Business

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 02/05/2025

In this week’s update, we dive into the latest progress on Clipflow as we push closer to our upcoming relaunch. • Major work on the Media Reviewer. • The new Overview Screen designs are underway. • We've got thumbnail/packaging screens all good to go. youtu.be/Yn8QRgRtysU

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Progress Update - 2 May 2025

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 02/05/2025

Smarter Rails apps with AI using RubyLLM In this video I will show you how to add the RubyLLM gem to a Rails project so that you can integrate AI/LLM calls in to the app with very little effort. youtu.be/fpR2LgbdG90

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Smarter Rails apps with AI using RubyLLM

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 30/04/2025

Clipflow Just Got a Major Upgrade 🚀 We’ve rebuilt the front-end in React, moved infrastructure to the US, and re-imagined ideation with a sleek new interface and collaborative chat that includes AI agents like Flow. youtu.be/aos_GqSHC0U

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Clipflow Just Got a Major Upgrade

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 25/04/2025

In this video I will show you how to add Tanstack Query to a Rails project that is running Inertia.js. We did this so that we could fetch pieces of data that was required in modals and not the page itself. youtu.be/B2Pr5ckVwkU

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Tanstack Query, Intertia.js and Rails

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 23/04/2025

In this episode Darrell and I discuss what makes products feel good and the things products do that ultimately make them feel subpar. youtu.be/HSxgUQDFrD0

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Why Doesnt Your Product Feel Good?

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 18/04/2025

In this video I will show you how to swap out JSBundling and CSSBundling to the Vite Rails gem in a mature Rails project. This makes the process a bit more complex and I found it hard to find documentation for this process so wanted to record it in case it helped someone out. youtu.be/3TlCqb4XrFg

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Migrating to Vite from JSBundling & CSSBundling in Rails

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 16/04/2025

In this one, we open up a raw, internal product session to share how we’re rethinking the “Idea” stage inside Clipflow — the part that quietly makes or breaks how content actually gets made. youtu.be/eQkwpglN3Hg

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Where is Clipflow Going? A Ground Up rethinking of Creator Patterns

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 11/04/2025

Make sure you give back to the community that supports your efforts and makes coding so easy these days. Without open source all the fancy new Cursor's of the world would not exist. Here's a video on how to contribute to open source to show how easy it is! youtu.be/WvE6G9HO090

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How to Quickly Contribute to Open Source

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 11/04/2025

Take a sneak peek at what we've been working on. Super happy with how it is shaping up. We've been working on Comment Mentions, Real time updates, url unfurling and summaries. youtu.be/hu4h7jcAxsA

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Progress Update - 11 Apr 2025

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 09/04/2025

In this episode Darrell and I discuss how to use the paranoia you face as an entrepreneur as fuel to keep you going instead of crushing you. youtu.be/Bex9gAP3inI

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Invisible Enemies Entrepreneurs Fight (And how to weaponise them)

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 05/04/2025

In this video I will show you how to add Programatic SEO to a Rails app. Programmatic SEO is a strategy that allows us to automatically create links to custom pages using data in the system without having to manually define each one. youtu.be/gLmmLhNoV_c

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Build Pages Automatically with Programmatic SEO in Rails

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 04/04/2025

This week we have been hard at working building our new "Idea" experience. There are a lot of new concepts and polish that takes more time that usual to implement but we are confident it will be worthwhile! youtu.be/U1TXuFJPzUA

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Progress Update - Fri 4 Apr

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 02/04/2025

In this episode Darrell and I discuss when is it a good idea to throw your current product or process in the bin and start again. youtu.be/UiQmD4q0In0

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Chuck it all in the Bin and Start Again?

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 28/03/2025

Implement drag and drop sort with Sortable.js, ViewComponent & Stimulus in Rails. youtu.be/ocF01Ow-TjI

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Sorting Images with Sortable.js and Stimulus in Rails

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 28/03/2025

This week we rebuilt the ideas list, including an entirely new tidier layout, and a whole bunch of changes that will make Clipflow faster, no matter where you are, and enable us to make the big changes we've got planned to make it even more powerful. youtu.be/GmdDylBi_BU

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Progress Update - Fri 28 March

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 26/03/2025

When starting a business, should you bootstrap or seek external funding? In this video, Darrell and I break down the pros and cons of both approaches based on our firsthand experience building a self-funded empire that scaled to 400 employees and a successful exit after 9 years youtu.be/lJq1Xn2QPN8

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External Funding vs Bootstrapping Your Business

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 21/03/2025

In this video we will setup Custom Fields and Values and then seed them. Once that is completed we will use Rails nested attributes to create, update and destroy the fields. youtu.be/AUKxm2ZETgk

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Custom Fields (Similar to a CMS) in Rails

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 21/03/2025

This week we spent a fair bit of time trying to organise all the legal paperwork and bank accounts to turn Clipflow from a concept to a real business. youtu.be/BgVKLXQfBmg

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Progress Update - Fri 21 March

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 19/03/2025

This week on the Podcast, Darrell and I share a pitch deck we recently put together and talk through why things were included and what you should focus on when presenting to investors. youtu.be/yckYd440NrQ

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The 3 Must Have Slides that Win Pre-Seed VC Funding

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 14/03/2025

In this episode we will add a masonry grid image gallery to the listing page using Tailwind, View Components and Rails. youtu.be/D753og9vfK0

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Image Gallery using a Masonry Grid with ViewComponent, Tailwind & Rails

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 14/03/2025

We spent some time planning out the next features and setting up all our business entities so that we can get a bank account and start charging for the product. youtu.be/LnDJNUWH_HQ

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Progress Update - Fri 14 Mar

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 12/03/2025

This week on the Podcast, Darrell and I share how much it costs us to run Clipflow, our SaaS platform. We walk through every service we are paying for an how much it is costing overall. youtu.be/atbrpDIzVjM

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How much it costs us to run our SAAS platform in 2025

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 07/03/2025

In this episode we will setup the place detail page where we will show the main image, gallery and details about the place. We will also setup a component to show the related listings that belong to that location. youtu.be/ZKDqN1QLhnE

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Creating View Components for Place Detail Page in Rails

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 07/03/2025

A week spent polishing the app and reducing the number of clicks it takes to do things. We have finished our first long form Clipflow video which will come out soon. youtu.be/lRIzYTGiB9o

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Progress Update - Fri 7 Mar

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 05/03/2025

This week on the Podcast, Darrell and I discuss everything we have learnt while setting up paid marketing in the Meta platform. Check out the things you should do before starting that will ensure you get the best results. youtu.be/w5NppvV6BK4

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Everything we learnt using up Meta Ads in 28 minutes

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 28/02/2025

In this video we will setup the custom domain name in Fly.io using our domain from Namecheap and AWS Route53. youtu.be/SHzynliKmqc

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Setting up a Custom Domain for Fly.io with Namecheap & Route53

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 28/02/2025

Massive week of new users. We have seen a lot of users activate (start using the platform frequently) and spent the week fine tuning and improving performance to keep everything snappy! youtu.be/tHOlOqSU9es

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Progress Update - Fri 28 Feb

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 26/02/2025

This week on the Podcast, Darrell and I discuss our experience with building personal brands and whether or not it is a good idea when you have limited resources. youtu.be/w4sJ-NFazFs

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Our BIGGEST Personal Branding Mistakes

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 21/02/2025

This week focused on improving functionality and refining our approach to user engagement. youtu.be/0tTkPF9a_rk

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Progress Update - Fri 21 Feb

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 21/02/2025

It's Time! Deploying Rails Accommodation Directory to Fly.io, Supabase and S3 youtu.be/4UUymvJhAOk

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Deploying Rails Accommodation Directory to Fly.io, Supabase and S3

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 19/02/2025

This week on the Podcast, Darrell and I discuss why you should be careful when selecting metrics to measure, specifically in software. youtu.be/rLEqgQg8rvs

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Road to Disappointment: When metrics become a slippery slope

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 14/02/2025

A follow up to show how we fixed our S3 cost blow out caused by Data Transfer Out of AWS to Fly.io youtu.be/1K9xxpNsPd0

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How We Fixed our AWS Bill Blow Out

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 14/02/2025

This week focused on growth, experimentation, and innovation. Here’s a breakdown of what happened: youtu.be/bNYUy1c514g

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Progress Update - Fri 14 Feb

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 12/02/2025

This week on the Podcast, Darrell and I discuss some things you should avoid when pivoting your startup/business. youtu.be/6oxSWuapBs0

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Startup Pivots MOST people need to avoid

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Ken Greeff @kengreeff.com · 07/02/2025

In this video we will add attributes and links to the listing page and then implement a model to track the click throughs to those links to store data which we can use for analytics later. youtu.be/W1XmwglcksU

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Tracking Link Clicks for Outbound Analytics - Part 11

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