absolute beginner guide to set up a $4/mo Hetzner VM for self-hosting.

👉 now as a blog post

I figured 2k+ bookmarks deserve a blog post, right?!

Using:
- Hetzner
- Caddy
- Cloudflare 
- Github 

Let me know if I missed something. I tried to get down to the most essential steps and nothing else so anyone could follow along!

👇

It doesn’t have to be that difficult, right? You can always add more tools to the workflow and use Docker or automate deployments once you get the hang of it 🙌

https://shipixen.com/tutorials/self-host-web-app-on-a-hetzner-virtual-machine

Setting Up a $4/mo Hetzner VM for Self-Hosting

I really do mean what I wrote.

I think every indie maker / small startup etc. should add Sentry by default.

You're flying in the dark without it.
If I had $1 for every time I try a product where the maker says: 'hmm not sure what went wrong' I'd be rich!

👇 worth a read

thanks for reading! 🙇‍♂️

https://blog.sentry.io/my-errors-are-gone-with-a-trace/

feedback widget now has spam protection ✅
I forgot who asked, but I hope the universe connects you with this information 😃

Sentry is shipping like an indie maker village 🔥

👇Read more 

here’s the full announcement 
https://sentry.io/changelog/user-feedback-spam-filtering/


this was a tool for shipixen.com and it's open source on Github -> https://github.com/danmindru/page-ui

SEO seems to have been steadily growing after I launched it. 

I haven't even started to submit it to various directories, so this has huge potential!

Just added this feedback bubble to the Shipixen app, website and free tools. I use to have a simpler one but the ability to share a screenshot/and or recording seems cool!

What do you use to collect feedback? #buildinpublic

You can check it out on shipixen.com btw 🙌

when doing Shipixen color themes I came across this super neat TailwindCSS color palette generator.

made it super easy to create new palettes and test out combinations.

defo worth a bookmark! 👇

👉 https://uicolors.app/create

Thanks for making this @erikdevries_nl 💚

reached 30DR with a 3rd website by spending about a day submitting it to the sites in Philipp's SEO kickstarter.

pretty much 1 day of work for each, 67% increase in clicks MoM.

this is just a 1-pager and I have no blog/docs etc. Huge opportunity to add content now!

overall, super happy I bought this. I can't remember how much I paid for it but I'm getting 100s of extra clicks from it so whatever.

In Google Ads I pay $1 per click and that just robbery in broad daylight 🤦‍♂️

https://backl.io/directory?ref=seo-kickstarter

other stuff is also looking good.

But just keep in mind, Ahrefs is not super accurate especially for smaller sites.

Check your Google Search Console instead.

huge thanks @philkellr for putting in the work and making this!

⭐ 400!
this just keeps going up 🥹

making your code public is a super humbling experience, also scary and I defo recommend doing it.

thank you for checking out Page UI! 
working on improving installation and such now.

if you didn't see it yet, Page UI is a collection of landing page components and templates that you can copy paste into your project.

check out pageui.dev 😬

super proud of how this turned out #buildinpublic

the philosophy I followed: 
Design for everyone, optimize for intermediates.

1️⃣ What you see first is simple an easy to interact with (beginner)

2️⃣ You can then dive into settings and tweak things to your liking (lots of options for intermediates)


3️⃣ Offer advanced options afterwards (experts)

Granted, this area can be expanded further. I am happy with how it came together so far 😇

Some reflections: I should probably keep optimizing for intermediates, as they are the most common type of user. Probably the beginner and expert experience can stay like this for a while 🙂

I'll add a video of this tomorrow and should release to shipixen.com any day now!

Stay tuned 👀

added a tiny indicator so people can find what's been previously selected without thinking too much.

Is this understandable?

As you change between tabs it's easy to forget what you have selected already and can take quite a few clicks to find it again. 

I don't want people to think that much when using my UIs 🙈

It shouldn't be an effort to play with these 😬