Changelog

Hi there! 👋

I am an indie maker myself and I run this website as a personal side-project. So, in order to keep me accountable, and to get feedback from the community, I share my progress publicly by keeping this .

All feedback is greatly appreciated! Thanks! 🙏

What's new?

Version 3.4.2

  • Allow users to update their products during the review process
  • Fix newsletter subscription

Version 3.4.1

  • Updated all dependencies
  • Allow submitted products to be deleted by their owners
  • Refactor the footer component
  • Minor bug fixes

Version 3.3

  • Migrated database server
  • Updated all dependencies
  • Minor bug fixes

Version 3.2

  • Added hero section to the explore index pages
  • Added LinkedIn and YouTube video URL to the product definition
  • Show user social links on profile
  • Added JSON-LD structured data
  • Minor bug fixes

Version 3.1

  • Updated the edit profile form to include a country value
  • Redesigned the user profile page
  • Added country data to the open analytics page
  • Minor bug fixes

Version 3.0

  • Changed the frontend design to a modern UI
  • Updated the product submission success badge
  • Created a settings page to allow uploading a custom profile image

Version 2.3

  • Created a settings page to manage notifications
  • Updated the edit profile form to include social links

Version 2.2.1

  • Moved all image assets to Cloudinary
  • Refactored the screenshot engine

Version 2.2

  • Refactored the hole project to a monorepo
  • Updated project dependencies
  • Minor bug fixes

Version 2.1

  • Added upvote button to product cards
  • Created an open analytics page
  • Fixed issue with username generation

Version 2.0

  • Designed a new hero for the homepage
  • Properly show authentication errors within an alert badge
  • Fixed the layout of the categories page
  • Made product submission only work for authenticated users
  • Multiple bug fixes

Version 1.6.3

  • Added a upvote button to the product page
  • Added a popular products list page

Version 1.6.2

  • Fixed issue where some user avatars wouldn't load properly
  • Added page to showcase the makers with most product submissions

Version 1.6.1

  • Now the footer shows the number products in queue to be featured
  • Added a progress bar showing the queue position to submitted pending products
  • Updated project dependencies

Version 1.6

  • Refactored the mobile navbar
  • Added server-side rendering and pagination to the explore and category pages
  • Updated project dependencies

Version 1.5.2

  • Added a back button on the product page
  • Now products submitted without an authenticated session are marked with an unique browser identifier (using cookies) and will be automatically merged with a user account on login, if using the same browser
  • Added a products RSS feed

Version 1.5.1

  • The explore pages now list the products separated by the day they were featured
  • Now the footer shows the server date and time

Version 1.5

  • Added a user public profile page
  • Added a my products page where users can view their submitted products
  • Added multi-select with autocomplete for picking categories on the submission form

Version 1.4

  • Added authentication using the Google, Twitter, and GitHub authorization providers
  • Add settings page, with CRUD functions to update profile, username, email, and to delete account
  • Moved away from Typeform to a custom product submission form

Version 1.3.2

  • Now the product page shows the date of when the product was featured
  • Added a tweet, share and/or copy link component on the product page

Version 1.3.1

  • Refactored the layout so now the sidebar only shows on the explore and category pages
  • Moved from just one to two images per product (thumbnail and screenshot)

Version 1.3

  • Migrated the whole project to TypeScript
  • Moved from a JSON file to a PostgreSQL database

Version 1.2.1

  • Now the product page shows related products that share at least one category

Version 1.2

  • Added a basic search functionality
  • Implemented infinite scrolling feature on the explore and category pages
  • Added a newsletter subscription form integrated with Mailchimp
  • Added maker information to the product details

Version 1.1

  • Now products can belong to one or more categories
  • Added a list of common product categories
  • Added a product submission form using Typeform
  • Designed a custom mobile navbar

Version 1.0

  • Released the first MVP version