Of course... right after I start a new project, I get two team customers on the one that's been stalled for growth for months.
Greg Schier 👨💻
@schier.co
🦬 Bootstrapping @yaak.app ✍️ Writing at schier.co 👨💼 Founded and sold insomnia.rest #buildinpublic
I told you Liquid Glass was hard to read. What does this notification even say?
Heck ya. Really enjoying camping lots but sucks to not be able to check in on things.
Spent a week automating my entire feedback->release workflow, all on MCP. Wow. Just wow.
Just added an admin MCP server to help automate Yaak feedback -> release planning.
Shipped a new /download page for Yaak. Probably still needs work, but much better than before imo.
To assist my recent marketing efforts, I've added an analytics preview to each page (admin-only). It's not super useful yet, but it provides a quick way to see if a new page is getting any traffic.
Hot take: iOS users don't hate green bubble people because of phone choice The issue is that green bubbles make text hard to read are just plain ugly. This makes people not like "green bubble people." If both were blue, this hate wouldn't exist (especially with RCS)
Adding a new section to the landing. Almost all of Yaak's large business customers are in privacy/security sensitive industries, so going to lean in harder to this 🔐
It's time to put on my marketing hat and actually fix my SEO (99% branded searches)
Contribution to Yaak's OSS repo is limited to bug fixes and small improvements. People seem to either not see this or ignore it and submit entire features. How can I make this more obvious without just closing contribution altogether? It's already on the Readme and PR template.
June recap for Yaak 💹 MRR: $4,516 (−0.4%) 💰 Revenue: $2,444 (−55.2%) 💼 Subscribers: 427 (−1.4%) First monthly MRR drop in Yaak's lifetime. Weird because downloads haven't declined at all. I'm going to dig into the "why" this month. Wish me luck 🤞🏼
The Yaak CLI now generates metadata for plugins at publish time, allowing the registry to do things like show a preview of the actual theme(s) it provides. yaak.app/plugins/@ad... 👈🏼
Trying so hard not to retreat into the bush, permanently. Home-made camper now has solar and a fridge. Easily fits 2 adults, a 2-year old, and our 100lb dog 🐶
It's hard to "upsell" a commercial-use license. Seems like lots of people think "oh ya, I'll do it later" but never do, because it's not blocking any features or use case. Thoughts on inline prompts like this?
I love how AI means I can focus more on the design/UX Yaak will now run a wider query, by default, and suggest alternates when no results are returned.
Dang. First month(ish) period where MRR is actually DECREASING. Is it over for me?
Cool, SSO (OIDC) now complete too (did SCIM earlier in the week). Quite a few edge cases and things to handle, but only a couple days of work. We'll see if it comes back to bite me later 😅
I've been slowly working on a new debug proxy app to pair with Yaak. Anything you'd like to see?
2 customers wanted it, so SCIM is here. Yaak is now enterprise-ready 💼 Funny thing is that it wasn't even that hard. Testing was more difficult than implementation.
So weird that I need to restart my computer to update my display 🙃
I thought AI would help me make a screenshot app in a couple days. Turns out making high-quality apps is still very hard.
I really cooked with this auto crop/gradient stuff. Beautiful screenshots. By default ✨
May recap for Yaak 💹 MRR: $4,532 (+5%) 💰 Revenue: $5,454 (−44%) 💼 Subscribers: 433 (−1%) A bit of a slow one this month, with lots of churn. My hunch is that AI continues to take away more and more of Yaak's use cases.
