LittleGoal.com

A couple hours of hacking this morning and email updates can now include images. I’m pleased because I want updating to be as easy as possible. I might also add this to my blog to make blog posts as easy as sending emails. Read more

Inline images are working from email updates! Edit: this update was sent from my email account, and I included the above screenshot! You can now embed images with your email updates and they’ll appear inline!   Read more

One aspect of WordPress I’ve never gotten my head around is the emails it sends. I recently added a plugin to make the emails look consistent and well designed. Today I got fed up with the inconsistency and added two plugins, one to modify at least a couple of the emails, and another to decide which… Read more

I didn’t realize how popular the #buildinpublic hashtag is on Twitter. I started following the hashtag and a few people tweeting. It’s really cool to see! I realize the insular nature of LittleGoal.com in the context of building in public, so I think a future feature will be auto-tweeting updates so they reach a wider… Read more

Today I updated the email templates so system emails don’t look so… WordPressy. I also cleaned up the comment form. Read more

The site uses Beaver Builder for the layout. I doubled down on it this year and I’m still learning the quirks. I saw a new user joined the site Friday morning and I signed in to see if they’d added a project. I found all of the project lists had been replaced by user lists! … Read more

The doors are open! I posted in a couple Slack groups and got a couple sign ups. Of course they sent me scrambling to fix the bugs that make the site useless, and of course found some bugs along the way.  I’ll continue to tweak the site layout and design forever, but I mainly want to… Read more

I took the leap. I mentioned the new site in a thread in a small Slack community on a Sunday. So I don’t expect any traffic from it, but I’m over the mental hurdle of actually telling someone about it. A small but significant milestone. Read more

Had to wrestle with Mailgun a bit, but reminder emails are now going out and functioning well. Their PHP SDK is hit or miss, but the emails are sending and should be parseable when replied to. Replies are not yet parsed as Mailgun is balking at the LetsEncrypt cert on https://littlegoal.com (at least I assume… Read more

A good weekend of hacking. I have a logo, once I realized I already owned the domain LittleGoal.com. I think to be complete, the site needs following, commenting, and email-based updates. Down the road, I’m thinking to add timelines, feature voting, and making all this stuff embeddable. It would also be a cool feature to… Read more