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We are back up!

Published by: MicahIverson, Founder of Open Makers


Ok, so for some reason Twitter suspended our App in their developer portal and it locked everyone out of our site since we use them for our authentication.

For now, we are back up and running and hopefully we won't get suspended again. We are going to re-think using Twitter for authentication going forward now that Elon is creating a bit of a mess over there.

Cheers!

If you own a business, here are some of the most basic things you should have

Published by: MicahIverson, Founder of Home Pro Partners


If you own a business, here are some of the most basic things you should have...

  • LLC or SCorp
  • EIN
  • Business Bank Accounts (Checking, Credit Card, Savings)
  • Company Story
  • Tag Line
  • Company Values
  • Logo
  • Business Cards
  • Branded Estimate Template
  • Minimum 1 Page Website with Branded Domain Name
  • Branded Email Address
  • Google Listing
  • Facebook, Instagram Pages
  • Bookkeeper / Accountant

This is just the bare minimum for most businesses, there are other things like processes, job descriptions, legal documents, insurance, workman's comp, etc. etc.

Are there any other bare minimum things I'm missing?

We just released user accounts, reviews and ratings

Published by: thecaspg, Founder of TravelerMap


Exciting news – our website, TravelerMap.net, now lets users create accounts and submit park reviews. This way, people can share helpful information about parks and help others plan their trips.

To make sure you have the most up-to-date info, we've also added beautiful photos of National Parks across the US and detailed descriptions for all national parks in the US and Canada.

Give it a try and let us know what you think!

Cheers, Kacper.

The Help Center Academy is live on Product Hunt!

Published by: sobedominik, Founder of HelpKit


Hi folks! I spent quite a lot of time last month to make the ultimate free guide on how to create a successful help center. Talked to experts, gathered dozens of helpful tools also analyzed hundreds of help centers from running my own SaaS HelpKit and this is the result 😊

Goal is to make it the ultimate resource for learning how to create a help center 💪

I'd love to hear your feedback in the comments! 🙋‍♂️

👉 https://www.producthunt.com/posts/the-help-center-academy

release v2.0

Published by: bahauddinAz, Founder of Promotee


Exciting news!

We just released the latest version of Promotee v2.0.0, and I am thrilled to share it with our community!

I have completely revamped the UI with a fresh new look, new logo, and color palette. I also made the software more intuitive and added light and dark mode for better user experience. This is a major update and I can't wait to hear your thoughts on it.

New features include:

  • Redesigned UI
  • New logo and color palette
  • Intuitive software
  • Light and dark mode

V2.2 Update

Published by: capten_masin, Founder of MyBoard


MyBoard has gone through a lot of changes and iterations since it first launched, and this one is a biggie!

This latest update brings some great new features such as:

🖌️ A new look to the homepage 🏷️ Subscribe to public boards 📈 Board analytics 📊 Poll card 💅 Improved board customisation 📖 Public changelog

It's free to get started today!

What's your favourite new feature? What would you like to see in the next update?

Privacyboard is finally live 🥳

Published by: amilkoff, Founder of Privacyboard


If you follow me on Twitter, you might have noticed that I’ve been working on a new product for the past few months with my partner Sara.

This product is Privacyboard.co, your GDPR copilot 🧑✈️

Privacyboard allows you to easily comply with the GDPR by automating:

  • Legal documents creation and maintenance (Privacy & Cookie Policies, Data Processing Agreement…)
  • Right requests from your users
  • Monitoring of your subprocessors
  • Signature of DPA & more exciting features coming soon!

All these assets will be available on as customizable page dedicated to your compliance: your own Privacy Board.

And the best part is that you can get started by generating high-quality and 100% compliant Privacy & Cookie Policies for free!

Privacyboard is the latest addition to my micro-startup studio and it will be my main focused in the months to come as it is my most ambitious project so far and I really have high hopes for it.

Version 2.0

Published by: justanthonylee, Founder of Hey.Café


We have come so far since the first version and it looked nothing like it does now. Since we launched the site last year we slowly changed just about every aspect of the site and app, and now this week we launch a major batch of updates.

Here is a small summery of the updates and there are way more that are not noted here including a larger design rewrite and upgrade to just about how everything on the backend works. We have managed over the last few weeks to cut network time in half for most requests.

Some of the updates

  • Message system, you can now send messages to users and more important make large group chats with no user limit.

  • Setting to hide suggestions in the menus.

  • Dark and light mode toggle in settings along with more privacy toggles.

  • Brand new default avatars and banner images for accounts and cafés.

  • Swipe to go backwards gesture for mobile.

  • See suggested cafés on the right hand menu.

  • View follows in notifications breakdown along with comment and conversation edits.

  • Email updates support for the new headers and formatting options.

  • Left menu links highlighted if you are on that page.

  • Website meta data loading now will try again after a few seconds if it fails.

  • Tab over between conversation elements including actions Accessibility.

  • Conversation inputs allow you to change the café posted to any time Feature.

  • Smaller screen improvements for mobile. Smaller width for content inline in dark mode.

  • Follow buttons without needing to go to a profile to follow for explore & more.

  • Share button for external use to use the title system or first line as content.

  • New suggested accounts and cafés based on the people you currently follow.

  • Show recent pin on the top of a users profile feed.

  • Locked posts preventing new comments and reactions.

  • If you edit a conversation it wipes ALL reactions from it and lets the people who made reactions know it was edited.

Thank you to everyone who has helped test and work on this update you are all amazing.

Due to the huge relaunch we are also up on Product Hunt again. https://www.producthunt.com/posts/hey-cafe-2-0

Optimizations that caches!

Published by: Mobilpadde, Founder of hasty.dev


I might not have been very active on the socials - namely Twitter these past weeks. Due to some personal reasons, I have not been able to work on any side-projects. Sadly, and I'm so, so sorry! 😢

Today has been very different though! I've been typing away, and quite fast - if I should say so myself 🥹

Thus, prepare yourselves for the new and massively improved hasty.dev! 😍


[New]

We all love those fast and snappy site, right? Well, the secret sauce is sometimes caching, something I've not implemented on hasty.dev - until now! Whoop! 🚤 So, please, enjoy the power of caching!

Of cause it won't be cached for ever, just a few moments, so if you might click the Run by accident right after another run, this won't hurt anybody now.

What happens if you change the code, then? Well, it's a completely new payload, meaning the tasks will be run anew! Also, the percentages will update according to these new op/s.


Quite a few new improvements, I don't even know where to start 🤷

[Improvement]

Use the proper fetching mechanism for the front-end - this has been a tech-debt for quite awhile. I'm using SvelteKit, just FYI. Simply haven't been able to love any other front-end SSR framework as much!

Along with this, I've messed a bit with the request and responses, these are now far smaller than before! This should - maybe - equal to some faster answers to whatever you might seek!

The API got the largest overhaul, this also means the deployment process. The docker-image is now exactly half the size of what it used to be! - Did somebody say faster releases? Heck ya!

All in all, clarified the code for future me to work in - I'll love past self in the future 🤗


[Fix]

What about being able to see those variable texts of one of the notebooks, those are much better handled now. You're welcome! 🤩

Hopefully fixed issues with the API, that unfortunately seems to disconnect from the data-store at randomized weird moments 🫣

Also, a big mystery still is the recovering from a complete panic, these are still on a testing basis, but might the right ones now.


On other - related - news: I have decided to try out with the new (a tad old) kid in the yard! Mastodon, here I am... @Mobilpadde@techhub.social.

Thanks!