Weekly Report #71 - Indie App Experience Program

Preface#

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This article is a record and reflection on the life of the week from 2024-08-26 to 2024-09-02.

This week, our team officially launched the decentralized indexing project on the mainnet, which was extremely busy. The input, output, and learning were all reduced compared to before. We received the PaddingLeft stickers and tried Xylect, which led to an interesting plan. There were also many interesting things.

RSS3 Node#

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This week, our team finally launched the decentralized indexing project that has been busy for half a year - "A New Era of Decentralized & Verifiable Data for AI & Open Web".

For the concept and design, you can refer to the whitepaper - "Whitepaper - The de facto RSS3 Constitution.".

Interested friends can learn more.

Sticker Replacement#

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Randy's programmer peripheral brand store is now online. Witnessing the process from when he mentioned this idea, to seeing the manufacturer, and finally officially launching for sale, his execution is really strong.

I became the first user to place an order in advance and happened to replace a batch of my own stickers.

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When organizing and replacing stickers, I also found that they have gradually become my memory points. For example, I went to GopherChina 2023 and got JetBrains' official stickers; I went to Rust Conf 2023 and gained a lot of small crabs; I went to Hong Kong with colleagues to attend Google AI's conference and got Google Cloud stickers. I even spent a night in an internet cafe with their peripheral pillow.

Suddenly, I understood the interesting aspect of keeping a journal. It seems that I can review where I have been and unlock new experiences through these traces.

Indie App Experience Program#

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Recently, I read an article written by laike9m called "What I Did to Promote Independent Development Products", which talked about his experience in promoting Xylect, a word-based AI search/translation tool.

I was actually an early user of PopClip, and later I also used intensively products like Bob and Haye.ai that are based on word-based interaction. I was curious when I saw this on their official website:

👨👩 Content creator? Contact me for collaboration and get free licenses

So I tried to showcase my Twitter, TG Channel, blog, and the project "GitHub - yu-tools" and sent an email to inquire. I quickly received a reply and a license, and also added TG communication. During the use, I also provided many user-side suggestions (some of which have been implemented in the current version), which was a novel experience.

There is a sentence in the article:

Open source projects are always indebted to users because users enjoy the unpaid labor of developers. However, for independent development (or all commercial activities), this position is completely reversed.

I have always been interested in and aspired to independent development. I have also tried to develop some small products myself. I often try out open-source projects and products in the field of tools and efficiency as soon as possible. I often have the opportunity to directly communicate with the developers and understand their difficulties.

During the communication with the developers of WebP Cloud and Xylect, I also found that as a deep user of tool products, I often can provide some small suggestions from the user's perspective. I also present my real usage experience and tutorials through articles (such as "Building Your Free Image Hosting System from Scratch (Cloudflare R2 + WebP Cloud + PicGo)"). Developers often leave comments and recommend their projects under my blog.

So I had an idea to add a module to my weekly report and tool site "tools.pseudoyu.com" called the Indie App Experience Program. I want to experience products that I think are great and provide my real experience and usage methods from both the developer's and user's perspectives. I think it will be very interesting.

I am not a very influential person, just a content creator who conveys my life, thoughts, and experiences through words. I may not bring many users or conversions to products, but I still think that good products deserve to be seen, even if it's just a little bit.

I will start with the products I use in my daily life. I would like to quote this sentence I saw before as a standard:

Create the things you wish existed.

Of course, I also welcome self-recommendation through [email protected]~

Interesting Things and Objects#

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Although most interesting inputs are automatically synchronized in the "Yu's Life" Telegram channel, I still select some to list here, which feels more like a newsletter. And I have built a microblog using Telegram Channel messages as the content source - "daily.pseudoyu.com", which makes browsing more convenient.

Favorites#

Podcasts#

Episode 12 | First Experience of Black Myth: Wukong feat. Evan You First Experience, Soul Series Game Experience, How Many Points Would You Give to "Black Monkey"? Recommendations for Beginners

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