Weekly Indie Log #16

Hirvesh Munogee

July 29, 2024

· Updated August 01, 2024

4 min read

Stomod Newsletter
“Completing” Stomod
Outstanding Features
Other Ideas
AssistFlare
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Hello again! Finally the big Weekly Indie Log #16 is out and this one you are either reading it on the blog or in your email as a newsletter.

Stomod Newsletter

Over the last couple of weeks, I have been working on Stomod Newsletter which is a feature which had been in the pipeline for a long long time.

The concept is very simple, you choose a specific tag on your blog which acts as the newsletter tag and any blog post tagged with this tag gets sent as a newsletter to subscribers.

Stomod also provides a subscribe form on the tag page - which acts as the landing page for the newsletter and also allows you to show a CTA at the bottom of every blog post to allow blog readers to subscribe to the newsletter.

The whole feature required quite some effort and is not yet 100% as I still have to polish some parts of the tool and also integrate email analytics into Stomod.

However, I am very happy with how this turned out to be and for the time being it is going to be free until I test it out properly over the next few weeks and then move it to paid.

“Completing” Stomod

One of the things that looks kind of achievable is making Stomod feature complete. I have a big list of features I want to see in Stomod - things I will be using myself to run the blogs of my products (Stomod/AssistFlare).

The goal is over the next few weeks remains to make feature complete the product and launch it on Product Hunt as well.

I will then move my focus to AssistFlare as I have many things planned for that and focus exclusively on marketing Stomod and increasing the MRR.

Outstanding Features

Of the remaining things I have planned for Stomod, these are the main ones:

Google Search Console (GSC) Integration - Allow for indexing information to be pulled from GSC and display that within Stomod and show if posts were indexed or not.

Auto-indexing for Google - Automatically submit newly published blog posts for indexing to Google by their Indexing API.

Cross-Publishing - Automatically cross-publish posts to Medium, Hashnode, Dev.to

SEO Doctor - Automatically diagnose blog posts for SEO issues and create a report for the blog owner.

Zapier/Make Integrations - To allow certain actions to be taken based on publishing posts, subscribers sign up and more.

Chrome Extension - To bring data from Stomod in Notion as a sidebar (e.g. analytics) and well as perform on demand-sync from within Notion.

Templates - Have more template options for Stomod blogs, with the ability to customize home/tags/authors/post/page pages individually.

Native Commenting - Allow blog owners to have blog comments natively on the platform without having to integrate something like Disqus or Intense Debate.

Post Kudos - Allow readers to anonymously kudo posts on a blog - similar to the clap feature present on Medium.

Related Posts - Allow blog owners to show related posts at the bottom of blog posts

Dark Mode for Blogs - Allow readers of blogs to use either light mode, dark mode or system mode to read blogs.

It’s a big list, but all the things I’d love to see in a blogging platform which I’d use constantly.

Other Ideas

I have been meaning to get into mobile apps for a long time and I will probably work on an Uptime Monitor app for Stomod/AssistFlare which are both hosted on a VPS.

With the advent of people moving away from serverless and pushing more towards self-hosted solutions around VPS from provided like Hetzner and using deployment tools like Coolify, I’ve been wanting to have a cool monitoring app which not only monitor uptime but also disk space, CPU pressure, memory pressure, networking and more and throw alerts when something looks outside of the allowable thresholds.

I will be working on this using my favorite mobile stack - Expo of course and then release this probably as a free app and see from there where to take it.

AssistFlare

Once all of that is done, I intend to focus on AssistFlare which seems to be more of a pain-killer product - especially with small businesses using Notion and having documentation in Notion and wanting to expose that documentation to their users.

I have got big plans for this product as well.

So much to do, so little time! Let’s see how much I can ship before the year ends and how well I can market all of the things I build!

Till the next one, take care! 💪

Hirvesh Munogee

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Hirvesh is an indie hacker from the beautiful island of Mauritius currently working on his two SaaS products: stomod.com and assistflare.com

He’s passionate about solopreneurship and blogs at hirve.sh about his learnings on setting up a business!