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Hi, I'm posting Daily Done, a web app for sharing project updates with clients - https://dailydone.work.

Give it a try, it's completely free right now.

Concept - make it easy to share updates, and let clients see them without any friction (no signup required for clients). Clients can also react with emoji and comment.

Goals - my day job is making web apps, but I've never shipped a product on my own. With this I wanted to create something that I could actually build, ship, and support end-to-end. So it is pretty simple (maybe too simple?).

Tech stack - NextJS... don't hate me. Next has an annoying amount of magic, but I really like using it. Let's me use React to generate plain HTML, and sprinkle in client-side JS for interactive bits. - Sqlite / Turso. Local dev without needing docker is really nice. - WorkOS authkit, instead of rolling my own auth. - Polar for billing, although billing isn't currently active.

Challenges - The classic problem of getting people to try it out. - Building something completely end-to-end was new for me. For example, setting up the webhooks and coordinating auth and billing isn't hard, but took a bit of thought. - I can't design.

Learnings - Maybe don't even build in billing, or possibly even auth, until people are trying it out.