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shaojie gong

indie dev shipping small useful web tools & apps. building in public. currently running makelineart, taplup, omniemoji + a plant care app 🌱

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NotebookBloom: Shipping analytics without collecting user content
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NotebookBloom: Shipping analytics without collecting user content

#privacyengineering #webextensions #analytics #buildinpublic
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NotebookBloom: Three CTAs, one GIF, and a cleaner way to measure intent
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NotebookBloom: Three CTAs, one GIF, and a cleaner way to measure intent

#cro #webanalytics #ga4 #buildinpublic
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EmailKnow:How I stopped my own inbox from inflating my open rate — with a hash, not an IP
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EmailKnow:How I stopped my own inbox from inflating my open rate — with a hash, not an IP

#privacy #webdev #buildinpublic #emailknow
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NotebookBloom: What 559 Google impressions taught me about page-two SEO
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NotebookBloom: What 559 Google impressions taught me about page-two SEO

#seo #buildinpublic #searchconsole #contentstrategy
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NotebookBloom: A 40% store conversion rate can still hide the real bottleneck
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NotebookBloom: A 40% store conversion rate can still hide the real bottleneck

#buildinpublic #notebookbloom #conversionrate #chromeextension
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EmailKnow:I hold the keys to send email as my users. Here's how I made that as un-scary as I could.
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EmailKnow:I hold the keys to send email as my users. Here's how I made that as un-scary as I could.

#security #oauth #webdev #buildinpublic
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NotebookBloom: Why I stopped treating “installed” as activation
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NotebookBloom: Why I stopped treating “installed” as activation

#buildinpublic #webextensions #productanalytics #notebookbloom
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EmailKnow:The follow-up that never fired: a race condition with Gmail I didn't see coming
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EmailKnow:The follow-up that never fired: a race condition with Gmail I didn't see coming

#gmail #buildinpublic #emailknow
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NotebookBloom: How to load an entire YouTube playlist into NotebookLM and ask questions across the whole course
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NotebookBloom: How to load an entire YouTube playlist into NotebookLM and ask questions across the whole course

#notebookbloom #buildinpublic
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EmailKnow:Apple quietly broke every "read receipt" — here's how I stopped lying about it
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EmailKnow:Apple quietly broke every "read receipt" — here's how I stopped lying about it

#webdev #buildinpublic #emailknow
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NotebookBloom: Building on an API you don't own: why I skipped Zod and made the parser fail loud instead
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NotebookBloom: Building on an API you don't own: why I skipped Zod and made the parser fail loud instead

#webdev #notebookbloom #buildinpublic
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EmailKnow: an honest, open-source email tracker (0 users, and here's the whole thing)
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EmailKnow: an honest, open-source email tracker (0 users, and here's the whole thing)

#webdev #emailknow #buildinpublic #programming
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My VideoObject passed Google's Rich Results Test — with two warnings. Both were one missing timezone.
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My VideoObject passed Google's Rich Results Test — with two warnings. Both were one missing timezone.

#seo #structureddata #buildinpublic #webdev
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My video was sharp on YouTube but blurry on my own site. The fix was one line of CSS.
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My video was sharp on YouTube but blurry on my own site. The fix was one line of CSS.

#buildinpublic #webdev #chrome #notebookbloom
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Two weeks in public: 19 installs, 21 visitors, and the whole funnel in real numbers
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Two weeks in public: 19 installs, 21 visitors, and the whole funnel in real numbers

#buildinpublic #chromeextension
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My account got suspended twice this week. Here's what it taught me about building on rented land.
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My account got suspended twice this week. Here's what it taught me about building on rented land.

#buildinpublic #webdev #anki #notebookbloom
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How to turn NotebookLM notes into Anki flashcards (free, by hand)
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How to turn NotebookLM notes into Anki flashcards (free, by hand)

#notebooklm #anki #productivity #studytips
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What one week of SEO actually looks like (real numbers)
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What one week of SEO actually looks like (real numbers)

#notebookbloom #anki #gemininotebook
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The Chrome Web Store rejected my extension for something it doesn't even do
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The Chrome Web Store rejected my extension for something it doesn't even do

#buildinpublic #startup #saas #webdev
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A playlist has 124 videos. My tool imported 15, then 100, then finally 124.

Chasing API limits and changing JSON paths
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A playlist has 124 videos. My tool imported 15, then 100, then finally 124.

#buildinpublic #startup #sass #webdev
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How do I start charging later without punishing the people who showed up first?
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How do I start charging later without punishing the people who showed up first?

#buildinpublic #startup #saas #webdev
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I spent a day building the button that lets people cancel and leave me
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I spent a day building the button that lets people cancel and leave me

#buildinpublic #startup #sass #webdev
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My billing worked. My expiry dates didn't. Here's why.
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My billing worked. My expiry dates didn't. Here's why.

#buildinpublic #startup #saas #chrome
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My Chrome extension has no server, so I put the paywall on a remote switch
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My Chrome extension has no server, so I put the paywall on a remote switch

#buildinpublic #startup #sass
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"I'll need a database to query this later" — the most expensive sentence in solo dev
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"I'll need a database to query this later" — the most expensive sentence in solo dev

#buildinpublic #startup #webdev
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A simple sync feature, and the five problems hiding inside it
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A simple sync feature, and the five problems hiding inside it

#webdev #javascript #programming #buildinpublic
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I built four products, made $0, and ended up in the ER. Here's the bug I finally found.
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I built four products, made $0, and ended up in the ER. Here's the bug I finally found.

#webdev #buildinpublic
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How one lazy line turned a simple feature into a recursive DOM walker
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How one lazy line turned a simple feature into a recursive DOM walker

#webdev #javascript #frontend #buildinpublic
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I spent a week proving a feature couldn't be built. That was the win.
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I spent a week proving a feature couldn't be built. That was the win.

#buildinpublic #startup #webdev #productivity
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Getting a flashcard out was easy. Getting it into Anki had five traps.
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Getting a flashcard out was easy. Getting it into Anki had five traps.

#webdev #javascript #debugging #buildinpublic
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How I pulled data out of a cross-origin iframe I couldn't touch

Comments share modern browser workarounds
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How I pulled data out of a cross-origin iframe I couldn't touch

#webdev #javascript #chrome #buildinpublic
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I spent a day fixing a bug that was never mine
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I spent a day fixing a bug that was never mine

#debugging #webdev #buildinpublic #programming
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I wrote a script to check 40 domains because every good name was taken
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I wrote a script to check 40 domains because every good name was taken

#startup #buildinpublic #domains
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I fixed my scraper four times in one night. Each fix revealed a worse bug.
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I fixed my scraper four times in one night. Each fix revealed a worse bug.

#webdev #javascript #debug #buildinpublic
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My extension "worked" — it just quietly saved half of every conversation

Risks of hardcoding volatile CSS selectors
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My extension "worked" — it just quietly saved half of every conversation

#webdev #javascript #buildinpublic #productivity
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My friend in med school kept complaining about NotebookLM, so I built the fix
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My friend in med school kept complaining about NotebookLM, so I built the fix

#ai #programming #productivity
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