Just a little bit of Friday morning fun on tinylytics. I added some hover effects to the avatar upload 😋
Vincent Ritter
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tinylytics
Joyful analytics for your websites. It's perfect for your little corner of the web—think personal blogs or side projects. It's got an admin panel that's a breeze to navigate, giving you just the insights you need, without any of the clutter. It keeps things light-hearted without the overwhelm.
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Scribbles
Start your own blog in seconds, with a beautiful minimal theme and an amazing editor that doesn't get in your way. Customise and make it yours.
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Sublime Feed
The first RSS feed reading service that's tailored for a more calm approach that doesn't make you want to scratch your eyes out. Embrace the FOMO and go with the flow of life.
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If you're using uptime monitoring with tinylytics, I improved the way it handles re-checking your site when it goes down. It'll always check every 10 minutes, but now if it notices downtime, it'll check every 2 minutes. Once it's back up, it'll go back to 10.
Just a random feature for tinylytics today, perhaps even useless... because I like looking at my avatar 🤪, and I think it looks more personal, you can now upload one that'll display in the header instead of that blue account icon 😃 Paid accounts only... nah... kidding.
Here's a quick video:
Following on with the Scribbles blog custom domain... it actually links to your public blog, for example here is my test one. That's a random slug, which is changeable. When you use a custom domain, it'll check in the database for which blog matches the given hostname. Bit of a mess for now.
Here's a quick sneak peek at a Scribbles blog. That's running on a custom domain, which I wedged in just now so that the app handles the lookup of the correct blog, it won't be launching with that though haha. But hope you get the feel for it and how it'll look.
A site on tinylytics went viral on Hacker News... so today, in total, that's ~50,000 hits in a span of a few hours (includes other site hits too, so don't ask me for the exact amount 😋). Crazy. No problem of course! I only noticed because there was a big jump in hits compared to yesterday.
I actually made Scribbles with the single user in mind also, so it could be hosted by yourself. It works pretty well. Once you register, it will disable registration and the homepage becomes your public posts.
Here's a quick demo video of the Scribbles interface (no sound). I go through some basic text entry, then I show the dropdown and also keyboard navigation. Then I figured out that drag and drop from the desktop doesn't work whilst recording 🤣
Right, one last Scribbles screen grab, the post overview page for your public page. Super simple.
More Scribbles progress today, especially around adding some "profile" info to your page, including image. Then I worked on showing a post, and here is my minimal take on it. It'll probably stay like that and I'll just tweak some of the spacing. At the end of the article there is your blog info.
