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Hey! This is an article about me bootstrapping Klart.co, a bookmarking tool for designers and developers, for a year as a solo founder. I worked on it as a side project and put in on average 4 hours a day. First version (May) Last year in May I set
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As I mentioned in earlier posts, traveling around Asia has made me aware of that everyone doesn't have super fast connections as we have in Sweden ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Since I wanted Klart to work well everywhere I started by making image previews lightning fast. The next step was to
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First of all, this is a highly unscientific post. It's about my experiences with coffee during the last three years, and how I believe it affects me. When I started university three years ago, I basically quit coffee without even thinking about it. There was no free flow
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Traveling around Asia has taught me that it's not enough for a service to work good on fast fiber connections. At some places, my own services would give me a horrible experience because of the bad connection. I felt obligated to fix this somehow and therefore put other
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For the first version of Klart I just wanted the design to be really simple and on-point. No big images saying nothing or other bloat that would distract users from the purpose of each page. This was pretty obvious goals since what I wanted to do was to evaluate the
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When first building Klart I was just making a chrome extension to save design inspiration I found online. I needed a simple tool to take pictures of websites and organize them. This meant that I didn't really need to spend time designing a nice logo for Klart. I
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About three months ago I decided to move my blog to Medium. The platform just seemed so promising. All the nice words about it, the increased reach and engagement for your posts and all that. Yes, Medium is just as good as most people say. It's a great
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Sometimes it can be hard to feel productive on web apps. You have to click, drag, release and click some more. These movements cause unnecessary stress on your body and mind and should be avoided. But how can you avoid it? Keyboard shortcuts to the rescue! I'm a
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One of the things I always run into when building products is whether to use “I” or “We” in the website copy. For email copy I think it’s fairly easy to say that personal is better for most cases. At least I’d like to think that there’s
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Building a startup while traveling through southeast Asia has its pros and cons. Currently, I’m in Bangkok, and spend most of my days enjoying the city. When I work on Klart.co I do it from various restaurants and cafes. I know there are some good coworking spaces here
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Posting Klart.co to Hacker News and being featured on Product Hunt has given me tons of great feedback, both on mail and in comment fields. One of the most frequent suggestions was that I should have a free trial. As I want to make the service as good as
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If you use a proxy such as CloudFlare you might have noticed that the remote IP address in your access logs will not be the users, but instead CloudFlare’s. This is since CloudFlare forwards all requests to your server. When building Klart.co I wanted to get the users
