Updates from the past two weeks include Built a Stripe integration I used a combination of Stripe Checkout and Stripe Customer Portal to add support for multiple subscription payment tiers. …

[This is an experimental type of post I’m trying out. I want to record and publish more about my journey of building a solo SaaS company, and I think frequent, brief, and casual posts about what I’ve been working on and thinking about will be a good way to do…

Happy New Year everyone 🥂 It’s been an exciting first six months for Canopy Charts! Between June and September 2021 I built the core technology that powers the Canopy Charts editor. …

Hello to everyone from the rapidly-getting-colder New York City! 🏙️ It’s been two months since my last update, in which I said I would be shifting focus from feature development for the MVP to getting the word out about the product and hopefully finding my first users. I’ve had mixed…

When some activity becomes ten times easier, it usually doesn’t look much like the old way of doing things anymore. The newly discovered efficiency doesn’t come from just trying ten times harder at the old thing, it comes from leveraging a new process or, in many cases, technology. Speeding up…

Hi friends 🙂 Since my last update I’ve made significant product improvements, enough so that I feel ready to start talking about the project in public and looking for people who might be interested in using it. …

This post was initially written and published as a newsletter on August 2, 2021 When I published the last newsletter, I was thinking there would be some small amount of feature work left to do before I considered the product ready for an initial launch. …

This post was initially written and published as a newsletter on July 12, 2021 It’s been exactly one month since the first commit on the Canopy Charts project, which back then I was just calling “the charts project.” A lot has happened since then, including, most importantly, building enough of…

Site: https://canopycharts.com In the course of building analytics dashboards at work and hacking together data visualizations for side projects at home, I’ve spent many hours wrangling the state-of-the-art in JavaScript charting libraries. I’ve played around with everything from raw d3 to high-level component libraries like Nivo and Victory charts. …