Dinh Tin Tran
Today in Da Nang is really quite cold. No heavy rain, just a drizzle, but the weather is chilly, riding a motorbie outside for a bit makes my skin shiver. The weather is around 20-21 degrees, but it feels like 17-18. It’s been a long since the weather has been this cold this year. But I like this kind of weather, just cold, no rain. It’s very difficult to go somewhere in the rain, and some other provinces are heavily flooded. I don’t like it.
Today is also a very special day, my darling’s birthday. We had a warm evening, hehe. We talked about everything (even though we see each other everyday, hahaa). Surprisingly, she always reads my blog, I thoght she wouldn’t read any of my posts, but no. She is working in a Content SEO position. A pretty good position where your task is to write articles so that the partner’s websites are at top of search results. And there are actually a lot of tools to do this job that I have never known. I asked her if she had any difficulties while writing, so that I could use that as a niche to make software for people with the same problem. But she said no, just focus on your work HAHA.
A little update on my new product. I bought a domain for it, instead of using the free domain of vercel like before, it's very ugly, which I think also affects quite a bit whether users decide to visit or not. Although the new domain I bought here is actually not very nice, not .com or .io, just .site. And it's almost free on NameCheap so I decided to buy it ($0.20 for the first year, a promotion for 2025 on NameCheap). But things are still not going smoothly, I'm in the process of integrating a little backend into the product to be able to save users or some basic data. Everything is fine until integrating payment, I used Polar for my recent project (Travel Memory Studio) before. It was quite simple to integrate, but today I made another decision to use LemonSqueezy for this product and I really failed this time, everything is still not completely fine. But it seems like my LemonSqueezy account is having some problem or something, it is always in In review and Test mode, I don't understand why it takes so long to review. Actually, this is not the first time I tried using LemonSqueezy, I also tried it before (around August or September this year for my first project, StudioraHub) but I only created a Product on it and did not integrate it into the project, just testing. But until now it is still in In review status, why? And recently I also read an article on the Build in public VN community on facebook, there was an article warning when using LemonSqueezy that the support department there is quite poor (I only remember that, I don't remember the details). FYI: Stripe cannot use in Vietnam.
I think I should slow down, everything should not be rushed. As in Vietnam I have a saying "Haste makes waste", it is true for me right now. Haste will make the product worse. And maybe no one will spend time on your product, let alone spend money to use it.
Keep calm and keep going.
See you tomorrow