🚀 Building and Launching a SaaS in 10 Days — Day #5

Fernando Pessagno
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🎨 Spent most of the day polishing features; added more color palettes & a custom palette option ✍️ Improved font pairing selection and users can now opt for custom pairings 🌟 More subtle design background effects 🎲 Introduced "randomize" button for carousel settings 🖼️ "Slide Type" options are now available: text, text + image, or image only 🎁 The Carousel Maker is nearly ready for launch, but there's a surprise feature in the works! On Day 5, things were a bit less exciting than usual. I spent most of my time polishing up existing features. First, I added more color palettes, including the option to create your own custom color palette. And, similar to the color feature, I made it easier for users to customize their font pairings. They can select the checkbox for a custom font pairing, or choose to use only one font if that’s what they prefer. I also added more subtle design background effects to complement any brand style, without looking disjointed or out of place. Another update is the “randomize” button. The carousel already starts with random options each time the page loads, but the “randomize” button can help users pick random options until they find a combination that they like. It’s a small addition, but it can be a really handy! Finally, I added “Slide Type” options: text, text + image, or only image. It’s possible that my target audience (non-designers) might prefer to keep everything as text, but I still wanted to provide the option for those who want to add images to their carousels. That’s pretty much it for day 5 and, at this point, the tool is functional and I could launch almost it as is. However, there’s something really exciting that I actually started working on today, but I want to kind of finish it up before unveil it. Stay tuned for day six! For more updates and details, be sure to follow me on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Fer_MOMENTO

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André J
Launching soon!
WhT re you building? a short intro would be nice
André J
Launching soon!
@fer_momento That's cool. Why for both? Why not for one, then validate that first?
André J
Launching soon!
@fer_momento Must be different API's, different privacy settings, different quirks etc right? I have a friend who is making an app. I told him to build it for one platform to validate if this is something people want. But he told me with hybrid apps it's very easy to support many platforms. He is still working on it. 5 years later 😅
Fernando Pessagno
@eonpilot In this case it is just a webapp, and for LinkedIn generates a PDF with one page per slide, otherwise, if it is for Instagram or Instagram stories, you get to download a series of image files.