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5 months

My kids: 🟥 : ~5m, broke law. 🟥 : ~7m, no-fit. 🟩 : ~2m, grows strong. 🟧 : ~3m, on-hold. 🟦 : days. Keep 'em young. #buildinpublic #indiehackers

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@viktorplaga

4 months

I built my last project in 60h total. Tech-stack: - Next.js with Typescript - Vercel - TailwindCSS (DaisyUI) - Supabase (all-in: db, auth, realtime, storage) Praise boilerplates.

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@viktorplaga

3 months

Reminds me of the Atwood's Law: Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript

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@viktorplaga

2 months

It took me 1.5 months to get 100 newsletter subscribers for GarWin, with one Product Hunt release in the meantime. Maintaining it at this point costs me ~4h of work monthly, close to nothing. I don't know if it's good or bad, just sharing.

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@viktorplaga

3 months

I taught my mom how to use ChatGPT this weekend. Her first question: how do I look? 😍

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@viktorplaga

3 months

I built GarWin, a user-friendly Garmin Badges database. Today, I launch it on Product Hunt - I'd appreciate all the support, thank you! Link in the comment 👇

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@viktorplaga

4 months

I went into the deepest rabbit hole ever. Enter r/SomebodyMakeThis. Top 5%. The #indiehackers gold mine. Have at it guys.

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@viktorplaga

3 months

I've been farming LinkedIn invites every week for the last 2 months. You can invite 1k people per week, most of them accept. I reckon they'll become a free audience at some point, but it looks like LinkedIn finally caught up with me. Gotta increase the script's interval.

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@viktorplaga

2 months

Write down things you will give up to reach your short, medium and long-term goals. This vital step is missing from most conventional goal-setting exercises. It’s a fact that you cannot add something new and achieve the ideal outcome without sacrificing something else.

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@viktorplaga

3 months

Popped my Product Hunt cherry: 1️⃣ +21 newsletter subscribers 💌 2️⃣ 301 unique website visitors 👀 3️⃣ 84k views across 11 posts on Reddit ✍️ 4️⃣ 3 upvotes on HN 🤦‍♂️ 5️⃣ 4 views on YouTube 💔 All this considered, I learned some stuff.

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@viktorplaga

4 months

Can't sleep. Today: ⬛ Solve spam trap issues ⬛ Setup Hix's cold email outreach for the next week ⬛ Waste time on DNS for remaining verified in Search Console ⬛ Produce social media content for the next 4 days, the weekend is time-off with friends. In 3, 2, 1... 🚀

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@viktorplaga

4 months

@hypermedia_man @dabit3 Don't cry, you can use bash on Windows 10 now

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@viktorplaga

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@viktorplaga

29 days

@CreeCoder Tabs vs spaces indentation

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@viktorplaga

3 months

Seems that Meta has died, it's just about time. Long live the @X king.

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@viktorplaga

4 months

Sent my first cold email outreach campaign 3h ago. I'm so excited I'm not sure I'll be able to sleep now. Damn.

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@viktorplaga

5 months

I built my last product, SpreadMD, in 60h. Would you be interested to watch a series on something similar on YT? That's w/o marketing, obviously, it is still ongoing. Just tech stuff. Afraid of this tho

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@viktorplaga

3 months

Just sold 90% of my crypto, +230%. On my current budget, it's 9 more months of not working for a man and indiehacking my own wealth. Feels good.

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@viktorplaga

4 months

How important is the "Interactive Demo" when launching on PH? I went to the recommended ScreenSpace website, understood zero of it and ditched it. Now, my OCD nags me: leave no form unfilled. Am I wrong to leave it empty? #indiehackers #buildinpublic

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@viktorplaga

4 months

Clocking in. Yesterday: ✅ Completed SpreadMD cold outreach email list. ✅ Sent first bulk of Hix cold outreach campaign. Today, I will: ⬛ Cleanup badges for GarWin ⬛ Lay foundation for my new project I hope I won't end-up researching the best name (domain) for it 😅

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@viktorplaga

3 months

My Product Hunt launch strategy: create a related racing chart for r/dataisbeautiful. I browsed most of their All-Time best performing posts, and there were many of those running. It is @Garmin related: at one point I wondered which sport is the most worth doing, point-wise:

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@viktorplaga

5 months

I really needed to name that variable starting with a number

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@viktorplaga

4 months

@buildWithKris I choose popovers over this, because the confirmation takes more space than the "Delete" word, and it can and will lead to ugly layout shifts

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@viktorplaga

14 days

Thursday: made myself open to work on LinkedIn Friday: three independent former work friends proposed to recommend me to the same company, SalesLoft. SalesLoft here I come.

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@viktorplaga

5 months

Sweet spot, I don't need you no more.

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@viktorplaga

4 months

@gabriel__xyz 1. Think: how do you perceive your product. Awesome, right? 2. Think: how to make people perceive your product the same way you perceive it. 3. Find time to make it happen. I used to dislike marketing, but there's a certain satisfaction when you impress others.

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@viktorplaga

3 months

My first Product Hunt launch is scheduled 4.5 hours from now. It's thrilling. I spent most of my yesterday preparing what I call an "Impact Launch". I'll be sharing the whole process later on.

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@viktorplaga

4 months

Out of 945 cold-emails sent, I had 29 conversations so far. 3 of them very negative, to be expected in this target market. 2 of them were trying to sell me something. How cool is that. But the biggest surprise? 2 people got so engaged that they proposed scheduling a call.

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@viktorplaga

4 months

My new project will have >150 tools that are similar in structure, just the core functionality differs. First step: write code that generates the tool's code. Kinda having fun.

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@viktorplaga

4 months

A lot of entrepreneurs way overestimate the uniqueness of their ideas, so I don't have a lot of sympathy for "victims" of copycats. Quoting wisdom by anon on Reddit.

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@viktorplaga

5 months

That's kinda crazy

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@viktorplaga

2 months

My new variable naming conventions:

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@viktorplaga

5 months

@andreiacribeir Consider using it to check/verify after you implement your own solutions. It takes from the knowledge of thousands and thousands before you, might say something useful.

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@viktorplaga

4 months

I love to start my day like this. That's the 3rd one since I switched to one-time payments, and the first one from my cold-outreach campaign. Feels good.

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@viktorplaga

3 months

I took half a week off to think of my approach to what's next, after finding-out of Hix not fitting the market, and me having a bad time overall. Here it is: 1. Reduce social media to minimum, only keep 𝕏. 2. Build a single product at once. ETA: early June. Let's do this.

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@viktorplaga

4 months

Made me laugh

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@viktorplaga

4 months

@_miloi It depends. Next.js applies to certain cases only, sometimes you just don't need it

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@viktorplaga

4 months

UI experts, help me out: how do you call this element? I know it is a badge by itself, but I can recently see it very often placed over the title, and was wondering if there's a more-specific name to it. Subtitle badge?

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@viktorplaga

2 months

@marc_louvion Carolin Girvan is hardcore, kudos for exercising with her

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@viktorplaga

4 months

1580 reputation so far. Asked & answered, it is still my best performing StackOverflow question to the day.

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@viktorplaga

3 months

@PLBompard If you want to learn, back in the day my goto resource was backlinko blog.

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@viktorplaga

3 months

I decided to try reading introductory books on fields that I have no idea about, I started with "Astronomy for Dummies", and of course I immediately started Googling various things and ended up here. The "Possible Methods / Hypervelocity stars" blew my brains.

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@viktorplaga

3 months

Note to self for when I become a parent: - - -

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@viktorplaga

4 months

@ImLunaHey I don't know if you're aware, but you can have multiple remotes (other than the default "origin"). Use Github and Gitlab combined, and others on top of it, depending on your paranoia.

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@viktorplaga

4 months

How would you refactor this? Asking for a friend

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@viktorplaga

4 months

@scrumtuous Use terraforrm

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@viktorplaga

3 months

I forced myself to work all day, 49/110 tools are done. Not bad. Nevertheless, fuck burnout.

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@viktorplaga

5 months

1. Perfectionism 2. Procrastination 3. Context-Switching I'm 1. You?

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@viktorplaga

4 months

Is there a friendly, non-nextjs-hating-use-remix-instead-preaching Next.js community? I tried r/nextjs, but it is all about stuff like this and I'm kinda tired.

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@viktorplaga

4 months

The Chad here is me, tweeting my daily status. And the butler? Me again, the glass-half-empty side of my mind. Seriously, being an extravert and working solo makes me talk to myself.

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@viktorplaga

4 months

@ThePeterMick and what are you up to?

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@viktorplaga

4 months

@Ashen_Jayamanna Only allow IP addresses from your hometown

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@viktorplaga

2 months

I'm kinda happy with the type of product that I decided to build now. Belonging to the target market I not only understand it very well, but my genuine interest in creating the smooth user-experience is also reflected in my everyday working performance. Good days.

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@viktorplaga

4 months

I think I only have done it twice today.

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@viktorplaga

4 months

Despite all the shortcomings (I'm talking about you, winter), it feels good to be where I am right now

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@viktorplaga

2 months

@ky__zo I've seen you using Supabase, why don't you use their storage?

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@viktorplaga

2 months

I'm in the smoothest job interview process of my life, so far: - 3 DM messages - 20min HR + (surprise) tech talk - 1h take-home task (next up) I honestly agreed to do it because it sounded so short, just to see what happens. Now I'm thinking that I could give it a shot.

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@viktorplaga

2 months

Think about what you’d be doing if time and money were not an issue. Put it down on paper and the odds increase a thousandfold that you will someday be pulling down there.

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@viktorplaga

4 months

@buildWithKris This is such a bad example, it is 9-5 for 5 days of the week. How is it not the default?

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@viktorplaga

9 days

TIL: You can best nourish connective tissues 30 to 60 minutes before training, whereas the optimal feeding time of muscleis during the post-workout period of elevated blood flow.

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@viktorplaga

5 months

@BendikMatej I'd definitely mention @daisyui_

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@viktorplaga

5 months

Time well spent, I'd say. What's your crazy hobby? I pick locks.

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@viktorplaga

3 months

@ikoichi @ShippedClub Go to r/somebodymakethis and pick some of the high-voted requests

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@viktorplaga

4 months

@TheZeadEmad Cold showers after workout block hypertrophy, you don't want that

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@viktorplaga

4 months

I often wonder what does it mean that there are more answer upvotes than question upvotes. People didn't like that they had to ask?

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@viktorplaga

4 months

What's your backup plan? Is it the old/previous plan, or something new? If I'd failed indiehacking, I can always become one of those.

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@viktorplaga

4 months

Calling for UX experts help, why is that?

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@viktorplaga

3 months

@fido1hn @fahad177__ Yes to both of those, but also this: don't "overwork", just do your job. Sometimes it gets hard though, when you need to crunch at both jobs at the same time.

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@viktorplaga

4 months

If you spin up my Nextjs boilerplate with an admin panel and charts, it comes with a built-in component: An equal periods comparison chart. That name is a handful, yes. It shows 2 line charts: last N and the previous last N days of data. I think that's the most popular one:

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@viktorplaga

4 months

I had someone responding to my cold-email outreach on... Discord. Amusing, the mere mortals not knowing of automated follow-ups.

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@viktorplaga

3 months

@juancristobalx @ky__zo It was a Fluent Design for Bootstrap kit that I was making while working at the Material Design for Bootstrap company and my bosses accused me of stealing their know-how. They were rich, I wasn't, so I settled to take it down instead of being sued on some IP-related grounds.

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@viktorplaga

5 months

@pmitu Discipline

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@viktorplaga

3 months

Clocking-in, 24/110 tools for my newest product added so far. Doing great.

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@viktorplaga

11 days

Still funny

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@viktorplaga

22 days

Migrated to iPhone from Android few days ago, and the FaceID icon is so bad that I cringe every time I see it. Did not see that one coming.

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@viktorplaga

4 months

VScode extension to save the errors occurred to me and the changes I did in code to solve it. Somebody make this and take my money.

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@viktorplaga

3 months

Me: spent 6h creating my 1st YT video, because most of the best-prospering PH launches have it. Hated it, feels unnatural and I can't get it perfect enough. And yes, I know it sucks and is bad overall. Result: 4 views 💔

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@viktorplaga

4 months

Do you use 𝕏 more on desktop or mobile?

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@viktorplaga

4 months

@Bob19046541 Is this a trick question that tests my sales capabilities, or are you genuinely interested? 😅

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@viktorplaga

4 months

I released @pnpmjs package manager as an option to start your Next.js project with. Very enjoyable, I do recommend it over Yarn and NPM.

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@viktorplaga

3 months

@benrobertsonio Kudos for triggering the nerds herd. I love doing that myself.

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@viktorplaga

3 months

MVP draft is done, 110 tools in total. 16/110 done so far.

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@viktorplaga

4 months

@PLBompard There's a built-in system for that in Brevo

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@viktorplaga

3 months

My favorite takeaway from GarWin's Product Hunt launch: 1. I created a made-up @Garmin Badge for people to support me on PH. 2. Posted it on social media. 3. Someone thought it was real and did actually vote. I think I can just become a designer at some point.

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@viktorplaga

5 months

Bikeshedding is one of my favorite activities.

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@viktorplaga

4 months

@ThePeterMick Fork fork fork

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@viktorplaga

5 months

@aviflombaum @marcoroth_ GJ

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@viktorplaga

4 months

A lot has changed since I created my last Chrome extension: 1. I had to pay a one-time $5 fee. 2. 2FA is required to upload ZIP file. Kinda surprised, but I guess it is for the better.

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@viktorplaga

4 months

@AtmaramKambli Sure! 1. Search the Internet for emails of people/companies that you think you can help with your product. 2. Create a list of those (start small) and use a tool to create email campaigns. Brevo has a generous free plan. I personally use GMASS, which is paid. Good luck!

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@viktorplaga

4 months

Done for the day. Today: ✅ Responded to all the responses to my cold emails ❌ Solved only 1 of 2 spam blacklist problems ❌ Started adding shadcn/ui to Hix, couldn't focus on it ✅ Completed one of core features of SafeUtils Have a good night!

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@viktorplaga

3 months

Starting to research what to use for my desktop project: - wxWidgets - Qt - React Native - Electron Having fun, almost all new tech.

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@viktorplaga

2 months

It still puts a smile on my face, best bio idea ever

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@viktorplaga

5 months

@PascalPixel First time seeing this, such an original idea. Kudos man, I'll definitely try it out.

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@viktorplaga

5 months

OK, enough. Today, I have ✅ Sold my 1st unlimited usage license for $97 and helped the customer! ✅ Released Monitoring and Transactional Email tools ✅ Added Zod validation tool ✅ Researched 11 (!) JS validation libs Over and out.

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@viktorplaga

5 months

@yasser_elsaid_ checked them all, did you?

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@viktorplaga

4 months

Done for the day. Today: ✅ Updated SpreadMD according to the initial feedback ✅ Added GarWin UI improvements ✅ Completed some of the SafeUtils core features Over and out.

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@viktorplaga

4 months

@Ashen_Jayamanna Well, to a point. Then, when you got all the skills, it is just a necessary labour.

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@viktorplaga

4 months

@MaxPrilutskiy Automated follow-ups are sent to those emails fromthe list that don't respond. Usually after 3, then 4 days, and so on. If you write a response on another channel (like Discord), the follow-ups will continue, unless cancelled manually. TLDR: respond "No." to the unwanted email.

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@viktorplaga

3 months

@gabriel__xyz Kinda boring, doesn't stay with me

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@viktorplaga

4 months

@ImLunaHey Ruby that works in browser and doesn't need closing end tags, same as python

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