What a week… A lot of chores and more time allocated to working as a consultant. This means not much progress on the entrepreneurship side. 😭 

At least this week I learned something cool! Opening a car by cloning and replicating the car remote is something real! The bad side is that it was my car, it was not me doing it, and I was not there when it happened. 🤣

The good side is that they only stole what was inside, not the car itself. However, it’s a pity that I had a new still-packaged 3D printer in the trunk that is now gone. I didn’t even have the chance to try it. 😔 

I’m pretty sure that spending half a day filing a police report was useless, but hey, I’m a good citizen!

The boiler breakdown in full winter was also the cherry on top. 😒 

Anyway, let’s move on! 😅 

Table of Contents

• Reviving NextCommit for SEO and dogfooding HeyEcho

• Conclusion

Reviving NextCommit for SEO and dogfooding HeyEcho

Last week, I mentioned that I want to start dogfooding HeyEcho for the other projects I have. I started from NextCommit.

However, NextCommit has a big issue when it comes to SEO which is also very specific to the type of application.

This is the current setup:

• nextcommit.careers: this has the landing page (done with Framer),

• app.nextcommit.careers: this has the application with the job posts that correspond to public pages (great for SEO!),

• blog.nextcommit.careers: this points to the blog hosted on Medium.

Having the app and the blog on different subdomains doesn’t help the SEO of the main domain and I’d rather have both of them contributing to it.

For this reason, before adding blog posts generated by HeyEcho, I wanted to at least unify the blog to the main domain.

I started re-implementing the landing page using AstroJS. It’s almost done, and now I just need to set up the blog, move the old blog posts, and start generating the new ones. ✨ 

You can temporarily check it out here: https://nextcommit.onrender.com/

The next step would be to also port the whole application to the main domain, but that’s not something that I need right now to dogfood HeyEcho.

Conclusion

As I said, that’s it for this week. I didn’t have time to revisit the outreach strategy for HeyEcho, hopefully, I’ll be able to do it next week.

Unfortunately, sometimes I struggle with optimizing my schedule, but that’s life. My normal week consists of more than 6h of commute, and still more than 5h of physiotherapy, but at the same time I also don’t want to give up my 9h of gym, so I guess cannot complain. 🤣 

You cannot fail if you don’t give up, right? 😁 

I hope you enjoyed this brief update!

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