Relaunch of launch.nuuz.io
06 Oct 2024Thi Saturday morning, I was browsing through my SimpleAnalytics stats and saw one sorry number for a side-project I had forgotten about: launch.nuuz.io. All of zero visits in the last month. This was a one-page website of mine that listed a number of launch sites for new projects (e.g. ProductHunt, HackerNews, Reddit etc.), and what the public consensus was on the best day-of-the-week and/or time-of-day for posting a new project. It also showed a countdown for that ideal submission moment.
I checked how I created this project, and to my surprise it was a Laravel 10 project. That seemed like a bit of overkill. Since I hadn’t decided yet what I would procrastinate on this weekend, I decided to give this project a little love.
I quickly decided on a tech stack of mkdocs-material, since that is my favourite way of creating content these days, ever since I created pforret/mkdox to make it even easier. Since this is a static site generator, and my web pages would be all static HTML, I would need to redevelop the countdown and timezone logic in JavaScript. Thanks to GitHub Copilot in PHPStorm, that was a breeze. Today, a mere 36 hours later and with only a few hours of actual work, I am proud to announce the relaunch of launch.nuuz.io.
There is now a page per launch website (many more added to the original 5), a blog with related content (like “Launching On Betalist – 50 Entrepreneurs Share All”), amounted to a total of more than 50 separate pages, which should be good for the SEO.
The tricky parts were:
- finding out in which country each service was based. This matters, because I need to know what timezone they operate in. Some services do a reset at midnight, or start processing new submissions at 9am, so knowing if they’re in Pacific Standard Time or Indian Standard Time is crucial. E.g. for SideProjectors.com I’m still not sure. Even the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Statement don’t mention a country.
- figuring out how ‘important’ each service was. Ideally I need an estimate of monthly traffic (how many visitors might I get through this site) and domain authority of the domain (how valuable are backlinks from this site). But SimilarWeb and Ahrefs don’t give me all the data, unless I take a paid subscription. I get why, but it’s still something I would like to add.
- I would love to have a
{% for page in pages %}loop in my custom page layout, but a loop that has access to all the page’s metadata, not just the URL and the title. I’m sure there’s a way to do this, but I haven’t found it yet.
Now I just need submit the site to all different launch websites. And now it’s easy to know when I should do this.
