James Chambers

Steal this workflow Copy prompt Paste this into your coding agent and it will build you a version of this skill adapted to your own stack.

I've been writing code with LLMs since summer 2024.

My family and I have temporarily moved in with some relatives while we have some building work done.

This week we launched a [spreadsheet export](https://boords.com/changes/google-sheets-integration) feature for Boords.

_To-do lists do not prefigure masterpieces.

### 📝 [Content Marketing for Bootstrappers](https://jameschambers.co.uk/saas-content-marketing) (Guide) I've published a [guide](https://jameschambers.co.uk/saas-content-marketing) on how to use content marketing to grow bootstrapped SaaS businesses.

- [The case for content marketing](#section-1-the-case-for-content-marketing) - [How to do keyword research](#section-2-keyword-research) - [How to determine keyword viability](#section-3-keyword-viability) - [How to create content](#section-4-content-cre…

In January, I started a pricing experiment for [Boords](https://boords.com), inspired by Manuel Frigerio's post on [reframing discounts](https://blog.friger.io/how-reframing-discounts-led-to-a-4x-increase-in-yearly-plans/).

In January of 2021, I redesigned the Boords pricing page to reframe annual plans as discounts.

This week I've been building the backend for an activity log in Boords, a kind of 'who did what' record of what's happened in a given account.

## ✏️ Yet more Boords icons The [Boords](https://boords.com) icon update train rumbles on.

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## Full-time maker Last week was a big week for me.

Testing a new approach to annual pricing Welcome to my twice-monthly newsletter about the highs and lows of building indie software products. --- ## 1.

My resting heart rate data 2019-2021, captured from my Apple Watch (screenshot composed from Health app) Welcome to my twice-monthly newsletter about the highs and lows of building indie software products. --- ## 1.

My resting heart rate data 2019-2021, captured from my Apple Watch (screenshot composed from Health app) I’ve had my Apple Watch since early 2019, or a little under 2 years at the time of writing.

Using Docker may seem like overkill for a local Next.js project, and indeed, perhaps it is.

English golf in December has its benefits --- ## 1.

Welcome to my twice-monthly newsletter about the highs and lows of building indie software products. --- ## 1.

_TLDR; make sure you `set re=0` in your vimrc or Typescript syntax highlighting will be painfully slow_ ## The Problem In Vim 8, Typescript syntax highlighting is insanely slow, to the point of being unusable.

Welcome to my twice-monthly newsletter on the highs and lows of building indie software products. --- ## 1.

A fast, responsive development process is important.

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Webhooks are HTTP requests sent from an external service which ping your application at a pre-defined URL, usually with some data in tow.

_Short on time?

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Writing is important to me.

Illustration by Frida Ek (Animade) Six years into running Animade, we permanently removed two-thirds of the projects from our website.

London is not a city built for snow.

If you need to quickly resize a bunch of images on a Mac, you don't need to open Photoshop.

I don't go anywhere near the majority of what Git can do.

Dear me, I get it.

A couple of months ago I released [FeedHop](http://feedhop.io/?

When [Tom](http://tomjudd.co/) and I started Chambers Judd (as the company was then known), we were effectively two freelancers sat in a room.

What if products could protect themselves from threats in their environment the way animals do in nature?