What started as a hackathon idea has come to life today. The idea stemmed from the insight that content planning is done on Notion but another tool has to be used to publish/schedule it. So can we do everything from Notion.
We did build a very scrappy MVP to see if it was possible or not during the weekend. Coming back home, we hit a lot of major road blocks with expectation vs reality. But we kept the momentum going to finally release the current (08/11/2022) version of Breeze with Twitter Integration.
| Start Date | 14 October 2022 |
| Launch Date | 5 November 2022 |
| Status | Live |
| Website | https://www.onbreeze.app/ |
| Role | Founder |
| Type | Side Project |
| Effort | Medium |
Project Summary
Tech Stack
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AWS Ses for sending emails
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Vercel for hosting frontend
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Mongo as the database
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Notion for Content
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Stripe for Payments
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Ruby for Backend
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AWS for hosting Backend
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Chatwoot for in-app support
Learnings
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This time around we struggled with Twitter API as compared to Notion API. We started with Twitter v2 APIs but they were unable to upload images so we had to shift to v1
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Accuracy of posting the Scheduled content was something that we have improved over time and will continue doing.
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Getting users is another part which is going to be continuous.
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One thing that we have done is added a paywall upfront. However, this is limiting the signups. Will have to play around with this one.