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On this week’s show: * SpinupWP [https://spinupwp.com/]: Is officially launched and no longer in Beta 🎉 * My site has been redesigned and rebuilt [https://gilbitron.me/blog/redesign-rebuild/]! * I'm going to WordCamp Europe [https://2019.europe.wordcamp.org/] in Berlin next week.

On this week’s show: * SpinupWP [https://spinupwp.com/]: More work on technical debt and changing primary domain feature. * Surveyr [https://surveyr.io/]: In holding pattern to see if the product will become vaiable. * I'm building a new CMS! This one is going to have a focus on developer and user experience. I want the admin UI to be slick. * PicoCMS [http://picocms.org/] * Baun CMS [https://bauncms.com/]

On this week’s show: * SpinupWP [https://spinupwp.com/]: Deployed 2FA and password authentication plus some wireframing and "technical debt" relief. * Surveyr [https://surveyr.io/]: Laravel News Links provided ~1000 hits, 8 sign ups, and my first non-beta paying customer! * FlexMasonry [https://github.com/gilbitron/flexmasonry]: A lightweight masonry (cascading grid layout) library powered by flexbox. Inspired by this article by Tobias Ahlin [https://tobiasahlin.com/blog/masonry-with-css/].

On this week’s show: * SpinupWP [https://spinupwp.com/]: Finished working on 2FA, fixing bugs, password authentication for site users. * Surveyr [https://surveyr.io/]: launched Slack alerts and the hard part about building a SaaS (for me): finding your first customers (sales & marketing).

On this week’s show: 1. SpinupWP: Building 2FA using Twilio [https://www.twilio.com/authy] and this package [https://github.com/Spomky-Labs/otphp]. 2. Surveyr [https://surveyr.io/]: Not implementing "obvious" features when building an MVP and trying to enhance "peace of mind" in the app. 3. Duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction [https://www.sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstraction].