November 10, 2022
This morning I’ve migrated from Heroku to Fly. Hopefully everything still works fine. 😅
If you find that something isn’t working well or some things are missing, please contact me and I’ll have a look.
We now have a much more capable and faster server so the website itself should be performing better too. We’ll see. 😬
November 4, 2022
On this day, 2 years ago, the first Visualizer commit was made. Last year I wrote all about how and why and the rapid changes of those first months, so do read the 1st Visualizer Anniversary post if you haven’t yet. And recapping the story of Visualizer on a job interview1 yesterday, I realized that this past year has been just as insane, if not more so.
In January, I introduced a massive change: switching to a freemium SaaS model. At that time there were 1,200 users and just over 200,000 upload shots. Today there are 2,822 with over 700,000 shots, and this past Sunday we just broke a record of most uploaded shots per day: 2,180. I’m quite happy with how Premium subscription got received, and I hope it’ll keep growing. I’m very grateful for everyone who signed up. You make this service possible! I do my best to keep improving the service for everyone, not just Premium users. They did just get a couple of really nifty new features, though. 🥰
There were many other new features added in the past year:
And many more tiny ones improving the functionality, performance, or just fixing bugs. Such is the life of a modern app. Just since the last post, there were many such changes. The biggest one of them being a completely new Premium page with all the questions, that I commonly get, answered.
You might notice one drastic change: there’s no more Pro/Café plan. That’s because in the entire year I only got 1 person emailing me about it. And even they didn’t reply when I asked for a feature set they’d like. 🙈 Apparently, Decents aren’t really used in such environments. And for everyone else there is Flow and Cropster Cafe. I’m happy I offered the option, though, because now I know that any time spent on café focused features would have been time lost. So we all benefit. 😅
Thanks for reading, but mostly thank you for being a loyal user. 🙏
In case you missed it, I recently became unemployed. ↩
Something really nice is brewing in this area just now 😉 ↩
October 23, 2022
Following up the last post, I have more time now and here are 2 new features that I’ve wanted for a while.
First one will show you all the coffee/grinder/profile combos, and the last grinder setting you used with each of them. This is super useful when you’re going from one coffee to another, or when you have a special coffee that you don’t use that often. In my case, that’s a bag of decaf that I drink one or two per week and always forget what the grind setting was. This solves that problem, and now I can always just open Visualizer and immediately see what the grind setting was for any coffee I brewed recently.
The second one is a more visual one and something I always wanted to see on a plot. It’s a plot of all the enjoyment scores in the past 6 months.
Both features are available on separate tabs on the main Your Shots page. But I’ll remember the tab you chose, so whenever you come to Visualizer, the one that you had last open, will open again. Both features are exclusive to Premium users. Mainly because I don’t consider them a must-have, but also because I’d like to boost my income a bit, now that I’m jobless. 😅
Hope you’ll love these, as much as I do, or sign up for Premium if you haven’t already.
There were also a couple of minor improvements since the last post. My favorite one is detecting change in dark/light OS theme and reflecting it on the page immediately. 🤩
Thank you for reading this post and using Visualizer! 🥰