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ShowDev: COVID-19 Feminist Response site hit 12k visitors ✨ πŸ₯³ πŸŽ‰

Sylwia Vargas on June 29, 2020

Hello friends! I am really happy to share with you that a website that I recently poured a lot of my heart into has just reached 12k visitors! I'd...
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Jason Leung πŸ§—β€β™‚οΈπŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» β€’

So nice you pulled it off in such a tight schedule (with a full time job). It is a meaningful project.

Not the whole world uses iphones or macs and that sadly there is a portion of folks who still feel comfortable with Internet Explorer. - So true.

So, are you going to learn Tailwind now?πŸ˜† They have a great screencasts.

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Sylwia Vargas β€’

Ah, yes! I actually came up with a mini side project just to learn Tailwind for the next big thing. I think I should also learn how to connect frontend with Wordpress because given that I really want to volunteer my skills for greater good, I think NGOs would appreciate this level of independence (sadly).

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Jason Leung πŸ§—β€β™‚οΈπŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» β€’

Cool! I've never used Wordpress myself. In my personal projects, I use sanity. Anyways, update your learning process. πŸ˜‰

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mayank joshi β€’

11k in 1.5 months🀯 is a huge milestone. That's amazing.πŸ₯³πŸ₯³

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Sylwia Vargas β€’

Thank you! We didn't know that the project would reach this many people and the first week the site went live gave us a massive impostor syndrome.

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Ben Halpern β€’

Congrats! Huge impact project!!

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Sylwia Vargas β€’

Thank you! I really want to volunteer my skills to help out different NGOs because tech products are usually waaaay outside their budgets.

Thanks

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Jasterix β€’

This is epic. Great job!!

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Sylwia Vargas β€’

Thank you for your kind words ❀️ We’ve worked really hard and I wanted to record the process and learnings so I’ll be smarter next time πŸ˜…

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Eka β€’

Great work!! Is the website source code open-sourced on Github so people can submit PR?

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Sylwia Vargas β€’

Thank you! It is now being handed over to a web dev agency so they can maintain it and build further. Maybe it will be open-sourced (we are advocating for that and i know that the WEDO org also likes the idea :) ). I'll keep you updated!