Share a personal anecdote or motivation behind why you're passionate about your product.

I used to help clients set up websites on Wordpress, Webflow, Ghost, etc - I've had to endure the pain of working with all of these Content Management Systems! I found they were always so hostile to non-technical users. So I started building joybird.ai, to make it easy for non-developers to manage a website without worrying about servers, updating plugins, etc. You could say I'm motivated by rage (at the existing solutions) 😬

From my launch ☺️ 🎵 I built https://lyrist.app to make songwriting more convenient. As a rapper, I would look for instrumentals on YouTube, open a notes app, and write to the beat. I would have to switch back and forth between applications to rewind, fast forward, pause, and replay as I made progress composing a verse. If I wanted to use words unfamiliar to my vocabulary, I opened a rhyming dictionary or thesaurus to find word associations. Once finished, I would share my lyrics and the YouTube link with collaborators via email or a file sharing app. Nowadays, I only need one tool for all of this.

I was working on a project and I needed help from the programs. All the programs that are on this market would not close my task, so I decided to create my own product to solve the issue of productivity.

I was constantly struggling with task management, juggling multiple platforms and nothing quite fitting.

I've struggled to find certain course and site creation platforms easy to use. As a non-technical person I really wanted to use a builder (for courses / pages / lead magnets) that was intuitive and not super overwhelming with tools I'll never use that seemingly overcomplicate the end result.

So, I'm the kinda guy who likes finding good deals, and absolutely hates paying for subscriptions. Like, I don't even have Amazon prime or Netflix. Only YT premium that comes with my phone plan. Other than that, my personal bills are rent, phone and utilities. For business I have Canva and OpenAI API, hosting, and a proxy. That's just some background on me. So, how does this tie into my product? Some of my writing clients gave me a SurferSEO outline/content editor for a few articles and using that amplified my writing to a different level. Unfortunately, those things aren't cheap, so I was left with only one option: to make it myself, but better. There are lots of SEO content editors/writing assistants, but all of them are hosted on the cloud and subscription based (plus most don't even have a dark mode). Mine is a native app, pay once own forever, very fast, and smaller than the amount of RAM those other sites eat up. Coding it and trying to make it super efficient has been lots of fun, and adding features like the theme customizer make it something that I'm proud of. It's a tool I use every day, which honestly, is something that makes me super happy. Some projects I've worked on in the past were like, one-off features that had limited use cases (like, making a botfarm is fine but set it and forget it, you don't literally use it every day). Making Back SEO, I added features whenever I needed a task automated or info on certain things. The more products I see, the more features for it I think of, so I get pretty excited about all of it lol.