Tools

These are the list of tools I use for my personal projects. The tools which I found super useful, proved to be working, cost their money, easy to setup and use. No BS, just the best.

Surfer Link to heading

Blogging, keywords research. Keywords research and generation of blog articles based on the research data and ALL of that in a one place. This is the most sofisticated and coolest marketing tool 🛠️ I’ve ever seen. Fun fact it has been made in Poland where I am living now 🇵🇱 🙂

I have created a bunch of articles 30+ without clustering but covering low competition keywords back then in August and I am starting to see improvements. pic.twitter.com/o5pACig6UZ
— @ikigai (@rabkin_gena) October 26, 2024

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ASO, keywords research. If you develop mobile applications you probably know that ASO is the basic/starting way of getting traffic for your app on the Appstore. ADS will cost you thousands of dollars and usually your average LTE won’t cover the cost. You have to gain the traffic organically there’s no other way around. And Astro helps you organise your app’s metadata properly to not lose the basics.

Together with the tool. Matteo Spada, its author, provides two books to help you get into ASO quickly.

Apple has Search API to get data about postitions of apps on the Appstore in a specific counties. So basically all the tools you find on the market are using the same technique by scrapping the data for the first 100 apps get their titles/subtitles and do some research over keywords used and their complexity based on the number of usage overall across the apps. Astro do the job for what other ASO tools are taking much more money via their desktop app which uses resources of your PC to fetch the data instead of beeing hosted somewhere. Try it, it is worthy.

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Gathering monitoring statistics from my servers with alerts. One command setup. Again free to start, no stup pain, the most important alerts are out of the box no configuration needed.

Have you heard about Netdata, it is super cool, simple install command for Docker or K8s or any other setup. Free for small projects

I just dropped it in with the docker run command and I see all statistics with alerts in one place. Amazing.
Note: the footage shows demo project. pic.twitter.com/UZR8ZI4SxK
— @ikigai (@rabkin_gena) September 16, 2024

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This is an amazing uptime dashboard, easy to configure and setup, free for small projects to start.

Checkout how beatufil it looks for my FoodIntake Services Status:

I am using it both on my landing and in Settings of my mobile app

Revolut Link to heading

Payouts and payments management, eSim, brokerage. I separate out my working accounts easily with the internet bank, control my budgeting with it on infra, marketing, and tools I subscribed on.