Sankalp Jonna

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How I built a welcome email sequence with no code

OCTOBER 30, 2022

A step by step guide to creating an email sequence automation using Sendgrid and Make.com.

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How to turn exercise into a subconscious habit?

MARCH 27, 2021

A simple guide to condition your body in a way that exercising becomes second nature. Just like brushing teeth.

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A startup is about managing chaos

MARCH 7, 2021

Bug fixes, feature requests, UI/UX enhancements - which one to pick up first?

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A brief review of 2020

DECEMBER 27, 2020

What I learnt from growing a SaaS business, growing my personal website and building a team.

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Increasing the productivity of yourself and your team

DECEMBER 20, 2020

My thoughts on how personal and team productivity can be boosted by breaking up time on a weekly and daily basis for various tasks.

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Testing webhooks using netcat and ngrok

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

An elegant way to test your webhooks using just 2 simple terminal commands.

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Building a Django CRUD application in minutes

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

A structural guide and tutorial for building a Django CRUD application at lightning speed using the Django Rest Framework library

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Decoding an email message

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

A short summary of what an email actually looks like to a client, followed by some useful meta data present in the email.

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A blog post about nothing

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Sometimes all we really need in life is a creative way to pass the time. Not everything has to be a lesson.

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The Set data structure saved me from a world of pain

OCTOBER 16, 2020

A concept that seemed insignificant turned out to be more useful than I imagined.

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How conversations evolved with technology

OCTOBER 10, 2020

My thoughts on how conversations are taking place in the modern world.

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Imposter syndrome: Is it a bug or a feature?

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Do you sometimes feel like you do not deserve the success that you achieved? Here are my thoughts on imposter syndrome.

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Choosing the right tech stack for your product

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

A few structural guidelines to help choose the right tech stack for your software product.

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The feedback loop of productivity

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

My attempt at rekindling the joy of writing by talking about the very thing that helped me write in the first place.

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Finding the right point in your UX to trigger a paywall

AUGUST 9, 2020

How to gently nudge users into becoming paying customers without stopping them from scoping out your product.

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Handling more than 200 transactions per second using python-rq

JULY 26, 2020

A structured guide on how to handle large amounts of traffic where each request has to be processed using many resources.

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Meet El Chapo - an open source & serverless URL shortener

JULY 19, 2020

Written in python/flask using AWS DynamoDB as the data store and having the ability to track clicks.

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Hosting your entire web application using S3 + CloudFront

JULY 12, 2020

Leverage S3 and CloudFront to host your web app in an infinitely scalable way.

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Want to start a business? Try not to do it alone

JULY 7, 2020

Advantages of starting starting a business with a teammate.

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My post was #3 on Hacker news.

JULY 5, 2020

What went into writing content that went viral on Hacker News for a day

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Our AWS bill is ~ 2% of revenue. Here's how we did it

JUNE 27, 2020

Leveraging AWS lightsail to achieve a minimal AWS bill

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A brief review of 2019

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Most important aspects of building a remote business

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