Recent content by PolyG

Building the Recruitment Funnel One thing I quickly learned was that building the platform was probably easier than recruiting creators. I went through three iterations of the recruitment funnel before arriving at the current version. The first version was very basic and mostly involved...

Challenge: Finding Creators After spending months building the platform, I eventually faced a bigger challenge: finding creators. To be honest, I initially recruited manually because I had absolutely no idea what I was doing . I managed to onboard my first 12 creators relatively quickly. Some...

Developing with AI One thing that significantly accelerated development was using ChatGPT (which I affectionately call superNova ). Rather than replacing development skills, I found it acted more like a patient senior developer sitting next to me. It helped me: • Understand py4web concepts •...

Developing code – probably my biggest challenge. While developing the basics for the platform, I knew I wanted to include a live chat feature. I soon realized that this was beyond my capabilities at the time. I turned to Upwork and found an excellent professor from Ukraine who was doing Python...

My tech stack I thought I'd share what I'm using to build AlbumSelection. Current stack: • Python – Main programming language. I've been using Python for years and wanted to stay productive rather than chase the latest frameworks. • py4web – Chosen because I like its simplicity...

Hi everyone, I thought I would start documenting my journey building AlbumSelection, an OF-style creator platform that I've developed from scratch over the past year as a solo developer. The idea came from observing how difficult it is for many creators to consistently grow their audience...