
Sergio Mattei is a maker, entrepreneur, self-taught programmer and student. He is the founder of Makerlog.
Interesting Facts
- He created his first website when he was 11.
- He has ADD/ADHD. Working asynchronously makes him more effective
Makerlog
Makerlog is a community of over 7,000 makers in tech shipping side projects together. Folks can post their daily tasks and grow a network of supportive, like-minded people.
Milestones
Sergio has regularly posted milestones from the project on Twitter:
- February, 2018: He hinted about the creation of Makerlog in a tweet
- June, 2018: The private beta was launched. At that time, he moved the domain to Get Makerlog.
- January, 2019: Makerlog 2.0 launched on Product Hunt. It became the #1 Product of the day.
- February, 2019: Makerlog reached 2000 users
- April, 2019: Makerlog had 2,436 Users: and MRR: $180,
- June, 2019: Makerlog hit 100k tasks.
- July, 2020: Makerlog turned 2
- August, 2020: It became an LLC
- September, 2020: Makerlog reacched $405 MRR in Gold sub revenue
- January, 2021: he introducted the Makerlog Awesome club. The most active and helpful members of their community got a limited edition purple badge on their profile.
Interesting Facts:
- Mockup of Maker Project stats page (Febrary, 2018)
- The first ever video of Makerlog. It’s from April 2018
- The first document he wrote about Makerlog back in 2018, before he’d even started coding it
- Market Research spreadsheet for Makerlog
- He compared data from multiple launches and found that Product Hunt is the most effective launch strategy.
- How he measures Makerlog’s progress
- He publicly joked about buying the Makerlog.com domain. Somebody else bought it.
- He celebrated building for 728 consecutive days on Makerlog in November, 2020.
Open Startup Reports
Other Projects
Inkfeed
Inkfeed is described as ‘the place for the web’s ideas.’
He documented the creation process in this Twitter thread.
Past Projects
Cowork
Cowork was a productivity tool for remote teams
He soft launched the product in July, 2019. He got a lot of positive feedback. He created a Twitter thread with the highlights from building the MVP. He also created a Twitter thread about the soft launch.
In September, 2019, he closed Coworks to new signup and transitioned it back to an alpha stage.
Taleship
Taleship was a community for writing stories collaboratively
Sergio made Taleship made Taleship from scratch as a side project. He described it as a fun way to modernize writing and make it a social, fun experience.
He retired the project in March, 2018. He shared more about the experience at Taleship: Shut Down +600 Users Startup due to Hurricane Maria. He also wrote about it at his blog at Making in the Apocalypse: How I shipped a SaaS after Hurricane Maria.
Covid Pages
Covid Pages was crowdsourced directory of resources to ease the crisis
Sergio launched Covid Pages in March, 2020. It was built live on Twitch.
It is no longer active.
He reached 2’000 Twitter followers in May, 2019.
Threads
Many people mistake failing fast with giving up fast. There’s a big difference
Getting backlash and the importance of postiive feedback
The launch-and-dump culture on Product Hunt is harmful, and it’s hurting our goals as a community
Features
Interviews
Striking the Right Balance as an Indie Hacker with Sergio Mattei of Makerlog
Making Get Makerlog With Sergio Mattei
How Sergio Mattei made the next Makerlog 6x faster with Polypane
Sergio Mattei: The Beautiful Humans Of Hacker Noon
Sergio Mattei on Being a Maker as a Full Time Student
How to grow a community with Segio from Makerlog