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.

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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.’

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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.