Jelle Van de Vliet

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Building Grafiki

Building Grafiki

Open blogpost about the whole journey of building Grafiki, an app that lets you manage your ad campaigns on Quora, Snap, Pinterest, and more.

Cast your GTM variables to another type with this new GTM Tag Template

Cast your GTM variables to another type with this new GTM Tag Template

At DPG Media we work with Snowplow and are in the middle of converting our Custom HTML tags to Templates. For this we use the official Snowplow GTM Template [https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow-gtm-custom-template]. (As soon as it's published I'll post the link here) We use this to send our

Adding a custom domain to App Runner

Adding a custom domain to App Runner

Ok, this took me a while to figure out. Let's keep it short and to the point: How you add a custom domain to App Runner in 5 steps 1. Move the DNS of your domain to Route 53. Yes, I tried it with Cloudflare but I didn't get it

Updating Github CLI with a personal access token on MacOSX

Updating Github CLI with a personal access token on MacOSX

A short guide on how to get a personal access token from Github, how to add it to your terminal so you can keep git pushing all that code you wrote 👨‍💻

My greatest chess games

My greatest chess games

I thought it would be fun to create an overview of my best chess games here. These are not the highest level games you've ever seen, but they've either made me cheer like I just won the Candidates tournament or tilt like I lost my life savings at roulette. And

Guide: How to use the Walmart Affiliate API with NodeJS

Guide: How to use the Walmart Affiliate API with NodeJS

As I explained in my post "On Making Price Trackers [https://vandevliet.me/on-making-price-trackers/]", I prefer to only make a price tracker for a shop if it has an API for me. And luckily, Walmart has one [https://walmart.io], so I decided to build Waltrack.net [https://waltrack.net]

On Making Price Trackers

On Making Price Trackers

Here we are. Again. Five years after I've launched my first price tracker, Prijzenvolger [https://prijzenvolger.com], and four years after I've closed it, I'm once again making price trackers. I always felt I had some unfinished business with price trackers. A year or two after I closed De Prijzenvolger,

Guide: How to use the AliExpress Affiliate API with Nodejs

Guide: How to use the AliExpress Affiliate API with Nodejs

Having trouble with making API requests to the AliExpress Affiliate API? In this blogpost I explain how to make API calls to the AliExpress API [including code samples!]

Build In Public, Tres Commas

Build In Public, Tres Commas

I found an awesome domain to use for my price trackers, integrated Pinterest's SEO experiment framework and am noticing the first results.

#BuildInPublic, 2nd edition

#BuildInPublic, 2nd edition

A little bit late to the party, but as it was my birthday yesterday, I had other priorities. A lot happened since I wrote the first Build in Public [https://vandevliet.me/buildinpublic-number-1/], so let's dive in. First some general news: I converted all the analytics for my side projects

#BuildInPublic, number 1

#BuildInPublic, number 1

So there's a "new" trend in indie hacker land: building in public. At first I thought it was just creators working in a public space: a coffee bar, the park or at a library. It turns out it isn't that. It's about creators sharing their progress in public, let it

The Queen's Gambit - The final Game: Harmon vs Borgov Analysis

The Queen's Gambit - The final Game: Harmon vs Borgov Analysis

I spent the last 3 days binging The Queen's Gambit on Netflix. It's a drama about an orphan chess prodigy named Beth Harmon and her quest to become the world's greatest chess player. Spoilers ahead! In the final episode Beth plays against her arch nemesis, the Soviet chess player Borgov.

React Native logs coming from instrument.js

React Native logs coming from instrument.js

Get "instrument.js" as source file in your Chrome Debugger when logging things from React Native? Update your blackbox settings to fix this.

Making Apple Authentication work with Firebase Auth in React Native (Expo)

Making Apple Authentication work with Firebase Auth in React Native (Expo)

For Filterlist, my iOS app to discover Instagram filters, I recently implemented Facebook authentication. Apple requires you to also implement Apple Authentication when you use other 3rd party auth providers. I wasted/invested some hours to get it working, and here's what helped. To be honest, I still haven't managed

Filterlist, my second iOS app, is live - and I'm falling in love with React Native

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Filterlist, my second iOS app, is live - and I'm falling in love with React Native

I created the first Instagram filter discovery app! Here's how I've done it.

15 € de descuento | Códigos promocionales de Uber Eats (que realmente funcionan)

15 € de descuento | Códigos promocionales de Uber Eats (que realmente funcionan)

€ 15 Korting | Uber Eats Promo Codes (Die Echt Werken)

€ 15 Korting | Uber Eats Promo Codes (Die Echt Werken)

Nu we met corona en de lockdown-light allemaal van thuis moeten werken, is de kans groot dat jij ook meer takeout bestelt dan normaal. Ik alvast wel. Maar elke dag (of toch enkele keren per week) Uber Eats bestellen kan al snel heel erg duur worden. Hoe handig zou een

Making the Reddit NSFW Unsubscriber

Making the Reddit NSFW Unsubscriber

How (and why) I sourced over 50,000 NSFW subreddits to make a tool that makes your Reddit experience more wholesome.

Reddit NSFW Unsubscriber

Reddit NSFW Unsubscriber

I created a tool that allows you to one-click unsub from NSFW subreddits, to make your Reddit experience a little bit more wholesome!

Screen Templates For Surface Hub Whiteboard

Screen Templates For Surface Hub Whiteboard

If you like drawing wireframes on the Microsoft Surface Hub Whiteboard, these screens may come in handy. Longpress on a screen to bring up the menu, and save it to the desktop (If you copy-paste it, there seems to be a black background). Then in the Whiteboard app on the

Making the Mad Men Inflation Calculator

Making the Mad Men Inflation Calculator

Little insights on how I went about creating the Mad Men Inflation Calculator.

Mad Men Inflation Calculator

Mad Men Inflation Calculator

So how filthy rich were Don Draper and Roger Sterling exactly? If you're like me and you're constantly calculating what sixties dollars would be worth in 2019, this one's for you!

Adding a Belgian Bank Account to App Store Connect

Adding a Belgian Bank Account to App Store Connect

How to add a Belgian Bank account to Apple Developer account in App Store Connect

How To Stay Motivated When Building A (Side-)Project. Spoiler Alert: It's Validating It.

How To Stay Motivated When Building A (Side-)Project. Spoiler Alert: It's Validating It.

I used to have this folder on my computer that I'd call my "project graveyard". It was my "SIDE PROJECTS" folder, filled with at least 30 projects that were semi-finished. You see, every time I had a new idea I'd create a new folder in it and add research: logo

The National Setlists to Live Albums

The National Setlists to Live Albums

Select the concerts of The National you attended and get to see right away how many percentage of each album you've listened to live!