Highlights

• I sold my first pre-order for KVM Pi.
• Finding new ways to monetize Is It Keto is proving more difficult than I expected.
• I sold an Enterprise plan for Zestful.

Goal grades

At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did against those goals:

Validate ideas for a sister product to Is It Keto

• Result: Tried a few different landing pages, but nothing gained traction
• Grade: B-

I forgot how difficult it is to find potential customers and engage them in thoughtful conversations about what kind of products or features would interest them.

Recent versions of the Raspberry Pi support USB on-the-go (USB OTG), which allows them to impersonate USB devices such as keyboards, thumb drives, and microphones. To take advantage of this, I made an open-source web app that turns my Pi into a fake keyboard. I call it Key Mime Pi.

This post demonstrates how Key Mime Pi works and how you can build one for yourself.

Demo

What you’ll need

• A Raspberry Pi that supports USB OTG:
  • Raspberry Pi 4 (all variants)
  • Raspberry Pi Zero W
  • Raspberry Pi A and A+ (verification needed)
    • This source claims that early Pis support USB OTG, but I have not tested these devices personally.
• Raspberry Pi OS (aka Raspbian)
  • Stretch or later
• A USB cable
  • For the Pi 4: USB-C to USB-A (Male/Male)
  • For the Pi Zero W: Micro-USB to USB-A (Male/Male)

Install Raspberry Pi OS Lite

To begin, install Raspberry Pi OS lite (formerly known as Raspbian) on a microSD card.

This book follows the author of the hit 90s computer game Prince of Persia through the game’s development, release, and several years after. The book consists of diary entries that author Jordan Mechner wrote during that time, with margin notes and accompanying photos and sketches Mechner added for publication.

Highlights

• I added 88 new programmatically-generated articles to Is It Keto.
• With 100k monthly pageviews, it’s time to explore new ways of working with Is It Keto’s audience.
• I created a KVM over IP device that requires <$100 in hardware.

Goal grades

At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did against those goals:

Add 100 new articles to Is It Keto

• Result: Added 88 new articles to Is It Keto
• Grade: B

Programmatically generating content is harder than I expected. It’s easy to generate the score and nutrition data, but it’s tough to templatize lots of text that fits a wide range of products.

In part one, I described my arduous journey to capture my old home movies in digital format and divide them into individual scenes. After processing all the clips, I wanted the experience of exploring them to be as simple as looking up clips on YouTube. Because these videos are my family’s private memories, actual YouTube is too public. I needed a way to share them that was both user-friendly and secure.