Switching the landing page from Netlify to self-hosted (I hate Soccer) | Build in public E79

WEBVTT 00:00.000 –> 00:03.920 All right, this is my daily update from my build and public log. 00:04.660 –> 00:07.860 It’s March 19th, 2025. 00:09.440 –> 00:13.160 I managed to get some work done, finally. 00:13.460 –> 00:17.580 I’m a bit more back to normal. 00:17.760 –> 00:23.740 So I have had COVID for the last almost week, I don’t know, four days or something. 00:23.920 –> 00:25.940 So I’ve been quite sick. 00:25.940 –> 00:31.840 I haven’t managed to get very much done on the business on this. 00:32.200 –> 00:39.600 This is what I’m about to talk about, my main focus for the at least next month or two. 00:40.500 –> 00:44.340 I am building an AI agent API service, okay? 00:45.160 –> 00:49.400 So I’ve been trying to get it done and launched. 00:49.400 –> 00:59.040 It’s painfully close, but I got kind of pulled away on a huge freelance project that takes up pretty much all my time. 00:59.140 –> 01:03.340 It’s a full-time job, temporary full-time job. 01:04.080 –> 01:06.580 And it’s been a lot of work. 01:06.920 –> 01:18.540 And they wanted a quick turnaround to basically build, finish off a front-end app, and have it done by basically yesterday. 01:18.540 –> 01:23.360 So I’ve been really busy doing the freelance project. 01:23.500 –> 01:29.900 So this kind of has turned into a trickle, just like a little bit of work every week. 01:30.380 –> 01:31.500 And then I got sick. 01:31.560 –> 01:32.860 I had COVID the last weekend. 01:33.040 –> 01:39.500 So I was hoping to get this done and launched last weekend, but I was so sick. 01:39.560 –> 01:41.460 I needed to take the time off. 01:41.720 –> 01:45.520 I’m hoping to get this launched this weekend. 01:46.100 –> 01:46.740 We’ll see. 01:46.740 –> 01:49.140 So what did I do today? 01:49.460 –> 01:52.540 I had this hosted on Netlify. 01:53.920 –> 01:56.820 And it’s pretty basic. 01:56.980 –> 01:58.520 It’s just a Next.js app. 01:58.920 –> 02:03.920 But it does actually need to call a few backend pieces. 02:03.920 –> 02:13.280 I have to yank it out of Netlify and host it on the server where everything else is running. 02:13.600 –> 02:17.220 Because it actually now has to talk to the database just a little bit. 02:17.820 –> 02:27.300 In a previous video, I talked about how I architectured this and my philosophy on trying my best to make it secure. 02:27.300 –> 02:34.100 And part of that is don’t just don’t even expose the database publicly. 02:34.100 –> 02:41.140 Like literally the only way to call it is from the backend to call it just locally on the server. 02:41.140 –> 02:50.500 So I don’t want the Next.js app to go over the internet and call the Postgres database. 02:50.500 –> 02:56.700 This Postgres database, even with a really long password, it’s locked down. 02:57.040 –> 03:01.460 It’s not accessible outside of the Docker network. 03:01.940 –> 03:02.640 I was like, crap. 03:02.640 –> 03:09.440 There’s just a few features that I need to actually, like, it’s not even the database. 03:09.560 –> 03:11.560 It’s actually the Redis instance. 03:11.700 –> 03:14.440 But I was like, okay, well, screw it. 03:14.480 –> 03:15.700 I’m putting it on the server. 03:15.860 –> 03:17.560 So that’s what I’m working on right now. 03:17.620 –> 03:18.400 I’m almost done. 03:18.880 –> 03:22.440 But a part of that, I had to, like, readjust the DNS setting. 03:22.580 –> 03:25.300 So now I’m waiting for that. 03:25.780 –> 03:30.340 And I managed to get this on the landing page. 03:30.340 –> 03:34.100 So this landing page still needs some work. 03:34.700 –> 03:43.380 But honestly, I’m just going to take the chopping block and temporary hide a lot of stuff and then slowly start re-enabling things. 03:43.520 –> 03:47.940 So this is going to be pretty, pretty spartan when this launches, hopefully this weekend. 03:49.800 –> 03:50.520 I don’t know. 03:50.580 –> 03:53.140 I don’t even know if I’ll get it done this weekend, but I will try. 03:53.320 –> 03:56.040 So that’s what I’m working on all week. 03:56.520 –> 03:59.340 Get this up on the server, which isn’t going to take very long. 03:59.340 –> 04:00.160 That’s almost done. 04:01.000 –> 04:03.880 And start doing all the miscellaneous bits here. 04:04.660 –> 04:09.960 Next up, once I get some, a little bit more work done here, I will add Stripe. 04:10.960 –> 04:12.340 So you can actually buy. 04:12.780 –> 04:13.440 Stay tuned. 04:13.680 –> 04:14.400 It’s almost there. 04:14.480 –> 04:14.960 It’s almost there. 04:16.080 –> 04:17.440 So that’s it for today. 04:17.520 –> 04:18.400 Pretty short and sweet. 04:19.020 –> 04:20.580 Let’s jump over really quick. 04:21.280 –> 04:22.180 Yeah, I didn’t think so. 04:22.180 –> 04:24.360 Um, I know. 04:29.140 –> 04:30.860 I still need to respond to him. 04:31.800 –> 04:34.880 So this was a conversation I had with this person. 04:34.880 –> 04:40.060 And I don’t, I don’t know who they are, um, in real life or anything. 04:42.200 –> 04:51.180 Uh, so we, I, I showed this conversation, the first part, uh, the, the other day in a few, well, like a week ago. 04:51.180 –> 04:54.720 Um, but then there were some responses that I need to respond to. 04:54.720 –> 04:57.880 So, uh, his advice was to repeat everything. 04:57.880 –> 05:02.680 So if you’re new here, I can like catch you up briefly on what’s going on. 05:03.100 –> 05:06.340 Uh, I’ve built a lot of software in the past. 05:08.760 –> 05:10.520 Lead generation of cells. 05:10.520 –> 05:21.540 Lead generation, I’ve looked at doing a lot of myself. 05:22.040 –> 05:39.680 Um, I don’t know enough about lead generation, but there’s a lot of people claiming right now that, uh, and there’s like a lot of, a lot of YouTubers who talk about this endlessly about using AI and all these automation tools to build like these complex workflows. 05:39.680 –> 05:46.660 Those where, uh, people are making like tens of thousands of dollars a month doing it. 05:46.660 –> 05:54.120 So I’m so skeptical and jaded nowadays, like every, I, I always have, I have this expression, everything is fake. 05:54.120 –> 05:57.200 Like I really, truly believe that everything is fake. 05:57.280 –> 05:58.540 I might not even be real. 05:58.540 –> 06:05.340 Like, I mean, I’m kidding about that, but you see a picture, it’s probably fake. 06:05.500 –> 06:08.240 You know, you see something on social media, tech talk. 06:08.240 –> 06:10.400 Why is a camera recording that? 06:10.460 –> 06:11.960 It’s obviously staged and it’s fake. 06:12.500 –> 06:15.760 Uh, you see a photo marketing thing. 06:15.840 –> 06:16.620 It’s been touched up. 06:16.700 –> 06:20.720 It’s been AI or it’s like, you know, Photoshop, everything is fake. 06:21.160 –> 06:25.360 So, well, especially with AI shit, so many people are trying to sell stuff. 06:25.880 –> 06:29.000 Um, is it real? 06:29.100 –> 06:31.100 Can you really automate and do lead generation? 06:31.300 –> 06:32.300 I don’t know. 06:32.300 –> 06:34.100 I’ve wanted to look at more into that. 06:34.520 –> 06:41.160 I wanted to make some AI agents for, um, lead generation and also to help me understand. 06:41.700 –> 06:50.300 So if there’s an AI agent, you think I can help build, help you by building, um, you know, that does some kind of lead generation. 06:50.300 –> 06:54.560 Hit me up, drop a comment, let’s talk. 06:54.740 –> 07:08.180 I will, if you give me a really good idea, uh, I will build the agent and you’ll get to use it, like call it and you’ll get like a humongous discount, like, like 80% discount. 07:08.180 –> 07:10.460 So basically it would cost you like nothing. 07:10.700 –> 07:13.760 Um, so let me know. 07:14.200 –> 07:14.520 Yeah. 07:14.620 –> 07:17.240 There’s, there’s so much to that. 07:17.420 –> 07:23.760 And I actually, um, that’s one of the things I want to build is a, is a lead enrichment agent. 07:23.760 –> 07:28.020 So like, this is something really at the forefront of my brain too. 07:28.160 –> 07:30.280 So good luck with that. 07:30.400 –> 07:32.160 I, I hope that goes well. 07:32.320 –> 07:36.880 I, I will respond to those later onto my random story for today. 07:36.880 –> 07:38.480 Anyway, this will be a quick one. 07:38.780 –> 07:45.300 Uh, so across the street, I, I, where I’m staying right now, I’m, I’m almost out of here, by the way. 07:45.360 –> 07:48.240 I’m, I’m trying to make my way back to London. 07:48.620 –> 07:52.780 Um, I, why am I not in London right now? 07:54.040 –> 07:56.200 That’s not my story, but I’m just going to briefly touch on that. 07:56.560 –> 08:00.000 I’m not in London because I’m not allowed to go to London. 08:00.520 –> 08:02.460 Uh, I’ve kind of overstayed my welcome. 08:02.460 –> 08:05.700 I can’t go back without a, like without a visa. 08:05.700 –> 08:10.460 Yes, I’m an American and yes, we can go there, but I can’t go there. 08:10.600 –> 08:11.320 I overstayed. 08:11.440 –> 08:17.460 No, I didn’t overstay my visa, but I stayed so long that I now cannot go back. 08:17.960 –> 08:20.340 Like even to visit, I need a visa. 08:20.680 –> 08:23.320 Um, I can’t say more than that. 08:23.940 –> 08:24.340 That’s right. 08:24.440 –> 08:27.940 I’m not going to say more than that, but I, and let’s just say I can not go back. 08:27.940 –> 08:31.120 Um, I have to like get a visa and have a good reason to go back. 08:31.300 –> 08:32.340 So I’m working on that. 08:32.500 –> 08:37.800 We’re trying to get an immigration lawyer and I’m starting that, that journey to, to, to like 08:37.800 –> 08:42.760 legally long-term go back to London and have the ability to, to go live there, like half 08:42.760 –> 08:43.400 the year or whatever. 08:43.400 –> 08:47.500 Uh, so anyways, that’s why I’m here in California. 08:47.500 –> 08:48.940 I’m waiting for legal stuff. 08:49.460 –> 08:57.620 Um, sucks, but where I’m staying up, there is a field where all these kids play like sports. 08:58.520 –> 09:05.700 Uh, this is on the top of my brain because, uh, the freelance project, it’s an app for kids 09:05.700 –> 09:06.700 to play sports. 09:06.700 –> 09:10.060 Like, so I see these kids out here and I’m like, I’m always thinking about my work. 09:10.120 –> 09:10.960 I’m like, ah, great. 09:11.540 –> 09:18.160 Uh, and it’s so funny because I see them running around, you know, these are older kids. 09:18.440 –> 09:19.760 They’re super enthusiastic. 09:20.420 –> 09:27.500 And it just reminds me of when I was a kid and I played soccer, I was not running around 09:27.500 –> 09:28.820 enthusiastic like that. 09:29.000 –> 09:30.520 I was thinking about it right now. 09:30.520 –> 09:37.900 So I, my favorite part of soccer practice was getting the little, getting the little, 09:37.900 –> 09:39.540 um, orange slices. 09:39.540 –> 09:44.460 Like they’d give me like orange slices and having a treat after I hated soccer. 09:44.740 –> 09:46.760 I got, I despised it. 09:46.840 –> 09:52.540 I, you had to wear those like things on your shin to shin guards to protect from, you know, 09:52.540 –> 09:53.620 getting hurt and kicked. 09:53.780 –> 09:55.460 I couldn’t kick the damn ball. 09:55.640 –> 09:56.660 I didn’t care. 09:56.780 –> 09:57.700 I didn’t want to run. 09:57.700 –> 10:01.780 Um, I remember just standing out there and going, oh, when is this over? 10:02.140 –> 10:04.220 I just want my oranges and to go home. 10:04.460 –> 10:05.240 I hate this. 10:05.560 –> 10:08.800 Um, I hated it with a passion. 10:09.080 –> 10:11.600 Was not into sports, not into playing sports. 10:12.200 –> 10:14.120 Uh, my sister was the athlete. 10:14.680 –> 10:21.000 My sister was one of these literally, you know, kids out here running around playing. 10:21.100 –> 10:21.720 She loved it. 10:21.800 –> 10:22.760 She did it all the time. 10:23.220 –> 10:27.400 Uh, and she would like be like on a really serious team headed up towards like, 10:27.400 –> 10:28.520 Olympic level. 10:28.940 –> 10:35.580 Some of the, some of the famous, uh, soccer football for you European players, like the 10:35.580 –> 10:38.580 women players, my sister actually competed against. 10:38.800 –> 10:39.660 She was at that level. 10:39.880 –> 10:43.240 She really could have gone like pro went to the Olympics if she continued. 10:43.420 –> 10:46.460 But after a while, even she was like, I don’t, I don’t like this. 10:46.500 –> 10:47.180 I don’t want to do this. 10:47.180 –> 10:49.180 And I’m like, how did you ever like doing that? 10:49.240 –> 10:52.400 I don’t understand, but she’s real, uh, athletic. 10:52.580 –> 10:53.320 She likes that stuff. 10:53.520 –> 10:59.840 So me, I, I would never be one of these older kids because I quit long ago when I was a little 10:59.840 –> 11:00.140 kid. 11:00.220 –> 11:01.140 I hated it so much. 11:01.140 –> 11:04.600 So, but I just remember getting those little orange slices. 11:04.920 –> 11:06.300 I don’t know why they always give us oranges. 11:06.440 –> 11:09.840 This is like a thing in the nineties, more to come, more to come. 11:09.920 –> 11:12.680 It’s slowly getting there and I’m back to work. 11:12.820 –> 11:14.440 I’m feeling a bit better after COVID. 11:15.440 –> 11:18.700 I’m not a hundred percent better, but I’m feeling much better. 11:18.700 –> 11:20.420 So it’s coming soon. 11:20.860 –> 11:21.420 See you tomorrow.