Setting things up

Otherwise called "productive procrastination"

I feel stuck.

Even after deciding I wanted to go down the road of building in public, I feel stuck.
Stuck with an inner fear of … well, I don't know really.

Once again not finishing what I started?
Not being interesting enough?
Building a useless app?
Failing?

Probably a mix of all that.

So to maintain the illusion that I'm doing something towards my goal, I convinced myself I needed some more setup to get started:

✅ Setting up my new substack for this very publication
✅ Building a landing page for my first project (more on that soon!) on Carrd.co
✅ Automating subscribers creation from my Carrd landing page to Substack
✅ Setting up Plausible analytics on both Carrd and Substack

The last two items were technically challenging so it took me a little while to get them done.

I'm particularly satisfied with how I managed to set up Plausible on Substack, as it's not an integration Substack does offer.
But since I really needed to procrastinate, I found a way :)

Here's the gist:

• Register your domain with Cloudflare

• Pay for Substack’s custom domain option to use that domain

• Create a Cloudlare Worker that injects Plausible’s script into the document’s head

Et voilà.
I could write up a detailed tutorial if there's some interest for it – let me know in the comments or hit reply!

Now back to being stuck.

You have probably noted that all 4 items above are checked. All done.
So in the next issue, I'll stop stalling and start talking about my first project: Speakerine.

Let's fail forward!