@markbowley.bsky.social
Learning by making stuff → Independent designer → Prototypes & side projects: ✋ hndmark.com ⭐️ winnny.com 🧰 minitools.carrd.co markbowley.com markbowley.leaflet.pub
It's that time again – add your recent wins to @usewinnny 🙌
09.02.2026 09:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0How do you manage ads on small sites?
I manage about 8 monthly subscriptions for ad panels, across 2 of my sites
The monthly subs are via @Gumroad and @lemonsqueezy but I never know when a customer cancels a sub
So I set up a small Zap automation to email me when they do
Even better → 1K page views/uses on @userrstory since launch a month ago 🔥
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Me reading through each omgstats.com stat, even though I've read them all already
31.01.2026 12:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This was just posting my blog back catalogue for Starrt.co, one a day, on my @Starrt_co acc
I've been trying to set that up as a custom API workflow for ages, but it was taking too long - did it in 5 mins with Claude
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I've now added gif option to the downloads on userrstory.com
29.01.2026 15:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This looks promising on userrstory.com
29.01.2026 14:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Have you noticed?
AI didn’t really replace work.
It replaced the waiting.
Now drafts are instant, turnaround is assumed,
and everyone expects more, faster.
My prototype userrstory.com has had a good number of uses in it's first month 🚀
— It's a free app to explain your product ideas through a visual story framework
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27.01.2026 14:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Me researching and adding stats on omgstats.com over the weekend
26.01.2026 13:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I've now implemented a Weekly Nudge email on Winnny.com for users who've signed up
Just a simple automation, done with a free plan on @emailoctopus
Tried although I’m not trying to make a community yet - more about personal tracking
23.01.2026 13:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Need to log these for the future – I made winnny.com for that
23.01.2026 13:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
When you share your build progress
The markup shows your reasoning
"Moved this here because..."
"Testing this variation..."
"Still broken but shipping anyway"
Annotations = narration
Makes your build log actually readable
hndmark.com
An OMG stat for sure
20.01.2026 15:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Feedback from a hndmark.com Pro user:
"I'm using this daily. Simple, quick and looks great"
POV: You're a designer and someone just gave you feedback
20.01.2026 12:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Everyone tells you to “celebrate small wins”
Productivity gurus on social, or the relentlessly positive friend who appears to have their sh*t together
But let’s be honest, we don’t...
Well, I do now, as I built winnny.com to help me
medium.com/@markbowley...
I did a literal OMG while adding this one
omgstats.com
Last year I wanted to start writing tiny, short stories in spare time
Just for myself, not to share
To practice more creativity
So I made a small tool to help me do it
medium.com/@markbowley...
I've added a bunch of new stats to omgstats.com
19.01.2026 12:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
When the design feedback is too real...
hndmark.com
When you have an emoji for a logo, why not make it an animated button? 😅
omgstats.com
Encouraging to see this app growth, from nothing but me posting about it and a watermark on the downloads
hndmark.com
Quick addition to hndmark.com – a couple of new tools
— Redact tool
— opposite Curved Arrow
Absolute banger from @JamesClear's newsletter
16.01.2026 10:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Updated Bento Stats to allow mixed units – so you can effectively create a dashboard of stats for your product/startup/business
bentostats.pages.dev
POV: Day 47 of explaining that bigger ≠ better
hndmark.com
