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This year, Indie Shorts Mag received over 50 short films in the AI category. AI tools like Runway and Midjourney are lowering production costs, allowing indie filmmakers to craft cinematic stories more quickly. But remember: strong storytelling remains the main challenge.

Relaunched 9 months back. Slowly gaining traction. #seo #buildinpublic

#ShortFilmhashtag/ShortFilmTrailer" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#ShortFilmTrailer: Read Between The Lines: Come For the Romance, Stay For The Personal Growth. 

Read our review & watch the short: ism.ag/hjug9

#ShortFilm #ShortFilmReview #SupportindieFilm #Trailer #FilmTrailer #ShortFilms

Another organic search achievement unlocked for Indie Shorts Mag.

The last search achievement was in December 2023, and with more and more people moving away from Google Search to chatbots, this achievement was unexpected.

#SEO

Launched a mini side project today. Presenting 𝗥𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗲, a mini tool to help filmmakers identify gaps in their films' IMDb pages.

This has been planned for a while, and a prototype was coded a few months back, but the launch was delayed until I secured the domain.

Added a Laurel Centre to Laurel Designer Pro. The page features a list of film festivals and awards. Festivals are automatically added here based on laurels generated by the users once they are approved. A new homepage is also released.

#buildinpublic

Developed a new film submission flow for Short of the Month. It will go live later today, currently waiting for feedback from testers.

This new flow also paves the way for the new film video hosting we are planning. 🤞🏻

#buildinpublic

First domain purchase of the year, and it's a premium domain. 💎 🎉

#buildinpublic

First commit of the year. Back from Christmas and New Year vacations, recharged to cook up some new features and websites. Let's go! I’m excited for 2025!

47 more tickets to go.

I will never ignore marketing emails like I did this year; there were so many missed opportunities. 😭 I didn't feel like replying to a few good opportunities since it's been months since we received them. I will never repeat this mistake again.

I tried both Vercel hosting & Self-hosting and was convinced that Vercel is way faster and less time-consuming.

I am sure the self-hosted version could be faster with CDN, but for now, it's efficient to stick with Vercel and consider alternatives later.

#buildinpublic

They have re-added the dislike button. Thank you, Spotify!

After a few weeks of break from working on Short of the Month, shipped a quality-of-life improvement update. Viewers can now easily navigate to the next or previous film using arrow navigation. Might add a keyboard shortcut next.

#buildinpublic

Handling support tickets, customer emails, marketing messages, and backlink requests takes up much of my time. I've been procrastinating, and now I have 291 open tickets. I'm setting a challenge to clear them all by year-end. Let's go! #buildinpublic

Where did the dislike button go, @Spotify? 😤

Custom video hosting - video player for @shortofthemonth is almost done.

I remember 8-9 years ago when I wanted to add a custom video solution to the previous version of Short of the Month, a US-based company sent me a quote of $500 per month. But now, setting up something like this (1/2)

Hello world!