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Mark Bowley

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Learning by making stuff → Independent designer → Prototypes & side projects: ✋ hndmark.com ⭐️ winnny.com 🙎‍♂️ userrstory.com 🧰 minitools.carrd.co markbowley.com

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This feels like a cheap, gimmicky email subject line.
I get what they’re going for, but calling it “easy” just isn’t accurate.

25.02.2026 09:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'd like to meet more founders/devs/marketers in Edinburgh

I'm going to be starting a monthly pub meetup soon

Anyone in Edinburgh meet this description and fancy meeting up?

24.02.2026 09:57 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0

I've seen this a few times and wondered the same. Tends to only be on ones where they ask you to enter it twice

24.02.2026 10:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Hndmark - tinylaunch Sketchy markup for screenshots

Launch alert 🚨

My hndmark.com app is scheduled to go live on Tiny Launch on Monday

Can you help me with an upvote?

You can click "Notify me" on the launch page to get an email reminder on the day www.tinylaunch.com/launch/9861

Thank you 🙏

17.02.2026 13:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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It's that time again – add your recent wins to @usewinnny 🙌

09.02.2026 09:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How 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

02.02.2026 12:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Even better → 1K page views/uses on @userrstory since launch a month ago 🔥
x.com/markbowley/...

02.02.2026 09:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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
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Starrt – The best Carrd templates, tips & tools New to Carrd or looking for ways to make it even easier to build? Take a look through our collection of curated and hand-made Carrd templates, tips and inspiration.

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
x.com/markbowley/...

30.01.2026 15:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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
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This looks promising on userrstory.com

29.01.2026 14:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Have you noticed?

AI didn’t really replace work.

It replaced the waiting.

Now drafts are instant, turnaround is assumed,
and everyone expects more, faster.

29.01.2026 12:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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

28.01.2026 09:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

x.com/markbowley/...

27.01.2026 14:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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27.01.2026 13:22 👍 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
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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

26.01.2026 10:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Tried although I’m not trying to make a community yet - more about personal tracking

23.01.2026 13:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Winnny Capture and resurface your small wins.

Need to log these for the future – I made winnny.com for that

23.01.2026 13:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Hndmark - Hand-drawn markup for screenshots Hand-drawn markup for screenshots. Turn your shots into authentic work-in-progress with sketchy circles, arrows, and annotations.

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

22.01.2026 16:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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An OMG stat for sure

20.01.2026 15:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Hndmark - Hand-drawn markup for screenshots Hand-drawn markup for screenshots. Turn your shots into authentic work-in-progress with sketchy circles, arrows, and annotations.

Feedback from a hndmark.com Pro user:

"I'm using this daily. Simple, quick and looks great"

20.01.2026 13:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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POV: You're a designer and someone just gave you feedback

20.01.2026 12:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Small Wins Don’t Matter (Until You Forget Them All) Everyone tells you to “celebrate small wins”. Productivity gurus on social, or the relentlessly positive friend who appears to have their…

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...

20.01.2026 10:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I did a literal OMG while adding this one

omgstats.com

19.01.2026 17:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Three Random Words to Get Past Blank Page When Writing Fiction Last year I wanted to start writing tiny, short stories. Just for myself, for creative reasons. To stretch a part of my brain I don’t use…

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...

19.01.2026 14:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I've added a bunch of new stats to omgstats.com

19.01.2026 12:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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When the design feedback is too real...

hndmark.com

19.01.2026 09:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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When you have an emoji for a logo, why not make it an animated button? 😅

omgstats.com

16.01.2026 17:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Encouraging to see this app growth, from nothing but me posting about it and a watermark on the downloads

hndmark.com

16.01.2026 16:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0