Mark Bowley

winnny.comWinnnyCapture and resurface your small wins.

12 Nov 2025

Now on winnny.com 🚀 You can switch to this, but if you've added wins on winnnyapp.pages.dev you will need to Export, then Import on the .com

Mark Bowley@markbowley.bsky.social

Small wins accumulate, but only if you capture and revisit them I built Winnny to effortlessly log them every day, and to remind of your little victories I'm using it myself to build momentum + motivation winnny.pages.dev

tiktok.comTikTok · Mark BowleyTikTok | Make Your Day

13 Aug

Make quick animations like this, without writing code. This example is made with statsssapp.netlify.app – a small prototype tool for creating stat count-up animated videos www.tiktok.com/@markbowley...

13 Aug

I've added 2 features to my Statsss app: – Upload background images – Change the canvas ratio

13 Aug

So making videos like this is easy at statsssapp.netlify.app

31 July

The obvious build was a tablet with a web app Easier to make, easier to update, easier to ship I didn’t want that (please… not another phone or tablet app) Nobody at an event wants another screen to tap They’ve probably used twenty of them today already moremaking.substack.com/p/why-i-did...

31 July

UK friends, there's free shipping this weekend on Teemill if anyone fancies one of these tongue-in-cheek vibe coding t-shirts 😁 tokengoods.teemill.com

New feature on @hndmark

I made Sheet Gallery as I wanted an easy, live gallery from a list of image URLs in a Google Sheet - no uploads, no CMS, just links and a Sheet sheetgallery.netlify.app

moremaking.substack.comMore Making | Mark Bowley | SubstackBeing online should be more creating, less being consumed. Click to read More Making, by Mark Bowley, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

Tech fatigue is real, people struggle to keep up & feel burned out So a big part of the future is going to be about IRL – events, communities, interacting with humans But… a BIG twist I’m betting on It doesn’t need to be 100% non-tech moremaking.substack.com

frombroketobetter.substack.com📢 You’re Not Lazy. Your Brain Is Rejecting Meaningless Work (Here’s How to Find Meaning Again)The Real Reason You Feel Lazy After Work (But Can Focus for Hours on What You Love)

You can create purpose even inside a boring job. Ask: “Who does this help?” If the answer is vague, reframe the task as helping your coworker, your boss, a customer. Even a tiny connection to another person adds meaning. From: substack.com/home/post/p...

Bookmarking tutorials isn't starting Starting is starting Less comfortable But you're... started And you’ve learned whilst doing

3 July

Free UK shipping on Teemill.com this weekend – and I’ve got a #vibecoding collection ready to ship... 😁 tokengoods.teemill.com

19 June

Why do we act like starting from scratch every time is some badge of honour? Films inspire films Musicians sample & remix Games reuse familiar mechanics Apps reuse familiar workflows

18 June

Your first win is to not love for your work It’s removing every excuse that stops you creating

18 June

Join 130+ on my Substack, who want online to be more about creating, less being about consumed... moremaking.substack.com

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12 June

12 June

I created a way to display any images in a responsive grid with lightbox + filtering — Just add image URLs to a Google Sheet — No image hosting or uploads needed Creates an HTML page ready to host free on Cloudflare, Netlify etc

12 June

Great advice from @JamesClear

22 May

Happy Friday! I started the week with 30 users of my Chrome extension Something seems to have happened since then...

20 May

I've started writing on @Substack, under the title More Making — A newsletter about creating more online, less being consumed online Join me at moremaking.substack.com

19 May

Same for anxiety Physical action is your friend

18 May

Update to @hndmark

16 May

15 May

My @hndmark tool is really coming together You can now simulate writing on a piece of paper, with markup, with just a few clicks All highly human, to counter the AI slop...

15 May

Create scroll-stopping animated videos of your stats From: Statsss statsssapp.netlify.app/

15 May

You shouldn't use AI to write your code. You should use caffeine like a proper developer.

14 May

I'm not a fan of the cute mascot trend, I think it sets the wrong expectation and behaviour "...what better way to cut through than to create a cute and cuddly, anthropomorphic mascot?" From: Why big tech is betting on cute mascots - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/articl...

14 May

That's why I made (and use) @usewinnny...

14 May

Added some baked-in imperfections to Write mode on @hndmark Hand-written font alone doesn't quite cut it No, it adds gaps, tilts and mis-alignment

From: markbowley.me/washing-mac...

I’ve added a new feature on @Hndmark – create hand-written quotes or thoughts for social...

First step towards social for @Medium.... adding a new Repost button, like @Substack You can also use my Subnoted.crd.co button to repost text from anywhere to your @Substack Notes…

AI killed the creative process. We’ve lost the ancient art of overthinking a single headline for three days.

Back in my day we didn't have Al meeting summaries. We just nodded during meetings and hoped someone else was paying attention.

12 May

Uptake on my little Chrome extension made for @typefully is going well Try it at fullyfed.crd.co

11 May

Winnny.com sends a weekly reminder to add or review your small victories

7 May

Been checking on my Chrome extension user counts...

6 May

You’re crazy If you upload fill page PDFs to Claude, you’re using 1.5–3k Claude tokens It can be as low as 200 for the same text uploaded as markdown How to stop burning Claude tokens tokensave.netlify.app

5 May

Read something good and want to share on @Substack Notes? Copying it, switching tabs, opening Notes, creating a draft, pasting it in... too many steps Subnoted does it with 1 click – Highlight text on any page – Click the icon – It opens in the Substack Notes composer

subnoted.crd.coSubnotedA Chrome extension that clips web text into your Substack Notes composer

5 May

Free to use at subnoted.crd.co

1 May

Built a Chrome XT to clip text into @Substack Notes No API? No problem I reverse-engineered the composer instead Took a few dead ends, but works – Select text on any web page – Click the icon – It Opens a draft in your Notes (+ source URL)

markbowley.meMake the most of itRight now we’re in the golden moment of AI. It won’t (can’t) last.

1 May

Right now we’re in the golden moment of AI. It won’t (can’t) last, so it’s even more urgent for us to make the most of it. Anyone who delays may not get the same opportunity in 2-3 years. From: Make the most of it markbowley.me/where-power/

linkedin.comJust got off the phone with a friend. A sales guy at a cyber security company got fed up with Microsoft Copilot (is this a theme?). So he vibe-coded his own CRM in Claude Code. On his personal… | Matt RobertsJust got off the phone with a friend. A sales guy at a cyber security company got fed up with Microsoft Copilot (is this a theme?). So he vibe-coded his own CRM in Claude Code. On his personal account. (IT Nightmare) Management noticed. Then they did something interesting. Instead of shutting it down, they deployed enterprise Claude across most of the company and let everyone rip. As an experiment. Are there security issues? Sure. Not everyone has access yet. The right guardrails depend on your risk profile, what monitoring you've got in place, what data sits where. But here's the thing my friend said on the call, and the thing that's stuck with me. Sitting on this is a bigger risk than running with it. Your employees are using AI anyway. The choice isn't whether AI lands in your business, it's whether it lands inside the perimeter or outside it. And when you let people loose with the right tools, the engagement is lurrrvly. People who'd never built software in their liv

1 May

“Sitting on this is a bigger risk than running with it. Your employees are using AI anyway. The choice isn't whether AI lands in your business, it's whether it lands inside the perimeter or outside it.” From: LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/posts/mattj...

14 Mar

When everything can be generated instantly, the question stops being “Can we make this?” and becomes “Does this actually matter?”

markbowley.meHelping humans be humanFor most of my career, my work has been about helping people produce things.

14 Mar

Red the full post here markbowley.me/humans-be-h...

11 Mar

Morning brain: "Right, let's get some things done" Me: "Let's go! Which things?" Morning brain: "All the things..."

25 Feb

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

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Pete Codes

@petecodes.bsky.social

24 Feb

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?

tinylaunch.comHndmark - tinylaunchSketchy markup for screenshots

17 Feb

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 🙏

9 Feb

It's that time again – add your recent wins to @usewinnny 🙌