Who is Amna Shahid?

Her Product Hunt account dates from 6 July 2022. By the middle of that August she was publishing threads about Notion, and the first archived one, on 17 August, took on making money from Notion templates and doing it inside four weeks. She was writing about that while working through it herself, which gives the early threads a particular texture: someone documenting the climb from partway up it. The numbered #30threads30days challenge followed, one thread every day, each on a piece of Notion she had recently worked out. The commitment was the method. She had to find something worth explaining every twenty four hours, which meant she had to keep opening the app and pushing at it.

Day 10, on 1 September, covered the formatDate property and how to bend dates into the shape you want. Day 12, two days later, laid out five ways to get a Notion page onto the open web: Popsy, Potion, Simple.ink, Super and Engine.so, each with its pricing and the features that distinguished it. On 15 October she wrote about progress bars for project tracking, framing them as visible evidence that work had actually moved. Day 11 pointed away from her own account entirely and listed the Notion creators and resources she thought people should study. That last one is the least self serving thread in the set, and it is the kind of thing the Notion community runs on.

On 29 September she posted what the run had taught her. She wrote that it brought a first client deal and a following that had crossed a thousand people, and that she had come to be recognised as a Notion creator. Her stated lessons were practical: pick a niche and nail it; bank topics ahead of time, as she did with more than fifteen planned before day one; treat habits as the thing that demands consistency, because motivation will not supply it; announce the challenge publicly so accountability does some of the work. She named a "Triple R" approach of redesigning, recycling and redeeming material so a single tool could carry several thread angles. She also wrote that daily posting may not triple your reach, and counted the client enquiries and the recognition as the wins that mattered. Writing that down, in public, after thirty days of effort, is more useful to the next person than a victory lap would have been.

Notebuddy is her most recently dated piece of work, launched in November 2022 and pitched on Product Hunt as the one system needed to keep studies organised. On Gumroad she called it the second brain for students. It applies the database and dashboard habits she had spent the autumn explaining to a specific audience with a specific problem, which is coursework arriving faster than it can be filed. Twitter OS for creators, her other Marketplace template, does the same for people running a posting schedule. Both remain listed under her Notion Marketplace profile, where her categories are given as Design, Roadmaps and Calendars, and Personal Productivity. Anyone who finds them can duplicate them and see how the pieces were wired together.