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Max Rozen
How to handle server-side rendering in React Getting server-side rendering to work in React is quite a hassle if you don't know what you're...
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over a year ago
Getting server-side rendering to work in React is quite a hassle if you don't know what you're doing. Let's make it easier.
Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 9 On cleaning up the shop.
a year ago
Build In Public...
Build In Public: Spotlight Edition (Prakash Chandran) ⭐️ Hi everyone, welcome to the latest spotlight edition of the Build In Public newsletter. Every week,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Hi everyone, welcome to the latest spotlight edition of the Build In Public newsletter. Every week, I interview one prolific creator or founder and unpack insights and actionable advice from their story that can be helpful in your own journey. In today’s edition, I wanted to...
Tony Dinh's...
Nov 2024: My first million! $1M in annual revenue, B2B sales, SOC 2, resellers, grow team, and other updates in November 2024.
5 months ago
Max Rozen
2022: I just kept shipping Another year in review, in which I just keep shipping, with some stumbles along the way
over a year ago
Tony Dinh's...
Just two things Hello everyone! Tony here 👋 This is not a typical monthly update, I just want to quickly let you...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Hello everyone! Tony here 👋 This is not a typical monthly update, I just want to quickly let you know about 2 important things I’m working on that are time-sensitive! 1. DevUtils Black Friday Deal: 30% OFF Once a year, I run a promotion for DevUtils on Black Friday and Cyber...
👋 Hello, I'm...
Why I’m leaving the Shopify Apps business
over a year ago
Grow With Less
The 8 Best Free Blogging, SEO and Marketing Courses Blogging is hard and the COVID-19 epidemic is not making things easier. Luckily, several businesses...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Blogging is hard and the COVID-19 epidemic is not making things easier. Luckily, several businesses have started offering their blogging, SEO or marketing courses for free to help bloggers and small business owners who are struggling because of the pandemic. This page lists the...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 12 Highlights I’m struggling to get unstuck in two areas that have stalled for months: hardware...
over a year ago
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Highlights I’m struggling to get unstuck in two areas that have stalled for months: hardware development and hiring. I’m partnering with a distributor in Germany to begin selling TinyPilot within the EU. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to...
High Signal
Making €10k MRR from AI app Pauline is a French bootstrapper who has had a lot of success with her AI real estate SaaS. IACrea...
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a month ago
Pauline is a French bootstrapper who has had a lot of success with her AI real estate SaaS. IACrea now makes over €10k monthly recurring revenue.
Build In Public...
Build In Public: Spotlight Edition (Andrew Barry) Hey everyone 👋 Hope you had a great week. In today’s edition, I wanted to feature Andrew Barry....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Hey everyone 👋 Hope you had a great week. In today’s edition, I wanted to feature Andrew Barry. Andrew’s a friend/creator/former colleague that you may already be familiar with on Twitter. I’ve admired his work from afar and always enjoy conversing with him on topics of...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 34 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
a year ago
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a year ago
New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $60-80k/month in revenue and employs seven other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this...
Grow With Less
4 Simple Strategies I Use to Never Run out of Article Ideas Want to know a secret? I never run out of article ideas. In fact, my main struggle is usually...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Want to know a secret? I never run out of article ideas. In fact, my main struggle is usually choosing between a myriad of topics I would love to write about. You may think it’s because I’m very creative but the simple truth is that I simply use 4 simple strategies that guarantee...
Max Rozen
Understanding Integration Testing in React Moving from Enzyme to React Testing Library is rough. You can't do a lot of things you used to, and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Moving from Enzyme to React Testing Library is rough. You can't do a lot of things you used to, and there are new best practices. Let's learn them!
👋 Hello, I'm...
Want to save your nation? Get rid of poor people!
a year ago
High Signal
Living the digital nomad dream in Bangkok Jesse Schoberg has an enviable life as a founder working from Thailand. He enjoys a great lifestyle...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Jesse Schoberg has an enviable life as a founder working from Thailand. He enjoys a great lifestyle at a fraction of the price back in the US. I chatted to him about growing his DropInBlog business into a SaaS success story. Why did you become a founder? My brain doesn&
Build In Public...
What if you could edit like Spielberg? 🎥 Meet Eddie AI—your new editing partner ready to bring cinematic flair to every cut!
6 months ago
High Signal
The ultimate guide to bootstrapping a business Bootstrapping a business has come back into fashion lately, especially as investment from venture...
a year ago
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a year ago
Bootstrapping a business has come back into fashion lately, especially as investment from venture capitalists is drying up and people want to increase their income due to the cost of living crisis. This article will teach you everything you need to know about bootstrapping a...
Val Sopi
Financial Update: February 2023 <p>In January, I managed to pay myself $500 for the first time — from my Saas making —&nbsp;since...
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over a year ago
<p>In January, I managed to pay myself $500 for the first time — from my Saas making —&nbsp;since setting sail on <a href="https://valsopi.com/setting-sail">my journey to financial freedom</a>.</p><p>The plan is to keep paying myself at least $500 each month going forward, hoping...
Dominik Sobe's...
Trying something crazy
a year ago
High Signal
Black Friday 2023 deals for entrepreneurs Here's a list of some of the best Black Friday discounts for entrepreneurs and developers. This page...
a year ago
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a year ago
Here's a list of some of the best Black Friday discounts for entrepreneurs and developers. This page contains affiliate links. Courses Grow and Monetize your Newsletter - 60% off Monetize Your Newsletter - 60% off Grow Your Newsletter - 60% off WesBos - Beginner JavaScript -...
Val Sopi
Hello world <p>I started toying with the web circa 2000. Since then, I have always wanted to have my own space...
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over a year ago
<p>I started toying with the web circa 2000. Since then, I have always wanted to have my own space where I can spit out my thoughts, unfiltered, on my very own domain.</p> <p>I was able to start a personal blog several times, but then got sidetracked.</p> <p>I aim to keep this...
mtlynch.io
My Feedback about Hello Base The cryptocurrency language barrier There’s an unforunate language barrier among technologists right...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
The cryptocurrency language barrier There’s an unforunate language barrier among technologists right now. Cryptocurrency enthusiasts are excited about the ecosystem and what’s going on in crypto-world right now. They’re trying to bring new people in, but they’re often so...
mtlynch.io
Key Mime Pi: Turn Your Raspberry Pi into a Remote Keyboard Recent versions of the Raspberry Pi support USB on-the-go (USB OTG), which allows them to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Recent versions of the Raspberry Pi support USB on-the-go (USB OTG), which allows them to impersonate USB devices such as keyboards, thumb drives, and microphones. To take advantage of this, I made an open-source web app that turns my Pi into a fake keyboard. I call it Key Mime...
Build In Public...
Building In Public 101 Here's a crash course on the rising trend of building in public
over a year ago
High Signal
From agency to SaaS founder - how Jules is making the change Jules is making $500k a year in revenue with his SEO agency Embarque. But now he's switching things...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Jules is making $500k a year in revenue with his SEO agency Embarque. But now he's switching things up with a move into SaaS.
Dominik Sobe's...
What I have been up to lately
a year ago
Grow With Less
Don't Trust Keyword Difficulty Scores (Do This Instead) Keyword difficulty or SEO difficulty is the likelihood of ranking for a keyword. And the way most...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Keyword difficulty or SEO difficulty is the likelihood of ranking for a keyword. And the way most bloggers estimate it is dangerous. They use SEO tools like Ahrefs, Keysearch, or SEMrush and rely on their keyword difficulty scores to tell how easy ranking for a keyword should...
Grow With Less
9 Inspiring Examples of Successful Blogs (And How They Got There) Looking at blog income reports from popular blogs, you could think that the only way to make money...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Looking at blog income reports from popular blogs, you could think that the only way to make money blogging is to blog about blogging. Luckily, you would be mistaken. The reality is that there are successful blogs in all kinds of niches. You simply hear more about the make money...
Dominik Sobe's...
My experience living and working in South East Asia
a year ago
mtlynch.io
Fixing Memory Exhaustion Bugs in My Golang Web App Earlier this year, I created an open-source app called PicoShare. It’s a simple Golang web app for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Earlier this year, I created an open-source app called PicoShare. It’s a simple Golang web app for sharing files. I use it to send files that are too large to be email attachments, but I don’t want the recipient to deal with Dropbox or Google Drive. A few months ago, I started...
mtlynch.io
Import from a URL in Nix I’m still a Nix beginner, and one thing I couldn’t figure out until recently was how to keep parts...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’m still a Nix beginner, and one thing I couldn’t figure out until recently was how to keep parts of my configuration.nix file under source control. My goal I’d like for my Nix configuration files to be modular and reusable, so depending on the system or flake, I can pull in...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 21 Highlights TinyPilot had its best sales month ever, with $69k of total revenue. I’m now five months...
over a year ago
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Highlights TinyPilot had its best sales month ever, with $69k of total revenue. I’m now five months and $32k over budget on a website redesign. I launched PicoShare, and it’s the fastest-growing project I’ve ever published. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what...
Val Sopi
What it's like to make and launch a product, for me. <p>I've been making Saas products since 2013. My very first product was a project management tool...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
<p>I've been making Saas products since 2013. My very first product was a project management tool that included invoicing, time-tracking, and a plethora of other functions.</p> <p>The idea was to be better than others at cheaper prices. Whatever "better" and "cheaper"...
Val Sopi
A Successful Product Hunt Launch <p>blogstatic's <a href="https://www.producthunt.com/products/blogstatic#blogstatic"...
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9 months ago
<p>blogstatic's <a href="https://www.producthunt.com/products/blogstatic#blogstatic" target="_blank">first PH launch</a> (documented&nbsp;<a href="https://valsopi.com/launching-on-product-hunt">here</a>) was in December of 2022, three months after the <a...
Tony Dinh's...
February 2022 updates – 6 months milestone Hello everyone! It’s me again – Tony 👋 Time flies! February 2022 marks the 6 months milestone of me...
over a year ago
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Hello everyone! It’s me again – Tony 👋 Time flies! February 2022 marks the 6 months milestone of me going indie hacking full time! 🥳 In this issue, I’ll share my regular updates from February and some thoughts on the first 6 months of my journey. Let’s go!
Tony Dinh's...
Jan 2022 updates: 4K MRR, new release, new features, new learnings Hello everyone, this is Tony! 👋 In January 2022, I released a new DevUtils version, added a lot of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Hello everyone, this is Tony! 👋 In January 2022, I released a new DevUtils version, added a lot of features for Black Magic, reached $4K MRR, and learned a ton! Here comes the monthly update! Hope you like it! 🧩 New DevUtils release: 1.13 The latest release of DevUtils comes...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 35 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
a year ago
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a year ago
New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $60-80k/month in revenue and employs seven other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this...
Max Rozen
Deploying Node and React Shopify apps on Vercel Shopify's tutorial is awesome for getting started, but doesn't let you deploy onto Vercel. In this...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Shopify's tutorial is awesome for getting started, but doesn't let you deploy onto Vercel. In this article, I'll show you how.
Max Rozen
How do you use resolve.alias in webpack? Want to stop webpack from including multiple versions of the same package in your bundle? It only...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Want to stop webpack from including multiple versions of the same package in your bundle? It only takes a couple of lines of code.
Max Rozen
2018: Reflections on trying to start an internet business A review post on what I've done this year in terms of trying to start an Internet business
over a year ago
Build In Public...
How I Built This In Public: Louis Pereira Lessons from building AudioPen to 600+ paid users to clinching #1 on Product Hunt
a year ago
mtlynch.io
A Beginner's Guide to Mining Siacoin This guide is out of date. This post describes mining Sia with a desktop graphics card (GPU), but...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This guide is out of date. This post describes mining Sia with a desktop graphics card (GPU), but custom mining hardware is now available for Sia. The custom hardware has made Sia GPU mining non-viable. This guide will still work, but you may never reach payout, even with a...
mtlynch.io
if got, want: A Simple Way to Write Better Go Tests There’s an excellent Go testing pattern that too few people know. I can teach it to you in 30...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
There’s an excellent Go testing pattern that too few people know. I can teach it to you in 30 seconds. Instead of writing Go tests like this: // The common, unrefined way. username := GetUser() if username != "dummyUser" { t.Errorf("unexpected username: got %s, want: %s",...
Dominik Sobe's...
Early marketing efforts showing results
over a year ago
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 29 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $60-80k/month in revenue and employs six other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one...
Build In Public...
What if Pinterest and Shopify had a baby? Just hunted Depict — a new AI tool that turns boring Shopify grids into stunning visual stories...
a month ago
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a month ago
Just hunted Depict — a new AI tool that turns boring Shopify grids into stunning visual stories without a single line of code.
Val Sopi
The Waiting Room <p>Growing up I was always told to work hard, wait my turn, and good things will...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
<p>Growing up I was always told to work hard, wait my turn, and good things will happen.</p><p>However, I've been the most successful when I didn't wait.</p><p>The "waiting room"&nbsp;is the worst place to be in.&nbsp;</p><p>You're at the mercy of someone else letting you...
Val Sopi
Quitting when I sense “the grind” <p>One change I’ve made recently in my product making process is that I stop as soon as I sense that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
<p>One change I’ve made recently in my product making process is that I stop as soon as I sense that I am “pushing it”.</p> <p>I quit immediately.</p> <p>Right there and then.</p> <p>If I don’t feel fresh, my work will look stale.</p> <p>I hit more “in the zone” states this...
Max Rozen
How I became a React developer On how I left a 'prestigious' consulting job to start from scratch as a React developer
over a year ago
Tony Dinh's...
TypingMind is live It's my first product launch of the year!
over a year ago
High Signal
Making $20k from a job board directory Rod is a founder who has successfully monetized a directory showing websites for finding a job. He...
a year ago
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a year ago
Rod is a founder who has successfully monetized a directory showing websites for finding a job. He has made $20k from his Job Board Search site.
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 36 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
a year ago
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a year ago
New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $60-80k/month in revenue and employs seven other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this...
mtlynch.io
Traction by Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares This book was thoroughly underwhelming. Dozens of people have recommended it to me in the past...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This book was thoroughly underwhelming. Dozens of people have recommended it to me in the past couple of years, and I don’t understand the hype. It has some insightful ideas, but they’re buried under questionable advice and poor writing.
mtlynch.io
Create Your Own Low-Cost Cloud Storage App with Sia and Nextcloud In today’s post, I’m going to show you how to set up your own cloud storage web app, similar to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In today’s post, I’m going to show you how to set up your own cloud storage web app, similar to Dropbox or Google Drive, but with substantially lower costs. This solution provides cloud storage at ~$0.60 per TB/month. By comparison, the same storage would cost $8.25 per month on...
mtlynch.io
Sia-Minio Integration Postmortem One of the best things I learned from working at Google is the practice of blame-free postmortems....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One of the best things I learned from working at Google is the practice of blame-free postmortems. When something goes wrong, you wait until the dust settles, then write a report analyzing what happened. The report explains how the problem occurred and defines concrete steps the...
mtlynch.io
Building a Budget Homelab NAS Server (2022 Edition) This year, I decided to build my first ever home storage server. It’s a 32 TB system that stores my...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This year, I decided to build my first ever home storage server. It’s a 32 TB system that stores my personal and business data using open-source software. The server itself cost $531, and I bought four disks for $732, bringing the total cost to $1,263. It’s similar in price to...
Tony Dinh's...
Another 6-figure exit, and the future I sold Xnapper, here is a quick update about the acquisition details
a year ago
Val Sopi
AI will make humans better <p><i>Context:&nbsp;Read&nbsp;<a...
a year ago
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a year ago
<p><i>Context:&nbsp;Read&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theredhandfiles.com/chatgpt-making-things-faster-and-easier/" target="_blank">Nick Cave's letter</a> first.</i></p> <p><i></i>—</p> <p>ChatGPT (or similar) are just tools!</p> <p>Nothing more.</p> <p>They're akin to when tools...
Build In Public...
Meet Turf Imagine having a Swiss Army Knife for your community use cases
9 months ago
mtlynch.io
Happy City by Charles Montgomery Given how much urban design affects our lives, it’s surprising how little we think about and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Given how much urban design affects our lives, it’s surprising how little we think about and participate in it. This book was eye-opening in terms of the way I look at cities and how its inhabitants interact with them. I took for granted the idea that cities should be friendly to...
Max Rozen
Methods for styling your React app It can be pretty confusing to pick how to style your React app. This guide attempts to simplify your...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It can be pretty confusing to pick how to style your React app. This guide attempts to simplify your choice.
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 7 Highlights TinyPilot achieved astonishing growth in revenue, jumping from $15k in December to $42k...
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over a year ago
Highlights TinyPilot achieved astonishing growth in revenue, jumping from $15k in December to $42k in January. Most of TinyPilot’s sales came from a single positive YouTube review. TinyPilot is experiencing growing pains as I scramble to meet demand. Goal Grades At the start of...
mtlynch.io
My Seventh Year as a Bootstrapped Founder Seven years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own bootstrapped software...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Seven years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own bootstrapped software company. Every year, I post an update about how that’s going and what my life is like as an indie founder. I sold my company My most significant professional development of the last...
mtlynch.io
The Making of Prince of Persia by Jordan Mechner This book follows the author of the hit 90s computer game Prince of Persia through the game’s...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This book follows the author of the hit 90s computer game Prince of Persia through the game’s development, release, and several years after. The book consists of diary entries that author Jordan Mechner wrote during that time, with margin notes and accompanying photos and...
Dominik Sobe's...
What a roller coaster ride
over a year ago
Grow With Less
A 10-Minute Guide to Finding Low Competition, High Traffic Keywords You may have heard of unicorn keywords: low competition, high volume keywords. Some say they are...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
You may have heard of unicorn keywords: low competition, high volume keywords. Some say they are extinct. Others say they are so plentiful in some niches that any blog can easily rank without backlinks. As often, the truth lies somewhere in between. One thing is for certain...
High Signal
The best no-code newsletters for founders to read Want to find the best no-code newsletters for learning about what you can build without coding? You...
a year ago
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a year ago
Want to find the best no-code newsletters for learning about what you can build without coding? You came to the right place!
High Signal
Making $1m ARR with social media scheduling Davis is the co-founder of OneUp, a tool for scheduling social media posts across a range of...
a year ago
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a year ago
Davis is the co-founder of OneUp, a tool for scheduling social media posts across a range of platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn and many more. The business is now doing over $1m in annual revenue! Davis joined me for an interview about joining the...
mtlynch.io
Takeaways from Cory Zue's May 2023 Livecoding Session My friend Cory Zue has been publishing his live coding sessions, so I decided to watch one and...
a year ago
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a year ago
My friend Cory Zue has been publishing his live coding sessions, so I decided to watch one and record my notes. My background vs. Cory’s I’ve read a lot of Cory’s blog. We’re both Python developers, but he specializes in Django, whereas I’ve always worked with thinner frameworks...
mtlynch.io
Is It Keto - Month 10 Highlights I sold my first meal plan on Is It Keto. I then tried five different experiments for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Highlights I sold my first meal plan on Is It Keto. I then tried five different experiments for increasing sales. Is It Keto’s revenue dropped for the month as I redirected resources toward its failing meal plans. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to...
mtlynch.io
KetoHub Update: Month 3 In early October, I launched a new website, KetoHub, a recipe aggregator for keto meals. Each month,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In early October, I launched a new website, KetoHub, a recipe aggregator for keto meals. Each month, I’ve evaluated the site’s progress to decide how it’s doing and what areas need improvement. I’m doing my evaluation of December publicly. Here’s what was good, bad, and learnable...
mtlynch.io
WanderJest: Month 2 Highlights I’m betting big on a publicity campaign that’s at risk of failing spectacularly....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Highlights I’m betting big on a publicity campaign that’s at risk of failing spectacularly. WanderJest finally earned its first dollar of revenue, but in a way that is definitely unsustainable. Poor work habits have left me with the most stress I’ve felt in a year. Goal Grades At...
Grow With Less
Journorequest, Snowmaker and 20 other Link Building Strategies That Work Great in 2022 Creating awesome content is not enough. If you want traffic, you need to build high-quality...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Creating awesome content is not enough. If you want traffic, you need to build high-quality backlinks. But how do you do that? There are hundreds of articles listing the best link building strategies but the reality is that you don’t need 100 strategies that make you feel pushy...
Tony Dinh's...
April 2024 updates, new product! Traveled to Bali and Sydney, some updates on Typing Mind, and a new product.
11 months ago
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 16 Highlights I announced a new product and then discovered it was a mistake. I simplified the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Highlights I announced a new product and then discovered it was a mistake. I simplified the TinyPilot website to focus on a single device. I tried taking my first real vacation from TinyPilot with mixed results. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to...
Max Rozen
How to implement a Higher-order component in React with TypeScript You probably know how to implement a HoC, but do you know how to write types for one?
over a year ago
Tony Dinh's...
Apr 2023: I sold Black Magic And other updates in April 2023
a year ago
Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 11 On building table-stakes features, and breaking through a plateau.
a year ago
Max Rozen
How do you make relay-compiler run automatically? Getting tired of running the relay-compiler every time you change your GraphQL schema/resolvers?...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Getting tired of running the relay-compiler every time you change your GraphQL schema/resolvers? There's a plugin in webpack for that!
Max Rozen
Demystifying useEffect's clean-up function useEffect's clean-up function can be pretty confusing, especially if you're still trying to think in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
useEffect's clean-up function can be pretty confusing, especially if you're still trying to think in lifecycle methods. Let's clarify the clean-up function in this article.
mtlynch.io
Badass: Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra Overall, this was an interesting read, but I found it hard to apply the lessons to my product. The...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Overall, this was an interesting read, but I found it hard to apply the lessons to my product. The book contains compelling case studies and ideas from the field of meta-learning, but most of the ideas were either too theoretical or too specific to large companies.
Dominik Sobe's...
I tried the "Coding for Marketing" growth hack and the results are...
over a year ago
mtlynch.io
Is It Keto: Month 13 Highlights I sold my first pre-order for KVM Pi. Finding new ways to monetize Is It Keto is proving...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Highlights I sold my first pre-order for KVM Pi. Finding new ways to monetize Is It Keto is proving more difficult than I expected. I sold an Enterprise plan for Zestful. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did against those...
Scott DeLong
My Predictions For The Future Of Content Sites (And How To Navigate Them) With the rise of artificial intelligence and content being mostly commodotized, what's the future...
a year ago
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a year ago
With the rise of artificial intelligence and content being mostly commodotized, what's the future look like for websites? Let's predict it. The post My Predictions For The Future Of Content Sites (And How To Navigate Them) appeared first on Scott DeLong.
mtlynch.io
Is It Keto - Month 9 Highlights After six months of consistent gains of ~30% in revenue and traffic, Is It Keto’s growth...
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over a year ago
Highlights After six months of consistent gains of ~30% in revenue and traffic, Is It Keto’s growth finally flattened out. I’m preparing to sell premium meal plans on Is It Keto. I’m ready to make bigger bets on my businesses. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare...
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Paternity Leave: Month 1 Highlights My wife and I became parents. I realized that caring for a newborn takes more time than I...
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Highlights My wife and I became parents. I realized that caring for a newborn takes more time than I expected. I’m unsure what to do with my partially-finished Hacker News course. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did...
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On the first page of Hacker News with Subsection <p><i><a href="https://subsection.io/" target="_blank">Subsection</a> is an app that helps create...
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<p><i><a href="https://subsection.io/" target="_blank">Subsection</a> is an app that helps create support docs, such as user guides, knowledge bases, documentation, and changelogs.&nbsp;</i></p><p><i>Below I describe the launch of Subsection of <a...
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Recently, when I’m having trouble sleeping, I look for software to fuzz test. Earlier this week, I thought back to Fady Othman’s post “Meta Bug Bounty — Fuzzing ’netconsd’ for fun and profit.” It’s a good tutorial about fuzzing code exhaustively. Like most fuzzing blog posts, I...
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Whether you want to start a career as a developer, or have been a developer for 20 years, you should check out these books.
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Highlights My loved ones and I are safe and healthy. WanderJest is on hiatus due to the nationwide shutdown. I’m working on a product to help investors rebalance their portfolios. COVID-19 and me Obviously, the most relevant thing to happen in the last month has been the global...
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Nix is a broad product with a steep learning curve. It’s capable of everything from installing a single package to managing every file and application on your OS. One useful thing you can do with Nix, even as a complete beginner, is manage your dev environments. Nix lets me have...
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I tried out the Cline AI assistant yesterday, and then I went into a trance for five hours where I couldn’t do anything but stare transfixed at Cline fixing bugs for me. As a professional developer, it was both enchanting and terrifying. It’s enchanting that AI has reached this...
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I’ve been searching for new startup ideas and problem areas to tackle. It’s quite difficult to do, especially when you begin adding constraints to the criteria such as “Am I excited about this problem space?”. The internet is filled with helpful ways to come up with startup ideas...
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Overview: Hiring Content Writers Part One: Finding Writers Part Two - Creating a Detailed Job Description Part Three: Screening Candidates (this section) Part Four - Working with Writers Part Five - Terminating Writers Screening writing candidates requires you to make decisions...
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<p>blogstatic is growing slowly at around 20% month-to-month.</p> <p>Currently, it's hovering at ~$700/month in revenue.</p> <p>Since pricing is currently "yearly" only, each month starts from zero.</p> <p>It will be interesting come October 2023 when the first yearly upgrades...
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Start your own app with React, GraphQL and Serverless architecture: Part 2 - Deploying to a real... Start your own app with React, GraphQL and Serverless architecture: Part 2 - Let's get this running...
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I’ve been hiring software developers and other freelancers for the past seven years. Even though I write most code myself, hiring other developers is a tremendous force multiplier that frees up time for other parts of my business. Freelancers work well if you manage the...
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Notes from PyGotham 2019 Overview This past weekend, PyGotham invited me to speak at their annual conference in Manhattan. In...
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Overview This past weekend, PyGotham invited me to speak at their annual conference in Manhattan. In an effort to maximize the benefit I get from the event, I’ve prepared notes that capture what I learned by attending. I’m sharing them in hopes that it might be interesting or...
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Why Good Developers Write Bad Unit Tests Congratulations! You’ve finally written so many lines of code that you can afford a beach house. You...
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Congratulations! You’ve finally written so many lines of code that you can afford a beach house. You hire Peter Keating, an architect world-famous for his skyscrapers, who assures you that he has brilliant plans for your beachfront property. Months later, you arrive at the grand...
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Educational Products: Month 3 Highlights I published the first chapter of my book and was happy with the reception. My attempt to...
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Highlights I published the first chapter of my book and was happy with the reception. My attempt to hire a book cover designer flopped. I may have figured out how to support large files on PicoShare. Goal grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish....
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Is It Keto: Month 7 Highlights Is It Keto’s visits reached a record high of 11k pageviews. Revenues reached a record...
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Highlights Is It Keto’s visits reached a record high of 11k pageviews. Revenues reached a record high of $40.84 in affiliate income. Despite this, Is It Keto didn’t satisfy its critical goals, so I’m putting it on the backburner. Goal Grades At the start of the month, I laid out...
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<p>March was an absolutely insane month for <a href="https://blogstatic.io/">blogstatic.io</a>. The majority of this spike I can attribute to the <a href="https://blogstatic.io/blog/pricing-2024">price change announcement on March 1st</a> and customers were rushing to lock in...
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If you find yourself asking whether to use functional components with Hooks over class components, you'll find a lot of outdated information out there. Let's settle this once and for all in this article.
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New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $60-80k/month in revenue and employs six other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one...
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TinyPilot: Month 24 Highlights TinyPilot reached an all-time high of $74k in revenue. I’m trying to figure out the best...
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Highlights TinyPilot reached an all-time high of $74k in revenue. I’m trying to figure out the best approach to software licensing. I’m still searching for a web framework I can love. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did...
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I Regret My $46k Website Redesign Two years ago, I created a website for my business. By combining my terrible design skills with a...
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Two years ago, I created a website for my business. By combining my terrible design skills with a decent-looking template, I created a site that looked okay. I told myself that if the business took off, I’d hire a real designer to make it look professional. TinyPilot website,...
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My SEO traffic collapsed so I built a SaaS (Early 2022 retrospective) Sometime last year, I decided to turn the French Together course (a self-study French course for...
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Sometime last year, I decided to turn the French Together course (a self-study French course for English speakers) into a language learning app. This was done in 3 steps: Learning how to code Building the French Together app Launching Here is how I went about each step and what I...
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Journorequest: The Little-Known Twitter Hashtag That Will Help You Get Quality Backlinks If you have ever tried to do outreach to build backlinks, you know how frustrating the process can...
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If you have ever tried to do outreach to build backlinks, you know how frustrating the process can be. You spend hours looking for the right people to reach out to, crafting your outreach emails and finally send them, already picturing yourself receiving a ton of quality...
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Sep 2022: I'm on Indie Hackers Podcast! Also in September: $12K MRR, built a small new app, SEO, and other updates...
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Rough Experiments with Llamafile and LLaVA 1.5 I read Simon Willison’s post about using Llamafile to experiment with open-source chatbots / LLMs....
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I read Simon Willison’s post about using Llamafile to experiment with open-source chatbots / LLMs. He made it sound so easy, so I decided to try it out. One of my longtime hobby projects is WanderJest, a site for finding live comedy. One of the challenges of that site is that the...
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Chaos Monkeys by Antonio García Martínez An insider’s story about Facebook in the years leading up to its IPO. It’s surprisingly candid — it...
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An insider’s story about Facebook in the years leading up to its IPO. It’s surprisingly candid — it names names and exposes internal Facebook discussions that were never meant to be public. An engaging read, but the narrator is painfully obnoxious.
Val Sopi
On using time <p>One thing I've gotten really good at over the years is using time in terms of how it affects my...
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<p>One thing I've gotten really good at over the years is using time in terms of how it affects my product-making process.</p><p>Back in the day, when I was greener, I&nbsp;used to rush things, not just for the sake of rushing to get them out of the door —&nbsp;but I would get to...
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The 27 tools I use to grow my online business People often ask me what tools I use to build and grow French Together so I thought I would put...
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People often ask me what tools I use to build and grow French Together so I thought I would put together a list of my favorites. These are not necessarily the best and trendiest tools, some may even be considered old-fasshioned. But they are the tools that help me build and grow...
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TinyPilot: Month 19 Highlights I published my fourth annual retrospective about being a bootstrapped founder. TinyPilot...
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Highlights I published my fourth annual retrospective about being a bootstrapped founder. TinyPilot sales continue running strong despite a delay in launching our next product. I analyze how I’m spending my time and figure out ways to allocate my hours better. Goal Grades At the...
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Why I started consulting, why you should too, and why you need to be your own customer!...
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A Bittersweet First Blog Income Report The internet is full of success stories and my 6-figures language-learning blog French Together...
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The internet is full of success stories and my 6-figures language-learning blog French Together could be considered one of them But things don’t always go as planned and every business experiences ups and downs. April was definitely in the down category for me and that’s great...
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Do Headline Analyzers Work? A Data-Driven Answer Headline analyzers are a popular way to come up with great headlines and try to predict their...
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Headline analyzers are a popular way to come up with great headlines and try to predict their effectiveness. All you need to do is write your headline and the tool will give it a score telling you how effective it’s likely to be. But can these free headline analyzers accurately...
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How to Do Code Reviews Like a Human (Part One) Lately, I’ve been reading articles about best practices for code reviews. I notice that these...
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Lately, I’ve been reading articles about best practices for code reviews. I notice that these articles focus on finding bugs to the exclusion of almost every other component of a review. Communicating issues you discover in a constructive and professional way? Irrelevant! Just...
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Still on the fence on learning no-code? What's stopping you? It’s not an understatement when I say no-code practically changed my life and my career. In 2018, I...
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It’s not an understatement when I say no-code practically changed my life and my career. In 2018, I was a different KP. Stuck at a corporate job where I felt like I was a tiny cog in a huge wheel, surrounded by uninspiring peers who I didn’t resonate with, bringing home a...
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How I Built This In Public: Michelle Marcelline Immigrating from Indonesia to the US and building Typedream in public
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How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie As a big fan of Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People, I was interested in this...
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As a big fan of Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People, I was interested in this book. 70 years after it was published, I still see people recommending it, so I had high hopes. Sadly, the book fell short of my expectations. When I read How to Win Friends and...
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Aug 2022: One year since I quit my job Reached $10K MRR, launched Xnapper (#1 of the week), went on Indie Hackers podcast (😱), and other...
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Reached $10K MRR, launched Xnapper (#1 of the week), went on Indie Hackers podcast (😱), and other updates in Aug 2022...
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How to Use Haro to Build Backlinks from the World's Best Websites You know you need backlinks You may even have tried broken link building, the skyscraper technique,...
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You know you need backlinks You may even have tried broken link building, the skyscraper technique, and other link building tactics but they made you feel desperate.You don’t want to send hundreds of emails, you just want to build backlinks. You are in the right place. I love...
Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 7 In which I pay for people to check out OnlineOrNot to test my landing pages.
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How I Built This In Public: Noah Bragg Lessons from building and growing Potion to its acquisition all in public
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July 2022: Aftermath of a viral tweet I gained 1,500 new users, but how many will convert? And other updates in July 2022...
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Is Ruby on Rails dead in 2024? No! Ruby on Rails, or 'Rails' for short, is a framework for making websites with the programming...
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OnlineOrNot Diaries 6 A new monitoring service for OnlineOrNot, and new learnings for my pricing page.
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Strong Towns I found it eye-opening in terms of understanding how municipal governments work in practice and how...
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I found it eye-opening in terms of understanding how municipal governments work in practice and how perverse incentives lead to poor community outcomes. It had a huge impact on the way that I think about where to live and what policies I support in local government. This book...
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Join My Six-Week Blogging Course I’m teaching a small-group, live course about attracting readers to your blog through Hacker News....
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I’m teaching a small-group, live course about attracting readers to your blog through Hacker News. Sign up by Monday (June 24th) to reserve your slot. Why take a class with me? My blog receives 300k-500k unique readers per year. After Google, Hacker News is the primary way that...
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Examples of large production-grade, open-source React apps All of the to-do apps are great for starting to learn React, but what about real-life? Let's see...
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All of the to-do apps are great for starting to learn React, but what about real-life? Let's see what real production React apps are like.
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How I Built This In Public: Olly Lessons from building Senja.io to $4,000 MRR in Public
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A Quick and Easy Win for the New Year (and an Important Check) 2020 is finally over (thank God.) Which means it’s time for some New Year cleaning. You may have...
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2020 is finally over (thank God.) Which means it’s time for some New Year cleaning. You may have articles or copyright notices that reference previous years. Now is the perfect time to update these and make sure they say “2021” and not “2020” or even “2019.” To find pages...
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Val Sopi
High productivity in a workday <p>On a given workday, you only have a few hours at your disposal to create.</p> <p>Commit to...
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<p>On a given workday, you only have a few hours at your disposal to create.</p> <p>Commit to relaxed focused work in two blocks of 3-hours each.</p> <p>Take a 1-hour break in between.&nbsp;Meditating 11 minutes. Walking the rest.</p> <p>Drink plenty of water. Coffee and...
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Stagnant MRR but experimenting in the background
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Using Nix to Fuzz Test a PDF Parser (Part One) Fuzz testing is a technique for automatically uncovering bugs in software. The problem is that it’s...
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Fuzz testing is a technique for automatically uncovering bugs in software. The problem is that it’s a pain to set up. Read any fuzz testing tutorial, and the first task is an hour of building tools from source and chasing down dependencies upon dependencies. I recently found that...
Val Sopi
Going steady <p>blogstatic has been going well. Better than any other app I've ever ran. Not sure what it is....
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<p>blogstatic has been going well. Better than any other app I've ever ran. Not sure what it is. Could be that my experience over the years has caused for me to cover all the usual pitfalls, so everything looks good to the new client: from the marketing website all the way to the...
Scott DeLong
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It's almost poetic that the Internet is shifting at exactly the time I'm doing a challenge to prove what works - and how to overcome change. The post Weeks 26-30: We’re On A Collision Course appeared first on Scott DeLong.
mtlynch.io
The Case for Open Borders by John Washington If you’re a liberal who’s interested in becoming a radical progressive, this is a good book for you....
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If you’re a liberal who’s interested in becoming a radical progressive, this is a good book for you. If you’re anyone else, you’re probably not the target audience.
Max Rozen
Guidelines for choosing React Libraries There are a *lot* of React libraries out there. So how do you pick which one to use in your app?...
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There are a *lot* of React libraries out there. So how do you pick which one to use in your app? This article provides guidelines for choosing.
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What Got Done - Month 3 Highlights I’m shelving What Got Done, as customers seem uninterested in the idea. Zestful has...
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Highlights I’m shelving What Got Done, as customers seem uninterested in the idea. Zestful has become my greatest challenge in not sweating the small stuff. Is It Keto continues growing in the background, with a 22% increase in revenue and a 35% rise in traffic. Goal Grades...
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Keeping your sites fast with regular performance tests You pride yourself on delivering fast websites to your clients, but do the websites stay fast as the...
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Sometimes business can be boring and sometimes you see set backs, but this is where you perservere. The post Weeks 31-34: Banned appeared first on Scott DeLong.
Build In Public...
Build In Public - Community Edition (Sep 2021) Hey everyone 👋 Let’s open this edition with a powerful quote: On that note, get ready for...
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Hey everyone 👋 Let’s open this edition with a powerful quote: On that note, get ready for September’s round-up highlighting key launches and wins from founders, makers, and creators in the #buildinpublic community. Without further ado, let’s get rolling.
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TinyPilot: Month 9 Highlights I plan to open TinyPilot’s first real office next month. TinyPilot’s revenues continue to...
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What is leadership? <p>With so much going on in the world and information traveling faster than ever before in the human...
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<p>With so much going on in the world and information traveling faster than ever before in the human existence, it's easy to lose track of the basics.</p> <p>Feeling overwhelmed is a result of our values, thoughts, being challenged.</p> <p>The first response is naturally to...
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Experimenting with Lllama 3 via Ollama I saw that Meta released the Llama 3 AI model, and people seem excited about it, so I decided to...
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I saw that Meta released the Llama 3 AI model, and people seem excited about it, so I decided to give it a try. I don’t have much experience running open-source AI models, and I didn’t see a lot of documentation about how to run them. I tinkered with it for a few hours and got...
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<p>A friend recently boasted how they're working 15 hour days. To which I replied with a concerning "Why?" and was met with a distant look.</p> <p>My friend thought I'd metaphorically pat him on the back.</p> <p>I didn't. No surprise there.</p> <p>Supposedly the industry he's in...
Val Sopi
A change in how I share my open finances and a new self–imposed public challenge <p> A bit over a year ago, I wrote <a href="https://valsopi.com/setting-sail">a post</a> in...
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<p> A bit over a year ago, I wrote <a href="https://valsopi.com/setting-sail">a post</a> in which I talked about embarking on a journey to financial freedom. Specifically speaking — I took out a personal loan so I could focus on solely building products. </p><p> With that...
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At my last job, status meetings with my manager were outstandingly efficient. He never ran me through the typical drill of listing list off everything I did since our last meeting. Instead, we jumped right to the meaty topics of career growth, team development, and challenging...
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Delete the Timestamps from your Static Blog I build this blog using Hugo, a popular static site generator. The way Hugo works is that when I...
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I build this blog using Hugo, a popular static site generator. The way Hugo works is that when I create a new blog post, Hugo generates a default template that looks like this: --- title: "My New Post" date: 2024-11-16T20:33:09-04:00 --- The boilerplate for the post contains a...
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How I Built This In Public: Erwin Lessons from building Tailscan in public to $500 MRR
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Hello everyone 👋 It’s Tony again with another monthly update! 😄Thanks for reading Tony Dinh’s Newsletter! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Phu Yen Province, Vietnam Welcome 313 new subscribers since my last issue! 👋 If you are new here: My name is...
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The Goal is an attempt to reevaluate business management from first principles. The book explains Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints, which states that in any business, the sole determinant of output is the bottleneck resource. To grow, a business has to identify its bottlenecks...
mtlynch.io
Noah Bragg's First Stoke Fire Livestream I’ve been interested in Ethereum the past year, especially the Base ecosystem. The problem is that...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
I’ve been interested in Ethereum the past year, especially the Base ecosystem. The problem is that after hours of reading about Base, I still don’t get what Base is. Every few months, I check back in on the Base website’s developer section to see if there’s a path to building on...
Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 8 Building a new feature in a couple of weeks.
over a year ago
Grow With Less
The Overwhelmed Business Owner's Guide to SEO What do you do when you spent hours writing awesome articles only to realize your mom and your best...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
What do you do when you spent hours writing awesome articles only to realize your mom and your best friend Dave are the only people reading them? That’s the question I asked myself 7 years ago after writing dozens of articles for my new blog French Together. I followed 10,000...
High Signal
$270k ARR from a Notion form app Julien Nahum caught my attention on Twitter by pulling in $22k MRR with his Notion form app, Notion...
a year ago
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a year ago
Julien Nahum caught my attention on Twitter by pulling in $22k MRR with his Notion form app, Notion Forms. Back in August he was at $10k MRR
mtlynch.io
An Unsuccessful Experiment with Nemotron A few weeks ago, NVIDIA released Nemotron, a large language model that they derived from Meta’s...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
A few weeks ago, NVIDIA released Nemotron, a large language model that they derived from Meta’s Llama 3.1 70B. NVIDIA claimed at release that Nemotron outperformed GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet on certain benchmarks. That was exciting news, as my experience with self-hostable AI...
Val Sopi
Focusing on progress, not the goal <p><span style="font-size: 21px;">Rion, my 11-year-old son, plays tennis.</span></p><p>He first set...
a year ago
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a year ago
<p><span style="font-size: 21px;">Rion, my 11-year-old son, plays tennis.</span></p><p>He first set foot on a tennis court when he was 18 months or so. His cousin was practicing back then, so he would tag along with his aunt to the tennis courts.</p><figure class="none"><img...
High Signal
$200k from selling Google Sheets tutorials Andrew Kamphey is a creator who has made $200k from teaching people how to use Google Sheets over...
a year ago
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a year ago
Andrew Kamphey is a creator who has made $200k from teaching people how to use Google Sheets over the past three years. Think 'Miss Excel' but he's a beardy guy who doesn't dance in his videos. In this interview Andrew shares his marketing wins,
mtlynch.io
How I Stole Your Siacoin A seedy reddit post The night was June 9th, 2017. It was a typical Friday night for me. I was...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A seedy reddit post The night was June 9th, 2017. It was a typical Friday night for me. I was watching Netflix and checking reddit partying with cool kids. Suddenly, I saw this post on the “New” tab of the /r/siacoin subreddit: If you’re not familiar with Siacoin, it’s a...
Val Sopi
Giving blogstatic a real chance <p>I have never really given blogstatic a real chance to succeed.</p> <p><b>Up to now, I've said a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
<p>I have never really given blogstatic a real chance to succeed.</p> <p><b>Up to now, I've said a version of any of the following.</b></p> <ul><li>"It's a side project..."</li><li>"I did it in ~30 hours..."</li><li>"It's growing slowly without much marketing..."</li></ul> <p>And...
mtlynch.io
Is It Keto: Month 5 Highlights Is It Keto’s user visits continued to grow rapidly. Revenues increased substantially from...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Highlights Is It Keto’s user visits continued to grow rapidly. Revenues increased substantially from the previous month but missed targets for January. I figured out an easy and inexpensive way to attract users via Twitter. Goal Grades At the start of the month, I laid out some...
mtlynch.io
Eliminating Distractions from Social Media, Email, and StackOverflow You open Gmail to write a note to your friend. Before you begin, you notice that you’ve received six...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
You open Gmail to write a note to your friend. Before you begin, you notice that you’ve received six new messages. It pains you to leave emails unopened, so you read them immediately. Two hours later, you realize that you never wrote that note to your friend. This happened to me...
mtlynch.io
Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself For the past four years, I’ve worked as a software developer at Google. On February 1st, I quit. It...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For the past four years, I’ve worked as a software developer at Google. On February 1st, I quit. It was because they refused to buy me a Christmas present. Well, I guess it’s a little more complicated than that. The first two years Two years in, I loved Google. When the annual...
Max Rozen
Guidelines for Deploying React These days there are a heck of a lot of options for deploying React. It can be a bit overwhelming....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
These days there are a heck of a lot of options for deploying React. It can be a bit overwhelming. This article simplifies your choices.
High Signal
The IndieHackers podcast has ended - the 10 best episodes The IndieHackers podcast, which celebrated founders who hadn't raised venture capital, has now ended
3 months ago
Tony Dinh's...
Dec 2022 updates and happy new year! Hello everyone! It's Tony again with another monthly updates.
over a year ago
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 25 Highlights My blog post about redesigning the TinyPilot website became my second most popular...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Highlights My blog post about redesigning the TinyPilot website became my second most popular article of all time I’m exploring ways to preserve more knowledge on my blog I’ve lowered TinyPilot’s prices in an effort to reduce inventory Goal Grades At the start of each month, I...
Grow With Less
The Best Way to Come up with Catchy Blog Post Titles Copywriting legend David Ogilvy once said that “on the average, five times as many people read the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Copywriting legend David Ogilvy once said that “on the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.” That’s great news because it means a great blog post title has...
Tony Dinh's...
$322 → $2K MRR in 60 days by building in public Hello everyone, this is Tony! 👋 Today is a special day. I want to share with you all this post I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Hello everyone, this is Tony! 👋 Today is a special day. I want to share with you all this post I originally posted on Indie Hackers, but I think you all will also be interested! It’s a long post about my journey growing Black Magic to $2K MRR in the last 2 months.
High Signal
$15k a month from habit tracking app This week I've interviewed Sebastian Röhl, the founder of a series of habit tracking mobile apps.
7 months ago
mtlynch.io
Don't Marry Your Podcasting Platform: Host Your Own Podcast Feed Suppose you host your podcast on a platform like Libsyn or Podbean. What happens if you decide to...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Suppose you host your podcast on a platform like Libsyn or Podbean. What happens if you decide to switch podcast platforms? You already gave everyone a RSS URL that pointed to your old platform. For example Libsyn gives your podcast an RSS URL like...
mtlynch.io
I'm Still Confused About Base A year ago, I listented to an interview with Jesse Pollak on an episode of Into the Bytecode. Jesse...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
A year ago, I listented to an interview with Jesse Pollak on an episode of Into the Bytecode. Jesse works for Coinbase, and he noticed that lots of developers building apps on top of Ethereum were solving the same problems over and over again. He started a project at Coinbase to...
mtlynch.io
Educational Products: Month 4 Highlights I’m having doubts about sitting out the AI revolution. I should prove to myself that...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Highlights I’m having doubts about sitting out the AI revolution. I should prove to myself that customers are willing to buy my book before investing more time into it. I’m probably the last person on the planet to discover that RSS is a great way to read blogs. Goal grades At...
Max Rozen
Using Tailwind CSS with React and CSS-in-JS If you're already using a CSS-in-JS library, trying out Tailwind CSS with your existing app might be...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you're already using a CSS-in-JS library, trying out Tailwind CSS with your existing app might be much easier than you think.
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 44 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
a year ago
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a year ago
New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $80-100k/month in revenue and employs six other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one...
Max Rozen
The books I read in 2018 A list of books I read in 2018
over a year ago
Max Rozen
Learn Integration Testing with React Hook Form Testing is super important, and yet it's hard to find practical examples to show you what to do....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Testing is super important, and yet it's hard to find practical examples to show you what to do. This article intends to fix that, by teaching integration testing with React Hook Form.
Tony Dinh's...
May 2023: I sold my 2 years old business for only $128K Everything about the Black Magic's acquisition + May 2023 updates
a year ago
Tony Dinh's...
Oct 2022 updates: I will write a book! Also in October: Speak at JOM Launch Asia 2022, and the thing about Elon Musk.
over a year ago
Max Rozen
How to choose a median result when running Google Lighthouse multiple times Running Google Lighthouse five times will half the variability of your test results. So how do you...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Running Google Lighthouse five times will half the variability of your test results. So how do you figure out which run is the median?
mtlynch.io
Pursuing a Business I'll Love Highlights Zestful had its biggest month ever, with $3,936 in revenue. Is It Keto also had its best...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Highlights Zestful had its biggest month ever, with $3,936 in revenue. Is It Keto also had its best month ever, at $393 in revenue. After lots of research and customer interviews, I gave up on my idea for creating sheet metal software. I published my first version of an app for...
Grow With Less
How to Overcome Information Overload and Make Real Progress with Your Business Being a solopreneur is exhausting. You wake up in the morning, check your emails and find dozens of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Being a solopreneur is exhausting. You wake up in the morning, check your emails and find dozens of new strategies waiting for you. Double your subscribers with this new pop-up! Use this little-known copywriting trick to get 32% more signups! How this simple tool helped me get...
Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 15 Heading back into the arena. We are so back.
a year ago
Dominik Sobe's...
Five videos that shaped my life so far
over a year ago
Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 3 Marketing week? More like reliability week
over a year ago
High Signal
$30k a month from a bootstrapped B2C company Thankbox is a successful B2C bootstrapped website created by Valentin Hinov which is now doing...
11 months ago
mtlynch.io
Hiring Content Writers: Part Five - Terminating Writers Overview: Hiring Content Writers Part One: Finding Writers Part Two - Creating a Detailed Job...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Overview: Hiring Content Writers Part One: Finding Writers Part Two - Creating a Detailed Job Description Part Three: Screening Candidates Part Four - Working with Writers Part Five - Terminating Writers (this section) If you’ve followed this guide, you’ve hired writers on a...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 39 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
a year ago
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a year ago
New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $80-100k/month in revenue and employs six other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 17 Highlights TinyPilot’s sales jumped to $57k, and it might be sustainable. I’m just about to launch...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Highlights TinyPilot’s sales jumped to $57k, and it might be sustainable. I’m just about to launch TinyPilot’s new product and branding. I reduced Google Cloud Platform fees by 90% on my side projects. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish....
Dominik Sobe's...
V(D)Logging some of my thoughts
a year ago