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mtlynch.io
Projects TinyPilot (2020 - present) TinyPilot is a small, inexpensive device that gives you remote access to...
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TinyPilot (2020 - present) TinyPilot is a small, inexpensive device that gives you remote access to servers before they even boot. Refactoring English (2021) Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developers is my upcoming book that teaches developers practical tips...
mtlynch.io
Hiring Content Writers: A Guide for Small Businesses If you write original content for your business, you know how quickly it drains your time and mental...
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over a year ago
If you write original content for your business, you know how quickly it drains your time and mental energy. It’s extremely challenging to write articles or blog posts that readers find engaging, clear, and eloquent. You may have considered hiring a freelance writer, but it’s...
mtlynch.io
I'm Probably Procrastinating Highlights A change to Zestful’s website boosted it to the front page of Google results within days....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Highlights A change to Zestful’s website boosted it to the front page of Google results within days. I’m going to try to make a better version of a decades’ old application for managing machine shops. I’m doing lots of coding to avoid talking to customers. Goal Grades At the...
mtlynch.io
Go Programming Blueprints by Mat Ryer I’m a fan of Mat Ryer’s work, and his blog posts have had a significant impact on the way I program...
over a year ago
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I’m a fan of Mat Ryer’s work, and his blog posts have had a significant impact on the way I program in Go. I found the book hit or miss. Some chapters were fascinating and taught me valuable Go lessons, while others felt boring and got too bogged down in the minutiae of...
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
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...
7 months ago
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 23 Highlights The TinyPilot website redesign is finally done. I’ve learned to make Debian packages, and...
over a year ago
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Highlights The TinyPilot website redesign is finally done. I’ve learned to make Debian packages, and it’s surprisingly simple. I’ve given up on Vue and frontend frameworks in general. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did...
Dominik Sobe's...
The reason I got hooked on being an Indiehacker
a year ago
High Signal
Starting a successful business at 50 - Devan shares his tips Ever thought if 50 is too old to start your own business? Devan is proof it's not. He was 50 when he...
a year ago
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a year ago
Ever thought if 50 is too old to start your own business? Devan is proof it's not. He was 50 when he created his startup and at 56 years old, he has made a million-dollar business! Can you tell us about HR Partner and your achievements? HR Partner
Max Rozen
Strangers from the internet paid for my MacBook Air: on my 4th year of indiehacking In which I finally make money from strangers off the internet.
over a year ago
Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 22 Feels like I've already said everything I had to say
a month ago
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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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...
What a roller coaster ride
over a year ago
mtlynch.io
Per-Project Development Environments with Nix Nix is a broad product with a steep learning curve. It’s capable of everything from installing a...
a year ago
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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...
Build In Public...
Build In Public - Community Edition (Oct 2021) Hey everyone 👋 Let’s open this newsletter with a powerful quote ⬇️ Luck surface area. Aka...
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Hey everyone 👋 Let’s open this newsletter with a powerful quote ⬇️ Luck surface area. Aka serendipity. Aka helping relevant and like-minded people find you through your content. That’s what building in public is all about. With that said, get ready for October’s community...
mtlynch.io
Update: Stripe's Response Regarding User Tracking Last week, I published a blog post describing how Stripe recorded visitor behavior on their...
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Last week, I published a blog post describing how Stripe recorded visitor behavior on their customers’ websites. In short, Stripe’s JavaScript library collected information about URLs users visited and telemetry about their mouse movements, even when the site never displayed any...
Dominik Sobe's...
The Six Best Practices for launching on Product Hunt in 2021
over a year ago
High Signal
Building a mentor marketplace to 20,000 users Mentorcruise is an impressive mentor marketplace which has grown to 20,000 users.
a year ago
High Signal
Joining a startup as a co-founder Today's interview is with Iron Brands (he's Dutch, that is his actual name), who joined a privacy...
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11 months ago
Today's interview is with Iron Brands (he's Dutch, that is his actual name), who joined a privacy analytics startups as a co-founder after it had already launched. We talked about how he met the original founder of Simple Analytics, how they negotiated the new ownership...
Build In Public...
How I Built This In Public: Marie Martens Lessons from building Tally.so from 0 to $40k MRR all in public
a year ago
mtlynch.io
Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb The book contains many interesting examples of common biases and logical fallacies, but it’s buried...
over a year ago
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The book contains many interesting examples of common biases and logical fallacies, but it’s buried in a lot of bluster and fluff about how smart the author is. While it was likely groundbreaking when it was published in 2004, its ideas have since permeated into the mainstream....
Max Rozen
What is the difference between style-loader and mini-css-extract-plugin? Looking to optimise your webpack config? Understanding the difference between style-loader and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Looking to optimise your webpack config? Understanding the difference between style-loader and mini-css-extract-plugin can help you speed up your page loads.
Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 23 Working with big systems all day can slow you down.
3 weeks ago
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 1 Highlights This is my highest revenue month ever, at $9.8k across all of my projects. Tiny Pilot had...
over a year ago
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Highlights This is my highest revenue month ever, at $9.8k across all of my projects. Tiny Pilot had the biggest first month of anything I’ve ever launched, at 52 sales and $8.7k in revenue. The sudden surge in customers also made it one of my highest-stress months since going...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 22 Highlights TinyPilot generates $58k/month in revenue yet somehow loses money. It’s more important...
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Highlights TinyPilot generates $58k/month in revenue yet somehow loses money. It’s more important than I thought to have low-latency insight into developers’ hours. I’m trying paid advertising again for the first time in almost two years. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I...
mtlynch.io
Using Zig to Unit Test a C Application Zig is a new, independently developed low-level programming language. It’s a modern reimagining of C...
a year ago
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a year ago
Zig is a new, independently developed low-level programming language. It’s a modern reimagining of C that attempts to retain C’s performance while embracing improvements from the last 30 years of tooling and language design. Zig makes calling into C code easier than any other...
Val Sopi
What is leadership? <p>With so much going on in the world and information traveling faster than ever before in the human...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
<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...
mtlynch.io
How to Do Code Reviews Like a Human (Part Two) This is the second half of my article about how to communicate well and avoid pitfalls in code...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is the second half of my article about how to communicate well and avoid pitfalls in code reviews. Here, I focus on techniques to bring your code review to a successful close while avoiding ugly conflict. I laid the groundwork in Part One, so I recommend starting there. If...
Grow With Less
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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
Dominik Sobe's...
Travel hard, work harder or: on being a digital nomad
a year ago
Grow With Less
A Day in the Life of a Full-Time Blogger Search “blogger working” in Google Image and you will see thousands of smiling bloggers working on...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Search “blogger working” in Google Image and you will see thousands of smiling bloggers working on their laptop while drinking coffee in a trendy coffee shop. And while these things can definitely be part of a blogger’s day, they are only the visible part of the iceberg. Blogging...
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...
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...
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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<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
TinyPilot: Month 43 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
10 months ago
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10 months 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...
Val Sopi
AI will make humans better <p><i>Context:&nbsp;Read&nbsp;<a...
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<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...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 19 Highlights I published my fourth annual retrospective about being a bootstrapped founder. TinyPilot...
over a year ago
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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...
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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over a year ago
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.
High Signal
Sailing the world while building startups James and his partner Danielle have an enviable working set-up - they live and work on a sailing...
10 months ago
Tony Dinh's...
Apr 2023: I sold Black Magic And other updates in April 2023
a year ago
mtlynch.io
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...
Tony Dinh's...
Late promotion update Hi everyone!
a month ago
mtlynch.io
My First Year as a Solo Developer On February 1st, 2018, I quit my job as a software engineer at Google to start my own single-person...
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On February 1st, 2018, I quit my job as a software engineer at Google to start my own single-person software company. It’s exactly one year later, so it feels like an apt time to reflect on how that decision affected my finances, lifestyle, and happiness. How I made and spent...
High Signal
Making thousands from a German learning online community Rónán is the founder of Deutsch Gym, an online community for learning German. He's making thousands...
a year ago
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a year ago
Rónán is the founder of Deutsch Gym, an online community for learning German. He's making thousands in revenue from his startup which he made after moving to Berlin and wanting to improve his German language skills. Read on for his tips on making a
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...
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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
My Fifth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder Five years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own bootstrapped software...
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a year ago
Five years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own bootstrapped software company. For the first few years, all of my businesses flopped. None of them earned more than a few hundred dollars per month in revenue, and they all had negative profits. Halfway...
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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Getting tired of running the relay-compiler every time you change your GraphQL schema/resolvers? There's a plugin in webpack for that!
mtlynch.io
Retrofitting Apps for Cloud Storage with Zero Code Changes I recently installed a media sharing app to one of my servers. It was simple to install, but it hid...
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I recently installed a media sharing app to one of my servers. It was simple to install, but it hid a dastardly trap for long-term maintenance. Every time a user uploaded a file, the web app saved it to the local filesystem. If I ever blew away the server and rebuilt it, I’d have...
mtlynch.io
The Dumbest Task I Ever Outsourced I derive immense satisfaction from outsourcing my chores. All of my friends have heard me encourage...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I derive immense satisfaction from outsourcing my chores. All of my friends have heard me encourage them to place a higher value on their free time and delegate their errands. Few of them heed my advice, and it’s probably because they know about the time I paid someone $96 to...
Dominik Sobe's...
Routine
over a year ago
Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 5 In which I doubled my conversion rate without trying too hard.
a year ago
Val Sopi
The Waiting Room <p>Growing up I was always told to work hard, wait my turn, and good things will...
7 months ago
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<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...
Tony Dinh's...
Why I run Black Friday deals (things I learned) I also curated 300+ Black Friday deals for you
a year ago
Build In Public...
How I Built This In Public: Michelle Marcelline Immigrating from Indonesia to the US and building Typedream in public
a year ago
Build In Public...
What's your north star while building in public? 🔭⭐️ Hey folks, Recently, I gave a workshop on “BUILDING IN PUBLIC” at On Deck and shared insights,...
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Hey folks, Recently, I gave a workshop on “BUILDING IN PUBLIC” at On Deck and shared insights, lessons, war stories and essentially opened up all my playbooks on the topic. The talk seemed to have resonated deeply with many fellows and I was grateful and delighted. Some of them...
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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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.
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 6 Highlights TinyPilot had another record-breaking month, with $15k in revenue. I sold $1.1k in...
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Highlights TinyPilot had another record-breaking month, with $15k in revenue. I sold $1.1k in pre-orders for my first ever video course. My attempt to slow down sales ended up doing the opposite. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish....
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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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...
Scott DeLong
AI-Integrated Search: The Latest Way Big Tech Is Stealing From And Crushing Small Businesses It's Big Tech's latest way to steal the hard work of publishers, and there's nothing you can do...
a year ago
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It's Big Tech's latest way to steal the hard work of publishers, and there's nothing you can do about it except adapt. The post AI-Integrated Search: The Latest Way Big Tech Is Stealing From And Crushing Small Businesses appeared first on Scott DeLong.
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...
Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 11 On building table-stakes features, and breaking through a plateau.
a year ago
👋 Hello, I'm...
Why I started consulting, why you should too, and why you need to be your own customer!...
a year ago
Tony Dinh's...
Nov 2022 updates: learning new skills Indie updates, B2B vs B2C, Black Friday, surfing, skimboarding, hardware.
over a year ago
mtlynch.io
Hiring: Freelance Blog Illustrator I’m a blogger, and I often commission custom illustrations for my blog posts like this one: An...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
I’m a blogger, and I often commission custom illustrations for my blog posts like this one: An example of an illustration I commissioned for the blog, part of my year-in-review series The blog’s previous illustrator was the awesome Loraine Yow, who worked with me for six years....
High Signal
Selling a website after learning to code with AI Andrew Davison is a British founder who built and sold an app by learning to code with ChatGPT. He...
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Andrew Davison is a British founder who built and sold an app by learning to code with ChatGPT. He had a problem with exporting multiple tables from Airtable databases so he built a tool to help him automate the process. Andrew used new tools like ChatGPT and Replit to a)
Grow With Less
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,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
High Signal
$100k from building a SaaS boilerplate for Django Cory Zue has built a living making Django SaaS boilerplates for founders. It means you can get...
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Cory Zue has built a living making Django SaaS boilerplates for founders. It means you can get started with your SaaS much quicker
Build In Public...
No-Code is Hitting an Inflection Point. Are You Ready? Here’s a long-form article I co-authored on the state of the no-code that I thought you might enjoy....
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Here’s a long-form article I co-authored on the state of the no-code that I thought you might enjoy. Let me know if you have any feedback or questions :) Much like Shopify ‘armed the rebels’ by allowing anyone to build an e-commerce store, a slew of no-code tools are empowering...
mtlynch.io
Paternity Leave: Month 1 Highlights My wife and I became parents. I realized that caring for a newborn takes more time than I...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
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...
mtlynch.io
My Eight-Year Quest to Digitize 45 Videotapes (Part Two) In part one, I described my arduous journey to capture my old home movies in digital format and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In part one, I described my arduous journey to capture my old home movies in digital format and divide them into individual scenes. After processing all the clips, I wanted the experience of exploring them to be as simple as looking up clips on YouTube. Because these videos are...
Max Rozen
How to resolve 'X defined in resolvers, but not in schema' with babel-plugin-inline-import Showing how to resolve the dreaded 'Query.X defined in resolvers, but not in schema' issue when your...
over a year ago
Dominik Sobe's...
Just crossed 10 paying customers
over a year ago
Build In Public...
Build In Public - Community Edition #1 (Aug 2021) Hey everyone 👋 Build In Public is no more just a hot trend, it’s a movement. Thousands of founders,...
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over a year ago
Hey everyone 👋 Build In Public is no more just a hot trend, it’s a movement. Thousands of founders, creators, and builders are embracing the principles and building in public especially on Twitter. On that note, get ready for a quick community round-up highlighting launches and...
Max Rozen
Guidelines to improve your React folder structure People often say to 'move files around until it feels right', but what does 'right' even mean? Let's...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
People often say to 'move files around until it feels right', but what does 'right' even mean? Let's learn in this article.
mtlynch.io
Paternity Leave: Month 4 Highlights I found ways to procrastinate writing my book. I had fun fuzz testing open-source...
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a month ago
Highlights I found ways to procrastinate writing my book. I had fun fuzz testing open-source projects. I picked out components for a new high-end desktop computer for software development. Goal grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I...
mtlynch.io
The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick A quick, practical guide to interviewing customers during the early stages of a new product idea. I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A quick, practical guide to interviewing customers during the early stages of a new product idea. I expected basic advice about how you shouldn’t ask customers leading questions, but Fitzpatrick goes much more in-depth. The book made me recognize weaknesses in my approach to...
Tony Dinh's...
Another 6-figure exit, and the future I sold Xnapper, here is a quick update about the acquisition details
9 months ago
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!
Val Sopi
Test <p> Some super </p> <p class="top-button"> <a href="#top">🔝</a> </p>
10 months ago
Dominik Sobe's...
You want everything at once – me too
a year ago
Max Rozen
Preventing infinite re-renders when using useEffect and useState React's useEffect hook is an incredibly useful tool for fetching data, but if you're not careful,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
React's useEffect hook is an incredibly useful tool for fetching data, but if you're not careful, can cause infinite re-renders.
mtlynch.io
Debugging VLANs on my TP-Link Managed Switch I recently bought my first-ever managed networking switch, a TP-Link JetStream TL-SG3428X. The main...
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a year ago
I recently bought my first-ever managed networking switch, a TP-Link JetStream TL-SG3428X. The main feature of a managed switch is that it lets you segment your network into VLANs. I was excited about this functionality, but it took me hours of trial and error to get VLANs...
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...
mtlynch.io
My First Impressions of Nix Nix is a tool for configuring software environments according to source files. I’ve been hearing...
a year ago
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a year ago
Nix is a tool for configuring software environments according to source files. I’ve been hearing more and more about Nix on Hacker News and Twitter. The idea of it appeals to me, so I’ve been tinkering with it over the past few weeks. My history with infrastructure as code Ten...
mtlynch.io
Bowling Alone by Robert D. Putnam The idea of social capital has interested me for a long time, but when I finally sat down to read...
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over a year ago
The idea of social capital has interested me for a long time, but when I finally sat down to read this book, it was painfully dry. It offers an eye-opening investigation into the many ways that civic engagement has declined in the US, but it was a real slog to get through.
mtlynch.io
How I Collected a Debt from an Unscrupulous Merchant A few years ago, I learned a handy technique for resolving disputes with uncooperative businesses....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A few years ago, I learned a handy technique for resolving disputes with uncooperative businesses. It’s simple to understand and easy to implement. You don’t need lawyers or a prominent social media presence. All it requires is for you to behave like an organized professional....
Max Rozen
Introducing PerfBeacon - Continuously Measure Site Speed via API or Schedule PerfBeacon was a wrapper around Google Lighthouse that lets you continuously measure your site's...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
PerfBeacon was a wrapper around Google Lighthouse that lets you continuously measure your site's performance via API, or a schedule
I Have No Idea What...
Starting Over Abandoning the idea of building a Slack Alternative
over a year ago
Scott DeLong
Weeks 31-34: Banned Sometimes business can be boring and sometimes you see set backs, but this is where you...
a year ago
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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.
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Zestful: Month 4 Prior to February 2019, I published all my retrospectives on Indie Hackers: Zestful Month 4:...
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How to make a $200k a year business - Mike Cardona interview Mike Cardona is a solo founder who has managed to build a $200k online business by specialising in...
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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...
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<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...
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Resurrecting a Dead Library: Part Three - Rehabilitation I love refactoring. Nothing satisfies me more than untangling spaghetti code to reveal its...
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I love refactoring. Nothing satisfies me more than untangling spaghetti code to reveal its underlying logic in a clear, intuitive way. I’ve learned that refactoring requires diligence. In my younger and more reckless days, I would rush into a legacy codebase and tear apart the...
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TinyPilot: Month 15 Highlights TinyPilot had its highest-revenue month ever. One of TinyPilot’s competitors raised $800k...
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Highlights TinyPilot had its highest-revenue month ever. One of TinyPilot’s competitors raised $800k almost overnight. I’m working with a design firm to improve TinyPilot’s brand and website. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s...
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WanderJest: Month 2 Highlights I’m betting big on a publicity campaign that’s at risk of failing spectacularly....
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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...
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How to Make Your Code Reviewer Fall in Love with You When people talk about code reviews, they focus on the reviewer. But the developer who writes the...
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When people talk about code reviews, they focus on the reviewer. But the developer who writes the code is just as important to the review as the person who reads it. There’s scarcely any guidance on preparing your code for review, so authors often screw up this process out of...
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Editing and Sharing Home Videos with MediaGoblin Goal This tutorial shows you how to edit digitized video captures into smaller clips that you can...
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Goal This tutorial shows you how to edit digitized video captures into smaller clips that you can publish on your own password-protected MediaGoblin server. You’ll use a free Heroku dyno, so your only ongoing cost for running this private media server is the cost of storage on...
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<p><em><strong>UPDATE:</strong> This post got such a great response that it inspired me to start playing and building <a href="https://claritask.com">Claritask</a> while documenting it out in the open</em></p> <p>—</p> <p>I'm going to let you in on a great secret.</p> <p>Do you...
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Growing and monetizing the email list is what these weeks were all about. Plus, things I would do differently. The post Weeks 22-25: It’s A Growth Hacker’s Paradise appeared first on Scott DeLong.
Max Rozen
Frustrated by Formik? Here's a simpler way to do forms in React Do you find yourself struggling for hours to solve problems with Formik? I've started using a...
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Do you find yourself struggling for hours to solve problems with Formik? I've started using a different library that's much simpler.
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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...
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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...
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TinyPilot: Month 7 Highlights TinyPilot achieved astonishing growth in revenue, jumping from $15k in December to $42k...
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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...
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How to Write a SEO Title Google and Your Visitors Love Writing a SEO title (also called page title or Google title) is considered difficult because you are...
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Writing a SEO title (also called page title or Google title) is considered difficult because you are writing for 3 main audiences. Visitors coming from search engines. Search engines. Visitors from social media. And writing a SEO title that ranks high on Google and gets shared on...
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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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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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How Twitter helped me with the 1st ever BUILD IN PUBLIC NFT 💎 Happy Friday everyone, Below is the story of: how I found an artist to collaborate and mint my 1st...
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Happy Friday everyone, Below is the story of: how I found an artist to collaborate and mint my 1st ever NFT project on the theme of “build in public” how it all came together on Twitter DMs how we plan to auction/sell it to a thoughtful buyer how we intend to donate all the...
mtlynch.io
Massachusetts Residents Can Sue Online Merchants for Spam Last week, I saw an interesting article on the /r/legaladvice subreddit. An e-commerce business...
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Last week, I saw an interesting article on the /r/legaladvice subreddit. An e-commerce business owner was complaining that a customer was suing because the merchant had been sending the customer promotional emails for years that the customer never agreed to. The author deleted...
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Oct 2023: side project, interview on Indie Hackers Going viral, my thoughts, and updates from me in October 2023.
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Early bird license of my new product TypingMind.com is launching tomorrow on Product Hunt!
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About Michael Lynch is a developer and blogger. He graduated from Columbia University in 2007 with a BS in...
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Michael Lynch is a developer and blogger. He graduated from Columbia University in 2007 with a BS in Computer Science. He has worked as a software engineer at Microsoft and Google and as a security engineer at NCC Group. Michael is available for weddings, bar/bat mitzvahs, and...
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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...
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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...
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How I Built This In Public: Luca Restagno Lessons from building, growing and selling SaaS Products all in public
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How I became a React developer On how I left a 'prestigious' consulting job to start from scratch as a React developer
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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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<p>Sort of without fail and unplanned, every year in December, I usually think of a word that I want to live by the upcoming year.</p> <p>Depending on what kind of year I have had, the&nbsp;Word for the upcoming one should represent the practical step ahead for...
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Building My First Homelab Server Rack Seven years ago, I built my first home server. It made my software development work faster and more...
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Seven years ago, I built my first home server. It made my software development work faster and more enjoyable, so I’ve gotten more into the home server scene. I built a custom storage server, another development server, and a dedicated firewall. At some point, my wife gently...
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Reset Month No update this month I’m skipping my normal retrospective this month, as I sold TinyPilot and am...
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No update this month I’m skipping my normal retrospective this month, as I sold TinyPilot and am taking some time to figure out my next project. Retrospectives will hopefully resume in a month or two!
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Dec 2022 updates and happy new year! Hello everyone! It's Tony again with another monthly updates.
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Lessons from my First Exit In April of this year, I sold TinyPilot, the bootstrapped hardware company I founded and ran for...
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In April of this year, I sold TinyPilot, the bootstrapped hardware company I founded and ran for four years. I wrote a post in May that told the story of the sale, but I’d like to share more about the practical lessons I learned from the experience. In this post, I’m sharing what...
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TinyPilot: Month 44 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
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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 $80-100k/month in revenue and employs six other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one...
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My Indiehacker Journey: Part One.
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Sia-Minio Integration Postmortem One of the best things I learned from working at Google is the practice of blame-free postmortems....
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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...
Max Rozen
Understanding when to use useMemo If you've just learned what useCallback is, you might be wondering why on earth useMemo exists, and...
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If you've just learned what useCallback is, you might be wondering why on earth useMemo exists, and why we don't use it everywhere.
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Nov 2024: My first million! $1M in annual revenue, B2B sales, SOC 2, resellers, grow team, and other updates in November 2024.
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My Second Year as a Solo Developer Two years ago, I quit my developer job at Google to build my own software business. A year later, I...
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Two years ago, I quit my developer job at Google to build my own software business. A year later, I posted an update about my finances, happiness, and lessons learned. Today marks the end of my second year, so it’s time for another update. How I made and spent money Metric 2018...
Max Rozen
Why you should use functional components + Hooks over class components in React If you find yourself asking whether to use functional components with Hooks over class components,...
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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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OnlineOrNot Diaries 8 Building a new feature in a couple of weeks.
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An Unexpected Reset Month Highlights My loved ones and I are safe and healthy. WanderJest is on hiatus due to the nationwide...
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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...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 4 Highlights TinyPilot hit $10k in revenue. That’s a record high for me and exceeds my total revenue...
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Highlights TinyPilot hit $10k in revenue. That’s a record high for me and exceeds my total revenue for all of 2019. I interviewed several IT consultants and business owners about what TinyPilot features would be useful to them. I tested several new marketing channels and realized...
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...
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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...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 18 Highlights I’ve launched a new TinyPilot product and debuted a new logo. TinyPilot’s revenue...
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Highlights I’ve launched a new TinyPilot product and debuted a new logo. TinyPilot’s revenue finished the year strong at $55k for December. I’ve learned to manage design projects more aggressively. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish....
mtlynch.io
Reset Month No update this month I’m skipping my normal retrospective this month, as I sold TinyPilot and am...
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6 months ago
No update this month I’m skipping my normal retrospective this month, as I sold TinyPilot and am taking some time to figure out my next project. Retrospectives will resume in July.
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Five videos that shaped my life so far
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Guidelines for Deploying React These days there are a heck of a lot of options for deploying React. It can be a bit overwhelming....
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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.
Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 16 On content marketing, starting a YouTube channel, and improving status pages
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TinyPilot: Month 21 Highlights TinyPilot had its best sales month ever, with $69k of total revenue. I’m now five months...
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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...
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,...
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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...
Max Rozen
Lessons from my third year running a SaaS I've run this business for three years now, and I'm only just now starting to *get it*.
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It’s been a while since my last post! Since then, I’ve been focusing on growing Remote Rocketship. I’m super excited to announce that it’s reached $2,000 MRR! 🥳 You may recall from the last post that I mentioned that the only sustainable channel to grow the website is SEO and...
High Signal
Making $6k from a baby AI photo generator Ever wondered, "Is there an AI to see how your baby looks?" Well you're not alone! OurBabyAI is an...
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Ever wondered, "Is there an AI to see how your baby looks?" Well you're not alone! OurBabyAI is an app that shows how your future baby may look.
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A Survey of Applicant Tracking Systems for Bootstrapped Businesses I’m a bootstrapped founder of a six-person company, and I spent this week testing different tools...
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I’m a bootstrapped founder of a six-person company, and I spent this week testing different tools for hiring candidates. This post summarizes my experience with the applicant tracking systems (ATS) I found and how well they serve small, bootstrapped businesses. Note: This isn’t...
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How I Built This In Public: Khe Hy Lessons from building RadReads and helping over 40,000 professionals in public
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What I Learned About Upwork from a Bumbling Scammer For years, I’ve hired freelancers through a site called Upwork. The site attracts many different...
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For years, I’ve hired freelancers through a site called Upwork. The site attracts many different professionals, so I’ve used it to find everything from cartoonists to software developers to copy editors. Some were great, some were disastrous, but none of them had ever tried to...
mtlynch.io
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...
mtlynch.io
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...
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The journey of launching StorePreviewer PRO
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mtlynch.io
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...
mtlynch.io
Building a Homelab VM Server Note: This article describes a VM build in 2017. For the 2020 version, see, “Building a Homelab VM...
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Note: This article describes a VM build in 2017. For the 2020 version, see, “Building a Homelab VM Server (2020 Edition).” Overview I do the bulk of my home development work in virtual machines (VMs). My main desktop PC is a Windows 10 machine, so I had always run my VMs from...
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Educational Products: Month 2 Highlights I learned a few techniques that make it easier for me to record videos for my course....
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Highlights I learned a few techniques that make it easier for me to record videos for my course. I’ve decided I don’t need to use a Merchant of Record service. I’ve integrated htmx into my standard toolkit for making web applications. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I...
Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 1 On marketing, and shipping a CLI
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I was living the dream, then my dream collapsed Everything was going great. My blog French Together had just hit 357k monthly visitors, the French...
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Everything was going great. My blog French Together had just hit 357k monthly visitors, the French Together course had exceeded $300k in sales. Then COVID happened. My traffic slowly started to decrease, conversions got worse. I ignored it at first, I guess I was in denial. I...
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Staying Motivated by Sending Status Updates to Nobody At my last job, status meetings with my manager were outstandingly efficient. He never ran me...
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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...
Scott DeLong
Weeks 48-52: My Final Update It's been fun (kinda). Here's where it ended up and where I'm going next. The post Weeks 48-52: My...
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It's been fun (kinda). Here's where it ended up and where I'm going next. The post Weeks 48-52: My Final Update appeared first on Scott DeLong.
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....
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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...
Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 15 Heading back into the arena. We are so back.
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A Simple Pre-Rendered Web App Using Vue + Nuxt In this post, I’ll show you how to pre-render pages using Vue and Nuxt. This method combines the...
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In this post, I’ll show you how to pre-render pages using Vue and Nuxt. This method combines the convenient development experience of Vue without forfeiting critical features like social sharing or search engine optimization. This tutorial assumes no experience with Vue or Nuxt....
mtlynch.io
Takeaways from Charles Marohn's "Escaping the Housing Trap" Last week, I stumbled upon a reddit post announcing that the author, Charles Marohn, was giving a...
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Last week, I stumbled upon a reddit post announcing that the author, Charles Marohn, was giving a free talk near my town the next morning. Marohn is the author of Strong Towns, one of my favorite books of the last few years. So, my wife and I attended the talk and enjoyed it. The...
mtlynch.io
Testing Ansible Web App Roles with Selenium Overview Ansible is an excellent tool for deploying web apps. Ansible allows us to define web apps...
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Overview Ansible is an excellent tool for deploying web apps. Ansible allows us to define web apps in terms of the different “roles” that compose our web app (e.g. web server, database server, application server). As our roles and the interactions between them become more...
mtlynch.io
How to Hire a Cartoonist to Make Your Blog Less Boring I had just completed a passionate blog post. Too passionate, maybe, as I had written over 8,000...
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I had just completed a passionate blog post. Too passionate, maybe, as I had written over 8,000 words. That’s 1000x longer than the average Buzzfeed article. Worse, it was a giant wall of text with nary a visual element to break it up aside from some screenshots and a few tables....
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One year since "setting sail" <p><i>For context, read <a href="https://valsopi.com/setting-sail">this article</a>...
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<p><i>For context, read <a href="https://valsopi.com/setting-sail">this article</a> first.</i></p><p><i>TLDR:&nbsp;A year ago, I took out a loan and went all–in pursuing my financial freedom. The words below are an update a year on the day.</i></p><hr><h2>Poetically...
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How I Built This In Public: Marko Saric Lessons from building Plausible Analytics to $1.2m ARR in public
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TinyPilot: Month 8 Highlights TinyPilots revenues dropped for the first time in six months. TinyPilot finished the...
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Highlights TinyPilots revenues dropped for the first time in six months. TinyPilot finished the month with $33k in revenue, a 21% drop from January. One of the critical TinyPilot parts I need suddenly disappeared from vendors. Delegating work to others is paradoxically leaving me...
Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 6 A new monitoring service for OnlineOrNot, and new learnings for my pricing page.
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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
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My Feedback about Hello Base The cryptocurrency language barrier There’s an unforunate language barrier among technologists right...
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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...
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Help me win the Golden Kitty Awards 2022? (just a quick announcement...)
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The dead horse framework: How to evaluate the potential of a startup.
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Back Up Encrypted ZFS Data without Unlocking It I recently built my first home TrueNAS server. I use it to store the bulk of my personal and work...
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I recently built my first home TrueNAS server. I use it to store the bulk of my personal and work data, so I’ve been learning how to make the most of TrueNAS and its filesystem, ZFS. Today, I want to tell you about backing up encrypted data. My homelab TrueNAS server One of the...
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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...
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It can be pretty confusing to pick how to style your React app. This guide attempts to simplify your choice.
mtlynch.io
What I've Been Doing Since Quitting My Job I worked as a software engineer for Google from 2014 to 2018. On February 1st, I quit my job and...
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I worked as a software engineer for Google from 2014 to 2018. On February 1st, I quit my job and formed my own single-person software company. That was four months ago, so I thought I’d share an update on how things are going. What’s it like not having a job? That’s the most...
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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...
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<p>I announced the new blogstatic pricing ($19/year) and launched the <a href="https://blogstatic.io/blog/rebrand">new website</a> on October 11th.</p> <p>As I was considering the new pricing and the pros and cons, I wrote this in my daily business journal:</p> <figure><img...
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I recently read Julia Evans’ latest zine about git, and one of her tips was to configure your terminal shell prompt to show the git status. Julia’s terminal prompt looks like this: ~/work/homepage (main) $ main is Julia’s current git branch. When she’s in the middle of a git...
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Guidelines for developing Custom Hooks in React You've just gotten over the fact we call them 'Hooks', but how do you stop repeating the same code...
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You've just gotten over the fact we call them 'Hooks', but how do you stop repeating the same code everywhere? Let's learn about Custom Hooks.
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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...
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Noah Bragg is the founder of Potion, a website builder based on Notion. It lets you simply publish a website straight from Notion without any coding skills! Noah has done a great job growing Potion to $6k MRR. I interviewed him about how he created Potion, his best marketing...
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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...
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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...
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<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...
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TinyPilot: Month 13 Highlights TinyPilot’s EU distributor is on track to begin sales by the end of August. I’ve freed up...
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Highlights TinyPilot’s EU distributor is on track to begin sales by the end of August. I’ve freed up time by delegating responsibilities to my teammates. I miraculously became unstuck on two tasks that have been blocking work for months. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I...
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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...
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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...
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Where is blogstatic now? <p>blogstatic is growing slowly at around 20% month-to-month.</p> <p>Currently, it's hovering at...
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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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<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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<p> <i>This is the first of many updates in the <a href="https://valsopi.com/financial-freedom">Financial Freedom</a> series, where I hold&nbsp;myself publicly accountable for my big challenge ahead!</i> </p> <p> <i><b>TLDR:</b>&nbsp;Towards the end of this article,...
mtlynch.io
Stripe is Silently Recording Your Movements On its Customers' Websites Among startups and tech companies, Stripe seems to be the near-universal favorite for payment...
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Among startups and tech companies, Stripe seems to be the near-universal favorite for payment processing. When I needed paid subscription functionality for my new web app, Stripe felt like the natural choice. After integration, however, I discovered that Stripe’s official...
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Want More Traffic? Here Are 77 Headline Formulas You Need to Use! Your headline is the first part of your articles your readers see. And it may very well be the last...
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Your headline is the first part of your articles your readers see. And it may very well be the last part they see. That’s why a catchy headline is not nice to have, it’s essential. Without it your article may as well not exist because nobody will read it. But how do you write a...
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In 2005, Joel Spolsky’s software company, Fog Creek, filmed a documentary about their summer internship program. The film is called Aardvark’d: 12 Weeks with Geeks, and it follows four college interns as they design, implement, and launch a completely new software product. That’s...
High Signal
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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...
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Hiring Content Writers: Part One - Finding Writers Overview: Hiring Content Writers Part One: Finding Writers (this section) Part Two - Creating a...
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Overview: Hiring Content Writers Part One: Finding Writers (this section) Part Two - Creating a Detailed Job Description Part Three: Screening Candidates Part Four - Working with Writers Part Five - Terminating Writers There are thousands of working freelance writers in the...
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Highlights I’m finding it surprisingly difficult not to work. Sleep is getting a little better. I used Nix to create a slick and reusable fuzz testing workflow. Goal grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did against those...
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7 Dangerous Meta Description Mistakes That Are Ruining Your CTR I have some bad news. Writing great content, building quality backlinks and having catchy blog post...
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I have some bad news. Writing great content, building quality backlinks and having catchy blog post titles is not enough. You could have all this and still get very little traffic. Why? Because you need people to choose your article over competing articles in the search...
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My Fourth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder Four years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own self-funded software...
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Four years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own self-funded software company. For the first few years, all of my businesses flopped. They all operated at a loss, and none of them earned more than a few hundred dollars per month in revenue. Halfway through...
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Oct 2021 Updates: Vietnam, DevUtils 1.12, and Magic Sidebar ✨ 👋 Hello everyone, it’s Tony again. Lots of things happened in October 2021. I released DevUtils...
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👋 Hello everyone, it’s Tony again. Lots of things happened in October 2021. I released DevUtils 1.12, worked on a new exciting feature for Black Magic, moved back to Vietnam, and other small updates. Just want to say this quickly: Thank you all so much for following my journey!...
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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This 20-Minute On-Page SEO Checklist Could Save Your Rankings What’s the worst thing that could happen to your blog? For many bloggers, the answer is getting...
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What’s the worst thing that could happen to your blog? For many bloggers, the answer is getting blacklisted by Google and seeing all their organic traffic vanish overnight. And a common way this happens is when Google realizes your blog is infected before you do and simply...
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My Sixth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder Six years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own bootstrapped software...
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Six years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own bootstrapped software company. For the first few years, all of my businesses flopped. The best of them earned a few hundred dollars per month in revenue, but none were profitable. Halfway through my third...
mtlynch.io
Is It Keto: Month 4 Prior to February 2019, I published all my retrospectives on Indie Hackers: Is It Keto Month 4: My...
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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...
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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...
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The Definitive Guide to Commonly Used Words in React Do some words in React have you scratching your head? Ref? Stateless component? Let's learn some...
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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...
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$200k from selling Google Sheets tutorials Andrew Kamphey is a creator who has made $200k from teaching people how to use Google Sheets over...
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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,
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On replacing my MacBook Air M1 with a Thinkpad T480 In which you probably wonder, but ...why?
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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.
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The Benefits of NOT Being Online <p>Hey, you probably know me as the founder of <a href="https://claritask.com/">Claritask</a> or as...
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<p>Hey, you probably know me as the founder of <a href="https://claritask.com/">Claritask</a> or as a Podcaster where I nakedly talk about my <a href="https://bootstrapping-saas.transistor.fm/">Bootstrapping Saas</a> journey.</p> <p>Since early this summer I took a sabbatical...
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How code splitting can make your React app load significantly faster Chances are, your React app's bundle is much, much larger than it needs to be.
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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...
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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...
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TinyPilot: Month 37 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
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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 seven other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this...
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April 2022: High churn, reached $6K MRR, and other updates. Hello everyone! Welcome 150 new subscribers since my last issue. I’m glad to have you here! 👋 Here...
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Hello everyone! Welcome 150 new subscribers since my last issue. I’m glad to have you here! 👋 Here is a quick update from me in April 2022. This should make a nice thumbnail for this page! 😁 🔻 Suffered from high churn In early April, Black Magic observed
Max Rozen
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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You pride yourself on delivering fast websites to your clients, but do the websites stay fast as the months go by?
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Keeping up with React Libraries React libraries are hard to keep track of. This article attempts to put the ones worth talking about...
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React libraries are hard to keep track of. This article attempts to put the ones worth talking about on one page.
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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...
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Want to stop webpack from including multiple versions of the same package in your bundle? It only takes a couple of lines of code.
mtlynch.io
I Sold TinyPilot, My First Successful Business My first two years as a bootstrapped founder went poorly. I could barely find any paying customers,...
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My first two years as a bootstrapped founder went poorly. I could barely find any paying customers, and all of my businesses lost money. I began questioning my decision to quit my cushy Google job. In mid-2020, yet another of my businesses had flopped, and it was only kind of...
Grow With Less
The unexpected end of the slow, ramp of death 6 months ago, I had just finished creating my first SaaS: the French Together app. My goal was...
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6 months ago, I had just finished creating my first SaaS: the French Together app. My goal was simple: launch it and reach $20k MRR. Writing this, I can’t help but laugh. $20k MRR for a first SaaS? Really? Only 2 types of people would set such an ambitious goal: Someone who never...
mtlynch.io
Start Small, Stay Small by Rob Walling I wish that I had found this book nine years ago. It taught me a great deal about choosing the right...
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I wish that I had found this book nine years ago. It taught me a great deal about choosing the right product to build and the advantages of targeting small niches. The author makes compelling points about the importance of marketing and small founders’ common pitfall of treating...
Max Rozen
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I recently bought a cheap, used Thinkpad T480, replaced a bunch of parts. Some folks were asking how they could do the same thing, so I figured I'd write about it
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 42 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
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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 $80-100k/month in revenue and employs six other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one...
mtlynch.io
Is It Keto: Month 3 Prior to February 2019, I published all my retrospectives on Indie Hackers: Is It Keto Month 3:...
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Prior to February 2019, I published all my retrospectives on Indie Hackers: Is It Keto Month 3: Returning to a Site that Grew without Me
mtlynch.io
Installing NixOS on Raspberry Pi 4 Nix is a tool that allows you to define your software environment from code. Nix has several...
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Nix is a tool that allows you to define your software environment from code. Nix has several components to it, and one of the most interesting to me is NixOS, which lets you use Nix tooling to define your entire OS configuration using plaintext files. I only recently started...
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<p> I had a solid year compared to the shit-storm 2020 had brought on.</p> <p>Back in January 2021, I had made a pact with myself that I would be more mindful about my time and the things I would get myself into throughout the year (personally and...
High Signal
10 websites for selling your startup If you are wanting to sell your startup but aren't sure where to do that, here are all your options....
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If you are wanting to sell your startup but aren't sure where to do that, here are all your options. There's lots of choice here for you
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...
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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.
mtlynch.io
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight I bought this book hoping for lessons to apply to my business, manufacturing and selling physical...
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I bought this book hoping for lessons to apply to my business, manufacturing and selling physical products. I didn’t find many business insights, but it was still an engaging and funny story.
mtlynch.io
Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D. Nonviolent Communication describes a communication style centered around sharing vulnerability and...
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Nonviolent Communication describes a communication style centered around sharing vulnerability and offering empathy. One of its biggest strengths is in how it highlights common patterns of lazy communication that exclude personal feelings or critical thinking. I also found its...
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...
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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
TinyPilot: Month 17 Highlights TinyPilot’s sales jumped to $57k, and it might be sustainable. I’m just about to launch...
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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....
mtlynch.io
Use a Nix Flake without Adding it to Git When I work in my own repositories these days, I always add a Nix flake to the repo so that I can...
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When I work in my own repositories these days, I always add a Nix flake to the repo so that I can spin up a working development environment on any system with a single command. What do I do when I’m working in someone else’s repo and they don’t want to adopt Nix flakes? Normally,...
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...
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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...
mtlynch.io
ArchiveBox is Super Cool Have you ever used archive.org’s Internet Wayback Machine? It’s a free tool that’s been archiving...
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Have you ever used archive.org’s Internet Wayback Machine? It’s a free tool that’s been archiving the web since 1996. So, if you want to see what Google looked like in 1999, they’ve got it. Internet Archive capture of Google from April 22, 1999 ArchiveBox is like your own,...
High Signal
500,000 users per month after quitting his developer job Today's interview is with Ruurtjan, a Dutch founder whose two sites get 500,000 users a month....
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Today's interview is with Ruurtjan, a Dutch founder whose two sites get 500,000 users a month. Ruurtjan quit his job to go all in on his business
Tony Dinh's...
July 2023: $6K MRR – getting back on recurring revenue small updates from me in July 2023
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mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 12 Highlights I’m struggling to get unstuck in two areas that have stalled for months: hardware...
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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...
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...
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
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2022: I just kept shipping Another year in review, in which I just keep shipping, with some stumbles along the way
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mtlynch.io
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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...
Tony Dinh's...
My new product on Product Hunt today Not the usual monthly update, just a small update about Xnapper - my latest product
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mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 25 Highlights My blog post about redesigning the TinyPilot website became my second most popular...
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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...
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You just finished writing an amazing article and can’t wait to share it with the world. But first, you need to come up with a great SEO title. The kind of SEO title that’ll not only help you rank in Google but also make people excited to read your article. Following the advice I...
mtlynch.io
Resurrecting a Dead Library: Part One - Resuscitation When I arrived on the scene, it wasn’t a pretty sight. I saw formerly active, cheerful Python...
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When I arrived on the scene, it wasn’t a pretty sight. I saw formerly active, cheerful Python classes in a sorry state of atrophy, having gone years without exercise. Functions at all levels of abstraction were crammed together inhumanely under the label utils. I tried to read...
mtlynch.io
A Simple Example of Calling a C Library from Zig Zig is a new, independently developed low-level programming language. It’s a modern reimagining of C...
a year ago
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a year ago
Zig is a new, independently developed low-level programming language. It’s a modern reimagining of C that attempts to retain all of C’s performance benefits while also taking advantage of improvements in tooling and language design from the last 30 years. Because Zig is designed...
Dominik Sobe's...
Recapping 2022
over a year 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...
Scott DeLong
Weeks 40-43: A $5k Month and Billion Dollar Idea The second to the last update is focused and short. I have just one goal: convert subscribers into...
a year ago
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a year ago
The second to the last update is focused and short. I have just one goal: convert subscribers into paying customers. The post Weeks 40-43: A $5k Month and Billion Dollar Idea appeared first on Scott DeLong.
Max Rozen
Prefetch your Google Fonts for Performance Gains in Gatsby Self-hosting your Google Fonts can save your customers around 3-400ms per page load. There's a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Self-hosting your Google Fonts can save your customers around 3-400ms per page load. There's a Gatsby plugin that makes it super easy.
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...
High Signal
Making a living from no-code Katt Risen is a no-code founder and the creator of the No-Code Exits newsletter and co-creator of...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Katt Risen is a no-code founder and the creator of the No-Code Exits newsletter and co-creator of Build the Keyword
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
An Unsuccessful Experiment with Nemotron A few weeks ago, NVIDIA released Nemotron, a large language model that they derived from Meta’s...
2 months ago
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2 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...
Scott DeLong
How To Build A Profitable Newsletter In 2024 Using the same strategies I've used to build millions of subscribers across multiple newsletters,...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Using the same strategies I've used to build millions of subscribers across multiple newsletters, you can do it too. The post How To Build A Profitable Newsletter In 2024 appeared first on Scott DeLong.
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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
<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...
mtlynch.io
Strong Towns I found it eye-opening in terms of understanding how municipal governments work in practice and how...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
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...
Max Rozen
A Walkthrough of migrating MaxRozen.com from Gatsby to Next.js I recently migrated MaxRozen.com from Gatsby to Next.js, in this article I'll detail the steps it...
over a year ago
Val Sopi
Work less <p>A friend recently boasted how they're working 15 hour days. To which I replied with a concerning...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
<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...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 32 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 six other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one...
Val Sopi
Get Lucky <iframe src="https://share.transistor.fm/e/eb7cbb63" width="100%" height="180" frameborder="0"...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
<iframe src="https://share.transistor.fm/e/eb7cbb63" width="100%" height="180" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" seamless="true" style="width:100%; height:180px;"></iframe> <p>In the past year or so, I’ve been thinking about Luck a lot — in terms of how a chain of random events can...
mtlynch.io
GreenPiThumb: A Raspberry Pi Gardening Bot Introduction This is the story of GreenPiThumb: a gardening bot that automatically waters...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Introduction This is the story of GreenPiThumb: a gardening bot that automatically waters houseplants, but also sometimes kills them. The story begins about a year ago, when I was struck by a sudden desire to own a houseplant. A plant would look nice, supply me with much needed...
Grow With Less
Stoicism: Can the Ancient Philosophy Make You a Better Business Owner? I have always considered philosophy to a strange topic full of mysterious sentences and complicated...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I have always considered philosophy to a strange topic full of mysterious sentences and complicated concepts. So I was pretty surprised when I read Epictetus’ Manual for the first time. The advice in the book was not only understandable but also surprisingly actionable. I have...
👋 Hello, I'm...
Work-n-travel: A practical guide for staying productive while exploring the world. ...
a year ago
Max Rozen
How to use SVGs in your React App Using SVG icons instead of PNG or JPG has a few performance benefits, but they're not always...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Using SVG icons instead of PNG or JPG has a few performance benefits, but they're not always straightforward to use. Here's how you do it.
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 28 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...
👋 Hello, I'm...
Bootstrapping to €600k MRR and getting killed by Shopify. The story of Checkout X. ...
a year ago
Scott DeLong
Weeks 26-30: We’re On A Collision Course It's almost poetic that the Internet is shifting at exactly the time I'm doing a challenge to prove...
a year ago
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a year ago
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.
Dominik Sobe's...
Launching ProductFlair
over a year ago
High Signal
10 stoic quotes for entrepreneurs Stoic quotes can be a great comfort to you, especially if you are an entrepreneur. Building a...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Stoic quotes can be a great comfort to you, especially if you are an entrepreneur. Building a business is hard work so it's important to build resilience. That's where stoicism comes in! Stoicism is not about being an emotion-less robot but more about not letting your
Build In Public...
How I Built This In Public: Noah Bragg Lessons from building and growing Potion to its acquisition all in public
a year ago
Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 2 In which I ship a CLI (for real this time), and improve a few things
a year ago
mtlynch.io
Run a Simple Go Web Service on NixOS I have a few toy utility apps that I run 24/7 on cloud infrastructure. One example is PicoShare, a...
a month ago
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a month ago
I have a few toy utility apps that I run 24/7 on cloud infrastructure. One example is PicoShare, a simple web app that makes it easy for me to share files with friends and teammates. There are several convenience apps I would run if it were easy to run them constantly. But...
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...
over a year ago
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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...
Max Rozen
Stop useEffect from running on every render with useCallback Did ESLint tell you to add a function to your dependency array, and now you're getting infinite...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Did ESLint tell you to add a function to your dependency array, and now you're getting infinite re-renders? Let's learn how useEffect can help.
mtlynch.io
Resurrecting a Dead Library: Part Two - Stabilization In this post, I demonstrate how to retrofit automated tests onto an untested legacy library. This is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In this post, I demonstrate how to retrofit automated tests onto an untested legacy library. This is part two of a three-part series about how I resurrected ingredient-phrase-tagger, a library that uses machine learning to parse cooking ingredients (e.g., “2 cups milk”) into...
Max Rozen
2023: Focusing on a single product pays off The first year where I managed to keep my focus entirely on a single project.
a year ago
Tony Dinh's...
My solopreneur story: zero to $45K/mo in 2 years Today is exactly 2 years since I quit my job and become a full-time indie hacker.
a year ago
mtlynch.io
Creating a Nix Workflow to Fuzz netconsd Recently, when I’m having trouble sleeping, I look for software to fuzz test. Earlier this week, I...
a month ago
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a month ago
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...
mtlynch.io
Is It Keto: Month 12 Highlights I added 88 new programmatically-generated articles to Is It Keto. With 100k monthly...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Highlights I added 88 new programmatically-generated articles to Is It Keto. With 100k monthly pageviews, it’s time to explore new ways of working with Is It Keto’s audience. I created a KVM over IP device that requires <$100 in hardware. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I...
Dominik Sobe's...
Next Milestone: HelpKit hit $2000 MRR
over a year ago
Max Rozen
Fetching Data in React with useEffect If you're confused about side-effects and pure functions, it can be hard to understand useEffect....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you're confused about side-effects and pure functions, it can be hard to understand useEffect. Let's learn them both, to fetch data with useEffect.
Tony Dinh's...
July 2022: Aftermath of a viral tweet I gained 1,500 new users, but how many will convert? And other updates in July 2022...
over a year ago
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 38 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...