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Increase Your Reply Rate on Cold Emails to Me The term “cold email” refers to emailing someone who you’ve never spoken to before. There are lots...
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The term “cold email” refers to emailing someone who you’ve never spoken to before. There are lots of guides on writing cold emails. This one is a bit niche, as it’s about cold emailing a particular person: me. But I guarantee you that it’s the best guide you can find on this...
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Overcoming Gotchas in Samsung Secure Erase I have a few Samsung SSDs, and I always have trouble remembering the process of secure erasing them,...
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I have a few Samsung SSDs, and I always have trouble remembering the process of secure erasing them, as Samsung Magician software is terrible. Here are my notes for overcoming Samsung Magician’s gotchas in the process of secure erasing a Samsung SSD. You need a Windows or MacOS...
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Educational Products: Month 3 Highlights I published the first chapter of my book and was happy with the reception. My attempt to...
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Highlights I published the first chapter of my book and was happy with the reception. My attempt to hire a book cover designer flopped. I may have figured out how to support large files on PicoShare. Goal grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish....
High Signal
Living the digital nomad dream in Bangkok Jesse Schoberg has an enviable life as a founder working from Thailand. He enjoys a great lifestyle...
7 months ago
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Jesse Schoberg has an enviable life as a founder working from Thailand. He enjoys a great lifestyle at a fraction of the price back in the US. I chatted to him about growing his DropInBlog business into a SaaS success story. Why did you become a founder? My brain doesn&
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Making $15k a month from an AI app Daniel Nguyen is a Vietnamese solo founder making $15,000 a month from his AI app, BoltAI. This is a...
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Daniel Nguyen is a Vietnamese solo founder making $15,000 a month from his AI app, BoltAI. This is a Mac desktop app which lets you use LLMs straight from your Apple machine. I talked to Daniel about his tips for learning to code, how he made BoltAI and the
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From Blacksmith to $200k exit Mohd went from being a blacksmith working for his father to creating his own software businesses....
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Mohd went from being a blacksmith working for his father to creating his own software businesses. He's made $200k from selling NoCodeAPI.
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From client work to AI startups Today's interview is with a founder who ditched client work in order to work on AI startups....
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Today's interview is with a founder who ditched client work in order to work on AI startups. Fernando makes a good living from his AI apps
High Signal
Getting rich with SEO - how Ian Nuttall does it Ian Nuttall is an SEO expert who has made 7 figures from entrepreneurship. He's also using AI to...
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Ian Nuttall is an SEO expert who has made 7 figures from entrepreneurship. He's also using AI to advance his coding skills.
High Signal
Selling a YouTube tool for 6 figures- and what's next Rox sold a YouTube A/B testing tool for 6 figures as a bootstrapped founder. Now he's building a...
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Rox sold a YouTube A/B testing tool for 6 figures as a bootstrapped founder. Now he's building a video podcast platform.
High Signal
From agency to SaaS founder - how Jules is making the change Jules is making $500k a year in revenue with his SEO agency Embarque. But now he's switching things...
7 months ago
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Jules is making $500k a year in revenue with his SEO agency Embarque. But now he's switching things up with a move into SaaS.
mtlynch.io
if got, want: A Simple Way to Write Better Go Tests There’s an excellent Go testing pattern that too few people know. I can teach it to you in 30...
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There’s an excellent Go testing pattern that too few people know. I can teach it to you in 30 seconds. Instead of writing Go tests like this: // The common, unrefined way. username := GetUser() if username != "dummyUser" { t.Errorf("unexpected username: got %s, want: %s",...
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The IndieHackers podcast has ended - the 10 best episodes The IndieHackers podcast, which celebrated founders who hadn't raised venture capital, has now ended
7 months ago
High Signal
Bluesky starter packs to discover Starter packs on Bluesky are a great way to find relevant people to follow. They are basically lists...
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Starter packs on Bluesky are a great way to find relevant people to follow. They are basically lists of people that you can follow instantly. So instead of going through 250 Laravel developers one by one, for instance, you can follow one starter pack for Laravel developers....
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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.
Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 23 Working with big systems all day can slow you down.
8 months ago
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Building the Bluesky Directory - an interview with Mubs Lots of people moved to Bluesky in November 2024 and a prolific maker, Mubs, has made directory of...
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Lots of people moved to Bluesky in November 2024 and a prolific maker, Mubs, has made directory of Bluesky tools and starter packs.
mtlynch.io
Paternity Leave: Month 4 Highlights I found ways to procrastinate writing my book. I had fun fuzz testing open-source...
8 months ago
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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...
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My Feedback about Hello Base The cryptocurrency language barrier There’s an unforunate language barrier among technologists right...
8 months ago
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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...
Tony Dinh's...
Late promotion update Hi everyone!
8 months 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...
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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...
Dominik Sobe's...
What I learned bootstrapping 8+ software products
9 months ago
Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 22 Feels like I've already said everything I had to say
9 months ago
Tony Dinh's...
Nov 2024: My first million! $1M in annual revenue, B2B sales, SOC 2, resellers, grow team, and other updates in November 2024.
9 months ago
High Signal
Is PHP dead? No! PHP is a backend programming language for making websites. A lot of developers have a love/hate...
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PHP is a backend programming language for making websites. A lot of developers have a love/hate relationship with PHP
mtlynch.io
Paternity Leave: Month 3 Highlights I’m finding it easier to balance my time as a new father. I moped about two of my blog...
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Highlights I’m finding it easier to balance my time as a new father. I moped about two of my blog posts doing poorly, and then they did well. I experimented with a stacked diff workflow for software development and liked it except for git’s weaknesses. Goal grades At the start of...
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Delete the Timestamps from your Static Blog I build this blog using Hugo, a popular static site generator. The way Hugo works is that when I...
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I build this blog using Hugo, a popular static site generator. The way Hugo works is that when I create a new blog post, Hugo generates a default template that looks like this: --- title: "My New Post" date: 2024-11-16T20:33:09-04:00 --- The boilerplate for the post contains a...
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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...
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Recently, when I’m having trouble sleeping, I look for software to fuzz test. Earlier this week, I thought back to Fady Othman’s post “Meta Bug Bounty — Fuzzing ’netconsd’ for fun and profit.” It’s a good tutorial about fuzzing code exhaustively. Like most fuzzing blog posts, I...
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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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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...
High Signal
Running a paid community from a tiny Scottish island Millie is runing a paid online community for generalists from a tiny Scottish island. Her group,...
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Millie is runing a paid online community for generalists from a tiny Scottish island. Her group, Generalist World, has 500 paid members
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Metal detector for hidden revenue 💰👀🔎 Meet Lasso, an AI-driven sales prospecting tool that'll help you find the B2B prospects your sales...
10 months ago
mtlynch.io
An Unsuccessful Experiment with Nemotron A few weeks ago, NVIDIA released Nemotron, a large language model that they derived from Meta’s...
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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...
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Using Nix to Fuzz Test a PDF Parser (Part Two) This is the second half of a post about using Nix to automate a fuzz testing workflow. At this...
10 months ago
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This is the second half of a post about using Nix to automate a fuzz testing workflow. At this point, I can run honggfuzz against pdftotext, but it takes a bit of manual effort to get things started. I promised in part one that I’d get all of the installation and fuzzing down to...
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Using Nix to Fuzz Test a PDF Parser (Part One) Fuzz testing is a technique for automatically uncovering bugs in software. The problem is that it’s...
10 months ago
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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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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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Your New Brainstorming Buddy 🧠💡 Meet Scrintal, a new canvas that's like a playground for your mind.
10 months ago
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Paternity Leave: Month 2 Highlights I’m finding it surprisingly difficult not to work. Sleep is getting a little better. I...
10 months ago
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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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What if you could edit like Spielberg? 🎥 Meet Eddie AI—your new editing partner ready to bring cinematic flair to every cut!
10 months ago
High Signal
Making over $10k a month from a timer app Lukas is making over $10,000 a month just from a timer app. It's totally bootstrapped and there are...
10 months ago
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Lukas is making over $10,000 a month just from a timer app. It's totally bootstrapped and there are no investors.
High Signal
How Andrei built There's An AI For That Andrei is the creator of There's An AI For That (TAAFT), one of the first and biggest directories...
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Andrei is the creator of There's An AI For That (TAAFT), one of the first and biggest directories for AI tools.
High Signal
$15k a month from habit tracking app This week I've interviewed Sebastian Röhl, the founder of a series of habit tracking mobile apps.
11 months ago
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The best communities for founders Communities are popular amongst founders for lots of reasons. It's usually pretty lonely to be a...
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Communities are popular amongst founders for lots of reasons. It's usually pretty lonely to be a founder, especially if you don't live in a tech hub. Most of your friends and family don't get why you aren't just doing a job. So
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$6k a month with a remote work job board Derek runs a successful bootstrapped remote job board making $6k a month in revenue.
11 months ago
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Paternity Leave: Month 1 Highlights My wife and I became parents. I realized that caring for a newborn takes more time than I...
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Highlights My wife and I became parents. I realized that caring for a newborn takes more time than I expected. I’m unsure what to do with my partially-finished Hacker News course. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did...
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I'm Still Confused About Base A year ago, I listented to an interview with Jesse Pollak on an episode of Into the Bytecode. Jesse...
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A year ago, I listented to an interview with Jesse Pollak on an episode of Into the Bytecode. Jesse works for Coinbase, and he noticed that lots of developers building apps on top of Ethereum were solving the same problems over and over again. He started a project at Coinbase to...
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Noah Bragg's First Stoke Fire Livestream I’ve been interested in Ethereum the past year, especially the Base ecosystem. The problem is that...
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I’ve been interested in Ethereum the past year, especially the Base ecosystem. The problem is that after hours of reading about Base, I still don’t get what Base is. Every few months, I check back in on the Base website’s developer section to see if there’s a path to building on...
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Growing a 4 day week job board to 200k monthly visitors I had a chat with Phil who had made a job board just for 4dayweek jobs! He's grown it with SEO and...
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I had a chat with Phil who had made a job board just for 4dayweek jobs! He's grown it with SEO and now gets 200,000 monthly visitors to his website. I interviewed him about why he's bullish on companies having a 4 day week,
Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 21 I was young, and needed to ship...
12 months ago
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Michael's app makes your phone dumb Michael Tigas is the founder of Dumb Phone, an app that makes your smart phone into a minimal...
12 months ago
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Leaving the VC world for bootstrapping - John Rush interview John Rush came onto my radar when he acquired a website builder, Unicorn Platform, for $800k.
a year ago