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I always think that I’ll be happy when everything is running smoothly. When X visitors are flowing in, conversions are steady, the app works flawlessly, and revenue is predictable. But that’s not life. And nor is business. Life is messy. And there’s no such thing as perfect. At least, not the version of "perfect" I have in my head. Messy is the perfection. Every chaotic piece, every moving part, somehow coming together to make it work. Look at our bodies: an intricate mess of cells, signals, and systems, all in constant motion, working toward a common goal. What's more, nothing runs in a chronological order. That's only our perception. Things are constantly out of sync. Dancing in the background. Building our simple reality. I want to embrace this more. The unpredictability, the imperfection. The beautiful and disorderly relentless mess of it all. I don't want inbox zero. I don't want to have my life in order. I want to let go more. Not hold the beautiful bird on my hand every so tightly that I squeeze the bejesus out of it. Do more. Do less. Whatever. Live as it comes. PS: I wish I lived more like my writing above.
<p><i>From all that is currently happening to us, I want to believe that we’re at the dawn of a new era </i>✊</p><hr><p>I am predicting year 2300 to be the one when we’re living the progressive dreams of today.<br></p><p>By then we have reached a new paradigm.<br></p><p>Countries, as a nationalistic identity, don’t exist. The term minority no longer makes any practical sense. We are all human at the core.<br></p><p>Wars are a relic of the past. There is abundance. History is viewed as something that leads us to the progressive present and not used as a basis for revenge.<br></p><p>We have evolved to not respond to and amplify the negative.<br></p><p>We have restored the climate equilibrium. It’s all wind, hydro, solar, and nuclear.<br></p><p>Work is no longer a thing. We produce, but it’s less about output and more about process. Robots have completely taken over menial jobs. We finally have the mindspace to explore far and beyond.<br></p>
<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" is the worst place to be in. </p><p>You're at the mercy of someone else letting you in.</p><p>Working hard is important. However, it's smarter to know what you're "working hard" towards.</p><p>Working hard and waiting for a door to open can eat years out of life.</p><p>Opening the door first, seeing that it's made for you, and working the bejesus out of it — is where success is.</p><p>"Working the bejesus out of it" — is not neglecting your basic needs. It's running a marathon, eating and sleeping well, meditating, going full force when needed, taking a break, and running an optimal self to endure the marathon.</p><p>Don't stay in the "waiting room". The "waiting room" is depressive.</p><p>Knock on doors. See the ones that open up for you. After opening them, see if they fill you with life. See if your outlook on life changes for the better when you're inside that door.</p><p>Once you find that door, give it hell.</p><p>And life is a neverending cycle of waiting rooms and doors remaining to be opened.</p><p>Avoid waiting rooms at all costs, and seek doors yet to be opened.</p><p></p>
<p>March was an absolutely insane month for <a href="https://blogstatic.io/">blogstatic.io</a>. The majority of this spike I can attribute to the <a href="https://blogstatic.io/blog/pricing-2024">price change announcement on March 1st</a> and customers were rushing to lock in their price.</p><h2>The customers</h2><p>At the risk of sounding corny and salesy, I can't say enough about how grateful I am for blogstatic's customers, current and new. They are understanding, patient, giving. In no time I feel rushed or frustrated. Maybe it's the product that gives them a sense of ease. </p><p>I had <a href="https://twitter.com/valsopi/status/1126917723563417600" target="_blank">tweeted this</a> a while back that "how you feel about your product, [chances] are your customers will feel the same"</p><figure class="align-center"><a href="https://twitter.com/valsopi/status/1126917723563417600" target="_blank"><img src="https://editor.blogstatic.io/web/assets/uploads/2973e85d60904ed37635864aa711a438.png" id="/tmp/phpuljcKn" data-image="/tmp/phpuljcKn" width="350" height="51" alt="quote - the way you feel about your product, is how your users will feel about it..." style="width: 350px; max-width: 350px;"></a></figure><p>Patting my back a bit, I know. But, I'm trying to be kind to myself and celebrate any win I can get, in hopes that they'll keep multiplying.</p><p>Anyway, on with the numbers...</p><h2>Here are the details</h2><ul><li>After Stripe fees and <a href="https://climate.stripe.com/6p9ovi" target="_blank">1% climate contributions</a> blogstatic made $3,916.81 in net sales.</li><li>$852.04 were paid back to Stripe Capital for <a href="https://twitter.com/valsopi/status/1765629622777991560" target="_blank">the much needed loan</a> I took out back in March, which is btw close to being 30% paid off. A little over a month after taking it out — a little thing I am proud of.</li><li>I left $500 in the company bank account to cover some of the expenses.</li><li><b><mark>$2,614.77 made it back to my bank account!</mark> ✊</b></li></ul><p>This is the most I've ever made in a given month online 🥳</p><h2>Other records broken</h2><ul><li>Most New Business MRR in a month = $261</li><li>Most New Clients = 75</li><li>Most Upgrades (expansion MRR) = 10</li><li><mark>The largest mtm growth ever = 25.07%</mark></li></ul><figure><img src="https://editor.blogstatic.io/web/assets/uploads/0b48ff1ff6d394000bb6a536ab1f0cf1.png" id="/tmp/php9wC8Vs" data-image="/tmp/php9wC8Vs"></figure><h2><span data-offset-key="3cu5k-0-0"><span data-text="true">And the biggest one</span></span></h2><p><mark>Crossing $15K ARR (edging closer to $16K ARR)</mark></p><figure><img src="https://editor.blogstatic.io/web/assets/uploads/a49808ba44210b3da49a75dd1bba0c70.png" id="/tmp/php96IdEU" data-image="/tmp/php96IdEU"></figure><h2>Recap</h2><p>March 2025 has been an unbelievable month.</p><p><i>The cynical imposter side of me says: —"Well, it was driven by the price increase and people were rushing to lock in their old pricing" (this is probably why I don't do any proper marketing, because my cynical mind says "it's a boost. it's fake." — but that's for another post).</i></p><p><b>The rational part of me says:</b> <mark>"Well, clearly there's a need for the product. Otherwise no one would care about any price increase. Try to discount/promote/upsell something no one needs."</mark></p><p>I am looking forward to learn what April has in store with the new pricing. Let's see if there's enough pain–and–need to justify the 100% price increase (sometimes more) across the board.<mark></mark></p><p>blogstatic has been a product of "taking chances".</p><p>"Let's give it another shot" has been the mantra throught.</p><p>It all started with <a href="https://valsopi.com/blogstatic-chance">this post</a>.</p><p>I want to see how far it can go.</p><p>🍀</p><p></p>
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I always think that I’ll be happy when everything is running smoothly. When X visitors are flowing in, conversions are steady, the app works flawlessly, and revenue is predictable. But that’s not life. And nor is business. Life is messy. And there’s no such thing as perfect. At least, not the version of "perfect" I have in my head. Messy is the perfection. Every chaotic piece, every moving part, somehow coming together to make it work. Look at our bodies: an intricate mess of cells, signals, and systems, all in constant motion, working toward a common goal. What's more, nothing runs in a chronological order. That's only our perception. Things are constantly out of sync. Dancing in the background. Building our simple reality. I want to embrace this more. The unpredictability, the imperfection. The beautiful and disorderly relentless mess of it all. I don't want inbox zero. I don't want to have my life in order. I want to let go more. Not hold the beautiful bird on my hand every so tightly that I squeeze the bejesus out of it. Do more. Do less. Whatever. Live as it comes. PS: I wish I lived more like my writing above.
Six years ago, David Thompson wrote a popular blog post called “My favourite Git commit” celebrating a whimsically detailed commit message his co-worker wrote. I enjoyed the post at the time and have sent it to several teammates as a model for good commit messages. I recently revisited Thompson’s article as I was creating my own guide to writing useful commit messages. When pressed to explain what made Thompson’s post such an effective example, I was surprised to find that I couldn’t. It was fun to read as an outside observer, but I couldn’t justify it as a model of good software engineering.
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