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by Shpigford 7y ago
Baremetrics ( https://baremetrics.com ) | 100% Remote | Full-time | Multiple Roles Support & Integrations Engineer (Ruby) -- https://apply.workable.com/baremetrics/j/F977B030C8/ Customer Advocat
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by Shpigford 8y ago
We (Baremetrics) operate basically breakeven. Spending 2019 growing profit + cash in the bank.
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by Shpigford 8y ago
Listed them on Flippa! The end. :)
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by Shpigford 8y ago
I need to come up with an elaborate story on the name...alas I just picked two words that I thought sounded interesting together and BOOM, done. :P
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by Shpigford 8y ago
Yeah, I think a lot of it comes down to motivation. Most of these items were simply me having an idea or interest and wanting to learn more about it. Building something is sort of creative exploration for me. If it becomes something, cool.
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by Shpigford 8y ago
Main thing is finding a CPA who has some experience with the type of business you're running. Freelancer, Corporation, etc...find a CPA who can speak the language. It's less an issue now, but 10+ years ago, there were a lot of C
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by Shpigford 8y ago
No clue. Everybody's route is different. This is just how I've figured things out (and I'd still say there are many things I definitely have not figured out).
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by Shpigford 8y ago
Fixed! Sorry about that.
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by Shpigford 8y ago
Or a massive waste of time. Some days I'm not sure which. :P
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by Shpigford 8y ago
Thanks so much!
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by Shpigford 8y ago
Not at all.
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by Shpigford 8y ago
From 2003-2013 I split my time with consulting. Did ~300 client projects over that time period.
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by Shpigford 8y ago
I also wasn’t trying to do that. The large majority of these were me just trying things out to see what would happen. It’s how I learn. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by Shpigford 8y ago
The title of the spreadsheet is “Josh Pigford's Absurd List of Products, Apps, Websites & Businesses”...they definitely weren’t all full on “businesses” and the large majority of them were terrible ideas. I definitely don’t recomme
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by Shpigford 8y ago
Flippa for all except TheAppleBlog.
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by Shpigford 8y ago
Thanks so much!
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by Shpigford 8y ago
Part naivety on how markets/competition worked at the time and part “I have a $10k tax bill that I need to pay” (which is a whole other story in itself).
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by Shpigford 8y ago
Completely agree! Me posting that spreadsheet was certainly not a recommendation for anyone to emulate me. There are definitely businesses in there that I regret moving on from too soon but you live and learn. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by Shpigford 8y ago
If we’re talking about the affiliate sites, it’s because they collectively grossed a total of maybe 50 cents. Wasn’t worth the time to try to sell them.
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by Shpigford 8y ago
So true! I’ll be the first to tell you the _vast_ majority of those ideas were objectively terrible but every single one of them taught me _something_.
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by Shpigford 8y ago
Maybe it's because that's not where our customers are? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I write most of our posts in ~1 hour and hot dog, here we are on HN and you're reading it. :)
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by Shpigford 9y ago
Fair enough! 2017 was a tough year for us (especially May to December). You're correct that we launched very few improvements in that time. On the backend we were doing a complete rewrite, which ultimately set the stage for us to roll
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by Shpigford 9y ago
Would love to hear what "more featureful" means for you and your business! What are the big features they have but we don't? (I honestly don't pay attention to them so not sure what features they offer...genuinely curiou
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by Shpigford 9y ago
Haha, sorry, I've still got a bit of flu fog. Fixed. :P
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by Shpigford 9y ago
Exactly. Medium does what's best for Medium (which is reasonable). I want to do what's best for our business.
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by Shpigford 9y ago
Spot on re: currency exchange.
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by Shpigford 9y ago
How Google ranks the Medium post doesn't really matter in this case as that's not the point of it. Posting on Medium is about distribution to Medium readers.
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by Shpigford 9y ago
I think you're probably overestimating what Sigma does and underestimating what Baremetrics does. If anything we've just got a bit more work coming for us to explain the differences and intricacies of it all. But, I'm not los
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by Shpigford 10y ago
Heyo! Founder of Baremetrics here. Wanted to touch on a couple of things in this sub-thread on Baremetrics. It means a lot that literally _anyone_ has ever used Baremetrics. I started it over 3 years ago to scratch my own itch and hot dog i
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by Shpigford 10y ago
Haha, same!

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