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by alexknowshtml 15y ago
From TFA: >> It’s not like we were going to put a For Sale sign up. We had active clients who we didn’t want to scare off. We were still actively supporting the product and we also wanted to sell a profitable service, and for that y
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by alexknowshtml 15y ago
Follow up post to questions about shutting down our $75k/year profitable product: http://wildbit.com/blog/2012/01/26/why-we-shut-down-a-produc...
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Why we shut down Newsberry Part 2: Why we didn’t sell (wildbit.com)
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by alexknowshtml 15y ago
Follow up post to http://wildbit.com/blog/2012/01/26/why-we-shut-down-a-produc... , where a lot of people wondered why we "didn't just sell the damn thing".
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by alexknowshtml 15y ago
We'll be rolling out beta invites over the next few weeks, but we're taking emails now for the first large beta access of our Mercurial support.
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Beanstalk Announces Mercurial Private Beta(blog.beanstalkapp.com)
10 points by alexknowshtml 15y ago|1 comments
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by alexknowshtml 15y ago
The course is challenging if if you're knowledgable. Enjoy :)
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by alexknowshtml 15y ago
I actually helped create the original "Zero to Launch" workshop that became 30x500 with Amy. She's done a TON of work since I left so it's almost unrecognizable, other than the core expectations that the course will teach you to launch a pr
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by alexknowshtml 15y ago
http://themeforest.net/item/land-ahoy-a-responsive-landing-p...
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by alexknowshtml 15y ago
This looks awesome! I love the term 'education club' too. Keep me posted on progress please - alex@indyhall.org
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by alexknowshtml 15y ago
As soon as edition #1 is live, I'll be publishing the archive. Thanks!
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by alexknowshtml 15y ago
Looks like you're in Russia - whereabouts?
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by alexknowshtml 15y ago
Weekend hack ingredients: * $8 themeforest theme + some elbow grease * Mailchimp * My existing knowledge of the industry * Some copywriting coaching from Amy Hoy's 30x500 workshop Inspired by @peterc's excellent work on Javascript Weekly, a
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Show HN: Coworking Weekly, the first newsletter for the coworking industry(coworkingweekly.com)
57 points by alexknowshtml 15y ago|20 comments
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by alexknowshtml 15y ago
I might be alone in this, but I'm getting a little tired of this particular author's linkbait articles. I noticed them on GigaOm first (mostly in her writing about coworking) and now this.
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by alexknowshtml 15y ago
Thanks John - we're looking for creative uses of Postmark Inbound. If you're interested in sharing, drop me a line: alex@wildbit.com
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by alexknowshtml 15y ago
So glad you're happy with Postmark and thanks for the kudos - the entire team really appreciates it. 37S is doing a great job with all of their techniques. Of course, they also have an incredible sending volume on their side that helps imp
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by alexknowshtml 15y ago
Check out how we use Postmark bounce hooks ( http://developer.postmarkapp.com/developer-bounces.html ) to catch these problems in Beanstalk: http://blog.beanstalkapp.com/post/758755557/handling-email-d...
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by alexknowshtml 15y ago
See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3514845
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by alexknowshtml 15y ago
We will elaborate on why we did not sell in another post - it's a good question, with an important set of reasons. Thanks for the push.
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by alexknowshtml 15y ago
In addition to Chris's point, when we reached out to our customers about the decision, we gave them time to transition, and assistance in the transition plan. I didn't personally speak to every customer, but many of the customers were under
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by alexknowshtml 15y ago
Not at this time, no. Sorry.
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by alexknowshtml 15y ago
Natalie, who wrote the article, asked me to share this: "Thanks for commenting. You are spot on, we weren't profitable in many other ways. The time we were spending on Newsberry could, and does, bring more profitability on our other product
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Why we shut down a product that was $75,000/year profitable(wildbit.com)
227 points by alexknowshtml 15y ago|77 comments
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Email is making a comeback(civic.io)
1 points by alexknowshtml 15y ago|0 comments
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by alexknowshtml 15y ago
Hey all - Alex here from the Widlbit team (the company behind Beanstalk). Happy to answer any questions you might have about our newest release.
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Devops for Everyone - Beanstalk's hosted deployments now can run SSH commands(blog.beanstalkapp.com)
14 points by alexknowshtml 15y ago|2 comments
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by alexknowshtml 15y ago
We'd love more contributions like this! There's free Postmark credits in it for open source libs we can share, just email me: alex@wildbit.com
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Postmark Inbound with Node & CouchDB (screencast & code)(blog.postmarkapp.com)
8 points by alexknowshtml 15y ago|1 comments
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by alexknowshtml 15y ago
I might be an outlier - but I know that these bad habits formed BEFORE I was an outlier. As I mention in another comment, the important part is the transition from inbox to to-do list having a level of intelligence to it that considers cont

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