busterbenson

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by busterbenson 7y ago
Thank you! I try to do what little I can to make these things less of a black box to people who are curious.
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by busterbenson 7y ago
I get about 30-40K unique sessions per month, so a little over 10% are paying users. We gave all accounts that signed up prior to going paid free lifetime accounts, and many of them still use the site... so it's a weird mix. There&#x27
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by busterbenson 7y ago
Thank you! I'm a firm believer that I agree with all advice sometimes, including my own. In that spirit, my advice that is sometimes useful is to ignore B2B and B2C labels and to look instead at what you think you can build that people
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by busterbenson 7y ago
The other responses were accurate. Part of it is to be able to afford a little extra help, part of it is to re-spark excitement in the project with people, and part of it is to buy a little extra time to work on it full-time since the sad t
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by busterbenson 7y ago
It is slow! No question about it. :) To be honest, most of my projects have either gotten popular fast or died slow deaths. Slow, steady growth is the anomaly and it's taken me 10 years to really appreciate how weird and special that i
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by busterbenson 7y ago
Okay, I looked over our financial statement from 2018, summed a few things up that would be way too boring to provide in detail, and turned the numbers into percentages so that you don't have to do all the math in your head. Here'
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by busterbenson 7y ago
View source? :) What happens if you try to print it?
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by busterbenson 7y ago
I’m the creator of the site in question and am just seeing this thread. Happy to answer questions about motivations, costs, etc if you give me a minute to finish lunch and get back to my computer!
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by busterbenson 7y ago
This is a great point. I’m the creator of 750words.com and am happy to provide loose estimation of costs if it’s useful. It’ll take me some time to put together, and I’m not at my computer, but I can share high-level numbers in a bit if it’
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by busterbenson 12y ago
Until I add this, feel free to email me (busterbenson at gmail) and I can delete stuff.
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by busterbenson 15y ago
Totally random data point that is way out of date now. On March 17th, 2009, it took about 1,750 sales per day (at $2.99 price point = $5,232 that one day) to reach #64 in the paid store. This post shows a bit more about the trajectory and
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by busterbenson 16y ago
That seems to be the secret trick here, it's more about creating autonomy and encouraging mastery and purpose than about actually measuring anything, or managing anything. And if it works, it's gotta be a nice place to be. Congrats on bui
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by busterbenson 16y ago
To what extent to you implement ROWE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROWE It sounds like you have a few of these qualities... choosing your work hours, for example... but what about measuring results. Do you have any specific tips on how t
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by busterbenson 16y ago
Hi Tom - I saw your talk (streamed) from Startup School, loved it, and also read Drive over the weekend. I'm currently strongly considering bootstrappping my new company (healthmonth.com) similarly to how you've done. Are you willing to sh