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by for_i_in_range 3y ago
Probably a higher ratio have, yes. Less distracting things to fool around with when you use a pen, paper, and your brain.
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by for_i_in_range 3y ago
I'm not sure many are going to invest the mental energy to read all of this. A tl;dr summary would be nice.
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by for_i_in_range 3y ago
I ran a poll recently in a PKM community of 17,000 members asking who has written a book—or created some other knowledge product like a course—using their tool (Obsidian, Zettelkasten, LogSeq, etc.). I received two responses of people who a
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by for_i_in_range 3y ago
I'm writing from company's perspective, not cheap consumer's.
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by for_i_in_range 3y ago
$12.95/mo. Or $120/year
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by for_i_in_range 3y ago
It's sad. Sublime would be 20x better with a 2x better revenue model.
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by for_i_in_range 3y ago
100% organic. YouTube is my primary traffic source.
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by for_i_in_range 3y ago
About 50% of those refunds are me testing the purchase process and refunding myself. I just moved to a new payment provider last month.
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by for_i_in_range 3y ago
I Courier New you were the one for me.
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by for_i_in_range 3y ago
Exactly. It's the page people are sent to shortly after purchasing this book: https://www.scottscheper.com/antinet Which I actually break-even on and even lose money on (even though it took me a year and a half to writ
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by for_i_in_range 3y ago
Exactly. It still works well if you're authentic. I'll be creating a more modern page soon for cold traffic (just features/direct). The people who get that page have just purchased my book Antinet Zettelkasten. It's an u
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by for_i_in_range 3y ago
They're People interested in Zettelkasten and already know/like me. They understand my use of old school font/letter. Otherwise to a cold audience (like yourself) it's definitely cringe.
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by for_i_in_range 3y ago
Knowledge Management, Writing, and Marketing.
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by for_i_in_range 3y ago
I'm doing roughly $20k/mo. with a physical monthly newsletter delivered to people's doorsteps. Here's the old-school salesletter for it: https://www.scottscheper.com/free-trial Here's a picture of m
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by for_i_in_range 3y ago
> What you are talking about is the high end of SEO or SMO. I’d say the companies that play this game the best are the ones that blog consistently about a technical topic, I’d say Pinecone is a good example. Another example is Hubspot an
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by for_i_in_range 3y ago
> I hope you don’t have a voting ring. I do not. My twenties were spent being a "conjuror of cheap tricks," as Gandalf would put it. I learned the hard way that it's not worth it. My thirties have been spent basically doin
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by for_i_in_range 3y ago
I like to think HN is skilled in spotting fake upvotes which means I'd not have the "perverse incentive to fake upvotes for money."
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by for_i_in_range 3y ago
Thanks. I think it's 50/50 on the cringe department, which is why I ask. On one hand, the pay-to-play model is cringe, but on the other hand, there are many developers/startups who have great products and knowledge but do not
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by for_i_in_range 3y ago
I wouldn't be doing headline tweaks or SEO stuff; that stuff is trash. I'd be doing the stuff that matters end-to-end: the writing, the research (getting on the phone with the company and diving into what is "HN-worthy")
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Ask HN: Would you pay to get on the front page of Hacker News?
2 points by for_i_in_range 3y ago|9 comments
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by for_i_in_range 3y ago
It's not ;)
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by for_i_in_range 3y ago
Exactly. Not sure why it isn't clear for the parent comment.
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by for_i_in_range 3y ago
What's your tool?
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Don't "find" your niche, "develop" it(scottscheper.com)
70 points by for_i_in_range 3y ago|28 comments
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It's Not about Finding Your Niche, It's about Developing Your Niche(scottscheper.com)
4 points by for_i_in_range 3y ago|0 comments
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How to Find Your Niche(scottscheper.com)
1 points by for_i_in_range 3y ago|0 comments
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by for_i_in_range 3y ago
He interviews fantastic minds, and also clowns dressed up as intellectuals. Jay Shetty and the MindValley guy to name a few.
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by for_i_in_range 3y ago
It's inspired by Autopoiesis ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopoiesis ), which served as a fascinating principle in Niklas Luhmann's theory of society.
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by for_i_in_range 3y ago
I like this.
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by for_i_in_range 3y ago
How about each agreeing to contribute to a joint checking account per month. Like $5K each per month to the joint account. For those of us who own our own business or are self-employed, my business account is mine, and my partner's bus

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