jason-grishkoff

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by jason-grishkoff 10y ago
Nice to from you Reagan! :)
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by jason-grishkoff 10y ago
If you're going to spend 8+ hours a day on something, you'd best enjoy the subject matter :)
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by jason-grishkoff 10y ago
It's pretty minimal. The most expensive component is usually technical development, and given that I do all that myself... well, that's a big "cost saving" :)
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by jason-grishkoff 10y ago
This is so incredibly well put. I cannot agree more.
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by jason-grishkoff 10y ago
Because it seemed cool. I think I'd seen it pop up on HckrNews and Reddit a few times, so I wanted to give it a whirl. The stack is something along the lines of: nginx + docker + Meteor (node/mongodb) + React.
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by jason-grishkoff 10y ago
We're actually on the same page -- I'm totally crediting the network effect. Music bloggers have a tight-knit community, and even if I was a smaller music blog, I reckon I'd have had a pretty good chance of similar success.
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by jason-grishkoff 10y ago
I've considered it for sure -- holding off on something like that for now, tho.
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by jason-grishkoff 10y ago
I'll just weigh in here: the blog's success was very influential in accelerating the growth. But had I been a smaller blog, I likely would have had similar success in convincing the other blogs that this platform helped solve a pr
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by jason-grishkoff 10y ago
I'd like to think that the part about launching and iterating -- getting your product out there rather than trying to make it perfect before launch -- is quite a useful tip for solo founders (and small teams). But, to each their own!
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by jason-grishkoff 10y ago
1) price; 2) they had a really good tutorial for setting up Meteor on Digital Ocean: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-depl...
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by jason-grishkoff 10y ago
Fire held :-D
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by jason-grishkoff 10y ago
Almost. I built Indie Shuffle on the side, so it applies for business #1 :) I think building a business is always going to take a lot of focused effort. That said, I also think that getting an early start -- doing it on the side -- is a muc
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by jason-grishkoff 10y ago
Simple, really: they earn the majority of that $1 for providing feedback :) To build on that, for most of these blogs this is the first time they're earning any mentionable revenue from running their websites. Not only is it making the
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by jason-grishkoff 10y ago
Stumped. Not sure why that would be happening.
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by jason-grishkoff 10y ago
I'm in the process of rebuilding the Android and iPhone apps from scratch using React Native. It's coming along really quickly :)
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by jason-grishkoff 10y ago
Ruh roh. There are more than 100 people actively using the site right now, and I haven't heard this issue before. The whole website does hinge on one single .js file, which is hosted by Cloudfront. So if that doesn't load, it&#x27
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by jason-grishkoff 10y ago
Payments are powered by Braintree (using their securely hosted iframes feature). Fee is 2.9% + $0.30. Same as Stripe and PayPal - they've all pretty much set this as a "standard" for the fee. Probably worth noting that the mi
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by jason-grishkoff 10y ago
Digital Ocean (had to Google iaaS)
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by jason-grishkoff 10y ago
Good question! Before submitting to blogs, users are required to filter the list by genre. They can then sort by the # of fans that outlet has, or -- even more handy -- there's a notes column in the far right that gives some vital stat
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by jason-grishkoff 10y ago
SubmitHub founder weighing in here -- thanks for sharing, Courtland! If anyone has any questions about SubmitHub or Indie Shuffle (technical or business), feel free to ask :) Edit: in case you're curious, here's what the dashboard