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by jmduke 4y ago
There's a quote from Sarah Manguso's _300 Arguments_ that I love: > With great and solemn portent, my teacher announced she would tell us something that her teacher had told her, and that her teacher’s teacher had told him, and
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by jmduke 4y ago
I run Buttondown (buttondown.email) full-time now, but until this past year it was a side project for me alongside my day job as an IC (later EM). It took...around two and a half years, I think, to hit $2k/mo MRR. It was definitely not
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Pricing Page Driven Development(buttondown.email)
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by jmduke 4y ago
Thanks! (I run Buttondown.)
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The Validity of Custom Element Tag Names(blog.jim-nielsen.com)
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Hypermodern Python(github.com)
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by jmduke 4y ago
To echo others: I love the concept for this, but I do not think the current implementation is successful. I put in The Lowe Post (a fairly popular ESPN basketball podcast) and got: 1. another basketball podcast (nice!) 2. a podcast about ou
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Setting Engineering Org Values(lethain.com)
1 points by jmduke 4y ago|0 comments
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by jmduke 4y ago
I am curious as to your phrasing of "besides by doing market research" — market research is the whole point! Most successful API products in the sense that you're describing share two common characteristics: 1. They are a thi
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by jmduke 4y ago
Have you considered technical writing? I've talked to a number of folks who are in a similar position, and writing (as opposed to generalist development) has a number of advantages: - It rewards experience though, except for niche-spec
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Chronophoto(chronophoto.app)
1107 points by jmduke 4y ago|153 comments
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Arcosanti(en.wikipedia.org)
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Just use a monorepo(buttondown.email)
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by jmduke 4y ago
I love this template as well, and wholeheartedly recommend it. There are a couple things you probably don't need (click and nox, for instance, seem only useful if you're really building a couple specific things) but the gestalt of
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by jmduke 4y ago
(Also 100% this.)
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by jmduke 4y ago
This may be an unsatisfying answer: slowly. I tweeted and wrote a fair deal about the process, and had good-but-not-great launches on HN and Product Hunt. There was definitely no 'big bang' where one day I did not have product-mar
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by jmduke 4y ago
I run Buttondown ( http://buttondown.email/ ) full-time now, but did so as a side project from 2017 to earlier this year. My strategy was fairly simple: I wanted to create a better version of a tool (in this case, Tinyletter)
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by jmduke 4y ago
Agreed: this is probably the one feature I'm currently most embarrassed of not having, FWIW! (You can accomplish it with Zapier at the moment, but I'm tired of having to give that as a halfway answer.)
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by jmduke 4y ago
(I run Buttondown.) It is certainly trickier than I expected at the onset of starting the project (which is true of pretty much everything related to the email space), but not overly onerous. Most of my risk lies less in content and more in
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by jmduke 7y ago
Yup, precisely. I use Postmark for transactional emails and a very small subset of bulk emails; Mailgun handles everything else.
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by jmduke 7y ago
This is a really good idea, and I'm going to start doing it; thanks.
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by jmduke 7y ago
Oooh, interesting. That's good to keep in mind — thanks.
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by jmduke 7y ago
Yeah, I think you did a better job of describing my dichotomy than I did. The galaxy brain corollary, though, is that if I get _too_ many folks who are asking for free-tier support, it means I can't support everyone at the level I&#x27
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by jmduke 7y ago
I'm using a combination of Mailgun and Postmark to send emails, and heartily recommend them both.
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by jmduke 7y ago
I think this is one of things where my Business Brain 100% agrees with you (the majority of my customer support burden comes from free plans, though it's worth pointing out something like two-thirds of my paid cohort converted from fre
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by jmduke 7y ago
This post resonates a lot with me! I've got a side project that's current bringing in around ~2-3K MRR ( https://buttondown.email ). I spent a long time daydreaming about having it hit four-digits in recurring revenue —
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by jmduke 7y ago
Hope you don't mind the plug, but my project is roughly "Tinyletter/Mailchimp for small startups/SaaSes" — https://buttondown.email
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by jmduke 8y ago
The headline is actually So Say Some Computer Science Students , which I think is a non-trivial difference.
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The Curious Case of Bryan Colangelo and the Secret Twitter Account(theringer.com)
5 points by jmduke 8y ago|2 comments
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Microsoft Surface Hub 2(blogs.windows.com)
7 points by jmduke 8y ago|0 comments

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