marckohlbrugge

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by marckohlbrugge 5y ago
I've been using Glass for a couple of months now and it's really a breath of fresh air compared to Instagram. The focus is on the photography instead of sharing your lifestyle or whatever Instagram is meant to be these days. I hop
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by marckohlbrugge 6y ago
I run https://wip.co which is a community of mostly bootstrappers working in public. Members usually start sharing the progress from the very first day so definitely early stage. https://indiehackers.com is a really
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by marckohlbrugge 6y ago
Emoji domains are a lot of fun for sure. Shameless plug: A few years ago I discovered them for the first time and made https://.to which listed all available single-emoji domains for the .to extension. Within a few days hundreds
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by marckohlbrugge 6y ago
Cool idea! I've seen some people on WIP use it for building a reading habit, but a community focused on it makes a lot of sense. Would be interesting to see more excerpts and discussions. Turning it into a habit-forming bookclub.
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by marckohlbrugge 6y ago
Most of Hotwire uses regular HTTP requests. Web sockets are only used for broadcasting real-time updates. (Basically anything you’d traditionally use polling for.)
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by marckohlbrugge 6y ago
I built https://BetaList.com specifically for this purpose. Helping pre-launch startups get their first signups. (Although these days we also include recently launched ones)
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by marckohlbrugge 6y ago
Thanks for sharing that. Appreciate it!
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by marckohlbrugge 6y ago
BetaList ( https://betalist.com ) turned 10 years old today. For the majority of time it was run by just me, generating $100k/year in revenue on average (earlier years less, later years more). I’ve now delegated all the dai
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by marckohlbrugge 6y ago
Why not? Most developers seem to work on one platform anyway. It’s time someone built a good macOS-native editor. There are already plenty of non-native solutions out there.
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by marckohlbrugge 6y ago
Thanks. All owned 100% by me. No outside funding or co-founders. I use Ruby on Rails which has a lot of pre-made libraries for common tasks. I’ve been building products for 10+ years though. So it’s mostly a matter of time I think
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by marckohlbrugge 6y ago
My Twitter bio has a list of many of my projects: https://twitter.com/marckohlbrugge Most notable: https://betalist.com (2010): $xxx,xxx/year https://startup.jobs (2016): $xx,xxx/year (coul
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by marckohlbrugge 6y ago
Sure, but my point is that Tweet Photo's EULA is by definition restricted to what Twitter and Facebook terms allow.
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by marckohlbrugge 6y ago
I think Twitter is okay with people using the word "tweet" as it doesn't imply affiliation with the Twitter company, but still clearly communicates that it's related to their service. Fun side-note: I actually had anothe
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by marckohlbrugge 6y ago
As @donaltroddyn points out, I'm the founder of BetaList. With regards to Product Hunt, I think my account is flagged such that anything I submit automatically hits the front page. So yeah, those are definitely two unfair advantages th
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by marckohlbrugge 6y ago
I'm a firm believer that you're the average of the people you spend the most time with, so I love to be around other productive makers. And while you can find many chat communities, they always seem like more of a distraction than
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by marckohlbrugge 6y ago
Those are definitely some fair points. While I appreciate you being a paying customer, unfortunately you're in minority. When Facebook changed their API earlier this year and forced me to rewrite a part of the codebase I seriously cons
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by marckohlbrugge 6y ago
That's correct, but it's important to point out the acquirer has an existing app with a user base in the millions it will use to cross-promote Tweet Photo. Based on some initial tests and analysis of Tweet Photo's current fun
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by marckohlbrugge 6y ago
I figured some of you might enjoy this story. I talk about how my Medium post on setting up Zapier to tweet your Instagram photos, lead to a SaaS product that recently got acquired for $30,000 (with one asterisk, details in the post). It&#x
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I sold my side-project for $30k(marc.io)
252 points by marckohlbrugge 6y ago|100 comments
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by marckohlbrugge 8y ago
These are some great points. I appreciate you taking the time to write them down. I'll see which of them I can implement. a) Comparison with previous years will be totally doable. As a quick hack you can simply compare with https:&#x2
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Show HN: Startup jobs of 2018, visualized(startup.jobs)
77 points by marckohlbrugge 8y ago|38 comments