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by rozenmd 3y ago
Podcast Addict, been using it long before Google decided to try a podcast app.
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PartyKit raises a pre-seed round of $2.5M from Sequoia, Remote First, and more(blog.partykit.io)
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by rozenmd 3y ago
An average acquisition then: acquirer pays a premium to nudge the acquiree's board to approve acquirer's shareholders that disagree with the deal sell, in anticipation of value destruction
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by rozenmd 3y ago
Moderation - both from dang and the community. If you're a pest, you'll be downvoted and folks won't be able to read your replies without highlighting the text.
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by rozenmd 3y ago
Generally speaking, IPOs are not for retail investors. Bankers involved in the transaction have an interest in making the IPO price as high as possible, since every dollar the stock price climbs after the IPO could have gone to them instead
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Scaling AWS Lambda and Postgres to thousands of simultaneous uptime checks(onlineornot.com)
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by rozenmd 3y ago
In order of difficulty: - Google/Facebook/Reddit/Twitter ads - Find an influencer/blogger, have them talk about your site (assuming it meets their niche) in exchange for either the product or money - Write an article tha
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by rozenmd 3y ago
After 5 years and probably like a dozen failed attempts, I run a profitable one-person SaaS. I initially thought "it was about the tech" and tried remaking levelsio's remoteok as a serverless app, and was surprised that no on
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by rozenmd 3y ago
- What is your tech stack? I run an uptime (+ cron job) monitoring + status page service: https://onlineornot.com Uptime monitoring: - AWS functions spread across several regions for redundancy - Node.js - Postgres Frontend: - N
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OnlineOrNot Diaries 15: Back in the arena(maxrozen.com)
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Everyone is writing software too, but that doesn't stop us from making money :)
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My point of view as the maker of the 200th uptime monitor (that also handles status pages and heartbeat/cron job monitoring - https://OnlineOrNot.com ): It's more like, "[their] mediocrity is my opportunity".
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by rozenmd 3y ago
This looks great! I'm the maker of an alert-generating tool (OnlineOrNot), how would I go about adding an integration for Keep?
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- Wake up at 7am - Make coffee - Try ship something for OnlineOrNot within 2 hours - Go to work at 9am
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Cloudflare Pages, Vercel
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OnlineOrNot (launched Feb 2021) - https://onlineornot.com it's an uptime monitoring and status page service for websites, web apps, and APIs (and cron jobs/heartbeat monitoring soon) that I've built roughly two ho
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by rozenmd 3y ago
My "hack" is to wake up earlier (easier said than done, but I picked up the habit while trying to get things done before the Australian heat kicked in), and work two hours on whatever interests me, before my work day starts. I&#x2
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by rozenmd 3y ago
worth noting that OnlineOrNot also has a free tier that monitors your website
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I like the 30x500 approach where the audience is the business: you create content that solves their problems for free, and eventually create a super-resource that's a total no-brainer for your audience to buy.
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by rozenmd 3y ago
Indeed. I recently hid the free tier on OnlineOrNot's marketing website as an experiment, since then my sign-up rate has decreased, but those signing up are more likely to use a business email, and actually start monitoring their APIs
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by rozenmd 3y ago
it shows your most popular tweets
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OnlineOrNot Diaries 14: building what users need(maxrozen.com)
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by rozenmd 3y ago
counterpoint to "no spam (fees)" - this is called advertising, and folks are more than willing to pay if it makes them more money.
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by rozenmd 3y ago
How do you handle sales tax across all the jurisdictions for makers, are you a merchant of record like Gumroad?
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by rozenmd 3y ago
- Monitor the web server itself using an uptime checker like https://onlineornot.com (biased here, I founded it) - Something like Sentry or Logrocket for monitoring errors - use a cron job to backup your db, and monitor your cro
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by rozenmd 3y ago
OnlineOrNot wouldn't exist without AWS's free tier. I used Lambda + RDS knowing I had a year before it would cost me anything - luckily I found paying customers before that day came. I was unwilling to risk having a side project s
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by rozenmd 3y ago
Thinkpad T480 remains my go-to recommendation: https://maxrozen.com/getting-your-own-good-enough-laptop-for...
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by rozenmd 3y ago
Normally, interest rates for debt increase as lenders factor in additional risk. Realistically with it being the USA, probably not a large impact.
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As always, OnlineOrNot ( https://onlineornot.com ) - I recently integrated with a bunch of on-call schedule providers, so I'm going to spend a few weeks marketing that so my existing users find out about it. On top of that, l
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by rozenmd 3y ago
If I feel like it, I might spend a couple of hours hacking on OnlineOrNot. Otherwise, weekends are to be enjoyed outside. (During the week though, 2 hours every morning before work, working on the business, no excuses)

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