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Yeah, when I was there for the inaugural FH launch we were up at 5am, at KSC by 6, and then I think the launch was at around 4pm. The idea of another 10+ hours baking in the Florid…

Was able to grab seats in the "Feel The Heat" section for the inaugural Falcon Heavy launch last year - it was incredible! (Olivier: your writeup brought back a ton of memories.) I…

What I teach is largely about repositioning yourself and focusing on the value you create vs just the tech. Not surprisingly, few freelancers focus on business outcomes. Higher bud…

We're constantly reworking our marketing site, but to make it more technical for the HN crowd (our audience is mostly marketers), it's an "if-this-then-that" engine for your websit…

Forgive me, but I'm not sure what we're doing that's disingenuous? If you clicked through after the initial welcome page (that just overviews the tool) that's not a lead gen form. …

Correct. We're leveraging localStorage to save answers across "pages" (using Vue). We could probably serialize / base64 encode the object we've saved and then let someone share it.…

Thanks! Yeah, frankly we sort of just threw in that scrolling list of ideas... and didn't put nearly enough thought into the display of them.

https://convertkit.baremetrics.com/ $727k MRR

I own a Model S and have clocked 23k miles on it over the last year, most of which on long roadtrips. I love it. The car mostly drives itself between superchargers, and the SCs are…

Because AR takes mental space, even if someone else you hire is managing it. Focusing on one thing is best. I recently sold my SaaS for the same reason — I wanted to eliminate need…

That's great! We're actually running weekly profiles on people who have used my advice to help grow their business, and I'd love to feature you. Here's the link: http://doubleyourf…

It does. My business goal with my email course is to generate qualified leads for my course. My personal goal is to make people better off than they were before they started the co…

Those who might consider your paid course would only have the persuasiveness of your sales site to go off of. By offering a free email course, you're able to figure out whether Pau…

Not necessarily true. I offer a free email course (also for freelancers), and I position the free course as the strategy - how should a freelancer think about sales? The premium co…

...Is this built by the same company behind SendOwl? https://www.sendowl.com

I bill by the week. At the time, my agency rate on this project was $10k a week, which included the full time attention of a senior developer (~4 full days), plus part time Q&A and…

It has everything to do with freelance web development, because I (a 1099'd freelancer) am still doing web development. I've just come to realize that clients don't pay me for line…

I've done them all. Here's my writeup on the pros/cons of each: http://doubleyourfreelancing.com/the-definitive-guide-to-pro...

Sure. So I had a client who wanted us to rewrite their 10 year old MS Access app as a web app. The engineer in me would have immediately jumped into "OK, how do I migrate this data…

Justifying your costs by basing what you charge against the costs of a similar employee is a good start, and in my experience it's how most of us start (the old "divide by 2000" tr…

Yeah, so there's a coupon offered that expires in a week. I'm applying an "Eligible for discount" tag in my marketing automation tool when I announce the discount, and retract it w…

I promoted it to my list of ~22k, and asked opt-ins to share it on Twitter. It also got on Product Hunt and a few links from various blogs.

Haven't had a salaried job in more than 6 years, so no. All of my income is through the course I referenced, my SaaS ( https://planscope.io ), and a few other courses/books I offer…

I just crossed $200k in sales since I (re)launched in May, so yeah - about that.

About 8% right now, with an average sale of a little north of $200 (so it doesn't take many subscribers and sales to hit four-figures a day)