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Nice to from you Reagan! :)

If you're going to spend 8+ hours a day on something, you'd best enjoy the subject matter :)

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" :)

This is so incredibly well put. I cannot agree more.

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 + M…

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 h…

I've considered it for sure -- holding off on something like that for now, tho.

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 th…

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 sol…

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...

Fire held :-D

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 tha…

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…

Stumped. Not sure why that would be happening.

I'm in the process of rebuilding the Android and iPhone apps from scratch using React Native. It's coming along really quickly :)

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 host…

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" f…

Digital Ocean (had to Google iaaS)

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 n…

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:…