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Yep - that's correct. My hunch was that people are tired of paying for subscriptions but would drop $20 on something that makes their life slightly better. GTM is the hardest but mostly through referrals / word of mouth. I want to do more Twitter/LI ads.
Sorry, what is GTM?
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> I also found the conversion rate increased significantly after I made the homepage itself editable — thereby demo'ing the product without a login. I just visited your homepage to check it out, but was greeted with a page that said "You can't edit this page" with a grayed out Edit button. And I'm not sure why, or what I should do so I am able to edit it (maybe sign up? but I wanted to see the demo before signing up)…
Wow. I can't believe I let such a large bug slip by -- must have happened during a deploy this morning. I've just pushed out a fix.
I built mmm.page [1] originally for personal websites, or "internet canvases." They're meant to be pages for very easy combinations of text, mixed media, embeds, etc. — let more people create fun/interesting places on the internet. [2] I started working on mmm.page in Feb 2021, and launched it that May on Hacker News [3], then it hit $2k/mo last year, and has been growing steadily since. There are roughly 30,000+ use…
Wow this is lovely! Really reminds me of the Mac apps from the power PC era.
I've build BlueRetro [1] an universal Bluetooth controller adapter for nearly all pre-USB gaming console. I made a gross income of around 3K a month last year out of Royalties on the soft for each device sold. It's Apache 2.0 software so people can do whatever they want. I started making money when I decided to list on the GitHub README the list of manufacturers/makers that where sponsoring the project. (Only one per…
What controllers you would recommend for retro games with a great d-pad and buttons? I can't find anything that's even remotely close to native controllers especially for Super NES.
I built prop_odds [1]. It's an API offering live (and historical) sports betting odds from different sites. I've been working on it for about 2 months. While not quite at 2k/month yet, it's nearly there and progressing in that direction. Revenue is coming from several customers who are using the data to build Discord bots that alert them (and their own paying users) about good odds, arbitrage opportunities, etc. [1]…
I guess you scrape odds from bookmakers' websites (I expecxt a fair bit of headless Selenium). Is there any legal implication of scraping data this way and reselling re-packaged as an API?
I started writing in 2011. After a few books I was able to do look during launches but sales fell dramatically after.
Now I have a couple books doing $2k / month.
Since I do corporate training I have probably made dramatically more than this from the marketing from my books but don't really have a way to track that.
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how is this different from devtools? is the main selling point easy of use, or more extra features on top of devtools?
Yes: ease of use, lots of additional power (for starters, you can modify traffic, not just view it) and being able to intercept anything (multiple tabs, multiple browsers, mobile, docker, CLI tools, backend services, you name) all in the same interface. For the web dev case, for example, if you're debugging some interaction that means you can intercept your browser server traffic and your server upstream API traffic…
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Yep - that's correct. My hunch was that people are tired of paying for subscriptions but would drop $20 on something that makes their life slightly better. GTM is the hardest but mostly through referrals / word of mouth. I want to do more Twitter/LI ads.
Sorry, what is GTM?
I started Hacker Newsletter [1] almost 14 years ago and sent out the 647th issue today [2] to 58k folks. It took over a year to break 1k subscribers and a few more years to get to that type of revenue. I could do a lot more with it and plan to one day, but really only focus on it a couple hours each week when I build the issue and talk to sponsors. 1: https://hackernewsletter.com 2: https://mailchi.mp/hackernewslette…
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It's strange how you are being downvoted when my foreign friends say the exact same thing. They say that the food at the restaurants we go to have a different smell from the food back home.
Maybe when your friends travel, they change too.