I'm finding that when some resources hang -- I got it with images.unsplash and cloudfront on different pageloads -- it freezes Firefox completely such that it must be killed. Is this a side effect of React/Meteor?
SubmitHub: how a solo founder built a $46k/mo SaaS business in 10 months
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Re: SubmitHub: how a solo founder built a $46k/mo SaaS business in 10 months
#12I'm finding that when some resources hang -- I got it with images.unsplash and cloudfront on different pageloads -- it freezes Firefox completely such that it must be killed. Is this a side effect of React/Meteor?
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 hosted by Cloudfront. So if that doesn't load, it's going to crash. The unsplash image would only be coming up if you were getting a 501/404/whatever via nginx.
Where are you based?
Re: SubmitHub: how a solo founder built a $46k/mo SaaS business in 10 months
#13SubmitHub 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: in case you're curious, here's what the dashboard looks like for bloggers - http://i.imgur.com/mJG1LP5.png
Just wanted to say that I use indieshuffle a lot, and I love it. I have it open when I'm at work, and I have the app when I'm driving.
I wish the Chrome app was better, or if it had a standalone client wrapped in Electron or something.
Re: SubmitHub: how a solo founder built a $46k/mo SaaS business in 10 months
#14I'm finding that when some resources hang -- I got it with images.unsplash and cloudfront on different pageloads -- it freezes Firefox completely such that it must be killed. Is this a side effect of React/Meteor?
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 hosted by Cloudfront. So if that doesn't load, it's going to crash. The unsplash image would only be coming up if you were getting a 501/404/whatever via nginx. Where are you based?
SF
Re: SubmitHub: how a solo founder built a $46k/mo SaaS business in 10 months
#15Tldr: "I was born in South Africa and moved to California just before the start of high school, graduating from the University of California, San Diego in 2007 before working a corporate job in DC that ultimately landed me a sweet gig at Google. My responsibility once there was to figure out how much to pay the company's executives, which meant I was lucky to enjoy face time with many of the top brass.,One of the big…
what does the google background and details about the job role there have anything to do with this?
Re: SubmitHub: how a solo founder built a $46k/mo SaaS business in 10 months
#16SubmitHub 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: in case you're curious, here's what the dashboard looks like for bloggers - http://i.imgur.com/mJG1LP5.png
Just wanted to say that I use indieshuffle a lot, and I love it. I have it open when I'm at work, and I have the app when I'm driving. I wish the Chrome app was better, or if it had a standalone client wrapped in Electron or something.
I'm in the process of rebuilding the Android and iPhone apps from scratch using React Native. It's coming along really quickly :)
Re: SubmitHub: how a solo founder built a $46k/mo SaaS business in 10 months
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 hosted by Cloudfront. So if that doesn't load, it's going to crash. The unsplash image would only be coming up if you were getting a 501/404/whatever via nginx. Where are you based?
SF
Stumped. Not sure why that would be happening.
Re: SubmitHub: how a solo founder built a $46k/mo SaaS business in 10 months
#18Tldr: "I was born in South Africa and moved to California just before the start of high school, graduating from the University of California, San Diego in 2007 before working a corporate job in DC that ultimately landed me a sweet gig at Google. My responsibility once there was to figure out how much to pay the company's executives, which meant I was lucky to enjoy face time with many of the top brass.,One of the big…
Going forward I will upvote almost anything that you summarize that I see. Reading it and the responding comments will be a great time saver.
Re: SubmitHub: how a solo founder built a $46k/mo SaaS business in 10 months
#19SubmitHub 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: in case you're curious, here's what the dashboard looks like for bloggers - http://i.imgur.com/mJG1LP5.png
Great project. How do you make sure the other blogs give people who've paid $1 feedback?
Re: SubmitHub: how a solo founder built a $46k/mo SaaS business in 10 months
#20SubmitHub 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: in case you're curious, here's what the dashboard looks like for bloggers - http://i.imgur.com/mJG1LP5.png
Great project. How do you make sure the other blogs give people who've paid $1 feedback?
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 from running their websites. Not only is it making their lives easier -- it's actually rewarding them for their passion yada yada.