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Sure, but it's not like someone just handed him a successful music blog. He worked hard on it, and parlayed it into something bigger. Isn't that practical?
> There is zero chance SubmitHub would work without the music blog > Jason Grishkoff built a $46,000/mo SaaS business helping musicians promote their music, and he did it in under a year . When do you start the clock? If the business success is based on the blog's success, then arguably the clock starts when he first made the blog.
What I take away as important is that I was part of the problem I was solving, rather than an outsider observing. A blog with 5,000 followers is just as likely to understand that problem as a blog with 100,000 followers.
Because I was part of the problem, I was able to build a system that effectively solved it. Today, there are more than 200 blogs/channels using SubmitHub to receive their submissions -- and that happened in less than 10 months. The vast majority of them aren't there because Indie Shuffle did well; they're there because SubmitHub makes their lives better.