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Lessons we learned while bootstrapping

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Re: Lessons we learned while bootstrapping

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Sorry: Wrong Thread. Does this study also consider that children remain living at their parents' for longer and longer? For example, it is not bizarrely uncommon in Spain to find people in their late twenties or thirties still living with their parents.

Wrong thread!

Re: Lessons we learned while bootstrapping

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no clue but I also love the style. Seen it everywhere and can't seem to figure it out.

where do people go to get those graphics/illustrations created? they all look in the same style.

If anyone figures this out let me know. I want one

Re: Lessons we learned while bootstrapping

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My advice: take a sales class. I waited waaaaaay to long to do that and realized so many mistakes and missed opportunities in hindsight.

Are there any good online sales classes?

I wouldnt necessarily call it a class but John barrows is pretty good. He can be found on YouTube. Taught me a bunch watching over the course of a few days.

Re: Lessons we learned while bootstrapping

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Sorry: Wrong Thread. Does this study also consider that children remain living at their parents' for longer and longer? For example, it is not bizarrely uncommon in Spain to find people in their late twenties or thirties still living with their parents.

Just curious, how do you manage to post a comment in the wrong thread? Are you using some kind of client?

Re: Lessons we learned while bootstrapping

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I've been bootstrapping https://www.castingcall.club for about 2 years now. Although I don't have a team (just me) and I've not in the 7-figure range (still in 6), a lot of the lessons from Kinsta holds true. I wanted to point out one bullet though: Automation My product is a SaaS product. I've automated every single thing possible from self-creating wikis to recommendations. I stepped away to visit Japan for 3 weeks…

Agreed with the automation — I’m a fellow bootstrapper[0] in the SaaS space, and wouldn’t be without it. If there is anything that can be automated, even if slightly prematurely before the need to scale arises, I do so. In terms of infrastructure, this meant using Ansible for quickly deploying new servers where needed and adding them to the right load balancer. Currently all I need to do is spin up a new instance wit…

> In terms of infrastructure, this meant using Ansible for quickly deploying new servers where needed and adding them to the right load balancer. Currently all I need to do is spin up a new instance with the right tag & run the relevant Ansible script

To me, this still sounds awfully manual. You still need to always have an eye on load/health and proactively provision instances or risk not having the necessary capacity. Why go that route and not a template with auto-scaling and an init script or image to pull the dependencies?

Re: Lessons we learned while bootstrapping

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Sorry: Wrong Thread. Does this study also consider that children remain living at their parents' for longer and longer? For example, it is not bizarrely uncommon in Spain to find people in their late twenties or thirties still living with their parents.

I upvoted this because it’s nicely bizarre

Re: Lessons we learned while bootstrapping

#57

The #1 best piece of advice in the article is: > The best way to get things done is to simply sit down and start working on them. So many people worry so much about failure that they don't even bother to start. You can't possibly plan for every roadblock and eventuality. The only thing you can control is your execution, and there are no short cuts. Hard work won't guarantee success, but lack of it will guarantee fail…

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Re: Lessons we learned while bootstrapping

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post #13

I've been bootstrapping https://www.castingcall.club for about 2 years now. Although I don't have a team (just me) and I've not in the 7-figure range (still in 6), a lot of the lessons from Kinsta holds true. I wanted to point out one bullet though: Automation My product is a SaaS product. I've automated every single thing possible from self-creating wikis to recommendations. I stepped away to visit Japan for 3 weeks…

Using the 80/20 Rule with Automation has been pretty good for what I do (https://opszero.com). Most of the time we can automate with Zapier and not have to write any code until much, much later. One of the lessons we learned bootstrapping is that running and writing code has major maintenance costs and reducing the code footprint when testing out an idea is pretty important.

Re: Lessons we learned while bootstrapping

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Agreed with the automation — I’m a fellow bootstrapper[0] in the SaaS space, and wouldn’t be without it. If there is anything that can be automated, even if slightly prematurely before the need to scale arises, I do so. In terms of infrastructure, this meant using Ansible for quickly deploying new servers where needed and adding them to the right load balancer. Currently all I need to do is spin up a new instance wit…

> In terms of infrastructure, this meant using Ansible for quickly deploying new servers where needed and adding them to the right load balancer. Currently all I need to do is spin up a new instance with the right tag & run the relevant Ansible script To me, this still sounds awfully manual. You still need to always have an eye on load/health and proactively provision instances or risk not having the necessary capaci…

Or, just not use servers. Aws lambda, etc - and never care ever.
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