Slack Bot Business Tutorial: From zero to $25k per month

Post by alexxtomsk » Wed, Jun 20, 2018, 2:09 AM UTC

freehunter wrote: post #73

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I'm amazed at the hostility here these days :( It's very accommodating of you to offer to share additional metrics. To be honest, my interest isn't intense enough to warrant my time for a screen share, much less yours. I will keep an eye on your blog, though. ETA: I can't seem to find an RSS feed for your blog :( ETA2: It's at https://standuply.com/blog/feed/ , but don't see a link to it anywhere.

It is truly hard to comprehend that one of the most common things successful startup founders recommend is that your startup should have a blog and talk about the company and the product and the engineering, but when that gets shared suddenly it's spam and everyone is crying for blood. Remember when this used to be a friendly startup forum full of people who liked hearing about interesting technology and how it was m…

Post by alexxtomsk » Wed, Jun 20, 2018, 2:12 AM UTC

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VectorLock wrote: post #47

Sometimes I wonder how much of these "we started making $X/mo and heres how" are true and how much are really just more content marketing spam?

It's probably true and a marketing effort. Keep in mind that it's rarely averaging X/month, but they made X/month at their peak. I had a great month in my previous business that was 2x all other months. If I wrote an article about that month, I'd probably seem way more profitable than I was.

Post by rnotaro » Wed, Jun 20, 2018, 2:17 AM UTC

alexxtomsk wrote: post #76

palisade wrote: post #63

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During an interview I had at Discord recently the lead engineer mentioned they had exceeded 130 million users. Though, there was also a recent bump by almost 70 million people that left Skype and joined Discord in the news recently as well. He told me that Skype is the 800 pound gorilla to beat and that they have around 300 million users or something. They're definitely gunning for them, and Microsoft has changed Sky…

Thanks, that's insightful. I wonder how can they get as many users. There are not enough gamers in the world to hit that number.

Post by alexxtomsk » Wed, Jun 20, 2018, 2:32 AM UTC

VectorLock wrote: post #55

alexxtomsk wrote: post #48

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Want me to do a screen sharing of our Baremetrics dashboard? Reach out to me at alex at standuply.com to book a call.

Go ahead post a screenshot. And no I would never book a call with you.

Post by alexxtomsk » Wed, Jun 20, 2018, 2:53 AM UTC

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Thanks, that's insightful. I wonder how can they get as many users. There are not enough gamers in the world to hit that number.

You are clearly underestimating the number of gamers in this world!