Anyone remember usesthis.com?
This reminded me of usesthis.com too
My newsletter is making $2k per month with 7k subscribers – AMA
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#113Can't go through all of them, but I'm curious is there anyone who uses Linux on their machine?
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#115For how many months has it been making 2k now?
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#116For how many months has it been making 2k now?
Started sponsorships in January of this year (2022) and it has been sold out ever since. Pricing started at $150 for the first month and has been $250 ever since.
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#117It looks like you are up to 175 posts of various workspaces. I didn't look at each one, but all the ones I saw were nicely staged, organized workspaces. Did you get any submissions for 'real workspaces' with stacks of books, papers all over the place, and sticky-notes all around the monitors? If you did, did you reject them? I too, have a newsletter that I started last year about data management. I only have about a…
I don't reject them for being "messy"! I didn't anticipate so many people cleaning their desks off before their feature but that is what many have opted to do. Here's some "real" ones: https://www.workspaces.xyz/p/106-michele-hansen https://www.workspaces.xyz/p/070-alex-wilhelm
Doesn't surprise me that Alex didn't go nuts to make his space look "perfect." I met him a couple years ago back and he was a really nice, smart, and incredibly authentic kinda guy. It even comes through in his interview:
"Some sort of ergo-friendly chair that I bought online" "Apple Watch in case I work out"
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#118I run Payload (http://payloadspace.com/). We are a media company covering the space industry. Congrats on all your success so far. For those reading this, there is a lot of riches in the niches. Just choose a topic that you don't think gets a lot of coverage and start writing about it. Two areas that come to mind:
- Geospatial - Nuclear Energy
Media/content -- to Ryan's point is being consistent. As long as you do that once you have PMF, you'll grow and make money.
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#119How do you reach out to people to get them to be on your newsletter? I imagine now that you have a following it's easier, but what motivates people to actually say "yes", especially when you were starting out? And somewhat related because you don't do this, but for newsletters that are more "news aggregator" types that collect various blog posts/info, do they typically reach out to the authors before including the li…
Early on it was all Twitter DMs. I would DM handfuls of designers, developers, founders, etc each day. Once I had a few published spaces this became easier as I could quickly link to an example of what I was looking for. Nowadays, it's mostly inbound requests to be featured. Every time I send a new edition out I get 1-2 requests from readers to be featured as well. This has led to the current backlog of 70+ spaces th…
I've had multiple people comment on my workstation setup at the office, mostly because I have a variety of input devices on the table top that always catches peoples eyes: magic trackpad, Contour Roller Mouse Red, Goldtouch right hand semi-vertical mouse on a mouse bungee, and a Philips foot pedal. I have a left hand vertical mouse too but something with the driver or USB hub nullifies it while some another device is connected.
Since work from home took over I've moved all that equipment to a budget Costco standing desk that seems to be a popular model on the warehouse floor https://www.costco.com/tresanti-47%22-adjustable-height-desk.... I think I paid like $275 on sale sometime last year.
I've modified that desk by fabricating a bracket on it to secure a Workrite Banana Board keyboard tray. I've also ceased using the mouse bungee at home since the bracket serves as a cable holder with a cable clip routing the wires. There's some other minor stuff like an old KVM switch and a DC barrel plug switch to restart the KVM switch when it misbehaves.
Does that sound like something interesting to feature?
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#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't reject them for being "messy"! I didn't anticipate so many people cleaning their desks off before their feature but that is what many have opted to do. Here's some "real" ones: https://www.workspaces.xyz/p/106-michele-hansen https://www.workspaces.xyz/p/070-alex-wilhelm
Doesn't surprise me that Alex didn't go nuts to make his space look "perfect." I met him a couple years ago back and he was a really nice, smart, and incredibly authentic kinda guy. It even comes through in his interview: "Some sort of ergo-friendly chair that I bought online" "Apple Watch in case I work out"
Haha yeah I'm glad he kept his space as is!