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$8600 MRR business on Airtable

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Re: $8600 MRR business on Airtable

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For those also blocked by the newly registered domain: https://archive.ph/nsO2H

Oh what does this mean? HN blocks newly registered domains? Or Some people's firewall blocks newly registered websites?

I'm on a corporate network and am getting security errors, which likely means the corporate firewall has blocked it.

Re: $8600 MRR business on Airtable

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh what does this mean? HN blocks newly registered domains? Or Some people's firewall blocks newly registered websites?

I'm on a corporate network and am getting security errors, which likely means the corporate firewall has blocked it.

Oops. As someone was mentioning, new websites gets blocked some times.

Re: $8600 MRR business on Airtable

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This looks like AWS AppFlow https://aws.amazon.com/appflow/

Haha. Appflow needs some good tech knowledge though with an understanding of AWS ecosystem. But kind of yes, syncing/moving data between Apps.

There is a lot of money in "thing AWS does" ... "for mortals"

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh what does this mean? HN blocks newly registered domains? Or Some people's firewall blocks newly registered websites?

Some people's firewalls. It prevents a lot of crypto scams and malware. i.e. https://nextdns.io/ gives the option: Block domains registered less than 30 days ago. Those domains are known to be favored by threat actors to launch malicious campaigns Equivalents exist on corp firewalls, etc. Something like 70% of malware and phishing points to domains registered in the last 30 days. So it is an easy way to mitigate the…

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Re: $8600 MRR business on Airtable

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After the initial publicity on HN and Reddit, what did the founders do periodically for marketing? Specially for a developer or tech savvy targetted product like this.

Founder here!

Content marketing - look at common customer use cases and turn them into blog posts and YouTube videos.

Check out our blog, https://datafetcher.com/blog, and YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnED2FBe_jzntrCiB759y9w/vid..., for examples!

I've now hired 2 freelancers to produce these, so I can focus on product/ support.

Re: $8600 MRR business on Airtable

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After the initial publicity on HN and Reddit, what did the founders do periodically for marketing? Specially for a developer or tech savvy targetted product like this.

Founder here! Content marketing - look at common customer use cases and turn them into blog posts and YouTube videos. Check out our blog, https://datafetcher.com/blog , and YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnED2FBe_jzntrCiB759y9w/vid... , for examples! I've now hired 2 freelancers to produce these, so I can focus on product/ support.

Thanks Andy for jumping in.

Re: $8600 MRR business on Airtable

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Founder here! Happy to answer any questions people have. I'm also building in public here: https://twitter.com/clokehead

A couple of people have been confused by 'on Airtable' in the title. Data Fetcher (https://datafetcher.com/) is an extension built (with code) on Airtable's marketplace in the same way you'd build on the App/ Play Store. It's not a no-code app built using Airtable.

MRR is up to $9400 since I did this interview, and should hit $10k in the next month.

Re: $8600 MRR business on Airtable

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What are the costs for airtable specifically? I checked it out a few times but even for toy projects it seems to cost a kidney if you have a tiny bit of traffic.

Founder here. Airtable have a pretty generous free plan. In January, they changed it to let you install extensions (like Data Fetcher) on the free plan.

It does get more expension if you have lots of collaborators ($24/ month/ user), but if you can use a tool like Softr to build user-facing portals without adding all your end-users as Airtable collaborators.

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