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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…
I'd be interested in the IPO alerts newsletter he mentioned at the beginning. I was recently thinking about building an IPO prediction website and newsletter, where users could vote on the probability that startups will have an IPO during a given year. (e.g. Q1 2023, Q2, Q3) It could be interesting to integrate a prediction market like PredictIt [1] (although I heard they got into some trouble recently.) I also start…
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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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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…
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I’m curious if you worry about Airtable incorporating your add on into their core offering? I feel that’s always my worry about building on top of someone else’s platform.
- right place at the right time (almost certainly a factor here)
- actually building and releasing something
- promoting it, letting the world know about him/it
These success stories are really nice, but it's important to recognize that it usually takes all three of these key elements to be successful.
Obviously if you don't do anything, you cannot get success. But if you do something, and the timing or market is wrong, you may not get much or any success. And if you do something but never make an effort to let the world know, then you may get a little growth but not real success.
We can't control the market timing so much, mainly because we can't accurately predict the future. With some research, maybe we can improve on this, but it's still no guarantee.
So, the best policy is to just stay in forward motion. Built a thing, promote it, and repeat. Maybe with 5 things in current operation, one of them catches.
I’m curious if you worry about Airtable incorporating your add on into their core offering? I feel that’s always my worry about building on top of someone else’s platform.
That's definitely the biggest risk to the business (other than competition).
Airtable seem committed to being a platform that third-party developers can build businesses on, in the same way Shopify are. So I think (hope) they'd acquire me, rather than just cloning it, to maintain their reputation as a platform. But they definitely could do this and it's pretty scary!
For now, my strategy is to try and grow to $350k+ ARR and diversify the profits into index funds etc. I also have a couple of other micro-saas ideas that aren't platform-dependent that I'll launch in the next couple of years.
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…
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