All I'm seeing is a completely black page. Wonder if it's uBlock origin, Firefox, or macOS that the page doesn't play nice with.
For me, on Windows10/FF82b4, I had to click the reader view mode. No clue why it rendered like that by default.
Six Figures in 6 days
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#52Meta rant: Why, oh why do people use low contrast colors and expect people to be able to read their blog? Has nobody heard about accessibility? Or do they not care, because “I can read it”.
> Has nobody heard about accessibility? Or do they not care, because “I can read it”. Genuinely, no. For those who have it, vision is such an integral part of...well, existence that intuitively grasping that people have completely different ways of perceiving it beyond the obvious is extremely difficult. This goes a bit beyond the "try to explain 'blue' to someone" troupe. I have difficulties explaining my own brand…
I get what you're saying, but decreasing vision acuity is one thing everybody in this world is guaranteed to run into (barring an early death, that is).
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#53This is heartening. I've made some goofy stuff recently that I've been vacillating between releasing or not.
The most complete thing is a uhh.. parody text editor.. game. I've seen other indie projects recently that gave me all sorts of imposter syndrome and made me second guess the value in something so critical as a text editor made for laughs. I'm encouraged by a 28$ icon pack to wrap it up and put it out there, even if it's for 2$ and doesn't sell at all. Ride or die, right?
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#54Meta rant: Why, oh why do people use low contrast colors and expect people to be able to read their blog? Has nobody heard about accessibility? Or do they not care, because “I can read it”.
Heh, the whole page just looks black to me, and I have normal vision and the latest version of Firefox.
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#55Re: the icon set that this guy's pitching - does anyone remember the Prada phone? It was one beautifully done UI.
https://www.slashgear.com/prada-phone-3-0-by-lg-review-08215...
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#58I would ignore most of this advice and simplify it this way:
Act Immediately
Get an influencer
All the rest of OP's journey doesn't really matter.
My newest venture this summer did 7 figures after I got motivated by watching Hamilton, this was also a week long period of sales, which came after a 2 week long period of idea and building hype. It definitely came down to doing something very trendy and having people know about it, and there is nothing organic in that process. I don't think the same venture could do that now already. It would have to be new trendy things.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pro tip: Ctrl+Alt+R in firefox :-)
This appears to do absolutely nothing.
Maybe he's talking about reader view which, for me, can be enabled with F9 or clicking the icon in the address bar (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-reader-view-clu...)
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is the average iPhone owner willing to spend $28 on an icon pack? Probably not. Can you find 3626 iPhone owners willing to spend $28 on an icon pack? Sure you can. In fact I bet you can find 3626 Android owners willing to part with $28 too. The key to this success story is this: > Then, MKBHD happened.
the key to his success is honing his craft via side projects, sharing these ideas often, having a quick and easy tooling to publish ideas, pushing to prod and sharing these ideas. thats the key to success. the MKBHD pickup is just the recognition of the skill honed through this process.
MKBHD picking it up had nothing to do with his journey or level of skill.
MKBHD could have picked up something much less refined and it would have been popular, a different designer dabbling with no prior mobile icon interest could have come up with something appealing to others as well.
Being there and getting an influencer is what made this story, and can be repeated by anyone. OP is conflating the rest of it with his own trials and tribulations.