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    General Forum Updates... What's New?

    IMPORTANT! 
    @MJ DeMarco Usually stuff like this happens if you do something with rendering posts and remove HTML escaping.
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    Starting & Growing A Micro SaaS Business

    SAAS / APPS EXECUTION 
    I see a lot of similarities between our stories my friend. Some parts are eerily familiar. I'm definitely reading this for purely selfish reasons to learn more. About feedback from users, I think we talked about this in another topic. I tried free trial with CC info, and when they want to...
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    Moving to Bali

    HOT! CHAT 
    I'm in the active process setting up my life to move to Asia. I've already tested living in Thailand last year for 3 months. I'm going to try few more countries in 2025 before I make final decision. Last 2 years every night I'm reading, watching and talking to people about this topic. I see this...
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    Struggling to move on: How to get my brain into problem solving mode

    MINDSET FEEDBACK QUESTION 
    I struggle with ADHD, so often I chew on a lot of things in my head. Only reliable way that helps me is writing, then doing something analog immediately after. I often feel stuck on something, like my brain is telling me something, but I can't access it. Only way I've found to access it is to...
  5. jbg

    How to Build and Grow a Newsletter as a Business Model

    GOLD! HOT! PUBLISHING 
    What do you use for writing and editing your posts? English is not my first language, and it's pretty obvious that my writing is not always clear. Even editing these forum posts takes a lot of my time. Writing blog posts takes waaay too much time. I'm basically looking for spellchecker, missing...
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    software engineer vs web developer which is better

    MINDSET WEB DESIGN QUESTION 
    Becoming a programmer. First step is to understand the difference a programmer and the rest of them. After that it will all make sense. Good luck :)
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    How to Build and Grow a Newsletter as a Business Model

    GOLD! HOT! PUBLISHING 
    When I say an audience I literally mean people that give you the time of day, or their head space. If you don't get people that give you time of the day it seems hard to sell anything. I feel like we are talking about the same things, but using different words. I literally released a product 2...
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    How to Build and Grow a Newsletter as a Business Model

    GOLD! HOT! PUBLISHING 
    Thank you @Andy Black for writing somewhere in this topic how you deleted unresponsive people from a email list. That would never occur to me without reading it here. I did something similar in my product email list, I first sent them magic email, then deleted if they didn't respond. I'm...
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    Need coding advice for my business startup

    SIDE HUSTLE SAAS / APPS 
    I think the best idea is probably to find someone else to do it for you. A neighbor, a cousin, a broke college student, Fiverr, Upwork etc. Like people said above, delivering value to people is the most important part. Technology is less important. But if you are dead set on doing it yourself...
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    Podcast Voice Feedback, Please Listen and Vote

    IDEA 
    Not sure what kind of podcast is it, but only #1 sounds normal. Everything else is not really conversational and/or trash. That being said, #4 is pretty dope voice for those Yoga nidra meditations before sleep.
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    Moving to Bali

    HOT! CHAT 
    *ex socialist. We got it way easier than other Slavic people. It's one of the safest countries in the world, only real danger is drunk driving during the night and heart problems. Which is great for raising your kids. But let's be real, it's important that you are of right religion and...
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    Dungeon Generator Plugin (Work in Progress)

    IDEA 
    First of all, congratulations on taking action. Every step brings some experience. I don't think the size of the market where you sell matters, nor that you should worry that much about it. Bigger problem is that this is 2D Room->Hallway->Room, or rather the most basic procedural generation...
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    The Goal: Setting up a Software Company

    EXECUTION 
    I've started with flat price, then later added free trial with CC, then few days ago reverted to flat price. Having CC obviously helps with converting free trials, but there is Past Due. Sometimes for valid reasons, but it's also 2024. People are more educated and use disposable cards. I...
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    The Goal: Setting up a Software Company

    EXECUTION 
    I just wanted to shout out publicly @Tau Ceti for giving his time and a lot of useful and extremely actionable advice in this thread. A lot of useful posts get drowned into a sea of vague mindset posts, and I wanted to give public credit where it's due. I don't necessarily agree with every...
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    Asking advice on how to cold email influencers and sites for reviews of my software

    MARKETING 
    Thank you for your time. I'll definitely tighten the message starting right now with emails I'm sending tonight. I have to sleep on the rest to process it fully.
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    Asking advice on how to cold email influencers and sites for reviews of my software

    MARKETING 
    Thanks for responding. I didn't put anything about my software on the forum, it's simply a decision I made because of privacy reasons. Shortly, it's a productivity B2C software aimed at professionals. I'm currently focused only on reaching out to sites and influencers. Reason is 3 fold, build...
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    Asking advice on how to cold email influencers and sites for reviews of my software

    MARKETING 
    I've released my desktop software about a month and a half ago. Until now I've been focused on ads to test a lot of stuff, both in product and website. Last week I've started compiling list of influencers and sites to contact, both to build a reputation and backlinks. I've sent some emails to...
  18. jbg

    Experiences with payment providers that act as a Merchant of record

    TAXES | REGS 
    After using Paddle for the first full month, these are my experiences, might be useful to someone. Good - I don't have to deal with taxes and accountants across the world. I cannot overstate enough how much hours, stress and money this saves me. - Documentation is extremely good - Everything...
  19. jbg

    How We Achieved 4th Place on Product Hunt!

    MARKETING 
    Hi @Yula, I remember reading this thread when you first posted it, and I'm curious what are your thoughts about this after few months? I'm asking because I'm going to launch my product on Producthunt this week, and I'm just wondering has your opinion changed. My initial thinking is to waste as...
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    Let's Chat Personal Branding

    NOTABLE! HOT! CHAT 
    Completely anecdotally, N=1, etc. Not sure what are they doing, but they are doing something weird. His YT videos started showing up in my search results when I look up various Asian travel destinations with time filters applied. And I'm using YT without an account over a VPN, and haven't...

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