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Alec

@acharbohno

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Was swe @stellarorg , @circle . Now: Dev List - ( #1 list for freelance devs) The Lead List - (lead gen service)

California

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Joined April 2020

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@acharbohno

Alec

1 year

No more tech stacks, I want to hear your daily routine stack. Here's mine: 1. I stopped drinking caffeine. I drink seltzer + juice now. No more crashes 2. My phone is not allowed in my bedroom as I'm waking up or falling asleep. I put a kindle there if I want to entertain

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Alec

1 year

having some fun with @LangChainAI . Turned a 100+ page IRS document into a Q and A bot that I can ask questions to. Eg here I asked about Tax Treaty benefits, and it pointed me to the page they're explained at in a couple seconds

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1 year

@iammemeloper I feel like there should be more fire in the backend photo

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2 months

Friendly reminder that for every project I've built, majority of traffic comes from mobile so build/design for that first #buildinpublic

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3 months

First website in production I've made with nextJS Getting about 100k views / month so far. Nice to see I'm nowhere near full capacity with my single 0.5 CPU server onwards! #buildinpublic

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1 month

Attended a founders meetup/talk in SF tonight Really liked this quote from @sashaorloff “It will happen. It will just be harder than you think.” (Talking about raising money. But I think applies to other high input, hope-for-the-best parts of business as well)

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2 months

A year ago I started swimming laps. At first I couldn’t do more than 4-6 laps without needing a break. After a year of going 3x a week and watching youtube lessons, I just passed 50 straight laps for the first time ☺️ Friendly reminder almost everything is a skill issue, and

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2 months

Gotta love when a lifetime sale hits 🥂

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2 months

If you want to be rich and live a long time, move to Singapore (according to a study by the University of Washington)

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20 days

These are the best responses as to why someone cancels their subscription Not even mad!

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3 months

By far the best part of running a business is talking to happy customers This was in response to our newsletter today, made my day 🥲

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30 days

So AI has already fully taken the customer service industry eh Had an issue with some ripped pants, instantly got a great response email on a Sunday morning. Not robotic, human like. Had to do a double take bc I literally thought it was a human working Sunday morning

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2 months

also just added a lifetime option! 💃

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14 days

I've had a bunch of people ask me why I run ads on twitter over other platforms. Here's my answer: 1. The price for quality is the best imx right now A lot companies pulled out of ads on twitter when Elon took over, and since then reaching quality subs has been really cheap

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9 days

Build audience Build product Repeat (it's never been easier to do both of these things than now)

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2 months

Great content. And something I’ve thought as well Software being easier to create just means more software written, not less engineering jobs And AI handling the boring boilerplate tasks will leave the building/creative tasks to the dev (the fun stuff)

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2 months

In 10 years, I bet there will be 100x more engineers than now. I gave a talk on this topic at @Sourcegraph this week Here's 5 big predictions on how AI will impact engineers:

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2 months

@_gojohnnygo Glad you like it :)

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1 year

@iammemeloper Id say add in a 2 sec await timeout before returning null

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Alec

2 years

Spent the majority of the last two days trying to spin up a simple web app using Google cloud and got to a 🤬 point. Then found out about @render and got a front end backend and db with them talking in like 1-2 hours. And it’s freeee 🙌

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@austin_rief I’m ready

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2 months

There is no destiny. You make your future. Or your future will be decided for you.

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1 month

Evidence that scarcity discounts work: Udemy Everyone knows these "huge" discounts will always be there, but the expiration still pushes you to purchase in case it does go away Makes you feel like you're getting a great deal and they've been doing it for years

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3 months

This is great

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3 months

the creative way

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3 months

so openai releases a better chat gpt-4 that's free? why am I paying for the monthly subscription then?

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Alec

27 days

Looking for a good marketing/SEO agency for solopreneurs / small teams Anyone got any good recs?

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Alec

3 months

Jesus Christ. Imagine your whole company existence and records just being wiped away one morning Google in shambles right now

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Google Cloud accidentally deleted a company's entire cloud environment (Unisuper, an investment company, which manages $80B). The company had backups in another region, but GCP deleted those too. Luckily, they had yet more backups on another provider.

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1 month

Pro tip: when needing landing page inspiration, just go down Product Hunt top products of the day and find one you like Found some great ones today that I'll copy -- I mean be inspired by

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Alec

1 month

@umerwaqas93 Glad you like it!

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Alec

2 months

They really did deliver w/in a week. LFG 🔥 @beehiiv @denk_tweets 👏👏

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Alec

3 months

❤️ beehiiv

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2 months

Been reading up on digital marketing agencies. Some of these companies are super profitable (7 figures) w/ small teams (10ish or less) It makes sense. A company will pay me 1 marketing person's salary to do all their marketing (seo, social media, emails, web dev/design) =

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2 months

@J_handeland Yes, I’ll DM you

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2 months

This reminds me of @russellbrunson calling the most important employees the “rain makers” - the ones who can bring in customers Ballmer was the rain maker of Microsoft and is now worth more than Bill Gates You basically can choose your own salary

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Trung Phan

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Steve Ballmer’s net worth ($157.2B) just passed Bill Gates ($156.7B) for the first time ever. When Ballmer joined Microsoft in 1980, he was employee #30 and got ZERO equity. By the 1986 IPO, he owned 8% of MSFT and is now its single largest shareholder. How did he get the

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2 months

So today I learned one guy is behind all of the programming weekly newsletters (JavaScript weekly, Golang weekly, Frontend Focus, Node Weekly, etc) Pretty insane how he's able to output all of these! He must be rolling in the dough

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Alec

3 months

Do I have anyone here that offers consulting on running paid ads? I'd love to pay someone for 30 mins - an hour of their time on how I can optimize my twitter ads #buildinpublic #ad #consulting

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Alec

2 months

I've started cold emailing companies for Dev List, and it's crazy how easy it is to find people's contact info these days Apollo + Crunchbase is a cheat code (though kinda expensive)

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Alec

4 months

@marleniReuna254 we manually look through thousands of contract job postings, and then select the best ones based on things like (fully remote, pay, company history, etc) and add to the list

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Alec

3 months

@pizzamiheart @benjaminboman_

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Alec

2 months

Yesterday: feeling really unmotivated. Not sure what to work on Today: created a clear plan of what to do. Super productive Reminded me of this: “You don’t actually do a project; you do action steps related to a project” - Getting Things Done book

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22 days

Vincent knows AI. Check out his new product 👌

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Can AI make physical books where your loved ones are the heroes? 🤖 ===> YES, try it yourself Check out more examples in the thread! Made with @replicate @AnthropicAI @OpenAI @LumaLabsAI

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10 days

@ChristianPalou will do! Also just noticed you guys offer every language possible in your docs. Great touch 😄

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Alec

11 days

I was frustrated there wasn't a site dedicated to freelance engineering jobs The only current options are Upwork and flexjobs, which suck (imo) So I created Dev List. And now we have 7,000 subscribers :D If you're a developer looking for freelance jobs def check us out

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Alec

27 days

@thepatwalls Hating is a sign you’re doing something well. Starter story is 🔥

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1 month

One thing I never thought I’d say: business development is pretty fun It’s basically just building relationships

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Alec

1 year

@steventey Any other Firefox users still out there lol?

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Alec

2 years

CSS gives me the heebee jeebees. And I didn't know what responsive design was a month ago. I highly recommend @chakra_ui if anyone feels similar. Makes responsive css stupid simple (and kind of fun)

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2 months

Starter story is such a great resource. It's expensive but worth it imo (I'm not affiliated at all) The wealth of knowledge in these case studies is unbelievably useful when trying to start a business thanks @thepatwalls 👏

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26 days

Highest ROI work Working 9-5 as a SWE: speaking up in meetings / being seen Working for myself: brainstorming, often alone in a cafe

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Alec

3 months

Hot take: I don't care google analytics is taking my website visitor data I'd rather "pay" that way then the $50-100 a month for some of these other analytics platforms These big tech sites are already taking troves of data, (not to mention google already crawls through every

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1 month

Damn we need one of these in the US 🙏

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Olivia Moore

1 month

Finally got to visit @joinstationf and it’s like Disneyland for startups Is it wrong to be a little jealous of everyone who gets to work here? 😂

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10 days

Been playing around with and it's very well done Aggregates data for companies, jobs etc. Solid UX Great resource to add to your toolbelt if you're looking for jobs, leads, etc @ChristianPalou 👏👏

TheirStack | Technology Lookup & Hiring Signals

TheirStack | Technology Lookup & Hiring Signals

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24 days

cold emailing blows lol I've sent out 100 personalized emails the last week and only got like 2 responses saying "no thx but promote my product instead" very frustrating lol 🙃, maybe I'm doing it wrong?

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Alec

2 months

Quitting caffeine this year has been great. - not in need anymore to be productive - when I reallyyy need it, I can drink a little and it hits me hard. Like 1 tea and productive all day

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8 months

@thesamparr Not necessarily a new company but a lot of people don’t know about Little Snitch Network monitor app for your a Mac laptop You can see exactly what external network calls other apps on your computer are making (even behind the scenes one) If you’ve ever suspected an app was

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22 days

The alchemist is a helluva book

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3 months

So bun is a faster JS runtime ... that's great Bun is ALSO a bundler and replaces webpack ... I'm sold! 🤤 I fukn hate webpack

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Alec

20 days

How many AI wearables are going to come out of SF before they realize people don’t want these

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introducing friend. not imaginary. order now at

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I've started interviewing some devs for Dev List and I found the best way to know if someone knows what they're doing is by just talking about tech If you have strong, informed opinions about a language/framework/tech you know what you're doing And it's way more enjoyable than

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3 months

and you can use both `import` and `require` at the same time? jesus christ take all my money

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Alec

3 months

Anyone know of good twitter accounts or newsletters to catch up on the state of AI music? Trying to catch up #buildinpublic #indiehackers #aimusic #ai #music

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7 months

Reached 300 followers today. Started tweeting regularly about 6 months ago, with ~40 followers. Cool to see people enjoying some of my tweets :) (not as sexy as the "I gained 20k followers in a month" stories, but still makes me happy 🙂 )

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24 days

This morning I swam, spent time in the farmers market and talked with strangers, have been drinking kombucha all day Let’s just say my creative energy is level Lin-Manuel Miranda right now

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@AdaChoudhry Great routine!

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@Madisonkanna It’s basically a game of how high can I go before it gets suspicious lol

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2 months

Shoutout to @buckal_sourabh for his referrals to Dev List. Killing it!

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Alec

4 months

The difference has been crazy! I'm spending half as much, and getting like 10x conversions. Here's the summary of my spend. The top is using the conversion way, bottom is web traffic Check out the CPC! And i'm spending under $1 per new subscriber

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2 months

I really believe there are big opportunities in building for freelancers 38% of the us workforce freelanced in 2023, and the younger generations were a big part of that Younger gens want flexibility / autonomy src:

Gen Z Is Abandoning Conventional 9-to-5 Corporate Jobs for More Diverse, Flexible Careers in...

Latest research reveals Gen Z’s dominance in freelancing, career expectations, and growing desire to learn emerging skills like AI SAN FRANCISCO, May 14, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Upwork Inc. (Nasdaq:...

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4 months

@jigarhere On the landing page there’s a signup button!

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Alec

10 days

going to start using to make and even more powerful 😄

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Weekly roundup of top leads for your business

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Alec

9 months

@kgrebenjukov 0 haha. Definitely makes my routine easier

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4 months

|￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣| | You need to market | | your startup | |＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿| \ (•◡•) / \ / —— |_ |_ #buildinginpublic

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2 months

Seeing a micro trend of products where the UI is in the terminal (chat gpt, ordering coffee lol) This seems cool but, seems like a high friction UX Am I wrong here? #buildpublic

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3 months

My favorite part of running DevList so far is our welcome email. We send it to new subs and get responses every day about people's struggles finding freelance work 1. gives me invaluable feedback 2. I get to talk a bit with people from all over the world 😊

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3 months

But I end up paying for these other analytics tools because GA4 UX sucks ass

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4 months

Really glad I didn’t create a usage-based billing SaaS I was thinking of about a year ago lol (Stripe just announced they’re releasing)

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Alec

23 days

Crazy how the “China owns the US debt” fear mongering is just accepted Yes it’s a big number 750 billion No China does not own all our debt (only 2-3%), less than Japan (1T) and closer to UK debt (690B) Majority of debt (~ 75%) is owed to US government and US people

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America is headed for bankruptcy fyi

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4 months

I’ve been running Twitter ads for a couple of my projects and my follower count has shot up lol Bonus for running ads here over other networks

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Alec

4 months

For this you install twitter's pixel in your project, and then you use code to tell twitter when a conversion has happend. Here's my code in next js:

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weee 1k followers 🙂 started tweeting a little under a year ago let's see how long until 2k

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4 months

Don't be a programmer, be a maker

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4 months

I went down the rabbit hole of how OSS makes money Created this fun graphic for an article 😄 Any I missed? I didn't include things like sponsorships/donations bc less sustainable methods #buildinpublic

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4 months

@olenabomko lmao great meme

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3 months

You shouldn't worry about inner processes (ie tech stacks, automating, etc) until you have consistent cash flow aka "Do things that don't scale"

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3 months

❤️ beehiiv

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Tyler Denk 🐝

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@acharbohno @beehiiv give me a week

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4 months

Seeing innovators dilemma play out in real time with Google is wild Makes me a bit worried bc lots of their tools I take for granted though

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OpenAI to Challenge Google with Its Own Search Engine in May: Report

There are new reports suggesting that OpenAI is building a search engine, an alternative to Google Search, and may launch it in May.

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Alec

6 months

writer's block when writing content? 1. Go to reddit, and then a subreddit related to your niche 2. sort by top posts 3. sort by top comments You now have the most popular thing people are saying about your topic. Write something related to it #buildinpublic #seo

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Alec

2 months

@Godfather_cj we include security listings 👍

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Alec

4 months

and in random places there are save buttons, v confusing

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2 months

@MKAAdekola we only are listing software engineering positions right now sorry :/

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4 months

I feel like entrepreneurship is a series of “I am a king, give me a challenge, universe” And “I’m fucked what was I thinking” Multiple times a day

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Alec

4 months

Built a fun reddit tool. Uses AI to filter posts I'm interested in, and sends me a digest every hour right now it's filtering for people asking for entrepreneur advice so I can recommend my newsletter Is this something people would be interested in using? Trying to decide if

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Alec

2 months

Trying to find my price equilibrium (right word?) for Dev List 6.99 - signup about once a day 9.99 - 2 signups in 10 days Lowered it down to 7.99, let's see what happens 🤞

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Alec

26 days

Twitter is great, got a couple meetings set up. Thank you all!

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Alec

8 months

You can write blog articles until the cows come home. If you're not deliberate in the keywords you're focusing on you won't get as much traffic as someone who is #seo #buildinpublic

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Alec

5 months

I quit alcohol a couple months ago and I’m at least 3x happier now Going for a dry year

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4 months

Before I would run "Simple Ads" optimized for web traffic. This would give me lots of traffic, but not a lot of signups

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25 days

Damn stripe really has the SaaS industry by the balls

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Lemon Squeezy

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✨ Stripe acquires Lemon Squeezy ✨ Woohoo! We made a sale! 🥳 We're excited to announce that @stripe has acquired @lmsqueezy to help build a global merchant of record solution. 3 years ago, we set out to make selling digital products easy-peasy. With your help, we've done

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4 months

Alright I finished the code for my next project Now I need to decide on a domain So you'll see me in a week probably #buildinpublic

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Alec

5 months

You need a growth strategy SEO - long term play, cheap Paid Ads - short term play, expensive Social Media - short term play, cheap (but small reach) Word of Mouth - the king 👑, but hard to get There's lots of growth levers you can pull, choose your weapon 🔫 #buildinpublic

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Alec

8 months

The guy who created Stardew valley graduated with no job offers So he worked in a theater part time, and coded indie games to use as a portfolio to employers Then he caught fire with the harvest moon spin off. Now the games makes $200M+ per year #buildinpublic #indiehackers

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4 months

This last time I experimented with using the "Advanced Ads", optimized for Sale conversions

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