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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

3 years

Jitbit condemns this war. I'm from Russia originally and I'm ashamed of my passport right now. Forgive us Ukraine 🇺🇦 💙💛

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

4 years

Me writing Markdown

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

4 years

niiiiiice

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

5 years

Coding is procrastination for founders. Very similar to social networks: instant gratification + dopamine hit + a way to escape the boring shit of running a business (mostly marketing) God I love coding.

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

3 years

We've officially crossed the $300k/month revenue mark. It's been stable for 3 months. It took our (extremely) small company 10 years. We could probably get there faster with funding or a bigger team, but then again - we wouldn't get to keep all this revenue to ourselves eh??

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

5 years

@dhh My bootstrapped software company spends around $1k every month just so that we *show up* if someone searches for us using our effing *brand name*. (which is not even a word, 100% artificial)

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

4 years

Our tests confirm that the pricing page is the one page people actually read - thoroughly and carefully. You can use it to surface and re-surface your most valuable features.

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

11 years

Product is easy to copy. The culture that produced the product is hard to copy @dharmesh at #bos2013

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

3 years

Everyone and their dog has a book these days, so last night I freaked out and published my unfinished, unedited and unpolished book on Amazon. It's been "work in progress" for too long The cover sucks, the timing sucks, BUT it's free for the next 5 days!

How to Build a Bootstrapped Software Startup

Launching and running a successful startup isn’t a talent you are born with, it’s a craft like any other. Mastering it is demanding, exhausting, confusing – yet incredibly rewarding. So if this is...

www.amazon.com

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

3 years

Say all you want about DHH & JF, but the "Embrace Constraints" chapter has changed my life 15 years ago Now at 300k/mo we still have a tiny team, we deliberately don't use a bloated pile of paid SaaS'es, not even analytics/email/etc Limitations are good - they force creativity

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

3 years

I’m lost & broken & frightened right now. The war has to stop. Here’s some random thoughts for my European and American friends (from someone who grew up in Russia)👇

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

3 years

We’ve just migrated a 1TB (!) database. From a Windows server to a Linux one. With zero downtime.

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

4 years

@hnshah Overpriced JSON file.

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

3 years

I'm SERIOUSLY considering a paid add-on for my SaaS named "Custom Legal Stuff" for $35,000 per occasion.

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

5 years

Friends know me as a strong opposer of JavaScript frameworks, but let me just take off that hat for a moment and give @vuejs a huge shout out. Vue. Is. Awesome.

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

13 years

Queen vs Justin Bieber http://t.co/pC14eNIP

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

3 years

2020 was tough: pandemic, homeschooling, biz ups & downs, isolation - so my wife has literally bought me a plane ticket & pushed me out to decompress on my own. I flew to the States and did an epic motorcycle ride though Cali: Yosemite, Monterey, Big Sur, Pismo.. She’s the best

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

5 years

Coder's UI vs Designer's UI

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

6 years

Drafted an epic post about my recent move from Mac to PC. Check it out if you're still trying to find a replacement for that 2015 retina MacBook we all love.

Back to PC after 14 years on a MacBook

I spent two years searching for a replacement for my retina MacBook Pro, here's what I've found.

www.jitbit.com

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

3 years

Things I'd do differently when launching my SaaS app 12yrs ago: 1. Use Int64 database IDs instead of Int32

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

3 years

My wife has pivoted her entire career during the pandemic, followed her huge passion and became a sports journalist. Started small with just a tiny Telegram channel - to an accredited reporter - to giving expert comment on Winter Olympics on LIVE TV tomorrow Nuts. Proud AF❤️

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

7 years

In case you missed my interview at IndieHackers yesterday #shamelessplug

Indie Hackers

@IndieHackers

7 years

"I barely slept, drove a $500 car, and kept… releasing a new app every 4-5 months." — @jitbit , $1.7M/yr

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

4 years

In 15 years of running my SaaS I’ve never used a calendar app. Ever. Hate it. One of the reasons I quit my job and started a company is dealing with stupid calendars, meetings, calls and reminders. The only thing I used calendar for were flight times, but yeah, not this year.

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

10 years

best motivator ever http://t.co/P49mELx2w6

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

3 years

Woke up to some Reddit love today. Someone's asked for a ticketing system recommendation and... gosh this feels so freaking amazing. "Just build a cool product" still works ppl

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

5 years

Watch out #Microconf I’m coming as five!

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

6 years

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

5 years

Turns out you don't need any extensions to capture a full-length webpage screenshot: Chrome - Dev. tools -> Menu -> "Run command" -> start typing "Captu..." -> select "Capture full size screenshot"

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

6 years

2000s: "I will go and find a nice image icon for my button..." 2010s: "I will find a suitable glyph in the webfont we're using..." 2018: "Nahhhh. screw it, I'll just pick one unicode symbol that fits... There's an ∞ of them"

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

3 years

is by far the best GUI git client I tried. Clean UI, handy, fast. But the best part - it's bootstrapped and built by an indiehacking married couple. ...oh no wait, the best part that it's not built with effing Electron @git_fork

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

4 years

Every marketer and their mom will tell you to create "Competitor-X alternative" pages. Not a single one will tell you to actually build the "Your-Product alternatives" one. Meanwhile you'll easily get the top 1 google spot for this.

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

6 years

Typical enterprise customer: Are you PCI compliant? What about GDPR? HIPAA? Are the disks encrypted? Where's the datacenter? Is it secured? Do you have TLS 1.0 disabled? Are employees certified? OK... Oh, but your app DOESN'T WORK IN IE10 !!

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

4 years

Pentesters we hired to try to "hack" our SaaS: "Your code keeps banning our IP address after malicious requests, can you please disable that?" Huh?

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

4 years

23 things we do wrong at Jitbit

Things we do wrong at Jitbit

Things we do wrong at Jitbit - Monday, 22 June 2020 - Alex's blog'

www.jitbit.com

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

6 years

My wife gave me a drone for my birthday. WOW. Perfect toy for an introvert. PS. Also, have to ride on the front edge 100% of the time now, to check of this thing is still following me :)

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

10 years

Awesome tool for finding unused CSS on your website (across several pages, not just one):

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

4 years

I'm starting to realize what bugs me about this pile of "modern web" technologies (JS frmwrks, builders, webpacks & TailwindCSS'es) The dinosaur-hacker-control-freak in me *really* needs to know what happens under the hood, but npm-packages just keep saying "duuude we got this"

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

8 years

Biggest lesson learned at #bos2016 for me so far: your funnel does not end at the "trial-2-paid" conversion. It ends at "paid-2-referral".

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

6 years

Wrote up my thoughts on Tech Stacks for Bootstrapped Founders, please check it out.

Thoughts on Tech Stacks for Bootstrapped Startups

So you’re starting a bootstrapped web-based business and you’re deciding on the tech stack. After running a software startup with zero…

medium.com

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

3 years

I'm writing a book. It's about relational database scaling and performance hacks. Because in the end that's what running a SaaS boils down to, as it turns out :( P.S. I'm serious

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

5 years

HR: Please come to our interview You: uhmmm... I'm not even... HR: Please, please, we want to hire you! You: well... ok... Interview HR: Why do you want this job and why we should hire you?

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

1 year

Norway is ❤️❤️❤️ mindblowingly magnificent cc @einarvollset !!!

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

6 years

I get it, I really do... Poor communication, no grandfathering etc.... Still couldn't resist making this :))

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

4 years

❤️the last episode of @startupspod "Only take advice from someone who's done it at least twice" & more wisdom by @robwalling I launched 26 products, most of them failed, some got to 5-10k MRR and only ONE really took off - and I still feel like a rookie More "Angry Rob" plz

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

6 years

Bootstrapped startup founder's time: Early stage = 90% coding, 10% marketing First customers = 50% coding, 30% marketing, 20% support Growing = 60% marketing, 39% support, 1% coding Grown and mature: 100% sysadmin/outages/devops/backups/CI/loadbalancing/and shit

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

3 years

Spotting toxic customers and saying "no" early is the best skill ever. P.S. My latest "no" was like: "Sorry, we are a *product* company, but analyzing 12 pages of business requirements and adopting our app to them sounds like *consulting*, which is a different pricing league"

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

7 months

Achievement unlocked. Microsoft has just released .NET 8.0.3 update... ...with my code in it!!! 🎉🥳 P.S. If you're a C# web-developer go install it. I just made your websocket apps 40% faster.

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

3 years

Whoa, this is blowing up! Shameless plug time! Check out my free Unused CSS Scanner (and more free tools) at

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

5 years

Please, please, please watch this with the sound on. Found a perfect trail for drone-filming, but unfortunately - a green one 😉

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

5 years

It's official, we're out of IPv4 addresses

RIPE NCC

@ripencc

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Today, at 15:35, we made our final /22 IPv4 allocation from the last remaining addresses in our available pool. We have now run out of IPv4 addresses. Read our full announcement here: In the picture, the Registration Services team at the RIPE NCC

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

2 years

Riga half marathon!

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

4 years

How to redesign your outdated SaaS app to give it a more modern look in 3 easy steps: 1) Open your app in the browser 2) Zoom to 125% 3) That's your new design (almost not kidding)

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

4 years

Biggest achievement of 2020 - finally learning Latvian (8 months of online lessons over Zoom), passing the language exam and getting my permanent residency. PS. And now my favorite thing is pretending I only speak English & Russian and then listen to the locals discuss me hehe

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

4 years

One of the perks you get being self-funded and profitable is turning down unfit potential customers. Them: "Hey, you are *invited* to participate in RFP *bidding* for a trouble ticketing system for Huge-Ass-Blah-Blah-Telecom, please fill these 45 forms" Me: "Mark as spam"

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

5 years

I’m in heaven and off the grid for the next 10 days.

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

4 years

So apparently 2 billion dollar startup simply forgot to renew their domain name.

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

4 years

2020 really sucks but has its upsides. 1st: no travel + homeschooling resulted in more quality time with the family. 2nd: I got into running. That dopamine hit at ~6K made me a running junkie. It started as an excuse to get out - now I'm doing the Riga marathon this weekend.

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

3 years

Had to let someone go for the first time in... ever. This is freaking tough and I didn't sign up for this. Some thoughts:

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

3 years

Got my 2nd vaccine today. After 10 hours - brain fog, shaking chills, fever.. Started instantly, like a flip switch Super happy tho! b/c can’t even imagine what would happen if I got the actual frikin virus This genetic material is definitely something extra fucking terrestrial

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

4 years

That's a heck of a ton of hardware for only 2mil MAU. Our SaaS app with 3mil users and >100mil UGC runs on 1 (one!) lousy server (though blob-objects are scaled out to S3) How bad is their codebase?

JΞSŦΞR ✪ ΔCŦUΔL

@th3j35t3r

4 years

Anyone wanna know what Parler are trying to put together from other hosting providers that aren't AWS? Read this spec list. Good luck with this outside of AWS. Rob Monster of Epik Hosting won't be able to give them this kinda grunt with his shitty white-label reseller acct.

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

6 years

Nice "technical SEO" tip I found when browsing old @JohnMu 's videos: If you're lazy-loading your images, make sure you also include these images inside a <noscript> tag. Otherwise you're losing organic traffic from image-search.

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

6 years

Just installed a time-tracking browser addon, to see how much time I waste on social networks. Turns out my TOP-1 website is... "localhost" #GetALife

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

3 years

The tech world has a cognitive bias, that the most discussed tech stacks are the most popular ones. Meanwhile 90% of software is quietly built with boring tech like Java or even (oh no!) PHP. No frameworks, no containers, no serverless workers, no webpack, not even npm.

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

4 years

Next time someone makes fun of frontend devs - this is what I'm showing. (you don't have to read Russian, just check the video out)

Vlad Shilov 🦆🇪🇸

@Omgovich

4 years

Хочется похвастаться: Зацените какую крутую штуку я сделал на работе.

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

5 years

I looove my new setup. Surface Book 2 + MS dock + G413 mechanical keyboard + the fabulous 34” Dell display. (had to send back 2 monitors before settling on this one) PS. Although turned out the dock is not even needed, the monitor could handle all of it via USBc

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

6 years

JS frameworks are the new "ASP NET WebForms" - a shitty abstraction, with its own "tags", "attributes", hidden logic, etc. Things that are trivial in HTML suddenly become a messy workarounds. JS devs are too young to remember, but we - the old farts - do

Jen Simmons

@jensimmons

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It’s beginning to feel like the HTML-CSS-JS vs JS-JS-JS war is a class war. If your project has a budget of millions, “of course” you should use a complex build process and a JavaScript framework that handles everything (according to the folks who believe this). The pressure…

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

3 years

Just drafted a short blog post with some details for SQL geeks:

How we migrated a 1TB database from Win to Linux with no downtime

How we migrated a 1TB database from Win to Linux with no downtime - Wednesday, 29 December 2021 - Jitbit Software blog'

www.jitbit.com

Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

3 years

We’ve just migrated a 1TB (!) database. From a Windows server to a Linux one. With zero downtime.

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

3 years

Facebook renamed to Meta, Google renamed to Alphabet. And Twitter stays Twitter b/c it doesn’t have the “edit” button.

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

3 years

Small founders can't use "remote" as their hiring advantage anymore, since every FAANG and their mom is now "remote". Have to come up with something else. How about this: we're not just remote, we're async (!), we value deep work and you don't have to be on Slack 24/7

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

1 year

So, my company name is "Jitbit" And the no.1 search keyword that brings me traffic these days is (drumroll please): "chat jibiti" P.S. no.2 is "chat jipiti". You can't make this stuff up. Thank you, voice search (I guess)

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

4 years

You after spending hours googling for a complicated tech issue, then finally bump onto a helpful StackOverflow answer, and then realize it's YOUR OWN ANSWER

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

7 years

Had wonderful time at #microconf in Lisbon, huge todo-list as always. Gonna miss you all. PS. kudos 2 @benediktdeicke for the pic;)

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

6 years

GDPR: "Let's make sending unwanted emails harder" Lawyers: "Cool. And let's email EVERYONE about that."

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

5 years

I don't recall asking every company in the world to email me what they're doing "to ensure they remain operational during these disruptive times" Shut up, I don't care :)

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

4 years

"Shareware" developers in the 2000s: "whoa, that looks like a cool moneymaking product, how come I haven't thought about this, I SHOULD TOTALLY CLONE IT" (launches IDE, goes off the grid for 3 weeks) SaaS founders in 2020: "ehh, this niche seems occupied, let's move on"

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

6 years

Mesmerizing. And enlightening. PS. Found it here:

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

4 years

"Shrek" was released 10 years ago. Feeling old yet? If not - it was actually Shrek 4. The original Shrek was 20 yrs ago.

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

6 years

40 more miles to #BoS2018

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

11 months

So, first OpenAI killed hundreds of startups by adding a PDF plugin. Yesterday they killed 500 more by adding "knowledge retrieval" - all those products built around custom embedding are dead now. OpenAI is the "Amazon Basics" of indy AI products.

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

4 years

As a SaaS *customer* I have to say I actually prefer “features” over “benefits” on landing pages.

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

2 years

Many times solving a interesting puzzle like this makes me happier than hitting an MRR milestone or coding a new feature.

How to Hide Tethering from Your Mobile Operator

How to Hide Tethering from Your Mobile Operator - Thursday, 14 July 2022 - Alex's blog'

www.jitbit.com

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

6 years

2010: you write in MS Word, saving it to the cloud every now and then in case your laptop dies 2018: you write in Google Docs saving it locally in case your Internet dies

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

5 years

Just read 4 blog posts how CloudFlare ruins SEO rankings for websites. Ran a quick reverse-IP test and discovered some shady Chinese porn site on the same IP. Disabled it for 24 hours as a test, will tweet the results later.

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

3 years

Simple attribution hack: 1. when someone visits the website, we store the utm-param OR the entrance page in cookies 2. when they sign up: we save that info in the DB next to their account 3. when they convert: we know where they came from even if someone else is placing the order

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

7 years

Back home from @femtoconf . Awesome conference, very balanced, people sharing tons of their secret sauce, haven't seen this in a while

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

3 years

When deciding between candidates - always hire the better cultural/value fit. Tech skills are less important. I’ve hired dozens of people in my prof life and this rule has never let me down. PS. _Especially_ if you’re a small indie SaaS

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

5 years

Customers: "We want a self-hosted version! Give us the self-hosted version! SELF-HOSTED VERSIOOOON!" Also customers: "How do we tweak the database indexes? How to optimize DB performance? How do we backup?"

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

3 years

Half-marathon baby

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

4 years

After overpriced tickets, 2 awful connections (for a EU domestic flight!!), spending 7 hours in a mask, a closed down Europcar office, and 1:00am check-in - I’M FINNALY HERE!!!!

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

3 years

Please ♥️ me on ProductHunt ;)

Product Hunt Rank - Product Information, Latest Updates, and Reviews 2024 | Product Hunt

Windows, Web App, Chrome Extensions, and Email

www.producthunt.com

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

4 years

Just out of curiosity used the Azure calculator to build a cloud config similar to what we have in AWS. Turns out it's 40-50% cheaper. Even with all the discounts we squeeze out of the "3 year reserved" AWS plans. Wow.

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

4 years

My post "23 Things We Do Wrong" got some attention so I thought it'd be a good idea to write "23 Things We're Awesome At"

22 Things We're Awesome At

I wrote about the things we do wrong, now here are the things we're awesome at

www.jitbit.com

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

3 years

The more I talk to founders the less I buy from bootstrapped companies *unless* the company's been around for 12-18 months or took funding. Founders have shiny object syndrome and lose interest in stuff all the time. Having history (or funding) => more chances they stick around

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

7 years

This is how I feel today. Thanks Barbara, Mark and Pauline 💕

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

4 years

Manager: so you want a bank account for a software company? Me: yep! Mgr: can you provide any evidence that are, in fact, a programmer? Me: how about a GitHub profile and a StackOverflow account? Mgr: What's "github"? IT guy (fixing the printer in the same room): Take it.

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

9 years

So proud to sponsor #microconf this year

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

5 years

If there's one thing I learned about running a self-funded startup, it's this: Whenever you face a choice - choose "boring"

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Alex Yumashev

@jitbit

6 years

If you ever need help with AdWords, I *highly* recommend @aaronweiner he's a genius (and a highly professional consultant btw, made me feel like I'm his only client, which is obviously not true)

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