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Leaving his VC-backed company to bootstrap a product to $1M ARR in 10 months

Two of my posts got exactly 0 impressions. Not low reach. Zero. Meanwhile a post 12 people saw converted at 16.7%.

I cut half my content plan this week because the data said it was dead weight. Two video posts drove 84% of my reach.

An "AI Assistant" traffic source just showed up in my analytics for the first time. Is anyone actually optimizing for this yet?

Last week my own tool told me my marketing was decaying. This week I actually did the boring fix. Here is the honest result.

8 weeks of building in public got me real reach and basically zero signups. Here is what I think I got wrong.

I sell visibility for a living. I finally measured my own channels and the tool I built called me a hypocrite.

I posted the same offer twice. One reached 140 people, the other reached 3. The only difference was the link.

Two weeks ago I delayed my own launch because demand was zero. Here is what 30 conversations taught me instead.

I traced a batch of "direct traffic" leads. They all came from a podcast the dashboard never credited.

I was about to open my waitlist. Almost nobody was asking for it. So I am doing 2 more weeks of building instead.

A 52x reach penalty was hiding on a Facebook page I audited. Same page, same week, one variable.

5 weeks building in public. Today I opened Pulseboard early access. Here is everything it caught on the way.

10 Instagram image posts. 1 engagement. Pulseboard told us in build week 4.

1,062 search impressions. 1 click. The number that broke our weekly review.

First Pulseboard recommendation that changed how I run my own agency (build week 3)

I spent 2 weeks writing about why agency dashboards don't work. This week I started building the thing that does.

Why marketing analytics for service businesses might be a fundamentally different product

I’m launching on ProductHunt in 7 days with zero customers. Here’s my exact plan.

Leaving his VC-backed company to bootstrap a product to $1M ARR in 10 months