Thanks for sharing, this was a great read, and especially useful to me as someone trying to build a daily newsletter service myself (https://coinrecap.io).
It's interesting to hear your experiences with virality and with content marketing. Our daily open rates have been great, but we don't see much/any forwarding going on. Do you explicitly ask your users in the email to forward to friends or does it just happen naturally do to the nature of your content?
Also, I'm curious what your conversion rates on content marketing are like. We recently ran our first test with content marketing and saw ~2% of those who landed on the blog post convert into subscribers. This was a bit disheartening for us, but perhaps is to be expected? If you're comfortable sharing, I'd love to know what your blog posts convert at, and if the conversion rate ever varies by content!
Thanks again for sharing. Cheers and good luck!
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Signed up for Daily Coding Problem since day 1. Must recommended, if you are preparing for software engineering interview. Very good questions I got everyday.
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I'm super glad you're enjoying the questions! Hope you ace your interviews :)
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Is there any way to access your past questions/solutions? I would love access to all that practice material if I was cramming getting ready for a string of interviews.
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Hey bluu, not at the moment! I agree it would be useful though.
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This is a great story! I have a few questions:
Where do you get all the problems?
How long does it take to work out the solutions (i.e. to put together content for a single day)?
Do you have people to vet the solutions for you before they go out?
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Hey Jerrie, thanks for reading!
We get the problems from friends that have recently done the interview gauntlet at Google/Facebook/etc.
It takes a couple hours to write up and edit each question and solution. It can vary a lot though since some questions are much more difficult and require more time to solve and write up.
Nope, we just edit them ourselves and look over each other's work.
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Hey Lawrence, thanks for the interview! I found Daily Coding Problem on Product Hunt when it launched, and have been following it since. Great work!
Do you spend a couple of hours everyday on creating new problems? And if you don't mind sharing, do you have a lot of churn? Just wondering if you'd be able to recycle them. :)
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Awesome. Yep, we spend a couple hours every day writing the problems and solutions.
We do have a bit higher than average churn but it's surprisingly been consistently going down!
What do you mean by recycling? :)
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Thanks for sharing your experience - super inspiring!
Out of curiosity, how did you go about processing payments in your initial product?
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Hey yang, we used Stripe for processing payments in our initial product, and still do!
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Hey, any plans on adding support for different languages? I'm currently a subscriber and loving it so far.
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Does the free subscription includes answers? or it's only the questions and I need to subscribe to the monthly fee to see the answers? Thanks for clarifying this.
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The free subscriptions only have questions -- you get solutions with the paid one!
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Hi Lawrence,
Your story is inspirational. Congratulations on all the success!
Thanks for sharing, this was a great read, and especially useful to me as someone trying to build a daily newsletter service myself (https://coinrecap.io).
It's interesting to hear your experiences with virality and with content marketing. Our daily open rates have been great, but we don't see much/any forwarding going on. Do you explicitly ask your users in the email to forward to friends or does it just happen naturally do to the nature of your content?
Also, I'm curious what your conversion rates on content marketing are like. We recently ran our first test with content marketing and saw ~2% of those who landed on the blog post convert into subscribers. This was a bit disheartening for us, but perhaps is to be expected? If you're comfortable sharing, I'd love to know what your blog posts convert at, and if the conversion rate ever varies by content!
Thanks again for sharing. Cheers and good luck!
Signed up for Daily Coding Problem since day 1. Must recommended, if you are preparing for software engineering interview. Very good questions I got everyday.
I'm super glad you're enjoying the questions! Hope you ace your interviews :)
Is there any way to access your past questions/solutions? I would love access to all that practice material if I was cramming getting ready for a string of interviews.
Hey bluu, not at the moment! I agree it would be useful though.
This is a great story! I have a few questions:
Where do you get all the problems?
How long does it take to work out the solutions (i.e. to put together content for a single day)?
Do you have people to vet the solutions for you before they go out?
Hey Jerrie, thanks for reading!
We get the problems from friends that have recently done the interview gauntlet at Google/Facebook/etc.
It takes a couple hours to write up and edit each question and solution. It can vary a lot though since some questions are much more difficult and require more time to solve and write up.
Nope, we just edit them ourselves and look over each other's work.
Hey Lawrence, thanks for the interview! I found Daily Coding Problem on Product Hunt when it launched, and have been following it since. Great work!
Do you spend a couple of hours everyday on creating new problems? And if you don't mind sharing, do you have a lot of churn? Just wondering if you'd be able to recycle them. :)
Awesome. Yep, we spend a couple hours every day writing the problems and solutions.
We do have a bit higher than average churn but it's surprisingly been consistently going down!
What do you mean by recycling? :)
Thanks for sharing your experience - super inspiring!
Out of curiosity, how did you go about processing payments in your initial product?
Hey yang, we used Stripe for processing payments in our initial product, and still do!
Hey, any plans on adding support for different languages? I'm currently a subscriber and loving it so far.
Does the free subscription includes answers? or it's only the questions and I need to subscribe to the monthly fee to see the answers? Thanks for clarifying this.
The free subscriptions only have questions -- you get solutions with the paid one!
Hi Lawrence,
Your story is inspirational. Congratulations on all the success!
I'm a Founder working on https://www.hiration.com
I would love to get in touch with you or your team to discuss a collaboration. Looked for a contact email on your website but couldn't find it.
Would you be able to share an email address where I can reach out to your team?
Thanks,
Aditya
What service do you use to manage emails?
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