What's New: Finally, a definition for open source AI
Here's what you'll find in this issue:
- The Open Source Initiative, the undisputed authority of open source software, defines open source AI.
- So, you've just sent a cold email. And... no response. Change these key things to get a 90%+ response rate.
- $37K MRR with a form builder. Julien Nahum built in a few days, and went viral soon thereafter.
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The Open Source Initiative finally defines open source AI 🤖
It's crucial to establish and encourage a vibrant open source AI ecosystem. As Mark Zuckerberg put it:
Open source will ensure that more people around the world have access to the benefits and opportunities of AI, that power isn’t concentrated in the hands of a small number of companies, and that the technology can be deployed more evenly and safely across society.
But, despite its importance, we didn’t have a definition of open source AI...
These cold emails get 90%+ response rates 📧
People are busy. They also read a lot of their emails on their mobile devices. So, get to the point in the subject line itself.
In one example, a CEO changed the subject line from "Checking in" to one that emphasized what the email was about.
Here's what happened next, and more insights from a recent cold email analysis.
In the news 📰
💰 Reddit is profitable for the first time ever.
🔎 Pivot away from targeting strategies in 2025.
✅ Getting B2B e-commerce right.
🤹 Five marketing strategies to be everywhere at once.
🔊 Why brands use sounds to make you buy stuff.
Growing a simple Notion extension into a $37K form builder business 💪
Julien Nahum didn’t think anyone would pay for a Notion add-on he built in a few days, but as it turns out, speed is everything.
NoteForms was the first extension of its kind, and growth was super organic. At the very beginning, Julien was proactive in getting feedback every time he came up with a new version.
Here's how he collected feedback and used it to iterate effectively.
Channing's tweet pick 🐦
When you stop working on your side projects to focus on just one thing, that one thing usually begins to feel like many side projects as it grows.
So you can have your cake and eat it too. —@channingallen
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Special thanks to Jay Avery for editing this issue, to Gabriella Federico for the illustrations, and to Stephen Flanders, Darko Gjorgjievski, and James Fleischmann for contributing posts. —Channing
