Front page in tech news website.
We launched ClipDish a couple of weeks ago. I'm taking the Paul Graham approach of doing things that don't scale. As part of this effort I began reaching out to various professional groups I belong to.
Within minutes of posting to a private mailing list in the Philadelphia area I was contacted by a reporter. She's a food lover and the lead reporter for Technically Philly and wanted to do a profile on our app.
What did I learn? Well, it validated the "do things that don't scale." This experience was also a reminder that early customer growth should always start with the people in your network.
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Weekend Club launched in Americas time zones 🙏
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You can pay us via self-service!
Finally, we've implemented self-service payments in our user panel, so you don't need to go away from the site to buy the paid plan. 🤑 Check out our
Starting Hacker-AI
966 / 5000 In my decade long marketing tech career, I've seen how artificial intelligence and automation have changed the business. However, one funda
Update 126: +1 customer
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Launched Landing & Registration
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Launched Landing & Registration
Outside of the core product, one thing I wanted to get right from day zero was the capturing of insights & information to properly product manage this
Testing a Product Hunt Ad
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Our latest blog article brought 3k unique users
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Working on new packages
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Updated name to better reflect platform's goal
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