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Week 1 : $70 revenue, 440 subs, 48k views

I actually made a thread on twitter about my progress since launching a week ago. Basically, www.buymeacoffee.com/nocsdegree is helping while I work on native ads/sponsorships from companies. I have had a newsletter sponsor already as well. https://twitter.com/noCSdegree/status/1156113417721323520

Pete Codes

, Founder of

No CS Degree

on July 30, 2019

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Congrats Pete. Perhaps try summarising some of the articles as threads on Twitter. e.g. -

How Steph Smith learnt to code
THREAD ...

And then 5 - 10 summary points from her article?
That style of thread has certainly been the trick in grow my marketing sites Twitter

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  Awesome! Good to know.
  
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Nicely done! I love the whole idea behind this project :)

woganmay

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  Thanks for all the coffees dude!!
  
  Great start to the day!
  
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Great job! I like the idea, it's very inspiring stuff. Just out of curiosity, how do you select people to interview? Anyway, keep up the good work!

Whistl3r

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  Thanks! It started off by me asking people in Telegram groups how they got started. This was before I had the website as a concept and I was just curious. So I know a couple of people already to interview and then I started approaching new people. Then when I was top of HN 30 people emailed me in one day. So sorting through those now.
  
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Nice job! 👏 congrats!

juneau

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  Cheers!
  
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Way to go!

vikramsharma

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  cheers!
  
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I've never seen tipping as being scaleable. Patreon and other subscription models seem to work but tipping seems really incidental. Have considered something like this for incomedata.org, which is a high value add for a small number of people but haven't had good results.

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  Tipping isn't my only source of revenue.
  
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$100 now 😎

petecodes

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Congratulations. I’ve been telling myself to do this for a while and reading about your journey is motivation to get started. #onward

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  Thanks! Go start :)
  
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Hi. Well done.
How have you built audience for the newsletter?
470+ in a week??

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  I got top of Hacker News for three hours.
  
  You can check out the traffic here: www.nocsdegree.com/open
  
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Haha, i love this app. I just signed up to give it out to a few people on IndieHackers because I've been replying to them, but I didn't connect paypal or stripe yet, because well, trust. So my account is sitting dormant until I connect both of those accounts. Which makes me want to create dummy accounts on either platform so i'm not connecting my account that has my projects/saas products in it etc

standupbot

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Shared your thread https://threadreaders.com/thread/embed/1156113417721323520

gbessoni

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Please help me in getting traffic!
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vansh5352

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