Same hero layout, same three step section, and two paragraphs of my copy with the nouns swapped. Pricing is one dollar under mine. I know the standard answer is 'execution matters, not ideas'. I would still like to know…
Started posting about the build in April. Daily ish, 112 posts, screenshots, small wins, a couple of genuinely honest posts about things breaking. Total replies across all of it: 19, and 6 of those are from the same…
138 posts since January, nearly all of them some flavour of "here is the number and what changed this week". I finally put the whole funnel in one chart instead of looking at one metric at a time, and it is bleak:…
Same list of 2,140 subscribers, same weekly issue, same ESP, no change to the copy. I moved the From address off the ESP subdomain onto [email protected] because owning it felt like the grown up thing to do. Next send:…
/changelog is a static page, one entry a week for about a year. Plausible says 11 unique views last month. Meanwhile in three separate support threads this month people asked for things that shipped in March, and one of…
I've been posting weekly build updates for about five months. Two of those posts had the actual database schema in them and a screenshot of the thing that makes my tool different a diff view for two versions of a config…
Five months of weekly revenue and traffic posts. Two weeks ago a near identical landing page appeared, same structure, same angle, name one letter away from mine. There are three now. One of them is buying ads on my…
Side project, $340 MRR, 22 customers, built entirely on weekends. My employment contract has the usual invention assignment clause but the product is nowhere near what the company does and I cleared it in writing with…
Every update goes to four places: X, LinkedIn, a Discord I am part of, and a monthly email. Rewriting for each takes me between 90 minutes and two hours, and that is the same slot I would otherwise use to build. A…
I post a short update every Friday and about six weeks ago I put up a roadmap page with six things on it, in order, with rough months attached. Nine days later a competitor I had never heard of launched with four of…
I have been posting weekly updates for about seven months. Four weeks ago I posted the next three things I was building, with rough screenshots of one of them. Two weeks later a much better funded product in the same…
Solo, product is live, about 90 free users and 6 paying. I have roughly 3 hours a week that could go to writing and I keep flip flopping. A newsletter feels like the thing that builds an audience but it is a weekly…