Launch email went out this morning. I had 2,400 confirmed addresses in a table and a script that basically did . Roughly the first 600 went out, then everything after that came back and the script exited. So now some…
Node app and Postgres on the same $6 instance, nginx in front, no cache headers on anything. Sat around 3 req/s normally. Post went up, traffic climbed, and at roughly 40 req/s the box pegged, nginx started returning…
First launch I have ever done. Day zero was 4,100 uniques and it felt incredible. Day four was 210. It has been sitting between 165 and 190 for a fortnight since, with one small bump. I knew there would be a drop, I did…
Pulled about 400 contacts out of a public directory in my niche, wrote one template with a merge field for company name, and ran it over eight days with four follow ups. Two replies, one of them telling me to stop. The…
Developer tool, 40 signups so far, essentially no distribution. I have $500 set aside and one free weekend before I go back to contract work. Option A is grinding through a list of 25 launch directories and aggregators.…
Two candidates for the hero line. One names the category outright, the other leads with the problem in the user's words. Current landing page converts at about 4% to signup. I expect roughly 900 visits across launch…