ccantana
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Comment · 7 years ago
Typo aside, that does not materially affect the point. “Management” in this case appears to be every other team at the company...
Comment · 7 years ago
> What's wrong with the UX of IRC?
One sentence later:
> ...we scrapped it because only our software developer used it and other people in the company preferred something else (they used a mix of email, Google chat/hangouts, and text).
Clearly something was wrong with the UX if only one person was willing to use it?
This place is a parody of itself sometimes.
Comment · 7 years ago
I run a popular weekly newsletter that makes fun of the tech industry. Think: The Onion meets TechCrunch.
Newsletters can generally charge a much higher CPM than a social media accounts or even podcasts in some cases. You can start making beer money with only a few thousand subscribers.
We’re also thinking of hosting a few live events as well once our audience is large enough.
(P.S. for the curious, the newsletter is called TechLoaf: https://techloaf.io)
Comment · 7 years ago
Hey, that's my newsletter!
Glad you're a fan, and always excited to see my extremely lo-tech baby get love on HN.
I'll send you some swag - reply to any of the emails.
Proud you're standing with The Loaf in this crowded Weekly Newsletter as a Service (WNaaS) space.
Lo-tech archive:
https://us17.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=14538d8f8591165977...
Comment · 7 years ago
"...aged for 12 years in Mezcal barrels to give it a smoggy aroma and a robust gunpowder-magnesium chloride finish."
That is legitimately brilliant.
Comment · 7 years ago
+1 on your point about marketing. I also deeply undervalued how much goes into a great/thoughtful marketing plan, all the way from choosing the broad messaging and distribution channels through the “tiny” details like nailing the copy on your landing page (this may seem easy or straightforward, but it took us a while to truly understand what worked).
At TechLoaf, we experimented with a lot of different, elaborate, shiny landing pages that expounded on how amazing our newsletter was, etc...
And after falling flat on our face for months, we realized that an incredibly simple, borderline-mysterious landing page converted users far more effectively.
About 30% of all visitors to our site end up subscribing, which is drastically higher than what we saw earlier iterations do.
(For the curious, this is the landing page: https://techloaf.io)
Comment · 7 years ago
Absolutely. Beyond the “obvious” stuff like getting an early look at what people in the heart of the tech universe are working on, I’ve found the community to be very supportive and willing to help on promising ideas.
For example, I shared an early version of TechLoaf on here last year (https://TechLoaf.io — think: The Onion meets TechCrunch) and a) received super precise feedback on our landing page and newsletter format and b) recruited a few writers who now actively contribute each week.
I’m very grateful for this wonderful corner of the internet.