jason-grishkoff

Nice to from you Reagan! :)

If you're going to spend 8+ hours a day on something, you'd best enjoy the subject matter :)

It's pretty minimal. The most expensive component is usually technical development, and given that I do all that myself... well, that's a big "cost saving" :)

This is so incredibly well put. I cannot agree more.

Because it seemed cool. I think I'd seen it pop up on HckrNews and Reddit a few times, so I wanted to give it a whirl.

The stack is something along the lines of: nginx + docker + Meteor (node/mongodb) + React.

We're actually on the same page -- I'm totally crediting the network effect. Music bloggers have a tight-knit community, and even if I was a smaller music blog, I reckon I'd have had a pretty good chance of similar success.

I've considered it for sure -- holding off on something like that for now, tho.

I'll just weigh in here: the blog's success was very influential in accelerating the growth. But had I been a smaller blog, I likely would have had similar success in convincing the other blogs that this platform helped solve a problem they were all facing.

What I take away as important is that I was part of the problem I was solving, rather than an outsider observing. A blog with 5,000 followers is just as likely to understand that problem as a blog with 100,000 followers.

Because I was part of the problem, I was able to build a system that effectively solved it. Today, there are more than 200 blogs/channels using SubmitHub to receive their submissions -- and that happened in less than 10 months. The vast majority of them aren't there because Indie Shuffle did well; they're there because SubmitHub makes their lives better.

I'd like to think that the part about launching and iterating -- getting your product out there rather than trying to make it perfect before launch -- is quite a useful tip for solo founders (and small teams). But, to each their own!

Fire held :-D

Almost. I built Indie Shuffle on the side, so it applies for business #1 :)

I think building a business is always going to take a lot of focused effort. That said, I also think that getting an early start -- doing it on the side -- is a much smarter idea than quitting everything you have and launching into it head on.

Simple, really: they earn the majority of that $1 for providing feedback :)

To build on that, for most of these blogs this is the first time they're earning any mentionable revenue from running their websites. Not only is it making their lives easier -- it's actually rewarding them for their passion yada yada.

Stumped. Not sure why that would be happening.

I'm in the process of rebuilding the Android and iPhone apps from scratch using React Native. It's coming along really quickly :)