semicolonandson
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Comment · 5 years ago
Vim has weapons-grade go to definition today using language server protocol, so multiple files is a non-issue for users running LSP.
Comment · 5 years ago
I run an online marketplace selling digital study notes and taking a commission. It's provided most of my income for the past 10 years, often exceeding a developer's salary. I've got a YouTube video where I talk about the MVP and growing it in the early days: https://youtu.be/aKXlZz-wbmg
Comment · 5 years ago
Best place to start is the Get Your First 1000 Users playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpkoC9yJXDKlGz7SPwofn...
Comment · 5 years ago
My personal strategies are
- investing in group hobbies that remain doable later in life (e.g. My granny in her 80s can't play piano anymore due to arthritis, but still sings in 3 choirs)
- making it a yearly goal to make a new friend every year, so as to fight off attrition
Comment · 5 years ago
Like video content?
I'm a programmer/marketer with a YouTube channel teaching the SEO, copywriting, and marketing techniques I used to earn a cumulative 7 figures with my Rails app (2—sided marketplace for college notes).
Comment · 6 years ago
I give each of these big ideas a folder on my computer and then fill that folder with markdown documents and think aloud via writing. The core idea is that I don't want to lose the momentum of my thoughts. Maybe that might be helpful for your use-case.
Comment · 6 years ago
You specifically mentioned marketing/growth hacks etc.
I'm a programmer who bootstrapped a site 10 years ago and it's supported me since as an indie hacker. In order to learn about marketing, I held a monthly closed-doors growth hacking meet-up with other bootstrappers and founders to share our experiences about what works, so I've seen a fair amount of the territory.
Anyway I've got a YouTube channel where I share a lot of what I know, especially with respect to getting those first 1000 users. The focus is on marketing techniques that appeal to engineering types like me (e.g. scalable SEO generated from data; paid ads that you can leave running long-term etc.)
My context is scrappy (the biz only had between 1 and 4 employees), but what I know should be of interest to people in the early stages (less so for funded startups, where scale changes the game somewhat) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCzT-LQI6x0&list=PLpkoC9yJXD...
Comment · 6 years ago
I was so disappointed when Gary stopped filming these videos that I started making my own screencasts in that style (non-beginner concepts, fast-paced, language agnostic, and terminal-first).
They are on my site here:
https://www.semicolonandsons.com/
I'm not Gary, so the focus is shifted towards areas I have special interests in — namely: the day-to-day of running a software product business as an indie hacker/solopreneur.
I make screencasts for software founders and indie-hackers. They show a behind-the-scenes tour of how I built and marketed my bootstrapped business, and they condense my decade of experience into a few hours. They are probably the only place on the internet where you'll see Vim, Google AdWords, and a database constraint in the same video.
Watch them here: https://bit.ly/328vZnO
I keep a roof over my head thanks to https://www.oxbridgenotes.co.uk/, a website specializing in selling law notes for students.