sirbrad
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Bradleyfew.com // @bradleyfew
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Comment · 12 years ago
I started out by merely tweeting a link to the site and asking my friends to do the same. I did publish HN but it got took down pretty sharpish.
My main win was cold-emailing tech blogs. I got featured on BoingBoing - http://boingboing.net/2013/08/12/stickonspy-sticker-reminder... - through emailing and also managed to sell directly to Cory ;).
Comment · 12 years ago
I created and sold Stickonspy (http://stickonspy.com) just after mid last year. The initial month I launched it did pretty well as the NSA news was still a pretty big deal. All in all it's made me < £1k but it's been great fun to build and ship a product from scratch. I've shipped to around 12 countries too which is cool. I also spent no money on marketing.
I'd say my time - which was evenings after work - investment was around 3-4 days initially and then fulfilling orders is simply writing a customers address and posting the stickers - which if the demand was bigger I'd probably outsource.
It's been great. I've learnt a shit tonne & the conversations it started has given me an idea for a similar product which I'll be focusing on very soon!
Comment · 13 years ago
This is great work
Comment · 13 years ago
Your code should always win the battles.
I've had a stammer all my life, it's one the most frustrating things ever. Here's a few things I'd do/did;
- Make a portfolio of the dev work you've done. - When you start speaking with an employer, mention your stammer before the interview so they know what to expect. I think this will also help you mentally prepare as well, there will be 'no' surprises. - Stay calm & good luck!
Comment · 13 years ago
I agree those colours don't work the best together, but I chose them to demonstrate the parts of the design that are easily updatable. I think the worst crime I committed was having the orange links on the green background, but again, that was to keep it as simple as possible.
Comment · 13 years ago
Currently, it has no pagination and the posts will just list out one after another. The title is permalink to an individual blog post for sharing etc.
I thought that was the simplest route to go down.
Comment · 13 years ago
It's the same info you'd give Dabblet or CodePen.
Comment · 13 years ago
Unfortunately, there isn't a scope to give access to read/write just issues.
Comment · 14 years ago
I would recommend Highcharts - http://www.highcharts.com/. Their api is great, really simple to use with a shit load of graph options.
Comment · 14 years ago
Nice work, this is pretty cool! I've been working on a similar approach but using Github (mainly because I host my blog there using Jekyll). I'll try and get it released tonight :)
Comment · 14 years ago
Wow, never knew Tom created Gravatar. Really like these sort of posts but maybe the title of 'overnight success' is wrong? Great article though!