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β Thanks to Simon for sponsoring today's edition. Want to build with Laravel but donβt know where to start? βLaradevs has the best Laravel developers on tap! They are ready to turn your dream app into a reality. All of them have been vetted by Simon Hamp, who has over 10 years of experience as a Laravel developer and engineering manager βFind your Laravel developer today β News Here's the best in founder news from the past few days: ImprovMx acquired Congrats to Antoine for selling ImprovMx, an email forwarding tool. The product was making $350k a year so I'd estimate they sold for around a million dollars. It's interesting that he sold it to another bootstrapper who listens to the same podcasts. I think sales like this are easier when you are both in the same community.
β WaspJS projects I came across WaspJS recently - it's an attempt to get the powers of Ruby on Rails inside the JS ecosystem. My friend Cameron is using it a lot - I interviewed him for No CS Degree: https://www.nocsdegree.com/from-recruitment-to-software-engineer/ They have free SaaS templates under the OpenSaaS banner and one person has taken the AI-generated cover letter app, delivered it to a French audience and is making $2k a month from it apparently:
β I made the Startup Year Quiz game I used ChatGPT to help me make a daily "guess the year" type quiz about startups e.g. guess the year Stripe was created It loads up a new question each day! You can play it for free. If you like it, I'd appreciate a share or link back π βhttps://www.highsignal.io/startup-year-quiz/β β Distribution is king The founder of Lambda School shared a cookbook his grandma had made him. After lots of people said they would like to buy it, he mades a sales page and got $3200 for his grandma. Distribution is so more important in business. I'm sure lots of grandmas have excellent recipe cookbooks but most don't have a grandson with a huge social media following to sell them!
β Podcast news It was great to be invited on to the Indie Bites podcast for a chat with James! We talked about loads of things including the state of indie hacking, building in public and this very newsletter you are reading right now! βhttps://www.petecodes.io/i-was-on-the-indie-bites-podcast-again/β The IndieHackers pod finished up in 2023 and I thought it would it would be good to write a little tribute to some of my favourite episodes! βhttps://www.highsignal.io/blog/the-indiehackers-podcast-has-ended/β The Bootstrapped Web podcast is ending after 10 years: βhttps://bootstrappedweb.com/episodes/our-final-episode-for-now And I just saw that Justin Jackson and Brian Casel are teaming up for a new podcast called The Panel, which is going to be a group show talking about tech issues with nuance. I can't wait! β From $2k to $80k over 7 years Some great inspirational content from Mohd! He had a couple of big years when he sold startups like NoCodeApi. What he didn't mention in this post was that he was originally a blacksmith so he's come a long way!
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