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How I made $0.50 with my Chrome extension

Yep. $0.50. Try not to get jealous. I launched my first Chrome extension recently and technically I've already made money from it lol. The only problem is that the person who paid was a friend of mine who probably bought it because he felt bad for me. And to make things even better, I gave him such a massive discount that I ended up making something like 50 cents from the sale. So yeah, I guess I'm officially a profitable SaaS founder now. Jokes aside, this is the first thing I've actually bui...
Truly one of the best feelings ever
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Truly one of the best feelings ever

Landed my first customer a bit ago after 2 months of building, and I'm starting to feel like there may be hope after all. SaaS for ecommerce, doing manual outreach + SEO + some organic marketing at the moment. Any tips to land the next 9 clients? I feel like the time spend to return is a bit too slow.
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I stopped writing feature specs and started drawing every feature as a flowchart first. Way less wasted code.

Solo founder, mostly self-taught. My biggest money leak in year one wasn't tools or ads, it was building features that made perfect sense in my head and fell apart the second a real user touched them. What changed: before I build anything now, I map the whole flow in a free flowchart maker. Every screen, every branch, what happens when the user has no data yet, what happens when they cancel, where they can get stuck. Boxes and arrows, thirty minutes. Sounds trivial, but drawing it exposes ...
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3k monthly visitors and $80 MRR. Would you focus on traffic or conversion?

I added paid plans to my side project in May, and I'm trying to decide where to spend my time next. It's a free Pomodoro timer called Pomofox . Most of the product is free, and I charge $5/month for extra customization. Right now: 3k–4k visitors/month 16 paying users $80 MRR Almost all paying users are from the US I'm also seeing that people actually use the customization quite a lot, which was one of my concerns when I made it paid. So I'm at a point where I don't really wa...
Dell XPS 13 Review: Move Over, Neo
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Dell XPS 13 Review: Move Over, Neo

It’s amazing how few compromises Dell made to get the new XPS 13 down to $700, but I strongly recommend the $900 model, which comes with 16 GB of RAM.
5 Weird Tricks for Having a Brain
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5 Weird Tricks for Having a Brain

From the multibrained octopus to the bitty brain organoid, we’re all just inference engines making flawed bets on the future. Here are the five insights your brain will need to survive.
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Ntfy – open-source Push to Mobile

Article URL: https://ntfy.sh/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296902 Points: 34 # Comments: 15
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Every Fucking Website (2020)

Article URL: https://lxe.github.io/everywebsite/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299222 Points: 366 # Comments: 209
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Earth.nullschool.net

Article URL: https://earth.nullschool.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299364 Points: 3 # Comments: 0