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They were about to give up. They had spent a year building the product, but had no tangible results to show. Zero real customers, just tire kickers. Worst of all, their product didn’t truly solve any customer problems. Defeated and ready to give up, this is the story of how the GrowSurf team turned things around for their SaaS business.

I have to admit, it was easier than I expected it to be to set up a simple upvoting app to crowd-source and choose names for my coffees.

My naming/upvoting app uses these four tools: Airtable, Softr, Bannerbear, Zapier

Read more about how and why I did it this way.

Want to sell more subscription coffee (or anything, really)? Use these landing page copywriting tricks to better connect with potential customers and close more sales.

Learn exactly what feedback loops are when it comes to building your app, plus why you must be using them to build more strategically and efficiently

Startups are hard, bootstrapping is harder! Here’s how John bootstrapped Bannerbear — a SaaS image generation and hosting product — to $10k MRR in only two years.

It’s almost impossible to reach Pieter Levels. That’s by design, and he’s been doing it that way for years.

For Pieter, he believes it’s important to live an existence you’re proud of, with people you love, doing the things you like, while minimizing suffering. Simple.

And for him, none of that involve being available for endless chit-chatting to billions of people in private messages.

Everything from everyone all the time is too much.

We’re all feeling a little fried at work and home. But there are ways to stay sharp and recharge.

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From Zoom poker games to neighborhood-dad WhatsApp chains, casual chats about sports and politics have suddenly led to deep conversations about life.

With Testimonial.to, in minutes, you can collect video and text-based testimonials from your customers and create a Wall of Love with no need for a developer or website hosting.

Check out the Wall of Love I built for my new online store.

The online whiteboard your distributed teams will love to use. Over 15M users. Scalable, secure, cross-device, enterprise-ready, team-centric visual collaboration.

Collin Waldoch shares how he grew Water Cooler trivia from $10k ARR in 2019 to over $250K ARR today. Pay close attention to how simple the product is that he built (with almost no churn).