2020 was my second full year running Alchemist Camp as a screencasting business, and it enjoyed some growth. Looking at my dashboards, it's fallen short of the [goals I set l ...

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Dec 31, 2020

Realizing I'm not on track to hit my goals, I've been doing more experiments recently, and one has gotten some momentum. It's a very small product compared to what I have already released. My prim ...

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Nov 25, 2020

I create an educational product and students occasionally ask for discounts. So-called "educational" discounts are very popular, but I don't give them. To be honest, I don't like them at all, but the ...

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Aug 30, 2020

Over the years, I've worked on building search traffic for two kinds of sites. The first, was working for companies that already had hundreds of thousands or millions of monthly users and were trying ...

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Aug 14, 2020

On Indie Hackers, I often people writing about their concerns of their site being able to handle the sudden burst of traffic, they're hoping to get from a [Product Hunt](ht ...

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Aug 04, 2020

It's not unusual to see people on entreprenurial subreddits or message boards make a claim along the lines of, "Your tech (software) choices don't matter. It's all about the sales and marketing." Many ...

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Jul 31, 2020

2019 was my first full year running Alchemist Camp as a business, and it enjoyed some impressive growth. Looking back at my spreadsheets, it's been about a six-and-a-half fol ...

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Dec 15, 2019