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Jitbit condemns this war. I'm from Russia originally and I'm ashamed of my passport right now. Forgive us Ukraine πΊπ¦ ππ
Alex Yumashev
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Alex Yumashev
@jitbit
Founder of jitbit.com. Tweeting about SaaS/tech/bootstra... Who am I kidding, mostly random stuff. Father by day, dev by night.
- Coding is procrastination for founders. Very similar to social networks: instant gratification + dopamine hit + a way to escape the boring shit of running a business (mostly marketing) God I love coding.
- We've officially crossed the $300k/month revenue mark. It's been stable for 3 months. It took our (extremely) small company 10 years. We could probably get there faster with funding or a bigger team, but then again - we wouldn't get to keep all this revenue to ourselves eh??
- Replying to @dhhMy bootstrapped software company spends around $1k every month just so that we *show up* if someone searches for us using our effing *brand name*. (which is not even a word, 100% artificial)
- Our tests confirm that the pricing page is the one page people actually read - thoroughly and carefully. You can use it to surface and re-surface your most valuable features.
- Everyone and their dog has a book these days, so last night I freaked out and published my unfinished, unedited and unpolished book on Amazon. It's been "work in progress" for too long The cover sucks, the timing sucks, BUT it's free for the next 5 days!
- Say all you want about DHH & JF, but the "Embrace Constraints" chapter has changed my life 15 years ago Now at 300k/mo we still have a tiny team, we deliberately don't use a bloated pile of paid SaaS'es, not even analytics/email/etc Limitations are good - they force creativity
- Iβm lost & broken & frightened right now. The war has to stop. Hereβs some random thoughts for my European and American friends (from someone who grew up in Russia)π
- Weβve just migrated a 1TB (!) database. From a Windows server to a Linux one. With zero downtime.
GIF
