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Josh Pigford

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2 years

Everybody acting like they’d turn down $20,000,000,000.

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Josh Pigford

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1 month

Nearly $20/mo just to remove ads is starting to feel...ballsy. YouTube is substantially better without the ads, but no way do they stop at $18.99.

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Josh Pigford

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6 years

Here's a spreadsheet of the 50+ projects/businesses I've started/built/sold/shut down over the past 15 years, along with what happened to them and links to Wayback to see how terrible they were. 😛

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Josh Pigford

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3 years

I sold @Baremetrics ! After 7 years of work building this little company, Baremetrics has a new home. See the numbers, how we got here, what's changing (and what's not), what's next and more!

I sold Baremetrics - Baremetrics

2020 has turned in to one of the most unusual years of my life, for both the obvious reasons but also for reasons I definitely wasn't expecting at the

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Josh Pigford

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3 years

Hiring a frontend engineer who's really great at HTML + CSS is surprisingly difficult.

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Josh Pigford

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4 months

Here's what $1,000,000 worth of fintech software looks like...

GitHub - maybe-finance/maybe: The OS for your personal finances

The OS for your personal finances. Contribute to maybe-finance/maybe development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Josh Pigford

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6 years

1/ It's fun (or, more specifically, "therapeutic") to reflect on learnings over the years for businessing. 15+ years in to all this, I'm still winging it on just about every level possible, so take these insights/observations for what they're worth.

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Josh Pigford

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1 year

Sooooo @maybe 's transaction data is about to get reeeeeal good, thanks to GPT-4.

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Josh Pigford

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3 years

Notion, but where pages load in <30 seconds.

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Josh Pigford

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1 year

...uh oh.

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Josh Pigford

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1 year

The first GPT-4-built iOS game is now available in the App Store! Zero experience building anything with Swift. All code generated with GPT-4. ✨

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Josh Pigford

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3 years

Just uninstalled Slack, Word, Excel and Mail, so I'd say unemployment is going well.

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Josh Pigford

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3 months

We're moving @maybe to @rails . We'll be creating a new "rails" branch on the main repo by the start of next week & then move it to main by the end of February. The React codebase will be moved to a new repo then. ...and you thought things were moving fast before. 🎉

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Josh Pigford

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18 days

Favorite browser extension as of late: DeArrow Replaces sensational YouTube titles and thumbnails with calm versions.

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Josh Pigford

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3 years

Stripe analytics app. From execution to exit...IN 7 YEARS!!!!! 🙃

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11 years

Stripe analytics app. From idea to execution TONIGHT!!!!!! Coffee brewed. Game on.

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Josh Pigford

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4 years

1,000 people on your mailing list is not validation. 1,000 people on your free plan is not validation. 1,000 people following you on Twitter is not validation. 1,000 people paying you actual money? Validation.

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Josh Pigford

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1 year

After some 18 months of design, development & regulatory rap battling, @maybe has launched! The team has worked so hard to build the greatest modern financial planning & wealth management platform w/ tools & resources you can't get anywhere else. 🧵👇

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Josh Pigford

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9 months

You’re building a SaaS app and have zero following across social platforms and paid acquisition isn’t an option for you yet. How do you grow it?

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Josh Pigford

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2 years

Hi potential investors! I'm Josh, CEO of @maybe . And this is a pitch thread as we're working on raising a $5m seed round! Interested? DM, josh @maybe .co or 205-470-4803 🧵👇🎉

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Josh Pigford

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6 years

29/ Everybody is winging it. Every. Single. Person. Nobody actually knows what they’re doing. Sure, they may have hindsight on things that worked in the past, but right now? Nope. They have no idea.

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Josh Pigford

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3 months

the introvert entrepreneur's dilemma: i want to build products used by 100's of millions of people. i also want to live off the grid in a cabin and never speak to another human again.

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Josh Pigford

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5 years

First market day! My 10 y/o daughter has been working for *months* getting this business off the ground. So proud. Her online shop will launch next week!

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Josh Pigford

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4 years

Sending cold email followups is the perfect way to get you and your entire company domain blocked from ever sending me an email again. Yes, I got your previous email. My lack of response is a response.

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1 month

I feel like I need to clarify: I'm not complaining about $20 nor am I interested in figuring out how to save a few bucks. It's an observation on YouTube doing a 45%+ price increase and questioning where the line is because they absolutely won't max out at $18.99.

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Josh Pigford

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1 year

Been working with @GrantRudow to finish out a new office space and I'm kind of giddy about it.

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Josh Pigford

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3 years

Something I’ve realized over the past couple of years is that I don’t want to be an entrepreneur, I want to be an inventor. I don’t want to build companies, I want to build products.

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Josh Pigford

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3 years

"Anyone working at a big tech company could have made $3.7m in 7 years!" That's cute that so many people think any tech company would even hire me. I have almost no marketable skills. Certainly none specialized enough to earn me $500k/year or even half that.

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Josh Pigford

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1 year

PEOPLE OF THE EARTH. Figured out how to ask natural language questions of current financial data and get back a natural language response...with correct/relevant numbers! 🤯💰✨ So. Freaking. Cool. 1. Send database schema along with the question and relevant scope/parameters…

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Josh Pigford

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7 years

Truth from @naval .

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Josh Pigford

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3 years

...should I?

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Josh Pigford

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3 years

Hired!

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Josh Pigford

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1 month

@musaabHQ oh 100%. it's unbearable. but a 46% price increase is, again, ballsy.

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3 years

👋 😭

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Josh Pigford

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3 months

we raised $1.5m for @maybe over the past month. that is all. back to work.

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Josh Pigford

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6 months

@AustinTByrd It’s okay to just say, “this is not for me.”

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Josh Pigford

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7 years

We did it! $1M run rate! So proud of the whole @Baremetrics team! 🎉🕺📈💥

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Josh Pigford

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2 years

1/ Despite Baremetrics being the "first-mover" and arguably inventing 1-click SaaS analytics back in 2013, ProfitWell (just sold for $200m!) and ChartMogul (who passed us in revenue early on and will almost certainly sell for 8-9 figures) became much larger. Why? 🧵👇

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Josh Pigford

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3 years

Homework trains kids to think working an 8 hour day and then coming home to do a few more hours of work is a healthy way to live.

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Josh Pigford

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4 years

After this insanity on @Google 's part, last week I switched to @DuckDuckGo and it's been fantastic. A breath of fresh, non-sleazy air.

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“At that sort of scale, small changes in ad click-through rates could end up having a huge effect on Alphabet’s bottom line, even if it means tricking users for cheap clicks”, gotta juice that growth yo!

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Josh Pigford

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5 years

$1M ARR doesn’t go nearly as far as you think it will. In my head I imagined having a team of like 25 people and straight swimming in cash. Turns out the math doesn’t really work out. 🤪

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Josh Pigford

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8 months

Frequent advice to indie hackers is “do more marketing.” That’s vague and impossible to act on. So, what’s one *actionable* marketing item an indie hacker can do today?

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Josh Pigford

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4 years

Here's my system for intentional focus I've been putting together recently, using @NotionHQ .

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Josh Pigford

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3 years

Folks who've gone through an acquisition: "This is a fantastic outcome!" Folks who've never built anything: "This multiple is stupid and you got taken advantage of."

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Josh Pigford

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1 month

But seriously, how did Figma beat Sketch? Sketch: Buttery smooth. 👍 Figma: Like swimming in molasses wearing a giant cowboy hat. 😭

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Josh Pigford

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1 year

🌞🌚

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Josh Pigford

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4 years

1/ Fun milestone: @Baremetrics had its first fully-profitable year in 2019! $151k in profit on $1.38m in revenue.

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Josh Pigford

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3 years

In the time you spent hacking all your no-code tools together, you could've just learned to actually code.

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Josh Pigford

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4 years

SwiftUI Twitter is my favorite Twitter micro-community I had no idea existed. The amount of creativity and eagerness to help is refreshing.

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Josh Pigford

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6 years

5/ “Busy” does not equal “productive”. You shouldn’t be doing 1,000 different things. Business isn’t that complicated. Very few things are urgent. Very few things actually even need to get done. As a founder, pick just 1 or 2 “must do” things each day.

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Josh Pigford

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5 months

here's a list of every single project of mine that's either live, in progress and/or actively being worked on. 🫣

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Josh Pigford

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3 years

web3 is like if the designers of Amazon's AWS user permissions created the internet.

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Josh Pigford

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4 years

25 billion Siri requests.

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Josh Pigford

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3 years

I'll give you one guess on which app this is.

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Josh Pigford

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3 years

My wife: Umm did I see on Twitter that you’re starting another business? Me:

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Josh Pigford

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2 years

You've got 6 months to build up a take-home income of $3000/mo. What do you do?

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Josh Pigford

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5 years

Seems like, on some level, Medium contributed quite a bit to the death of the personal blog. Now it seems there's beginning to be a shift *away* from Medium and hopefully *back* to the personal blog. Think we'll see a resurgence in feed readers?

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Josh Pigford

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11 months

I may or may not be diving deep down a rabbit hole exploring building a small community of tiny homes all optimized for deep work and/or deep relaxation. Places where the destination for 1-2 people is the home itself and not just a place to sleep. Dedicated, comfortable work…

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Josh Pigford

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5 years

February was @Baremetrics best month ever for both revenue and profit! $135k in revenue & over $30k in profit! Historically we've tried to operate right at breakeven (putting all profit back in to the business), so having that much profit was nice. Go team!

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4 years

7 years! 🤯

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11 years

Stripe analytics app. From idea to execution TONIGHT!!!!!! Coffee brewed. Game on.

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Josh Pigford

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10 months

I want a podcast app that lets you “bookmark” as you listen. Just a single tap that saves the 15 seconds before and after for you to easily reference and find later on.

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Josh Pigford

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1 year

Reply with a link to what you’re working on and I’ll say something nice about it. Building things is hard. You deserve a pat on the back.

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Josh Pigford

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10 days

bring back personal blogs and RSS readers. they need rebranding, but having your own space to post for decades is so much better than dumb social networks. then you just have a really great RSS reader to consume from all the sources.

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Josh Pigford

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3 years

1/ We're no longer pursuing building @maybe around part-time/fractional employment. Here's the note I sent to the team last week. While I'm still bullish on the concept, I no longer believe it can work for *new* product/software companies. At least it didn't for us. 🧵👇🏻

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Josh Pigford

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6 years

This took far too long to actually hit these past few weeks but dangit we did it! Yes...it'll probably teeter back below a bit more because #LongSlowSaaSRampOfDeath , but imma enjoy it while it's there! Go team! 📈🚀💥

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Josh Pigford

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6 years

One of the biggest red flags when hiring is seeing many jobs in a short period of time. If you're switching jobs every 12-18 months, we're not the right fit for you.

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Josh Pigford

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3 years

What an absolutely fantastic day.

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Josh Pigford

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4 years

Focus over the past ~5 days has been substantially more difficult than I imagined it'd be. Whether it's Baremetrics, side projects or just learning new stuff...my brain is just refusing to focus on anything for more than a few minutes at a time.

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Josh Pigford

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4 months

I've just open-sourced the original @maybe app! 🫣 Quite a bit of work will need to be done to actually get it functioning locally, but should be doable! If React/Next.js/etc are your jam...I'd love your help getting it working. 🎉

GitHub - maybe-finance/maybe: The OS for your personal finances

The OS for your personal finances. Contribute to maybe-finance/maybe development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Josh Pigford

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2 months

update on @maybe : we're still crushing it. just a lot of foundational bits that are hard to have the community build, so it's a bit externally quiet at the moment as we're internally heads down. 🙂 at any rate, here's a little taste for you. 🤗

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Josh Pigford

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8 months

I've been building software for 25+ years and sold software companies for millions of dollars. I've never written a single test.

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Josh Pigford

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5 years

1/ The longer I play the SaaS game, the more my response to "what should I do about X?" is "¯\_(ツ)_/¯" or "just do whatever you want!" Early on I so desperately wanted answers to be black and white, but they just almost never are.

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Josh Pigford

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1 year

As an old web "veteran", coming up as everyone was figuring out how to make the web, I was turned off by the @tailwindcss way of using so many CSS classes. But over the past ~2 years it's become an absolutely indispensable part of the way I build. Absolutely love it.

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Josh Pigford

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4 years

If you ever want to know which of your competitors are most scared of you, just google your brand name.

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Josh Pigford

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4 years

I almost sold Baremetrics for $5m

I almost sold Baremetrics for $5m - Baremetrics

tl;dr In the past 6 months I turned down multiple $3-5m offers and failed to close a $5m sale. In the past six years of Baremetrics' existence, I've

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Josh Pigford

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2 years

I feel like maybe they don't understand what a "pricing page" is...

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Josh Pigford

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6 years

17/ Sales solves all things. Almost any business problem you’re having is solved by selling more of your product. Not by making product improvements or getting company t-shirts and stickers, but by going out and making sales happen.

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11 months

Want to make $100 today? Will pay the first person who's able to build this button in Tailwind. (It's fine to use *some* custom CSS as I'll be putting this in a Tailwind component, but want to keep it as "native" to Tailwind as possible.) Figma:

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Josh Pigford

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6 years

6/ Focus on your strengths, delegate your weaknesses. I’m a learner. I love learning new things. If I give myself enough time/space, I can generally learn just about anything on some level. The problem is that I arrogantly think I can make anything a “strength”. False.

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18/ Sell painkillers not vitamins. If you’re just a “nice-to-have” then the hole in the bucket will always leak faster than you can refill it.

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15/ A $9/mo customer is an entirely different customer than a $99/mo customer. All price points are not create equal. Low-ARPU customers are not only the most price-conscious, they’re almost universally the neediest. Support costs alone can run you in to the ground.

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3 years

I love the Internet.

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1 month

Dozens of "just use an ad blocker, broseph" replies miss the entire existence of a YouTube iOS app where you can't "just use an ad blocker".

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Josh Pigford

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8 months

I'm at the point with Notion where I try everything in my power to avoid opening it. It's like opening a box of screaming goats. Just pure information overload every time.

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17 days

We're working on a new pre-launch landing page for @maybe !

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Josh Pigford

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3 years

I got to Inbox Zero without spending $30/mo on an email app. AMA.

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Josh Pigford

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4 years

1/ Last year I failed to sell Baremetrics for $5m, but I learned a ton, and one of those things was the world of asset sales & stock sales. This is about to get real nerdy but this is crucial if you’re trying to sell a company. It could literally save you millions of dollars.

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Josh Pigford

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4 years

Soooo about that time we shut down that feature we built and called it a failure... We actually ended up selling it for $100,000! 🎉

We sold Intros for $100,000: Turning a product failure into a business success - Baremetrics

In 2018 we launched a product called Baremetrics Intros, which essentially helped companies and investors find each other based on their actual data

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Josh Pigford

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6 years

16/ Don’t lower prices, raise value. If your gut feeling is that you’re priced too high, then raise the value of your product to make it worth it. There’s essentially no ceiling on raising prices, but you’ll quickly find yourself hitting the floor compete on pricing.

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4 years

Almost weekly I get some form of, “I can’t believe Baremetrics is only making a million a year! I would’ve thought you’d be doing at least $10M+!” Ummm...thanks? Or, sorry? What am I even supposed to say to that? Building a profitable company is hard.

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Josh Pigford

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3 years

My Twitter posts for the next 2 weeks will be nostalgic reminiscing about Baremetrics and then will promptly switch to nothing but weird hobbies. You've been warned.

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Josh Pigford

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4 years

Here's your annual reminder that growth at most businesses is just...boring.

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Josh Pigford

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4 years

Us: “Hi, you mistakenly charged us $4000 this month instead of our usual $180.” DataDog: “Nice to meet you! Are you up for a call on Friday to discuss how we can work more closely with BareMetrics?” Us: “🤦‍♂️” Are there *any* enterprise-focused companies that aren’t terrible?

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Josh Pigford

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5 years

1/ Massive lesson learned today regarding running a remote company: you must register as a foreign entity in every state you have employees. I incorrectly assumed that using a PEO absorbed all the tax nonsense.

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Josh Pigford

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9 years

We just open-sourced our handy Date Range Picker! http://t.co/YO6jwuzqQw

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Josh Pigford

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3 months

things are about to heat up around here...

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Josh Pigford

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3 years

Bahahaha, love that this is the order confirmation screen.

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Josh Pigford

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1 month

@CattN__ @zekedup

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Josh Pigford

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2 years

Real talk. I've got some 50 pounds to lose. The last ~8 years of life have been incredibly stressful and I've let those stressors take priority over my own health. So, I've got changes to make. This 🧵 will be my journey. 👇

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2 years

I want a service where I can click a button, pay $50-100, and be immediately connected with a seasoned engineer who can help debug whatever obscure programming issue I'm having.

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6 years

10/ Ignore data early on. If you’ve just launched your product, the phrase “A/B testing” should not be in your vocabulary. You simply will not have enough traffic or conversions for statistical significance.

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