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Agreed. I built this Daily Journal app and just been hacking on it for the last couple months. I'll bring the text size down a bit soon.

What I love about Mailbrew is I can specify things like:

- send me X top tweets from X user in last month

- send me all tweets with the words "XYZ"

And for the obvious reasons it keeps me off twitter and less subject to their addictive design/UI.

Haha! What ERP are you using, if you don't mind me asking?

Also, I wrote a little bit about my approach to freelancers, may give you some more context on that $1k/month: https://www.starterstory.com/hire-freelancers

No, just spreadsheets for now, but I do pay for a tax accountant. I will add that right now.

You might like marketingexamples.com

Thanks for the shoutout! (Starter Story founder)

I created an automated reminder in my email to share the best stories from my blog to Hacker News, this is not some elaborate bot system.

I'm just one dude running a solo business and need to build automation things like that so I don't forget to post on Hacker News.

I never manipulated votes or anything like that.

OP here.

Yeah I agree, maybe I should have said if it's not in your "Top 3"

I think it also depends on your resources. If you're a solo founder then it can be hard to justify much time on social media.

And I also think you can have both. You can automate some posts, and also do ad hoc stuff. In my use case I publish articles on a consistent basis, why not automate the social media side of that?

About a month ago, I launched a startup in 24 hours and live streamed the whole thing on Twitch. I hit #1 on Product Hunt and #1 on Show HN.

I wrote more about that at https://starterstory.com/blog/how-i-built-a-startup-on-twitc...

So I wanted to create an organized event to let others try this too. One day, 50 streamers, and a web portal where you can see everyone building.

Say what you want about building a product in 24 hours, but I think it's a great way to:

- Get your idea out there & drop your ego

- Just build something & have fun!

- Exercise your programming and product building skills

- Build your audience.

What do you think of this idea? I'm pretty excited to see what comes out of a remote hackathon is also streamed on Twitch...

Hey HN,

I compiled a list of over one hundred upcoming rappers and used APIs and scrapers to get over 3,000 total data points.

Sort, filter, and search by:

- Gender, age, location, record label, and region

- SoundCloud follower and track count

- Instagram, twitter, and facebook follower data

- YouTube subscriber data, plays, and video count

- Spotify popularity, followers, track count

I think this is particularly useful/monetizable for:

- record labels looking for new talent

- concert/entertainment venues that want to gauge the size of the audience of an artists

- artists looking to collaborate with other artists

Appreciate any feedback and ideas for new features that could be added.

The employees are not full time and work very minimal hours. Check out a bit later in the interview he talks about it more.

The founder also addressed more on this in this reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/EntrepreneurRideAlong/comments/9pbf...

Thanks! That's a good point.

People might crap on your idea because it relies on a Google product, but massive companies like Snapchat and Airbnb use Google Cloud.

Obviously GDocs are a bit different but lots of businesses are built on top of Google products (e.g. Google Maps)

This.

For my blog that I mentioned in my top comment, I use Google Docs because I'm working with people that usually don't know Markdown (I'm interviewing e-commerce business owners).

I need it to be as easy as possible for them to get the written interview done. From my experience, a Google doc is the easiest way to do this, and it allows for very familiar features when I ask them for edits or provide feedback in-document.

Basically, I'm trying to make as little friction as possible to getting the document complete.

This is just my experience.

Ah man sorry that was just the beginning to get the ball rolling on the stream.

There's a recording on Twitch if you wanna skim through it (I linked to it in my top comment). Cheers

What do you mean custom fields?

I run starterstory.com with a full time job and this month it's on track to make $1,700 revenue.

I actually wrote a blog post about balancing side project and full time job: https://starterstory.com/blog/full-time-job-and-full-time-si...

Not sure if that's what you're looking for but hope it helps.

Thanks!

Oh wow I've never seen that. Pretty cool.

After building this project I was thinking about a similar project where you could build a straight up website with Google Docs. Since Google's HTML export is pretty sophisticated (it also converts charts/shapes/etc) to HTML, it could work!

Almost a throwback to that Microsoft product? Can't remember the name..

Yes, very true. Important to think aboout.

There is a rate limit on their API although I don't think I will hit it at this point of the project, but I do plan to start thinking about how I can cache/save the export from the Google doc for pages that are getting hit really hard. Any ideas?

Sure! https://github.com/patwalls/ydnw

Contributions are very welcome!

Code is very hacky and I've been trying to manage making some changes between all the feedback I've gotten and my full time job.