Lessons in growing a Facebook Group to 28,000 members Sometimes, I feel like I just got really lucky. Besides, all I did was accept and decline member requests nearly every day for 3 years, post memes and funny content
books Choose Yourself - James Altucher Book Takeaways I first heard of James Altucher via Twitter. I wasn't really sure who he was, probably a quack – he's into cryptocurrency and has crazy hair. A few weeks ago, I
I Tried to Buy 4 different (tiny) Startups and (mostly) Failed Have you ever had a hobby that you're not good at? They can still be kind of fun. For me that has been acquiring online businesses or SaaS products. It
Why Buying a House is like Buying a Startup 🏚 Money pit or fixer-upper with potential? In the past few years, I've gotten very interested in online businesses and SaaS. I've tried to acquire a few SaaS businesses but all of my deals so far have fallen apart. (I'll write about that soon)
marketing What does number 6 on the HN Front Page look like? I hit Number 6 on Hacker News today. It was...in short, fucking awesome. Seriously, this is a drug I didn't know I needed. I made my girlfriend take a
coding I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made me believe it'd make me rich In May of 2018 I decided I wanted to launch a SaaS product. There was only one problem. I'd never worked on, built, designed or even coded a fully fledged
webscraping Scraping Chipotle Store Locations Introduction Web scraping has loads of interesting use cases. From financial forecasting to lead-gen, web scraping has several creative uses that you might not think about at first glance. For
coding Building a Serverless Ecommerce Store Yes, it's true! You can build a storefront in an hour without spinning up a server. WTF, how?! -- you, probably Gone are the days of paying expensive devs or
career Best Remote Job Boards Remote work is becoming more and more common, especially for jobs that can sustain it. I work remotely and although there are some trade offs (not leaving the house for days, loneliness) I wouldn’t trade it for a traditional job. 37Signal’s book,
