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@joe_ashwell thx 👍

@peeplaja @pc4media 1. Most indie entrepreneurs are not inventing iPads. 😉
2. When we “open people’s eyes” are we manufacturing demand, or, are we simply revealing a better path for something they already wanted to do?

@sumit_designs @pc4media @peeplaja “Demand” is driven by what customers want.

They have pre-existing behaviors (Excel) and those behaviors can result in new desires (“I saw someone using Airtable, I wonder if that’s better?”)

Often, “better solutions” *haven’t* resulted in more demand (Betamax, laserdisc).

@pc4media @peeplaja Shades of grey in which respect?

@peeplaja @pc4media Demand is cumulative: it almost always builds on top of pre-existing demand.

Telegraph ➡️ Landlines ➡️ Pagers ➡️ Car phones ➡️ Flip phones ➡️ Smart phones ➡️ iPhone

Apple didn’t create demand for the iPhone out of thin air; they built on top of existing demand.

@louisnicholls_ That’s essentially what I’m saying: you’re letting them know they’re in the right place.

https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1471172861180010496

@derrickreimer @JamesCridland @heyreform @savvycal @TransistorFM 🎯

@JamesCridland @heyreform @savvycal @TransistorFM Also, Pepsi and Coca-Cola use each other in their advertising all the time. 😉

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyY15Jkkg2A

@JamesCridland @heyreform @savvycal @TransistorFM I think you've misunderstood me.

Clarification here:

https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1471164525965557767

@JDomanPipe Yup!

We have a really high trial/conversion rate for SaaS.

And our retention/LTV is higher than average for our category.

@JamesCridland @heyreform @savvycal @TransistorFM That's not what we see in practice. 😉

Users often sign up after searching for "Anchor alternative", etc.

There's a reason that brand names like "Kleenex" became the defacto way of describing a category.

@JDomanPipe To me "effective" means:

- more leads
- more trials

People come from a google search, word of mouth recommendation, review site, say: "Yup, I'm in the right place," and sign up for a trial.

@JDomanPipe What's an example of an effective value-led headline?

(And how do you know it's effective?)

@JDomanPipe I am completely open to the possibility that I'm wrong.

But, I've done usability testing on this stuff (recorded usability walkthroughs, and 5 second impression/retention tests).

I'm not convinced that these vague headlines are effective.

@AWaselnuk 😜

RT @finereli: Start with the market.

I know you have a great idea, an itch you need to scratch, and a cool piece of tech you invented.

Th…

@jamesvandyne Nice work!! 🙌

@CalebWojcik @switchpod Nice! 😍

@dankim Nice! 🙌

Good wisdom invites tension; it's comfortable with duality, context, and nuance.

https://twitter.com/tferriss/status/1440793625693069315

"Some good founders aren't motivated by money, *and*... some good founders are motivated by money."

https://twitter.com/APompliano/status/1401544790869786628

@aseemthakar_ I wrote it because it was a resource I needed.

I figured other people might want a list like this too. 👍

Do I know anyone at @automattic who is working on @tumblr?

It's still my favorite CMS for simple websites (with custom domains).

There used to be an option to deselect "Promote Tumblr" on a site.

Is there a way for me to remove all this "Tumblr chrome" now?

@jongold 🤣

RT @mijustin: Just published this episode with @CasJam on the @buildyoursaas feed!

Hear about Brian’s journey with @ZipMessage, and some o…

My episode with @CasJam just showed up on:

🍎 @ApplePodcasts: https://apple.co/3pyNZmY

🟢 @spotifypodcasts: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6Yq7mYPLmxY7YIWngpmm1U?si=rbRSInM2Tey0iDbzazi9vA

@tiffani Whoa, congrats! That must feel great.

@johnspurlock @BasilPH Even “gross output” isn’t terribly compelling.

We’ve seen spam RSS feeds that pump out dozens of episodes per day.

@JamesCridland Hahaha

@Fallenour https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1412764472595271683

@swyx @TransistorFM 👀

@timwoneill https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1300125062238879744

@earthlingworks More often than not, this is the step I see people missing.

Also, many people don’t understand that every category has a “ceiling” of traffic.

You can’t increase traffic 5-10x if that exceeds the overall amount of traffic in your category.

@MrSimonBennett 👀

RT @mijustin: Books live and die on the “big idea” they represent.

“The big idea” is the part folks will share when they’re out for drinks…

@ianlandsman @Shpigford Well, I just joined a Discord and the mod did DM me, because we knew each other from Twitter!

On another project, the mods/creators DM’d me because they host their podcast with Transistor.

Feels like a rational use-case?

@dvassallo @mailbrew @typefullyapp Yes. Agreed.

@manast Demand is cumulative: it almost always builds on top of pre-existing demand.

Telegraph ➡️ Landlines ➡️ Pagers ➡️ Car phones ➡️ Flip phones ➡️ Smart phones ➡️ Touchscreen phones

RT @mijustin: Whenever you start a new project, you're actually bringing everything you've accumulated from past experiences to that new pr…

@amarksteadman @boaticus @TransistorFM 🥰 thanks Mark!

@JamesCridland Oh interesting. In North America, Woolworth’s was something else altogether:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._W._Woolworth_Company

Growing up in Canada, many cities had an old Woolworth’s!

@KateBour @TransistorFM Thanks! 🥰

@theDanielJLewis @PodcastingDeals Thank you! 🥰

@StudsPod I was actually thinking of some examples from history:

Napoleon's "move fast, attack fast" strategy worked in the short-term (and impressed his believers), but in the long-term failed: a "Pyrrhic victory."

https://fs.blog/winning-battle-losing-war/

@theDanielJLewis Did you see Transistor's deal? Expires in 1 day, 18 hours.

"Get 20% off one year of podcast hosting"

https://transistor.fm/blackfriday

@bossnayamoss 😄

@Swizec 🎯 yup

@jimhilluk @ApplePodcasts @spotifypodcasts Thanks Jim!

@webby2001 my daughter also found this @edisonresearch report ("insights on women podcast listeners") fascinating.

She referenced it a bunch of times!

https://www.edisonresearch.com/shelistens-insights-on-women-podcast-listeners/

@DanielZarick wut

@thethoughtcard I’ll add this to the list we have in the http://podcasters.meeps.app community!

(Feel free to join!)

@DiorisMoreno Nice! 🙌

@sparkyuk11 Nah.

I know you can edit in devtools (and document.designMode = "on").

But, to me, devtools feels backwards: easy to make mistakes, lose your work, no auto-complete…

You lose all the benefits of an IDE.

@theforestco YES!!!

(Also: love your ANSI art ❤️)

@troypavlek @Atrophius Can you show me the example url?

@DanielZarick @jessethanley But don't people need to edit tables all the time?

Or are there just not that many static HTML tables in modern web dev?

(I'd be interested to see how WYSIWYG editors like webflow handle this stuff. Haven't tried that)

@DanielZarick @jessethanley Pretty regularly? At least every month I'd guess?

Adding new feature rows, reordering features, updating pricing, updating copy...

@jessethanley It's odd to me that devs don't intuitively want a visual editor here! 😅

The part that slows me down is finding / editing / adding individual cells, rows, columns with real data in them.

Seeing all those cells (and their contents) represented visually seems better?

@Atrophius I must be misunderstanding.

How is a JSON blob better than editing the text in a text editor?

The part that slows me down is finding / editing / adding individual cells, rows, columns with real data in them.

It still feels like editing tables visually is better?

@Atrophius But, for something like a pricing table, don't you need to get in and quickly modify individual cells, add/delete rows/columns on-the-fly, etc?

https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1463325549435097089

@jessethanley But how does that work for use-cases like editing an existing pricing table? (adding new columns/rows, deleting columns/rows, quickly modifying an individual cell)

https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1463325549435097089

@calebporzio @ben_woodward @davorminchorov https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1463325549435097089

@ben_woodward @davorminchorov Do you have a video example of how that works? 🙏

@KateBour 😱 I’M THE ONLY ONE EATING COOKIES AT MY DESK?!?

<walks away, ashamed>

@ben_woodward 🤣

@nialljoemaher @TransistorFM @adamwathan @artofproductpod That’s cycle by cycle (during the cooldown we evaluate what we want to work on next cycle).

What I’ve put in here are just rough ideas; not set in stone.

@typeoneerror @TransistorFM @adamwathan @artofproductpod @basecamp Yup! All of this is based on Shape Up

@alphacolin But, this project wasn't fractional ownership, correct?

@uwwgo @niko_tinius @guardian I didn’t say “carbon offsets.”

I’m specifically targeting the people who fly 4+ times per year (“super emitters”). https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1460309034595094529

@Paul_Shryock @stauffermatt I’m glad it resonated. 🙏

@jai_oh_ 100%

Threading that needle (community, but without the mania) is challenging.

The key, I think, is that it needs to be grounded in true vulnerability, trust, humility.

This whole section, where @PaulSimonMusic describes (to @Gladwell) how fame hurts the creative process:

“Fame is so poisonous, because it’s so distracting.”

There are so many wonderful moments in this @PaulSimonMusic audio documentary by @Gladwell.

This is one of them:

“This is a function of memory as the engine of taste: it’s the voice in your head about what’s not right.”

@sandersonjones @IAmPippaEvans is @SundayAssembly still going?

https://twitter.com/jot/status/1462123712250056719

@jot 👀

@ryanstrickler I think about them almost every week 😅😆

@williamj thx!

@Daniel_Gardner @stauffermatt Thx!

@fran_rimoldi @buildyoursaas It's ok to be critical + careful of new tech.

I'm questioning the underlying assumptions and philosophy I see folks in crypto trumpeting.

Agree that it's early, and there's a lot of cruft (and that there could be good that comes of it).

https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1433642998122774535

@willgdjones It's fine to be driven. It's fine to be hopeful for new innovation, new technology, new breakthroughs etc.

But new technology (whether it's in aviation, vaccines, or blockchain) needs review! Broader implications (socio-economic, safety, ecological) need to be considered.

@willgdjones https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1461451999799508993

@InTake_Anthony @dan_copy @IndieHackers 😊 thx

RT @emollick: The rapid explosion in the number of competitors in new industries (electric cars, crypto-anything) is a feature of every tec…

@Swizec lol. Yup. All the time.

@brandonhilkert Thanks!

@MikeMichalowicz This looks awesome!

Any plans on writing something similar for tweens/teens? 🙏

@itskyleharris Whoa!!! Congrats you two! 🎉🎉

Epic!!!

@kdewirth https://twitter.com/amritahujaa/status/1460306891125387264

@kdewirth Yes!!!

More extreme weather events.

Billions of people displaced.

Uninhabitable. https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1459920829450309635

@nbashaw Great post!

There's another fundamental critique of web3: how will this truly affect society?

To paraphrase Christensen:

"Society is confronted with opportunities to not follow the standard we set for ourselves; you can end up with a very different society than you intended."

@sagalbot @JackEllis @KennethCassel @niko_tinius @guardian 🎯

@sagalbot @JackEllis @KennethCassel @niko_tinius @guardian Yes. 💯

The key there seems to be *economic* stimulus: give loggers viable alternatives. (Don't threaten their families' economic livelihood)

@jackmcdade 🔥

@JackEllis @KennethCassel @niko_tinius @guardian And you can see how "taking 1 long-haul flight is roughly equivalent to going vegetarian for 4 years."

@JackEllis @KennethCassel @niko_tinius @guardian The UN report compares the two:
https://www.unep.org/emissions-gap-report-2020

Going vegan/vegetarian does have an impact! (Just not as much)

(For me it's not as accessible because I have IBS: I need to avoid beans, lentils, avocados, and other short-chain carbohydrates)

@lcjury @niko_tinius @guardian Yes, that *and* the world's wealthiest need to drastically reduce their emissions.

@JackEllis @KennethCassel @niko_tinius @guardian I've reduced meat consumption, yes.

However, if you look at the numbers (all in the UN's report), taking less flights is by *far* the top thing a wealth person (that's us) can do to reduce their emissions.

1 flight = 4 years of being vegetarian

https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1458135401806266369?s=21

RT @InquisitorJax: "...people in motion tend to eventually find success" - @mijustin
great @IndieHackers interview https://share.transistor.fm/s/9394b93c

@dominicstpierre @PierreDeWulf It does vary from province to province.