Tweets

This made my day.

https://twitter.com/benphillips76/status/716136888436965376

If you want weird dreams, follow me on Snapchat:
https://www.snapchat.com/add/mijustin

Another amazing Tumblr ad seen just moments ago.

Remember those Yahoo promises that the ads would be "tasteful?"

New blog post:

"Is the money still bored?" https://justinjackson.ca/is-the-money-still-bored/

If you’re building a product: what kind of pain are your solving?

https://justinjackson.ca/the-pain-you-cant-stand/

Here's the @gumroad integration I want:

Automatically determine (and adjust) my Facebook Ads spend based on % of gross sales.

.@izayats ⚡️⚡️your Maker Story is up! ⚡️⚡️

http://stories.megamaker.co/irinas-story/

🙌 #megamaker

I asked #megamaker listeners to tell me what they were working on.

So many amazing, diverse projects:
http://live.megamaker.co/2016/02/03/cool-things-the-maker-community-is-working-on/

It may have been 10 years since I last tried this.

Rock to fakie still scares the hell out of me:
https://vine.co/v/i5DaiFFBrdZ

Slow day. Old dude.

MegaMaker is getting beaten by the quilters, but is higher than hobbits.

https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/megamaker/id1074661788?mt=2

Question of the day: What is your favorite startup t-shirt?

See mine and reply here: #comment-222080" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.producthunt.com/podcasts/megamaker-ep06-what-makes-a-great-shirt#comment-222080

"Hack your landing page" https://medium.com/marketing-102/hack-your-landing-page-228e2e64a286

The #megamaker podcast just hit iTunes at #36

Review the show and help it climb the charts!
http://megamaker.co/review

Wow. Powerful story from @BarrettABrooks on recovering from failure, on the @Fizzle show:

https://overcast.fm/+Jq6L8bd4/29:43

“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
— Mark Twain

The way my kids use Apple lightning cables + ear pods would drive Jony Ive crazy.

Got to hang out with these two @studioneat beauties today.

(#megamaker interview coming soon)

@robwalling @getdrip FREE KNITTED HATS FOR PUPPIES?!!?!

😉

Wealth in Silicon Valley is less distributed now than it was in the Apple / Microsoft era.

@RickWebb/paul-graham-clarifies-again-c948967f0c53#.d9g43hdr1" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://medium.com/@RickWebb/paul-graham-clarifies-again-c948967f0c53#.d9g43hdr1

“Quantity always trumps quality” by @codinghorror

http://blog.codinghorror.com/quantity-always-trumps-quality/

I just published “A Maker’s Manifesto” https://medium.com/mega-maker/a-maker-s-manifesto-fcb98fa99466#.xu3t9b9s0

So cool: yesterday hundreds of people helped me edit the Maker Manifesto. You can still contribute!

http://live.megamaker.co/

#megamaker

If you're somewhere in the world where it's already 2016: what's the future like?

Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi.

(Movie time with the kids)

.@garrettdimon Agreed! Specifically:

“Slack is just IRC with a nice UX”

The equivalent of ⌘S when you're editing in a web app is ⌘A + ⌘C.

😰

Only 5 more hours for my Cyber Monday deals:

1. https://gum.co/startupbookbundle/blackfriday

2. https://gum.co/levelshtml/blackfridady

3. https://gum.co/productpress/nov17

"If I'm going to pay extra, and if I'm going to spread the word, it better be real and it better be personal." - Seth Godin

My friends @limedaring, @studiofellow and I are doing a BF startup bundle. It's 60% off 3 great books + 19 videos.

https://gumroad.com/l/startupbookbundle/blackfriday

Are you a woman who's teaching yourself to code? My wife @lorindaapps is doing a quick poll:

https://womencode.typeform.com/to/WfcMMQ

#GSB2015

What's really going on at @gumroad? Great interview with @shl by @chris_hawk

http://www.chasingproduct.com/episodes/episode-33-following-your-startups-north-star-wsahil-lavingia

Git and I: http://xkcd.com/1597/

"Should you disclose your current salary during a negotiation?" great answer by @JoshDoody here:

http://www.joshdoody.com/2015/11/should-you-disclose-your-current-salary-during-a-negotiation/

Tiny Marketing Wins: Get a (small) marketing tip every day on @ProductHunt

https://www.producthunt.com/tech/tiny-marketing-wins

“It’s the garbage culture of talentless trolls policing people who make things.” - @marcmaron

https://overcast.fm/+YXx4tM/12:42

Three simple launch tactics:

http://justinjackson.ca/launch-tactics/

Congrats! You have "initial" traction. The real test is:

- how easy is it to attract new customers?
- how long do customers stick around?

Traction Step #5

Next, ask:

- how many people were willing to pay?
- how easy was it to get them to pay?
- how long do they stay engaged?

Coffee please.

Cool band names I came up with that you can use for free:

- White Bread Catastrophe
- Celestial Hair Net
- The Acoustic Wet Wipes

.@sivers is one of my favorite writers. His latest is so good:

http://buff.ly/1RjbUOU

Weekends at my house...

https://vine.co/v/exKqXgZZmnT

Just published this: "The last mile."

http://buff.ly/1PEo0AY

Have you felt this way?

"Eventually, everyone’s luck or skill runs out." - @dhh https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3946-making-money-along-the-way

The hard thing about doing hard things is that it's easier doing easy things.

"A good goal should have a 50/50 chance of success. Anything harder is demoralizing; anything easier isn't challenging." - @ideasasylum

If you paid $2.99, and the app works, you're good.

We shouldn't expect any dev to support a < $3 purchase forever.

Awwwwww yeaaaah!

Getting started with the first official day of #xoxofest

"If most things were good, I'd make $15 an hour." - Chris Rock

Make better stuff.

If you're interested in more marketing tactics for developers, you can get a chapter of @marketingdevs:
https://cards.twitter.com/cards/pt2jpq/pxyp

#microconf

This thread shows

1. How hard it is to make money making music
2. A single celebrity tweet won't change your life

https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/3gh6e5/ryan_adams_tweeted_about_my_music_to_685000/

Doing more research for @marketingdevs today. Love these upgrade / order screens from the old Shareware days.

"Fire me. How saying no gets you hired." by @studiofellow. http://studiofellow.com/articles/fire-me/

^ so damn good.

"You shouldn’t try to emulate other people’s success."

http://justinjackson.ca/heroes/

He said it with the biggest cutest grin.

I can't say no. I'm putting this in my will tonight.

Guys, it's #donutfriday at my favorite coffee shop (@ratiovernon in #VernonBC) and this is insane.

Unreal: single shot, uninterrupted mountain bike line.

https://youtu.be/5ud5T5I4XcA

Irony is when you see a package of tennis balls and get hungry for potato chips.

My rule for podcast listening speeds:

2x: just the information please
1x: entertain me!

Or put another way:

2x: Charlie Rose
1x: Louis CK

I just published “You always feel dumb at the beginning” https://medium.com/product-people/you-always-feel-dumb-at-the-beginning-567e3fc0e153?source=tw-a02dd1574d08-1436420241302

Hug a Canadian today people.

Here's a new episode of @productpeopletv dedicated to @robwalling & @SingleFounder ;)

http://stitcher.com/s?eid=39514250&refid=asi_twtr

New podcast episode: "How I got into products"

http://productpeople.tv/2015/06/26/ep37-justin-jackson/

@chris_hawk interviews me. ;)

.@chris_hawk had me on his podcast, and I think it might be my favorite interview I've done:

http://www.chasingproduct.com/episodes/episode-25-build-something-small-build-something-now-wjustin-jackson

Awww yeaaah! Congrats to my friend @gregoiregilbert on releasing a beautiful CRM called Story. http://www.producthunt.com/r/a381d7e07f1e36/23707 http://www.producthunt.com/tech/story-crm

Whoa. @awilkinson bought Designer News:

@awilkinson/designer-news-2-0-732f1064beb2" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://medium.com/@awilkinson/designer-news-2-0-732f1064beb2

Congrats Andrew! 👊Glad it's in good hands!

Chopping wood with @BarrettABrooks and @chase_reeves. Very Portland.

Getting some nice Portland hospitality thanks to @MilanLoveless

"First, find ten people who say they’ll buy." - @asmartbear

I just wrote a new blog post about validation:

http://justinjackson.ca/ultimate-validation/

Tired and busy

https://twitter.com/tferriss/status/595000086687518720

https://twitter.com/emily_carrion/status/595647592836505601

https://twitter.com/sean_a_rose/status/594956971175911425

I know a lot of metal dudes don't like 'em, but for me nothing turns around a slow morning like Rage Against the Machine.

Just published the last episode of my podcast for this season:

http://buff.ly/1I0Gfg2

Thanks to all my listeners!

How I got woken up this morning:

"Dad, I wrote a letter to Santa. I need you to help me put it in the mailbox."

A parent's iPhone upgrade cycle is determined by when their youngest drops it in the toilet.

Hanging out with @chrisbowler today. He brought @InVisionApp swag AND muffins, so I’m pretty much in love with him.

Love this @intercom book: how do you build something people want? http://buff.ly/1J3eSqe

The @buildlaunchpod project that @codemarty and I are working on was just featured on @betalist!

http://betalist.com/startups/network-effects

This can't be right: so far in Feb, @buildlaunchpod has already had 14,226 listens. O_o

OH: "I lay down in my bed, and think: oh, shit, I gotta check the closets... and that's why I don't smoke pot anymore."

The first @buildlaunchpod product is SHIPPED!

https://gumroad.com/l/producthunt

The 58 people who pre-ordered just received the ebook and video.

Woke up at 5:45am so that I can ship this today:
http://buildandlaunch.net/book/the-product-hunt-handbook/

This is all a part of my 1 week @buildlaunchpod launch. O_o

Whoa. Someone submitted Build & Launch to @ProductHunt. My website wasn't even ready!

I just quickly updated it ;)

http://buff.ly/1wzn71h

Build & Launch, my new podcast just got accepted into iTunes.

Love @pjrvs' review. ;)

http://buff.ly/1wz57UJ

I’m really into short, interesting podcasts lately (10 minutes).

Got any favorites?

I identify with this (especially when writing a book):

"The writing is not the hard part. It's organizing one's thoughts." - @Chikodi

Doing a year in review? Planning for 2015? Here's the worksheet I use:

http://buff.ly/1tyAHHz

Just published - 2014: a year of making stuff

http://justinjackson.ca/2014-a-year-of-making-stuff/

My friend @aidanf is writing a book: "Swift for ruby developers" http://buff.ly/1vmz3na

Theory: people like to buy and store PDFs. The "job to be done" isn't necessarily reading them.

https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/547552914592759808

#jtbd

Love this: Aaron Draplin on logo design.

http://buff.ly/1wRCeJM

Customize your greeting for @producthunt & Reddit visitors = get more conversions.

http://buff.ly/1CvZhMO

@iosengineer just posted more details on that Slack research trick here: http://justinjackson.ca/slack/

I'd love to re-write this landing page copy + re-jig the payment process for this:

http://serialpodcast.org/donate

Most of the magic is in the initial inspiration. You have to bottle it quickly or it evaporates.

Do I look dumb? http://buff.ly/1wYxcHV

How to discover the hidden benefits of your product

http://buff.ly/1w03Ol1

#jtbd

Soundcloud should put "podcasts" and "music" into separate streams.

. @iamashley and @paddydonnelly's podcast is delightful:

http://workingoutpodcast.com/

Really well done.

I liked a @YouTube video http://youtu.be/8BGkHCUUfIs?a Conan O'Brien and the Best Advice I've Ever Received