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jot.is
Product at Urlbox Advisor & Supporter of B2B SaaS in Sussex, UK. Coworking at The Skiff Newsletter: Brighton Dynamic Building my next SaaS on Rails.
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If you’re horrified after watching the Zelensky/Trump interview, a reminder that you can donate through Ukraine’s official platform at u24.gov.ua

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Both of @aprildunford.bsky.social’s books are $0.99 on Amazon this weekend, and both are well worth your time. Obviously Awesome is a must-read for founders IMO www.amazon.com/Obviously-Aw...

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One of my most popular blog posts is three years old. Time for an updated? blog.theskiff.org/what-it-cost...

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Feedback from a customer: "We've had a wonderful, problem-free time using urlbox and will return in the future if we need it." Now considering new landing page copy: "Problem-free website screenshots"

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

If you run a small SaaS business in the UK with ~5 people businessofsoftware.org is the one conference you'll want to bring your whole team back to every year. I'll be at BoS Europe in Cambridge at the end of March, will you?

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If you send an email to people who signed up to your product or newsletter ages ago… Don’t forget to remind them what you do and why they should care. The fact you have a new website, UI and feature with a funky name is meaningless to me without that context.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Yesterday in Urlbox's customer support inbox: "I've used probably half a dozen screenshot APIs - seriously, yours is head-n-shoulders above the rest." So good to be working on a product developers love.

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Just set up a code for 40% off the book while I'm re-running the original thread. Anniversary sale! Use code 4YEARS at checkout on tiny.mba.

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

Good morning!

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

Considering using a CRM for the first time. Two I've heard most good things about are Pipedrive and Close. This is primarily to manage and qualify ~400/month inbound leads for a B2B SaaS. I'll likely be the only user for the time being. Which would you choose? What should I be considering?

submitted 72 days ago • 6 comments

Bootstrapping a SaaS isn't always cheap. I've seen multiple businesses spend over £500,000 of their own money before achieving £10K MRR from a new SaaS. 12 months of learning hard lessons. Painful but worth it for the 6 months that came next.

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

There is a certain kind of web form I hate. You click a select field to see the options. You then click one option by accident. You can't remember what it was previously set to. No problem you think, you've not hit save or submit yet. Then you realise there is no button to save... or undo.

submitted 84 days ago • 2 comments

Amused by the broad range of answers in response to the question: "How did you find [product]?" ~6% give feedback on the product rather than saying how they found out about it.

submitted 84 days ago • 4 comments

So many ways cold emailers show they’ve not done any research. With The Skiff it’s as easy as using any of the words “customers”, “clients” or “tenants”. We only have members. I consider our Coworking space to be their space. Wonder if the cold emailers will bother researching here.

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

“Think of him as the tech-savvy uncle who offers sage advice while never abandoning his childish wonder at the internet." Agree with @mjwhansen.com, I consider this more of a Toast than a Roast: blueskyroast.com/roast/jot.is

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

Alright, it's Friday afternoon, so that means it's time to SHIP 🚢 news.thundersky.app If the Bluesky firehose and the Hacker News ranking algorithm ever got together and had a cyber baby, this is what it might look like. Enjoy!

submitted 91 days ago • 4 comments

See you there?

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

Had a quick play with the Jetstream watching for domains: 1. youtu.be - 584 2. www.youtube.com - 365 3. bsky.app - 324 4. amzn.to - 182 5. open.spotify.com - 176 6. youtube.com - 151 7. x.com - 129 8. bit.ly - 112 9. twitter.com - 91 10. t.co - 86 11. buff.ly - 85 12. www.theguardian.com - 84

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

Here's example of the kind of wild code that often breaks full page automated website screenshots. Part of our team's job at Urlbox is to solve the resulting glitches so you don't have to.

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments