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Josh Pigford
Personal blog · joshpigford.comstartupsbusinesscareer
Josh Pigford's personal blog at joshpigford.com covers startups, business and career. Since 2012, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “62 Projects in 19 Years”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Josh Pigford's blog for bootstrapped SaaS experience: his sale of Baremetrics, revenue figures, documented failed ventures, and his early-stage growth posts. Comments cite it as a source.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Josh Pigford: Dabbler. Founder of FirstIndex, Knockoff and more.
Most-linked posts?
- 62 Projects in 19 Years5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-06-08
- Baremetrics - $0 to $1300/mo in 30 days2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-11-21
What Hacker News says?
The first 50 episodes of the Indie Hackers podcast had a big influence on how I approached bootstrapping. The episodes that stood out in particular are: - Pieter Levels: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/043-pieter-levels-of-no... - Tracy Osborn: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/029-tracy-osborn-of-hel... Josh Pigford (who sold Baremetrics for $4M) has also documented all of his failed ventures: https://joshp…
Comment linking /projects
on “My sixth year as a bootstrapped founder”Submitted We Need a Culture of Feature Killing as a story · 8 points
HN discussionI actually very specifically chose the butcher example, and no there isn't. At the end of the day, a butcher, like a software developer can be trained to be good. Initially a butcher would ruin meat and cut into profits by incorrectly making cuts. Over time the butcher can and will get better. Far fewer mistakes towards the end of the career. Same with software engineers. After a point this comparison breaks down, b…
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on “I sold Baremetrics”Submitted 62 Projects in 19 Years as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThis reminds me of a recently decried point the British government made encouraging people in the arts to consider technical jobs: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/oct/12/ballet-danc... Josh seems to be extremely entrepreneurial and independent ( https://joshpigford.com/projects ) and maybe being a part of a trillion dollar machine isn't worth the $ to him. He succeeded doing what he wanted to do and that's…
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on “I sold Baremetrics”Submitted Spreadsheet of the 50 projects Josh Pigford has built over the past 15 years as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMaking around $5000/mo between http://popsurvey.com and http://temper.io (recently launched). But that's rising a bit more rapidly now: http://joshpigford.com/kill-the-free-how-to-increase-revenue... Slow, but steady, growth. Definitely a prime example of the "Long, Slow, SaaS Ramp of Death." http://businessofsoftware.org/2012/10/gail-goodman-the-long-...
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on “Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?”Submitted Baremetrics - $0 to $1300/mo in 30 days as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt's entirely possible and very realistic. I built a SaaS product in the equivalent of about a 7-8 working days that 4 weeks in had $1000 in MRR and 8 weeks later is double that. http://joshpigford.com/baremetrics-stripe-analytics It's about solving problems that businesses are willing to pay for. Doesn't matter how good the idea sounds. Only matters if businesses will fork over real, tangible money for the problem…
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on “Investment increases your risk”Submitted How to take control of spam and sales calls as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Client is Always Wrong as a story · 1 points
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