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This tweet... As I move out of build phase and into marketing phase, this is what I need to understand too.

How many of you know these numbers? #indiehacker #buildinpublic
@JonChorba I love it!

Have you done the math on # of sales needed?

Then, run the numbers on your conversion rates... If 2 leads out of 100 purchase... How many leads needed?

Then... Your opt in rate.

If 50% opt in and 2% purchase, you need ### traffic to achieve.

Ground it in data!
Refactor for NurturedBlog went better than expected. Didn't work the very first time I ran it after all the changes but was good after correcting two silly misses.

Next up, sort the navigation admin.

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Currently restructuring the code for NurturedBlog - At the stage where EVERYTHING is broken... Telling myself it'll be worth it (It really will be).

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I've started another project while in the midst of @gettemplateto features. Why do I do this to myself?

This project is a blogging platform; it focuses on minimal features and super fast page loads and great SEO out of the box.

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Puppeteer is great but its so slow compared to WKHTMLtoPDF which is what was being used before. How slow?

Same input HTML render on a microserver (I have a pool of small servers):
WK - 200ms
Puppeteer - 5 seconds.

๐Ÿงต

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Started moving TemplateTo over to another pdf generation tech.

The main reason is for additional control. This solution allows me to be more precise with margins on documents which is super important. But this is a big change and requires a ton of testing.

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Today I put a pause on a feature that's been in development for 1.5 weeks. I did this as two customers reached out with questions and this led to even better features which were simpler to add. 2 tweaks made a few more to complete. Customer feedback is the best.
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Dynamic table control is taking longer than expected.. but has a lot of scope creep, I think it's looking pretty powerful.

Targeting to have something sharable Saturday.

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Started working on a dynamic table block for templateto today.

This might take a little longer than I first thought.

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Been working on features related to dynamic data. A couple more releases in the coming days.

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We are now live with our JSON component. This simplifies working with dynamic data within your templates.

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ProductHunt launch soon ๐Ÿ˜ณ Created these images for my launch page. Would love to get some feedback before launching.

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Today I've been doing boring tasks on TemplateTo, like adding proper terms of service etc. I really dislike these sorts of tasks but they have to be done.

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The landing page is getting close.

Thanks to those who have given feedback, it's been invaluable.

templateto.com

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Today's task is to make a one line change to some code.. but the code is the result of code generation.

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Lead magnet FB ad campaign 6 days.

Average lead cost: 28p (and falling)
Average revenue per lead: 32p (and growing)

Quick thread on what we've done and what we plan next week.

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Anyone familiar with Frank Kerns 4 day cash machine email marketing course from a few years back? It's kinda my go to at the moment.

Is there another method I should be aware of today?

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Launch Delayed ๐Ÿ˜ข

Having an issue with the part of the product that needs to be flawless on launch.

A busy weekend means a few days delay. Setting new launch date for 5th Oct.

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2 days until launch

Lots to be done.

Working on the landing page again this evening.

Run into some CORS issues, which has been fun.

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3 days until launch

Took the weekend off so continuing the countdown today.

Todays task is a rough & ready landing page, everything is a bit beta atm so going for a free beta launch.

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