It's the week in review episode (here's the template I use). Discussing the wins and losses and all that jazz at Lunch Pail Labs this week (05/28/22 - 06/03/22). Links mentioned in this episode Indie Hackers episode #254 -- designing your life
Hellooo friends 👋🏿 Jamming in this episode about some more insights from my super deep dive on the lego economy what are some of the ways companies are monetizing? Tune in to find out!
Spending a lot of time curating a database of "legos" that you can add to no-code and low-code products. (See #269 — 📊 A database of legos and #268 — 📚 Curating Legos for context). Jamming in this episode about some trends I'm seeing across the dataset and spotlighting 🔦 a few interesting APIs. Companies mentioned Hyperbeam Radar Vital Seam Metronome Speechly AtomicVest Work While Jobs Duffel
Why should agencies adopt a build-to-sell mindset when building for clients? Exploring that in this episode! Links mentioned This tiny acquisitions article #126 — 🏃🏿♀️ transitioning projects
It's the week in review episode (here's the template I use). Discussing the wins and losses and all that jazz at Lunch Pail Labs this week (05/20/22 - 05/27/22). Links mentioned in the episode Ask Quda AMA
Part 3 of this week's focus on legos (here's part 1 and part 2) pitched the idea of what I'm curating to Twitter and got some responses (which is motivation enough for me to keep curating)
This episode is an extension of yesterday's episode on legos (#267 — 🧱 What's in a lego?). Working on curating my research on the topic into a curated database and jamming about others who create curated databases. Links mentioned in the episode Spread the word (curated database on where to post your startup) Cyberleads (curated database of companies that have recently raised and are likely to outsource)
This episode is all about Legos, I've mentioned this concept before (here and here most recently), but take a deeper dive into what makes a business lego and what does not in this episode.
Another episode continuing the series of cold outreach/outbound sales. Talking about finding email addresses from a lead list in this episode. I'm using Who Works There by Stuart as my tool of choice! If you have any comments or sales recs, feel free to send me a dm on Twitter.
Jamming about using Twitter lists for business development and market research in this episode. Nathan Barry talked about the importance of hanging out in a niche when forming a direct sales strategy, and I think that can absolutely be done on Twitter especially for any businesses or services that are targeting other tech companies. Links mentioned in the episode: Using Twitter lists for business Nathan Barry's guide to direct sales for bootstrapped businesses
Jamming about dedicated landing pages for services. It's a strategy I often see with product based businesses, not so much with agencies/services, but now that Lunch Pail Labs has a few more engagements under our belt, starting to see a few patterns emerge in the clients and industries we serve and want to make that clearer. Lee Launches tweet thread Unstack's video on dedicated landing pages Not Boring Co's article on API first companies
Explaining the metrics, I regularly monitor at Lunch Pail Labs (did a little revamp!) to alert me when I should change course. They fall into 3 categories 1. General energy/contentment throughout week 2. Runway 3. Progress towards milestones Have any thoughts on what a bootstrapped service business should monitor? I'd love to hear it! Send me a DM.
It's the week in review episode (here's the template I use). Discussing the wins and losses and all that jazz at Lunch Pail Labs this week (05/07/22 - 05/13/22). Links mentioned in the episode #258 — 🌵 Applying Dry's landing page guide #257 — 🪢 Revisiting Chord #259 — 🥶 Going in Cold
Helloooo! This episode is a continuation in parts of yesterday's Revisiting Chord episode. I took a look a long look at Harry Dry's Landing page guide and actually decided to apply it to Lunch Pail Labs. Jamming about that process and the modularization of everything in this episode.
Jamming about revisiting and rebuilding Chord. I originally built V1 a whole year ago and finally putting some time into a revamp. I will be using the next few pod updates to talk through The focus for the next few days Upgrading the landing page of Chord and the waiting list, leaning heavily on Harry Dry's landing page guide Upgrading the audio-only functionality with the Daily plugin for Bubble Cleaning up the portal and admin parts of the experience for Chord Users and opening it up for an...
Jamming about feedback loops in today's episode and how Lunch Pail Labs can implement stronger ones internally and for clients. This is a great read on feedback loops as well.
It's the week in review episode (here's the template I use). Discussing the wins and losses and all that jazz at Lunch Pail Labs this week (04/30/22 - 5/06/22) Links mentioned in the episode Culture & Code Episode #7
Made the Adalo component cheat sheet live ✨ and have begun sharing with folks who had requested access. Jamming about that experience in this short episode! Other links mentioned: Making tasks higher leverage Learning in public
Talking about a content ladder for Lunch Pail Labs and some small steps on actually implementing that today! Links mentioned in the episode: 3/11 week in review 9 real businesses built with no-code Vox's article on the video essay boom
It's the week in review episode (here's the template I use). Discussing the wins and losses and all that jazz at Lunch Pail Labs this week (04/23/22 - 4/29/22) Links mentioned in the episode #247 — ⚠️ The dangers of going solo #249 — 👨🏿🚒 Customer support when you're solo
Jamming about keeping up with customer support as a 1-person team. How do you make sure folks get timely responses and the help they need when you're working on a portfolio of products and services? 👀 Links mentioned in this episode: Zendesk scaling customer support #247 — ⚠️ The dangers of going solo Gitbook Notion Slab Letterbase
Jamming about some public places to get feedback on early ideas in this episode. Links that are mentioned in this episode: The Meetup Hack: How to get your first 1,000 subscribers Finding opportunities on Reddit Getting feedback on Kernal Unbundling Craigslist
Jamming about some of the dangers of solo business and the artist/creator archetype which I think provides a good blueprint. Links mentioned in this episode Design Joy DesignJoy thread The agency of one storm
