@pacea87 At the moment, ilo.so. It’s growing nicely and because it’s for Twitter, I get to do lots of Twitter stuff around it. I love this place

@planekevin I typically use Namecheap to buy but instantdomainsearch.com for browsing. It makes it really useful to look at different extensions (if you need to)

@CicmilJovan A service that offers managed hosting for Ghost sites: gloathost.com

@louisbarclay @nachoiacovino Lots of reasons. My main ones: • amazing editor • publish a blog and newsletter together • paid memberships, with no transaction fees • tons of good themes • open source • actively in development • sites are always fast (stolen from gloathost.com)

@indianappguy @tolta_co @iloAnalytics The top left one, from here: ilo.so/twitter-ios-wi… The other two are coming to @tolta_co soon

@AngeZanetti • Comment notification emails for cove.chat • Two small free marketing products for ilo.so (Twitter ID getter, and a "Top Followers" tool)

@Natalie_Furn I’m building a detailed analytics product for Twitter, which helps you grow on the platform sensibly using data ilo.so

@dvassallo @mattlanham Yep! ilo.so The daily emails tell me my streak each morning

@nachoiacovino Change your "Estimated follower target" in your ilo.so settings to "1,000" and ilo will tell you a pretty good estimate when it will happen ✨

@vponamariov @MarkoSaric It’s been recently proven by ahrefs that it doesn’t matter about subdomain vs subdirectories. Don’t stress about it ahrefs.com/blog/subdomain…

@aaditsh Dude! You get so much more data on ilo.so. I'll extend your trial

@jmckinven @PodpageHQ I used a very simple template for magheroes.net. Name, episode, photo, logo

@TR3NTG I had the exact same thought after I'd set up a few sites. First came gloat.dev, then gloathost.com. The internet is *full* of people doing the same thing. Don't stress about it (as long as you don't straight out copy; be original)

@ianhunter Haha that would have been good. Unfortunately against Ghost's branding rules I believe. It's gloathost.com 👌

@roberttwestbury This notion (lol) was widely spread at the time, but the outage in February was nothing to do with Somalia. It was an issue with their (German/Canadian) registrar due to phishing complaints. techcrunch.com/2021/02/15/not…

@AprilynneA @toppingofirony Patiently waiting for bookmarks to hit the API. Apparently it’s coming

@frontenddude If I figure out the basics I think I’m going to have to hunt down some accessories 😄

@hey_iam_alex So much fun to fiddle with at my computer (when the kids haven’t stolen it)

@kevinpeters_ I don’t think I’ll ever be able to do a kick flip 😬

@NathanClark_ @hey_iam_alex 😄

Heavy churn: 56 paying customers 37 churned customers 😑

@dansult Do you still have the skills?

@askakhilgupta From what I've seen, it's not the product nor the pricing. People add comments to their blogs, but it's up to the readers to really adopt them. Not much I can fix about that

@achuth_hadnoor I ask people to cancel by emailing me (rather than a self-server "Cancel" option) and they typically explain in that email.

@coconidodev I've actually thought exactly this. One plan, one feature set, priced in the middle. I don't think the price is the issue. Nearly all churned customers say it's because they just don't need comments.

@philipyoungg Happy to share! It's not all happy days

@JackCulpan Totally 👌🏼

@shavin47 99% of the time: "It turns out I don't need comments". Unfortunately, it's not the purchaser of Cove (publisher) who decides if comments succeed on each blog. I don't have any issues/requests from long-term paying customers. I don't think it's the product's fault.

@swyx @fredwilson @slatestarcodex I think it comes down to how the blog owners/writers operate comments. If they’re used more for “community” (some of Cove’s users do this really well) rather than just “comments”, then they can be a really powerful tool.

@rajasimon April last year

@almeidamarcell You are probably right. The reason I built Cove is because of Ghost’s membership features that were newish at the time. Comments on a membership-powered site (either free or paid) are quite powerful as a community tool, and there was nothing for Ghost at the time (still isn’t).

(I should say that none of this really matters. Cove is a small side project, and it doesn't matter to me if it stays at $500 MRR for the rest of time, with high churn)

@cogentgene Still, people do... I don't want a free tier. How would you price by comments? I have thought about it, but found it impossible to actually set up plans based on that metric

@DavidDarnes @swyx @fredwilson @slatestarcodex 💯 Comments are not something every blog needs

@GoodPointDustin I added TikTok but the implementation (without an official API) is too flaky, so I took it off. Patreon is on my todo list. Which metric(s) would you want to see for Facebook?

@lorenzosigno Nope, that's the whole journey

@JimZarkadas I'm not finding it so relaxing yet; struggling to do anything 😅

@GoodPointDustin OK that sounds doable 👌🏼 I'll add to my list

@KennethCassel Glad you like it! One of my fave features. (You'll be able to do the same with followers soon too)

@itsbalal I totally agree. Unfortunately, you can’t control it. It definitely feels different posting to 13k people that I don’t really know, compared to 4k a year ago. But by tweeting to those 4k, it’s now 13k...

@benbarbersmith Planning by end of year. On track so far 🤞🏼

@IGrabill @arvidkahl Totally agree! Sorry, it wasn’t a dig at bald people. But I would have pulled my hair out by now

@rajkbnp The boxes represent $1k MRR. I don’t plan on building 10 projects. Four is plenty!

@alisalahio Thanks Ali!

@Tyler_Potts_ Thanks Tyler!

@kevin_cyr I have no idea but I won’t find out 😅

@aaditsh Thanks Aadit!

@lortizmx Subsail is the biggest earner but is being caught by ilo. Gloat and Cove are both around $500

@srinathariharan It’s hard sometimes but I’m good at writing out what needs doing each week and just doing that (or almost that). Small steps

@NoahmSharon One by one over time

@tannerlueders @arvidkahl I just spotted a gap where there is no Ghost-specific commenting tool, and they just had added memberships. Made sense to build something for it

@brianoneill @arvidkahl @disqus I honestly don’t see Disqus as competition for Cove. Cove integrates deep into Ghost so members are signed into both. Disqus can never match that. Interesting point about pricing. It would probably price out all my current (hobbyist) customers. How comes you’re paying $100/mo?

@TheChrisHarry @growthcurrency Thanks for sharing, Chris!

@mubashariqbal Haha that’s a good way to do it! 😄

@o_chrz @_johnsonator @iiiitsandrea Higher fees are better than no revenue

@GuptaSauren Currently at a pace of every two months 😇

@DeepakLalit31 I'll share it as soon as I've proven to myself that it works 😄

@dimnls .so 100 Internet Points to you if you guess from that! 😅

@_szczepad Launch and get it used by people. Then iterate on the features, throw up some early test pricing and just take it from there

@dshark3y I typically use Django as I've used it for so long

@shanedotnet Did you pull the trigger??

@mynameis_davis Definitely feeling the same. I have some ideas around a specific platform: Ghost. Lots is opportunity in your idea

@rmajs10 @NoahmSharon It’s all been different but at least a month or two, typically.

@dvassallo Thanks for sharing Daniel!

@whit4th $dro

@dimnls @NotionHQ Haha good try, but not close 😁

@stephenpratley @saarw Why?

@Halil_D_ That's interesting. If I had a .com, I would personally never use anything else.

@charafmrah Yes, originally "commercial"

@roberttwestbury Do you have a reference for that?

@theandreboso As you may have noticed, I'm not worried about this at all. And I'm betting they add .so to their list, just like they did with all the rest, once it gets more and more traction

@_pankaj_patidar Personally, I don't like .io

@saarw This outage ended up being nothing to do with Somalia.

@saarw Definitely always a risk buying a ccTLDs. .io and .co are both still very popular though

@alisalahio Quite a cynical view! How about .io and .co

@aaditsh @iloAnalytics Love it Aadit!

@alistairswilson @AlexLlullTW Yup! A custom theme just for this site

@LHousehold @GuptaSauren They’re always things I use myself. They’re not really ideas, more just things I want

@davenemetz Tell me more!

@iamdanrice @sethrosen Thank you for sharing Dan!

I’m on day 102 of my longest streak

@swSalim Keep going and get the momentum

@OranaCreative I don’t have a strategy for daily quantity. I typically just tweet if I have something to share or comment on

@SimonHoiberg 100% agree. Consistency Quality Timing in that order

@iamdanrice @sethrosen I was just early enough that it was available

@hrishio @typefullyapp .@linuz90 doesn’t mess about

@Ghost Is that the only way to get the preview content?

@KennethCassel Love me an em dash (but only in the appropriate places)

@Ghost Do you have documentation around the previews for themes? It's 100% clear how previews can be added to themes. Is it just handled in {{content}} ?

The best: steady, woah growth.

@ilya_azovtsev Now 59 😄

@seyitaylor @catthekin @nandoodles 🙌🏼

@DeepakLalit31 @SimonHoiberg It means the time of day. You potentially see more engagement when most of your audience are awake and online. But it’s not as important and tweeting frequently

@digitaltrouble Build better businesses

@conradd @claytonchambrs @itunpredictable I haven’t run a paid publication on either. But the general pros to Ghost still stand: super customisable with editable themes, no transaction fees, you can host it in many different ways, you’re free from platform-wide decisions

@digitaltrouble I’m happy with my products but not the “businesses”. I need to vastly improve marketing, reach, retention, growth etc

@robhope @GoodPointDustin @tolta_co @Simplecast @anchor Appreciate it Rob!

@lennysan We all get given X holiday days and X public holiday days based on the company’s base location (8 days). We remote member then get a pool of X + 8 total holiday days and can use them up however we want. People in the base country also choose which public holidays they work on

@superzac @lennysan In my team, colleagues are allowed to work on public holidays and use their days off fluidly

@FarazPatankar13 @thereversefIash Sign up and I’ll DM you both the discount code 🙌🏼

@JanSysala @markozelman Sign up and I’ll DM you both the discount code 🙌

@rajasimon Correct. If they don't wish to continue, users can remove Cove; comments won't be visible on the site any more.

@WiseDwivedi @Natalie_Furn Thank you Aman  🤩

@ux_raz They're stored in Cove

@AmayaMangaldas This is great Amaya, thank you!

@MarketingMax Keep going!

@joshstottuk @Facebook Is there a market? What's wrong with the in-built FB ads manager? It's possible, but I'm not looking to build anything new atm. Very curious about new possibilities though.

@dqmonn @_rchase_ Yeh that's not so bad. I don't have an hour of support to do per week, though. Just a different way to handling support.

@stephenpratley It's amazing how those tiny sentences can help reduce your workload.

@lebaux Sure, I totally understand your point, but my tweet isn't about ilo. I also run other SaaS products, including a subscription/payments platform. As it's only me, I worked hard on making it easy to set up, use & understand. Support requests have gone down over time to almost zero.

@dqmonn @_rchase_ For me, and many with < $20k MRR, a support hire would be crazy expense compared to writing docs and copy.

@_rchase_ I think (like most takes) it probably depends on the product. Mine are typically simple products to being with, with little that could go wrong or needing tweaking per user.

@stephenpratley 😄 That's a great way to think about it

@joostschuur These are done with Python, using a totally different library. Hoping to nail the same design with these so they're indistinguishable.

@belbo_IT Not impossible. I have a subscription/payments SaaS, which is quite complex to set up and use. I use docs and in-app copy to explain everything

@belbo_IT Then you just have to write documentation and link to it from the right place in the app. No need for anyone to ask you a question directly and take up your time.

@AshConnell @helpscout I do exactly this for one of my projects. Amazingly useful to show relevant docs in-place

@belbo_IT That’s what my tweet was about. Trying to reduce the 5–10 questions in the first place

@joshstottuk @Facebook This is really interesting. I have had similar feedback about another platform, also with a similar suggested price point

@chddaniel @mijustin @PaulYacoubian Just go with what feels good to you. At the end of the day, people who want your product will pay for it, regardless of whether it has a 0 or a 9 at the end. You can always change prices too

@heyblake “Dropped because you popped”

@PierreDeWulf A great way to handle issues on the fly 👌🏼

@ashana_way You always need to offer support. It’s just important to proactively cover your bases first, so it doesn’t get overwhelming. If you’re getting a lot of support requests, in my opinion you’re doing it wrong

@geek_ed_ For me “Customer first” means making sure they have everything they need without having to get in touch

@tonihopponen Totally. The idea isn’t to get zero support requests or queries, it’s just to lighten the load so you can do it yourself

@StevanPopo This is a Python script that takes the same data as the charts on profiles and just spits it out as an image. Images can then be shown directly to the user in the UI for download, or uploaded to a server to get a URL for them

@theluctus Thanks for sharing! I’ll check it out

@hrishio Neither 😄

@chrcit This is one of the two ways I’ve thought of. This would be food for sharing live data on the web. Sharing on social requires you to download an image from ilo and upload to the service

@christianbarra I like your c) but if you aren't already doing one of a) and b) it can be very tricky knowing what and how to build without constant input from others. You can't go fast

@AprilynneA @SankethYS @Fund_Story @heyblake @jones_spencera @dvassallo @MeetKevon @TurboTalks @EhabJames @heybereket Absolute pleasure! I’m really happy that you shared some of your knowledge on the blog. Congrats on 1k 🎉

@SimonHoiberg @iloAnalytics In a few years?? I can’t wait that long 😄

@alisalahio @iloAnalytics It’s a horrible, hopeless feeling. Let’s hope the coming weeks turn it around

@BairdHall @iloAnalytics You might be right. Interesting to hear others also seeing a dip. Thanks Baird!

@BairdHall @iloAnalytics @getchurnkey Would be interesting to see! I don’t get much churn though, luckily. And I’m on Paddle; have you looked into integreting with them?

@marciszv @iloAnalytics It’s just the slump. When things go worse randomly, it’s hard to understand and hard to know what to do to fix it

@alex_sugg @iloAnalytics Thanks Alex! Hope you find ilo useful

@yongfook @iloAnalytics Thanks Jon! Luckily that’s what I’m best at 😄

@terribledustin @d__raptis @arvidkahl @KennethCassel @noahwbragg @jones_spencera @gabe_ragland Let’s do it ✨

@Nick_Franklin Side note. Have you thought of integrating with Paddle?

@yodanparry It’s easy to charge more when the thing you sell helps people make or understand money. ilo doesn’t fit into that category unfortunately. My next thing will

@monicalent With ilo I haven’t identified business features that could warrant a much higher price point. Unless I position it away from consumers and aim it only at businesses by default

@Nick_Franklin Woah, baby steps 😅 I would defo charge $500 if it makes sense for a product. I’m not in that zone atm

@VladPasca5 Exactly ✨

@rosiesherry Love it. Every day?

@_jmoller @Prathkum @nachoiacovino To see another 300+ just hours later is amazing. Congrats on your crazy growth! Loving the content

@vponamariov Point 2. is definitely important. Just not as important as 1. You can get better at quality through constant practise. You can't get better at consistency through higher quality content.

@nachoiacovino Easy. Ghost

@ahmed_drar @louisbarclay @nachoiacovino Hard to say without more info. Ghost is brilliant at publishing, straightforward publishing on the web and over email. If you use lots of plugins with Wordpress to make it do what you want, then perhaps stay with Wordpress

@BobBodily Just use the tool that’s best for you. There are millions of happy Ghost users. I would perhaps try it out before knowing whether it works for you or not. It’s a brilliant tool for blogging and newsletters. (That post is 2 years old so I wouldn’t consider it 100% relevant)

@dvassallo I’m all for showing the number of unfollows but but the actual users. Just like you don’t get to see the users who visit your profile and don’t follow. It’s too negative. (Unfortunately, API limits mean it’s impossible to do instant notifications.)

@toktoktwan Definitely

@tobins Do you want to see the actual people who leave? If so, why?

@nachoiacovino I typically do them close to the main rules. Makes it so much easier to edit again in the future. The main downside is managing consistent breakpoints

@muskminion There are a number of decent tools for this already. Managing followers isn’t something ilo will probably ever do

I’m planning to have an optional feature to see the number of unfollows in the daily Followers chart. But I won’t show the actual users

@AngeZanetti @vponamariov @gregisenberg It’s about getting better. You can’t get better at the content without tweeting a lot. My second point isn’t “post rubbish”. It’s more to do with getting better over time through practise, rather than stressing over putting out a few top quality tweets.

@louisnicholls_ What do you mean by bounce rate?

@AprilynneA How do you know it’s a tweet that makes people unfollow you? Technically the only way to do this is track who unfollows after which tweet. But it’s still not guaranteed to be accurate. I unfollow people more randomly than based on a specific tweet

@sreekanth850 @AprilynneA Makes sense. The trouble is that you may be unfollowing after seeing a tweet from hours or days ago. It’s not accurate enough for me to build this kind of tool

Interestingly, in the same period, Engagements per Tweet and Engagements per Impression are both down a bit. The bump in impressions is decreasing my engagement ratios. pic.twitter.com/j3DXAQLyER

@damengchen Congrats. Excited to see how this changes your revenue. I'm planning another price increase too. I only did one last month 😅 Pricing is such a complex beast. As features come and go and value changes, pricing needs to keep up.

@Reider_DJ My kind of tweeting hasn't changed so I don't think it's to do with the quantity. I seem to be being shown to more people outside my followers, which may explain the decrease in engagement.

@iamjonjackson It's reeeeeeally low atm because of how many profile visits I've had recently

@heybereket Depends if you're sending someone to "log in" or if you're sending someone to the "login".

@charlesepayne @iloAnalytics It's on my list ✨

@_JimB The huge spike was a single tweet that took off, which in turn caused new followers, which has lead to higher average impressions since (I think)

@natension At the moment, Red Bull 🛫

@signorettif Having total daily unfollows in the typical Followers chart and email digest will be really cool to see

@petecallaghans We'll never know...

@signorettif That's an interesting idea. I like it. I definitely think unfollows are a valuable metric, I'm just wary of mental health and the potential negativity unfollows may surface

@jstarkie I track all projects in a spreadsheet, which calculates MRR, ARR, revenue etc, and then combines the different project figures into my overall MRR, ARR, revenue. I use Paddle, but basically I just log in and put the latest figure in my spreadsheet regularly throughout the month.

@yodanparry @Ghost ✨LOVELY✨ is probably one of the most accurate descriptions

Analytics nerd

@nocodelife I love being able to switch gears sometimes. Sometimes it’s weeks before I go back to coding

@janklimo Thanks Jan! If you have a project you can always DM

@ntkris Sketch and good old HTML

@nickfromseattle @Baremetrics 😅

@paulbobrayner “Landing pages as a Service” Actually quite tempted...

@BotezatuDima Totally get what you mean. But I really enjoy being able to “get away” sometimes and work on another part of the project

@Sferyczny I can’t really single out anything I hate about building. Running a business is hard in multiple ways

@FarazPatankar13 All of it. Design, branding, getting the flow right, writing the copy...

@consultantrhys 😂 Amazing practise though!

@heyblake I would literally just do the same as ever. I haven't changed in the past year (4k–14k) It might even be a good chance to get better connections.

@AngeZanetti Thanks Xavier! 👊🏼

If you answered “Yes” above, do you schedule tweets using Twitter or an external tool? (Comment below if you don’t mind sharing what you use)

@samuel_spitz That’s a good point. I just think there’s no point putting the CTA higher just so that it’s higher, without explaining the product a bit first

@mattlady @Ghost You can easily do free plus monthly and yearly with default Ghost+Stripe. For anything else you need a separate payment processor plus something like Zapier to connect Ghost to it.

@JoshDance You can do it on the web app

@tregsthedev @rafyasarmatta @ryanchenkie @iloAnalytics @jack I believe it doesn't exist. I think Jack's is the smallest ID in the system.

@DBredvick @iloAnalytics Amazing! Thank you

@terribledustin @iloAnalytics Next in line!

If your Twitter ID is huge, just know that they aren't sequential any more. pic.twitter.com/W7xcjFnjIL

@iamrobmann @iloAnalytics 🙌🏼😄

@soheilpro @iloAnalytics I don’t remember how but I signed up in September 2006. Twitter “launched” and first got real traction in March 2007 at SXSW

@tonynnabs @jstarkie I did 😄 It’s just a lot easier to update a few numbers in a spreadsheet a few times a month than create an app that connects to four different SaaS products’ processors

@mj_makes Good question. I increased last month from $10 to $15/m. And I’m currently building a new product within ilo which will be a charged add-on. Hoping to increase my average payment towards the $30/m mark

@linuz90 @maridivi89 Love this!! The GIFs, the music, the static between stations... 👏🏼

@burgioluca Thanks Luca!

@nambitable That just means you're not the target market for a product. You're paying for some, so it just depends on how much value you personally place in a product

@frankdilo @typefullyapp You may be right. Go for B2B and leave it free for B2C?

@room_n @frankdilo @typefullyapp I was thinking about this. But people would jus go to Twitter to post. There needs to be a feature not already in Twitter that keeps people stuck in Typefully

@nambitable A few, mostly for essentials like hosting. Essentials being the important word. If I want something and it costs $30, then I'll pay

@frankdilo @typefullyapp I don't think you're being foolish by not monetising it yet.

@frankdilo @typefullyapp Don't be afraid to slap a simple monthly fee on it. 30 day trial, let users get stuck, then charge ~$10/month. You could go freemium with the basics and keep something like scheduling as a paid option. Then add new features to a Pro plan and charge +$20/m for power users.

@jones_spencera Congrats on the launch! 👊🏼

@ghz_______ If you’re on ilo already you will be able to try it soon

@TR3NTG Not there yet. Just a vague thing to think about

@cogentgene Twitter web app

@noahwbragg Personally, I don’t like it when people RT their own tweets. I don’t think that automated retweets are a good “look” on Twitter. But enough people are doing it, so each to their own

@benamiwills I keep them all separate. Otherwise it gets really tricky to separate customers and revenue numbers. And if you ever sell or leave a project, it's easy to

@GoodPointDustin @tolta_co 🙌🏼

@GoodPointDustin This may come at some point. Waiting for demand to tell me what’s next

@HAJBlack I haven't written about it, but it's very simple. I use Django for the backend and vanilla JS for front-ends.

@DavidDarnes I’m pretty sure I had the same one!

pic.twitter.com/WQMO5iL5E9

@dennishegstad @ProductHunt Oh damn

@Elliott__ This is on my list 🤘🏼 Would be cool to see for sure

@_rchase_ @clearbit I like this! Clearbit requires an email address, which I can't get from public Twitter data, unfortunately

@Leandro8209 @iloAnalytics 🙌 High five for that

@benbarbersmith Solid list! I’m British too

@noahwbragg 5-6% without CC Still on the fence about asking for CC. Would be cool to try it out. Why did you go that route?

@thepeffrey @iloAnalytics There are a couple of ways to do it. You could install on the same server as the app, or run it on a different server and reverse proxy to it. DM if you want the nitty gritty!

@mattlady @tolta_co @anchor @TransistorFM Thanks Matt!

@RobertBrunhage @tailwindcss I just have a my own small library of utility classes which I bring to new projects. I write any CSS on top of that. Small and only what I need. I would never use a huge library like Tailwind; it dictates your design too much and everyone’s sites all look the same

@nachoiacovino @madsbrodt @RobertBrunhage @tailwindcss My hand-written ilo style sheet is 15kb uncompressed. I can deal with the extra 5kb

@nachoiacovino @madsbrodt @RobertBrunhage @tailwindcss Yes I probably am. My biggest issues with Tailwind are the homogenous sites (UI) and having too much unnecessary CSS I’d rather just write my own

@madsbrodt @RobertBrunhage @tailwindcss I prefer to have a single CSS file with some utility classes (similar to Tailwind) and then write a few custom things. No compiling necessary. Makes it incredibly easy

@madsbrodt @RobertBrunhage @tailwindcss That encourage you but it’s up to the dev to do that. There are a lot of sites you can easily tell are Tailwind sites.

@fuercoaches @tolta_co @anchor Thanks Chris!

@joshua_hornby @tolta_co @TransistorFM Thanks Josh!