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Typically this is $500.... so why is it free? 🤔
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Reasons you should use Stripe Checkout (
@stripe
) for your next side project 👇
1. Cut your checkout code down to 12 lines of code.
2. Eliminate risk.
3. You can have hundreds of features for free.
Details below.... 🧵🧵🧵
Live 🚀
I made a chrome extension that allows you to copy full HTML and CSS of anything on a page. You can literally duplicate anything!
Check it out: CodeScraper 🤯: Hover over anything and get the HTML/CSS via
@ProductHunt
So many founders build an indie business and only put it on Product Hunt. Why?
You are missing out on so many customers. 🤑
Here are 7 places to post your side-project other than Product Hunt and get similar results 🧵👇
Recently added How to Take Over the World to my podcast rotation. One of the best decisions I have made this year.
Really remarkable work by
@BenWilsonTweets
@joeyabanks
I wish I could have a 9-5 Monday to Friday set up screens that automatically appeared and then vanished...
Eliminates the need for a work phone.
I just started using for Outwork Staffing and I love it! Great work -
@damengchen
🎊
It is such an awesome tool... sent it to two customers as a test and already have a great marketing asset!
It has been very fulfilling to build this business full-time over the past 6 months.
We've got a great team of recruiters, just took on a great partner, and are ready to keep going.
If you are interested in hiring overseas, my direct messages are open! Would love to chat.
Over the past year, it has been such a joy to place candidates from around the world with companies that are scaling rapidly.
Thank you for an awesome 2023 and we look forward to 2024! 🎉🥳
Just deployed a
@metabase
dashboard for a side-project and holy mind blown! Every single maker deserves this when making business decisions.
Deploy it on
@heroku
for free!
Got to meet up with the barista himself today, the
@businessbarista
☕
Alex is a super nice guy and his new game is going to crush! He was out there with a really high level of focus having people try it again the world axe throwing champion. Genius!
1. Reduce the amount of code required to launch.
Designing checkout flows is hard.
You need to build out functions including removing an old card, validating a new card, modifying prices, etc etc - you get the point. Stripe literally does it all with just this code.
2. Writing checkout code is risky.
If something breaks, all of the sudden your users can't give you any money. I trust Stripe a little bit more than myself.
Eliminate your need to test hundreds of lines (and most of your bug risk) by just making the switch.
@KennethCassel
This is the dream office. I’m not even in hardware, but something just makes you feel like you’re building.
Factories and industrial spaces are infectious.
Nothing like building great companies in the US of A
Leaving New York! Really happy to have been able to spend the week here only relaxing. Nothing like a break without a schedule and sleeping until noon daily.
A few weeks ago, I build a web crawler to help find business information (website, email, etc...) and have since gathered together 624,336 US businesses 🤩
I plan to somehow use that data to generate travel guides and sell ads to those companies automatically.
Follow along 👇
1)
@IndieHackers
is a digital community of people who are building and launching side-projects every day. They share revenue, milestones, and have a killer forum.
Built by
@csallen
and owned by
@stripe
💥Thrilled to publicly launch Sparx and the news of our $3.1 million seed round from Drive Capital, Thrive Capital, Human Capital and Wicklow Capital! Thank you for the nice feature
@ChristineMHall
in TechCrunch today
I love
@heyreform
.
I had an idea for a form to send a batch of customers.
15 minutes later, I sent an email to 5,000 people with a really simple beautiful link.
So powerful.
3. No need to build out coupons, subscriptions, price changes, and a ton more.
You could get to market 10x faster if you are selling anything and have more features. No brainer.
Spent some time tonight playing around with the new Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera. Holy 6k raw.
Twitter is probably gonna compress the tar out of this, but whatever.
@Shpigford
I got you.
@PaulJosephCox
and I started .
Similar, but focused more on serving US customers well in the process.
Working with
@mynameis_davis
a little on this too for distribution.
During class, I coded a Chrome extension to help me search Quizlet for homework questions faster.
One right click and it searches Quizlet, copies to my clipboard, and then I can find it on the page.
Check it out 👇
4) Subreddits (ex. /r/Entrepreneur and /r/SideProject/) are communities full of people who share similar interests. Find one in your niche and post away! Great way to meet customers.
2)
@GetMakerlog
was founded a few years ago and is a public to-do list built around projects and founders. It is free and super easy to build hype on...
Built by
@matteing
7)
@newsycombinator
is the iconic one that everyone is scared to post on.... but it can be really impactful. Go to the Show HN and just write something that says 'I built a {{blank}} to {{blank}}'. Can't hurt.
@notdetails
This is going to change what is required to start developing.
I could honestly see so many boilerplate templates with quick easy edits deriving from this.
I went pretty crazy... and upgraded my zoom setup to a Canon RP (with a 16mm prime). Mostly because of a
@chris__sev
tweet I saw a bit ago
A significant upgrade from the Elgato Facecam (which is actually terrible).
Just another experiment to try and improve conversion rates 🧪
not trying to be a stripe screenshot boi
but new 24 record on non-services automated revenue
let's gooooooo
(might delete later) (first screenshot post and feels weird)
🧪 I think I have rough evidence implementing
@Stripe
Checkout on and has increased sales and revenue
I couldn't A/B test it because I had to change a lot of code so take with grain of 🧂 salt but it seems positive 📈
A video chat API just raised $4.6M... 📽️
@trydaily
is a YC company (W16) built to enable video calls on any platform in an extremely easy and cost-effective way. Perfect for coronavirus.
Business and how-to information below 👇
I was playing around with GPT-3 and accidentally got it to generate tweets based on Twitter users optimizing for engagement. 🤖🌱
Would anyone use this as a tool for grow their account? You can generate based on yourself, any user, or a combination.
Here is the
@shl
model.
5)
@AlternativeTo
is solid for people who have pretty big competitors. List yourself as a competitor, say why you are better, and you are bound to get some traction in your market.
I discovered a tool this past week that totally changed how I am bootstrapping my products. And it is free.
PostHog is a single embed code that provides analytics, user surveys, conversion tracking, and A/B testing. 🤯
Here is a screenshot (with the juicy stuff redacted)
Going to start sharing a lot more of my work online. Not quite sure where it will go, but I have met a lot of cool people in the past by doing it - so why not?
Just signed off on our partnership with
@outworkstaffing
(
@iamBryanSanders
) to (further) expand our team in Asia, specifically in The Phillippines - looking forward to start working together 👊🏼🚀