Typeshare is now at over $20K MRR.
Here's everything I've learned starting, selling, and scaling Typeshare from nothing.
Read this if you want to build a startup and change your life.
👇
Last year, I made my first $1 online. Now I'm at $15,000 MRR.
If I were to do this all over again, here's exactly what I'd do.
How to go from nothing to revenue in under one month👇
Exploring ways to visualize writing...
Like this "Action Scale"
On the left, you're not evoking enough action with your words, and on the right you're overloading the reader.
The sweet spot is right in the middle.
To succeed as a legacy blogger in 2022, you need to master:
• SEO
• Social media
• Marketing
• Design
• Development
• Analytics
Or, you could just start a Social Blog and not worry about any of this.
Here's why Social Blogs are essential for Digital Writers:
(thread)
It took
@typeshare_co
• 7 months to get from $0 → $1k MRR
• 4 months to get to $10k MRR
• 1 month to get to $15k MRR
Put something out, consistently improve it, and be patient!
I love personal blogs.
But for most writers, they're useless.
The next generation of blogs will be "Social Blogs"
For the past few months,
@dickiebush
,
@nicolascole77
and I have been building
@typeshare_co
- the platform for Social Blogs.
👇🧵
Monthly active users by platform:
Twitter: 330 million
Medium: 100 million
LinkedIn: 310 million
Can your blog can get that kind of distribution?
~ Don't. Start. A. Blog. ~
The era of Social Blogging is almost here...
For the past couple months,
@dickiebush
,
@nicolascole77
and I have been working on an entirely new Typeshare.
Here's a thread of everything new coming in Typeshare 2.
👇🧵
New in Typeshare: Publish essays directly to Medium!
Now you can publish essays to your Social Blog, Twitter, and Medium - all in one spot.
Just connect your account here: and write away!
Typeshare 2 is live! 🎉🎉🎉
For the past couple months,
@dickiebush
,
@nicolascole77
and I have been working on an entirely new
Here's a thread of everything that's new in Typeshare 2
👇🧵
Exploring ways to visualize writing...
Like this "Action Scale"
On the left, you're not evoking enough action with your words, and on the right you're overloading the reader.
The sweet spot is right in the middle.
I'm launching 12 startups over the next 12 months.
Inspired by
@levelsio
@yongfook
@jakobgreenfeld
A quick thread explaining why, how and who I'll be learning from 👇
Working on the ability to add link cards to Social Blogs!
Just paste any link and get a beautiful preview🪄
• Products
• Books
• Songs
• Podcasts
• Articles
+ any website!
We’re looking for some
@typeshare_co
writers who want to try out our upcoming release before it goes live!
It's a huge update that brings:
• A new UI
• A new editor + publishing features
• + lots more!
If you want to help us test, reply here with your Typeshare username 👇
We just hit ~$60,000 in 30-day revenue with
@typeshare_co
Wild what happens when you just put something out there and slowly improve it.
Excited to keep building the future of Digital Writing! 🚀
For the past few years, I've been building products. But up until a few months ago, I was doing it all wrong.
Here are 4 principles that I now follow everyday when working on Typeshare.
🧵👇
Your business needs to have an opinion.
For
@typeshare_co
, we believe the future of writing is:
• on social platforms (not blogs)
• data-driven: short feedback loops
Selling the methodology first, makes selling the solution (the tool) 10x easier.
We’re completely changing what starting a blog looks like:
• Setup in minutes
• Always up-to-date
• Connected to social platforms
• Easy to customize
• Guaranteed to look great
• Host on your own domain
What’s on your Social Blog wish list?
The entirely new Typeshare 2 is now live on ! 🚀🚀
• Create your Social Blog
• Organize content into collections
• Entirely new essay editor
• More writing templates
• Nicer Social Blog URLs
• ...and much more!
The era of Social Blogging is here!
Anyone else screenshot literally everything?
• confirmation numbers
• design inspo
• products
• articles
• todos
An app that parsed the content of your screenshots and organized them would be massive.
Bonus if it could be synced with other apps (calendar, todo app, etc.)
Want to learn how to make a beautiful dropdown menu?
A couple days ago I shared a design for a profile dropdown that I built for Typeshare.
This thread will show you how to make it yourself and gives you the exact code I used.
👇 (design + code in next tweet)
💫 New Project 💫
Recently, I've seen lots of creators post screenshots of their writing but I usually find them hard to read.
Meet
@typeshare_co
- Create & share beautiful images of your writing.
Inspired by
@dr
@linuz90
@thisiskp_
I'm gonna be building in public!
TL;DR
• Tweet an idea a day for 1 week
• Build a 2-week MVP
• Sell pre-orders
• Share it everywhere
• Get your first customer
This is the fastest, and least risky way to get your first customer!
My biggest piece of advice to new entrepreneurs:
Start with a small idea and focus on the execution.
Not every startup needs to have a world-changing vision from day 1.
I get a lot of DMs asking how to get into coding.
Just build something and Google everything!
Some of my early Googles:
• "How to make a button?"
• "How to make a button blue?"
Eventually you'll learn. Just be patient.
Hey
@dickiebush
I just launched - It helps writers turn their work into a nice, sharable image. I think it would be perfect for
#ship30for30
.
Would love your thoughts on it!
We're looking to bring on a part-time support specialist for
@typeshare_co
Here's what you'd be doing:
• Work daily with me providing product feedback
• Handle customer support messages
• Help find and resolve bugs
100% remote and async.
Is this you? Shoot me a DM! 🚀
Just pushed some new updates!
🎨 3 new premium colour themes
📝 2 new premium font pairings
🚀 Edit the footer URL in "Atomic Essay Mode"
Check the new styles out and let me know what you think!
I built a dead simple Open Graph image generator to make links look better when shared on 𝕏.
• Add a title and description.
• Choose a custom theme (colors and fonts).
• Have AI generate a background image (or add your own).
Returns a URL you can copy.
Should I ship it??
We're building a scoring system for Typeshare posts!
• Get a score for each part of your post
• Get tips on how to improve
It'll be like having
@dickiebush
and
@Nicolascole77
review everything you write!
Here's how we score a headline:
We're looking for an amazing backend developer to join the Typeshare team.
You'd work directly with me,
@dickiebush
, and
@Nicolascole77
on building the future of Digital Writing!
You'd work with:
• React/NextJS
• Firebase
DM me some links to things you've built!
Step 2: Sell & make your first $1
Do this BEFORE BUILDING ANYTHING.
1) Whip up a quick landing page using
@webflow
or
@framer
.
2) Embed a checkout page using
@gumroad
or
@stripe
3) Offer a lifetime deal to those who pre-order.
I made my first $2K online with pre-orders.
You don't need to know how to code to start coding.
Like 99% of things in life, you learn by doing.
I started Typeshare to learn how to code. I just googled and copy/pasted everything.
You can't expect to make magic by staring at a blank page.
At least not yet.
Start with templates.
1) They show you exactly what works.
2) The output is actually good.
I've learned design, coding, and writing - all from templates.
The biggest mistake I make when building new features for
@typeshare_co
is adding unnecessary extras.
Every extra thing adds 10x more complexity.
I've found it's always better to focus on the core feature and make sure that experience is perfect.
4) Share it everywhere.
Twitter, Reddit, ProductHunt, HackerNews, LinkedIn, IndieHackers.
These platforms have distribution and that's just what you need.
Just get your MVP out there.
Working on a new idea: Writing Voices
• Create your unique writing voice.
• Get voice-specific editing suggestions.
• See how your writing compares to your voice.
Here's the first exploration:
Most people (including me) focus on all the wrong things when they start building.
• Pricing
• Features
• Design
None of these matter at the start.
All that matters is that you build something and launch it.
2) Build a 2-week MVP.
Whether your idea was a product, service, e-book, or anything else - give yourself just two weeks to build an MVP.
This will force you to build a simple version and not waste time over building.
@webflow
@framer
@gumroad
@stripe
Spend a week sharing your landing page everywhere your customers hang out.
• Reddit
• HackerNews
• Twitter
• IndieHackers
• ProductHunt
Find some bigger creators in your market, DM them the link and ask for feedback.
The days of spending weeks building your blog are almost over!
Here’s a screenshot of a Social Blog that took me ~30 seconds to make - using the new
@typeshare_co
builder.
🔜
Startup
#1
has launched!!
Meet . Typeshare helps writers share beautiful images of their writing.
It's live right now on
@ProductHunt
. See you there 🎉
Working on making Atomic Essays feel more like Atomic Essays while you write them.
• Live preview of your image as you write
• Change your theme, layout, and font right in the editor
Should be live later this week to testers who've enabled the new editor! ✨
5) Get your first customer.
Keep your notifications on and wait for the first one! 🎉
If you don't get anybody paying, don't worry! Just repeat these steps until you get paid!
It will come. Just be patient.
Spent the day working on
8am-4pm: Didn‘t get anywhere.
4-5pm: Took a break and went outside.
5-6pm: Did my entire day‘s work.
The lesson? Take breaks and take them outside!
Writing is a song.
Too many long sentences = low readability
Too many short sentences = too choppy
Not enough variation = boring
Balance these, and your writing will sing.
Soon you'll be able to visualize the flow of your writing, highlight problems, and fix them with a click!
We're hiring a Product Engineer
@typeshare_co
!
If you are experienced with React, want to make a real impact in a small team, and build the best product for online writers, then this is the job for you!
Read the requirements and apply here 👇
3) Sell pre-orders
Make a list of pro features that you could offer - don't build them yet.
Add that list of features to your MVP and choose a price. Spin up a quick no-code checkout with
@stripe
or
@gumroad
Then double the price.
🔜 Edit Mode in Typeshare
• Make your writing more clear
• Real-time suggestions as you write
• Format specific suggestions
• Implement suggestions in one click
Coming soon!