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Buttondown mentions (25)

• TinyLetter Shut Down by Mailchimp, So I Built the LetterDrop

  For me https://buttondown.email is the equivalent for TinyLetter before it got acquired by Mailchimp. It's a honest small business and the founder also has an interesting blog: https://buttondown.email/blog. - Source: Hacker News / 4 days ago

• A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev

  Buttondown — Newsletter service. Up to 100 subscribers free. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

• Ask HN: How many of you are self employed?

  Self-employed, running https://buttondown.email as a solo founder. (My day generally looks like — 30% engineering, 40% onboarding + support, 10% marketing, 20% operations.) It was a profitable nights-and-weekends project from 2017—2022; took it full-time in 2022. I think the thing that I would say about self-employment is that people understate the day-to-day flexibility and overstate the month-to-month... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Ask HN: Advice for turning my side project into a real business

  I did this. I grew my project, Buttondown [https://buttondown.email] from high three figures to low five figures while doing it as a nights-and-weekends thing at Stripe and then quit to work on it full time. It was a great decision and I'm happy I did it! (I also did it, frankly, with significant runway in the bank if I needed it, and no dependents besides my wife so the tail risk of "this goes to zero and/or I... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Exposed RSS

  You can do something similar with Buttondown: https://buttondown.email//rss (for example, https://buttondown.email/j2kun/rss). - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

Blogging for Devs mentions (9)

• 5 Tools I add to every new web project for SEO and analytics

  My adoption of Google Search Console come from what I learned taking Monica Lent's Blogging for Devs course. - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago

• 2021 in review: my second year of blogging

  I joined the Blogging for Devs community towards the end of 2020. Unfortunately I haven’t been too active in the last half-year, but I would highly recommend it for anyone with a blog, or for anyone looking to start a blog in 2022. I’ve picked up a lot of useful SEO tips that I’ve implemented on my site, and I’ve gotten into the habit of making SEO tweaks to older posts to boost their page views as well. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

• Courses/Feedback for Technical Blog Posts?

  I’m a big fan of the Blogging for Devs newsletter: https://bloggingfordevs.com/. Source: almost 3 years ago

• This survey among 60+ hiring managers reveals: Don't waste your time on a (React) portfolio website

  If you want to take a deep dive into blogging as a developer I can highly recommend this free course to get started. - Source: dev.to / almost 3 years ago

• Developer Communities Every Developer should Join According to your niche.

  Blogging for Devs It is a private community for developers, freelancers and tech creators growing their audience through writing online. The only thing is that it's not free, you need to pay a fee to be a part of it. - Source: dev.to / almost 3 years ago