I use goodreads to search / log all my books. Not much experience with promotional pages but things I look for (non fiction):

• Who's the author?
• What's it about? Does it cover what I'm looking for? No need for free sample but maybe table of contents or list of topic it covers.
• Might do some research -> is this a classic book on the topic?
• Ratings, but I don't care too much about them

Then I'd put it on a to-read list and come back to it later.

Hope it helps!

Balancing marketing / sales and product development. I've tried a few different setups like product / marketing week. Would be interesting to hear how others do it.

This was in 2016 and some things may have changed but I used to have a CRON script running that did something like mongodump -d DB_NAME -o OUTPUT_LOCATION then zipped it and uploaded it to a dedicated Dropbox using their API.

Restoring was just downloading whichever timestamp zip you wanted and loading it into mongodb.

Haven't tried any of those paid plans and this was a self-hosted mongodb so may be different :).

What is your goal? Do you want to make a business, learn something or just for fun?

As Florian and Marc mentioned it's a good idea to solve a problem. I can also add that making something that you're not using yourself is more difficult as a one man team, unless you really like talking to users and performing user tests, in addition to making the thing.

Sell your By-Products (signalvnoise.com/posts/1620-s…) and don't worry too much about competition (unless there's a monopoly).

Good idea :)! I've removed all Google stuff from Klart.io and so far I don't miss it. I do use Amplitude for some key metrics but I'm thinking about tracking events myself and do aggregation queries to get some insights.

Yes! I think it's one of the most important parts. Users trust you with their data. I don't use any tool but I write tests for critical parts of the applications :). There's also a lot of good practices to make programs more secure. I use OWASP Top 10 as one of my references, you can find it here: www.owasp.org/index.php/Top_1…

I've used Clearbit before and it worked really nice if you don't want to bother users or worry that a challenge like CAPTCHA would impact signups too much. You can check out the Risk API, they have a free plan for low volume clearbit.com/risk

Cool! Would love some kind of leaderboard/streak thing that sync with Strava et al 🏃‍♂️😀

Thanks! Best one I've tried so far :)