+1 on the No-code platform suggestion. You don't have to know how to code to build something unique, you just have to be different from the rest. No-code has come very far, making it possible to build a lot of different types of products. There's a ton of AI products out there that are built on no-code platforms, and you'd never know as a user.

AI-assisted coding has definitely sped up my development speed, and I rarely have to google anything anymore.

I don't think you can compare ChatGPT and Copilot, though. Copilot is basically just a wrapper in another app (Visual Studio, etc.) for the Codex model of GPT. (I know it's more, but high level is it that).

Experiences vary with Copilot because people either understand what Copilot is actually doing, or they don't - and expect magic. When you understand you're prompting an AI model with your code and what you write around the code you're building, you'll get amazing results.

For example, I always start with a descriptive function name and comments that spell out the logic the function needs to do. 80% of the time, Copilot will suggest correct code, that I don't have to edit. The other 20%, I might have to make some small adjustments, but it always compiles or runs. Being descriptive is key, it's like explaining a colleague on what they have to build.

By the way, I forgot to mention there are services out there that calculate the GDP difference in real-time and provide the cost to individual visitors (most auto apply coupons to adjust the base price), but checking and adjusting prices every quarter is more than enough. 🙂

I've enabled all available currencies on all my products via Paddle, and customers definitely prefer buying in their own currency. Can't say for sure, but just looking at the transactions of the last week, there's about 15 different currencies being used.

I started with just USD and EUR enabled, and got ~50% growth when I enabled the other 29 currencies.

Used to get complaints about the conversion rate, at which point I started a quarterly review to mark down prices based on country GDP. Added another ~15% from that.

If you have a provider (MoR or other) that supports it, just enable all the currencies they have.

Thanks for this thread, makes it a bit easier to find people here on there. 🙂

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I just wish email OTP can be integrated with password managers. I hate to use it with sites currently, because it adds more steps and time to log into something, compare to pressing my password manager and it fills out my credentials and OTP automatically. 😉

Yep. It's one of the trade-offs being a solo founder. But the rest still outweigh it for me.

There are ways around it, though. For example, I have standing meetings with friends all over the industry where I can bounce ideas, architectures, and implementations off them. It's important to keep your network going and fresh. Another thing I do is to look for meetups with likeminded people, which is a good way to get to know new people and bounce ideas.

I also sometimes outsource a smaller project and I'd have a coworker for a couple of weeks. ;-)

Thanks for the replies! I've also been made aware that it might be crucial to reflect the "lastmod" timestamp on each link to the last time the page was modified, and not use date the sitemap is generated. Mostly to prevent the crawl from restarting and using up the crawl budget.

I'm going to refactor the sitemap generator to use the real modification dates and see what happens. 🤞

Hey Paul,

I like it at first glance, but I think you could work on the copy. For example "Launch blogs on autopilot" suggests (to me) that you can create entire blog sites, different ones about different topics. But scrolling down further, it seems to talk about a single blog and creating blog posts for it.

Also take a look at the spacing and margins. For example, the "g" in 'SEO content that brings traffic." is cut off at the bottom.

Generally double check your copy, there are a few typos, like "developement" in your price tables. I also don't think "hand-off" is a word, lose the "-" on that one ;-)

More general question about the product, though. SEO is all about creating content that drives traffic to your website, but you'd need to have that blog on your own domain, correct? So, would this really work if I have product.com, and then set up your service on productblog.com? I would think your service would need to publish blogs on product.com for SEO to be effective for my product?

It's not about content, more about email servers not having the proper SPF, reverse DNS, or DKIM configurations. Sometimes only 1 is missing from a setup, which is enough for CF to bounce the emails.