I just used something like Brevo or Mailchimp, however I am now trying something new. I am using a simplified registration (just email) and create a real user accounts in the app. This way the users can always become real users, their email is already confirmed, etc. I am now trying this with PinnedJobs and I plan to send my own newsletter via Postmark marketing stream.

I'll suggest something else. Just use one project per VM with Kamal.

(Someone wrote here that Kamal can manage multiple apps but it's not designed this way and it's a bit of a hack.)

This way you can host 2 projects for smth around $10 on two VMs, each with its own database.

I added this style of deployment to my template Business Class, so I can run two commands and be up and running.

It works quite nicely.

You need to build some interesting demo with the collaboration feature maybe? I am not part of a team now but thinking that for my last team it would be a hard sell. I'll watch what you'll do! :)

Small businesses would still buy it as individual license I think. They are very careful about what they buy.

How's your LinkedIn? Maybe start by asking old collegues for testimonials. I never done that myself until for my last job. I thought to myself "you never know" and it's better to have something there.

Do you write a blog? Then you might want to start. I regularly get featured in newsletters and I would say plenty of people "know me" now in the community. Sometimes I get a job offer too.

As for X posts, maybe you haven't reached a critical number of followers or you simply need to change what/how you tweet. Experiment more.