Just a quick announcement. We now have a podcast! It's called "Maker Mindset". I talk about building, launching and running a portfolio of profitable SaaS products. Go to https://rubini.solutions/podcast to start listening to it. It's mostly solo episodes and mostly for my own therapy, but I think what I discuss is useful to anyone on a similar path. You can subscribe to it … [Read more...]
About proxies
A lot of our products are created around collecting data. A useful technique for that is web scraping. Web scraping is essentially a form of data mining. Pretty much any information that you can see on a web page can be retrieved (scraped). We scrape a lot of data and I am personally very knowledgable about scraping because I have been doing it for years now. Proxies When … [Read more...]
The human component
There are more and more companies that try to hide behind people and complexity. Instead, there's something to be said about working in public and putting a face to your product. Yes, it's risky but it can also help build a powerful personal brand. You probably already know that one of my company's core principles is transparency. For me, that means that we share our journey … [Read more...]
The way of the monk
TLDR: making and executing should have priority on learning, and you should do it in solitude. #1. A world of inputs Today, we have a lot of inputs in our lives: podcasts, books, videos, courses, television, etc. In fact, in my opinion there are too many inputs. If you want to learn, you can do so using your preferred medium, whenever you want. You can listen to a podcast … [Read more...]
Why velocity
One of the core principles of my company is: velocity. Velocity is declined in many ways in our day to day work: we go to market as fast as we can, we try to ship features fairly fast, we try to have a minimal turnaround time on support tickets. I learned this from my co-founder on the Dealflow project, Ryan Kulp. I consider Ryan my mentor, not in a guru way but more in the … [Read more...]