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Trying something new ✨

Send me a link to your product and I’ll record a short screencast sharing my initial impression.
Already recorded a couple of videos, but Twitter doesn't like my encoding. Re-encoding with Handbrake, so might take a while 😅
Recorded one long screencast covering several websites:

What do you think of this format? Maybe I'll switch back to individual videos for each site.

/cc @armelbeaudry @clxytn @camerondare @raffideuce @NocodeWorks @alxsee
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Marc Köhlbrugge
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⚡️ Successful makers ship early and often.

🤔 But how? I think it comes down to confidence.

Confidence to not break your codebase. Confidence to get informed when it does happen. And confidence to then fix it.

Some ideas to increase your shipping confidence:
✅ Use tests

If you need to manually test every feature of your product every time you make a change, you're going to be reluctant making incremental changes.

You're going to favor larger increments which require fewer test rounds, but are more likely to break and harder to fix
👩‍🎨 Use a code linter

Code linters help you prevent (stupid) mistakes and eliminate irrelevant considerations ("how should I structure this code block?")

Pro tip: when you start using a linter, whitelist any existing violations. Fix them over time. Iteratively.
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✨ My rule for memorable domain names: your domain name can only have 2 parts that need to be remembered. So either:

1️⃣ Dictionary word + Non-standard TLD
2️⃣ Dictionary word + prefix/suffix + .COM

✅ submit.co
✅ submitly.com
❌ submitly.co
This is not a hard rule of course, but if you're considering different options I'd lean towards fewer parts.

If you play around with different combinations, you can often find an affordable domain fitting this rule.
I'm not a linguist, but I _think_ the way we memorize these types of domains is by memorizing the _concept_ of the dictionary word and the _letters_ or _vocalization_ of the prefix/suffix/TLD.

Memorizing two vocalizations (i.e. non-dictionary words) is a lot harder.
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💬 I often get Q’s like these:

How did you get your first customers for WIP? How did you grow BetaList’s traffic? Etc.

Makers are looking to reverse-engineer success. I see it everywhere.

I don’t think it works that way and the answers to those questions are mostly useless. 💥
I have built dozens of different products over the last couple of years. The vast majority failed. 😭

Surely if I know the answers to these questions, but still fail over and over again, these answers aren’t that useful. 🤷‍♀️

So what’s a better question to ask? 🤔
99.9% of the questions I receive are about the products that did well. In a way that makes sense, because we quickly forget about those that didn’t succeed.

🧠 This is known as survivorship bias.

Focusing on what survived, while ignoring what made it survive in the first place.
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