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Co-founder @mailbrew and @typefullyapp. Tweeting about my process, successes and struggles.
Oct 28, 2021 7 tweets 1 min read
Today, we discovered a daylight saving bug in Typefully that messed up our Queue feature.

Here's a couple of lessons learned 👇 1️⃣ Always store (and reason about) dates in UTC since it's unaffected by daylight saving and other human shenanigans.
Jun 25, 2021 15 tweets 4 min read
While building analytics into @typefullyapp, we imported and analyzed tens of thousands of tweets.

🧵 Here's what we learned regarding Twitter growth. Gaining Twitter followers is a funnel.

Post tweet → Get impressions → Get engagements → Get profile views → Gain followers.

Each step can be optimized.
Mar 3, 2021 11 tweets 3 min read
Mailbrew is 1-year old today 🥳

💰 0 to $7,500 MRR in 12 months

Our progress so far and what's next 🧵 We committed the first line of code to the Mailbrew codebase on September 9, 2019.
Dec 28, 2020 9 tweets 2 min read
How I got to the HN front page three times in a row. A short guide. In the past month, I managed to get to the Hacker News front page three times in a row with these posts:

1) Show HN: Write-Only Interface for Twitter
2) Getting our first thousand customers in one day
3) SaaS we happily pay for