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Reading between the lines, building his Twitter and newsletter audience was key to growing these ‘businesses’. The real product he’s selling is hope to all the wantrepreneurs who yearn to escape their own corporate grind and find success selling their own useless nick-nacks. This is no different than real-estate investing, or drop-shipping, or any other get rich quick scheme from time immemorial.

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Not really. He got my money in exchange for a tool I use 3 times a day, every day.

Which one?

What do you use the tool for?

Making screenshots that I mark up with arrows, boxes and labels and then email.

Xsnapper is far nicer-looking and far quicker (via numeric keyboard shortcuts for markup options) than macOS built-in utils for this.

I used to use monosnap for annotating screenshots, but it went subscription-only (or maybe it was always subscription-based, but a previously-free-tier core feature I needed for my workflow, the s3 integration, went into a subscription tier).

The best alternative I found is shottr ( https://shottr.cc ), and I cobbled together a thing that scratches my itch: https://github.com/philsnow/shots-filed

How come you don’t use https://cleanshot.com/ ?

This is a fantastic tool!

How is he selling hopes when he has like 4 products that have revenue?

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