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This is neat thank you for sharing this, Greg

That Make scenario is super detailed, thanks for breaking it down!

You ship too fast, Tony! This is awesome :)

It looks great, congrats on shipping this! The issue you might face in the long term is the 'sources' section or 'top pages'. It makes it too easy for someone to replicate your strategy, but you're still early! Wishing you all the best :)

Hi, G here, CMO at testimonial.to. To clarify, Damon just no longer believes in sharing every core metric but still plans to build in public :)

Hi Reid, G here, CMO at testimonial.to. In one sentence, Damon just no longer believes in sharing every core metric but still plans to build in public. It's been a core part of what he does and something I know he likes to do instead of building everything behind curtains with no feedback loop.

Hey, G here, CMO at testimonial.to. There's still plenty of profits left each month, that's not the reason! In one sentence, he just no longer believes in sharing every core metrics but still plans to build in public.

Not every metrics need to be shared. Great article, Damon!

Hey there, it is nice to finally announce Adept School on here and Twitter today and Product Hunt tomorrow.

If you have any questions, or suggestions I would love to hear them here or by email at guillaume@adeptschool.com

Thank you for pointing that out, that's a great point. I will try to find a way to clarify what they are saving. I do plan to do a fair amount of content marketing explaining that further including alternatives, etc. It could be interesting to create a page for this on the site as well.

Regarding the current offering, unfortunately, we did not have much leverage when approaching the companies this time around. I do hope we will be able to increase the value of the bundle over time while remaining affordable.

Thank you again for your feedback, it is much appreciated!

Hello Everyone,

If you have been working on your own company, side project, all the way to being a-part of a startup, you have likely noticed the ever-growing amount of tools you are using.

I personally find it interesting, it is definitely better than one company doing everything for us. It also gives them the chance to really focus on certain pain points. However, it is not always practical to manage. All the bills are coming in on different days, some are still trying to trick you with unstable bills, different account logins, etc. This is often an unnecessary distraction and tends to make the accounting much more complicated than it needs to be.

After looking into this problem a bit, I noticed different kinds of bundles. Some offered lifetime deals which are neat but you also want to make sure the tools you are paying are getting recurring revenue for them to stick around and improve. Then, I found others offering discounts only which is not bad but it was still not what I was hoping for.

What I believed would be the most useful, and sustainable for everyone involved would be a subscription model that includes numerous tools within that subscription, at no additional cost.

I decided to email back and forth with companies about potentially joining a bundle. After getting on many calls and digging into the details we realized it would be a bit time consuming, and hard to get everyone involved within the paid subscription.

Instead, we believe it is better to slowly grow the list based on what is suggested by the subscribers. The subscription will currently include 4 partners (GetResponse, HelpCrunch, Vectera, and Qlearly) and credits towards 1Password, Twist and many others.

Additionally, we wanted to give discounts for many other great tools we believe a high percentage of our subscribers could really benefit from. By potentially getting your feedback on the tools you use the most or are likely to use the most, we could see which tools should really be included within the subscription. All of this and more is what we are hoping to learn during this beta, which is currently limited at 500 subscribers.

This is also why we are holding off just a bit on building a backend for your account and our own payment system. We will have this ready by April 2020. The codes will be emailed to you 15 minutes after the checkout. You will receive an email with the link and password to an Airtable sheet.

Some may call this a beta, others an MVP. However, something I have learned is if someone is willing to go through a bit of an unfamiliar process to access what you are offering, it is a good way to tell if you have something good on your hands.

Thank you again for willing to learn more about our beta. We hope this is something you will find helpful. If you have any suggestions to help us improve, I would love to hear from you: guillaume@qlearly.com

Please note:

Discounts: You can purchase access to the discounts only.

Accessing the codes: The codes will be emailed to you 15 minutes after the checkout. You will receive an email with the link and password to an Airtable sheet.

Refunds: Unfortunately, since you will receive access to the codes within 24 hours, we can not offer refunds on your 1st transaction. However, if you become a subscriber you can request a refund within 48 hours of your 2nd transaction. In this case, your subscription will be canceled and refunded.

Do you have any feedback or suggestions? I'd love to hear it as the project is still not launched. We plan to do so next Monday!

Our main goal is to increase the value of the subscription over time while keeping it affordable, however, we simply don't have enough leverage when approaching companies. At least for now.

Thank you for your time :)

Thank you for getting involved, that's awesome to hear!

I completely agree, we are focusing on a few other things first, however, I really want to improve that soon. We will likely start to work on it by the end of April!

Regarding the ad spot, that's a fair point. As of now, we are using https://usemagnify.com so we don't have a lot of ways to customize the spot but we will likely work on our own system or certain publishers once we get some of our priorities out of the way. :)

Thank you for getting involved Ferruccio, yes that's correct! It made it really easy to put it together. I really like the platform and the work Alex did.

You can actually see Qlearly featured on the home page of his website :)

Thank you for getting involved JP, I am glad to know you like the extension thus far. :) We will be shipping a lot of improvements soon!

Hello Killian, thank you for taking the time to get involved it is really kind of you :)

Thank you for getting involved! I was indeed thinking the same thing. I figured maybe people would 'wake up' to it.

I have to look a bit further into this, thank you for bringing it up!

Hi everyone, my name is Guillaume.

Over the past 8 months or so I have been working on this browser extension.

It currently works on: Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Opera and more.

So far, we have been receiving quite positive feedback.

I'd love to hear what the Hacker News community thinks.

I have been trying to, it's pretty neat!

Hello there, what I have been using is Airtable.

Not exactly a CRM but it's quite perfect. You could use the templates (https://airtable.com/templates) or copy some of the Airtables made public: https://airtable.com/universe

You can create forms as well, so it makes it easy to keep all the data in one place. (We use it for our contact form, feedback, bugs etc).

Something I have been using for some time now. Very easy to set up and it makes it easy to find folders faster.

I am not denying that! It's just interesting how the core product is really taking a bad hit lately. I am curious to know where FB would be today without them.

It's amazing how its only acquisitions keeping Facebook alive besides Messenger.

Facebook disappointment of 2019: #24

What will it be tomorrow? We should also make a list so someone can actually see the number of things they do within a year alone.

This is really cool, for someone trying to keep up with his advise that might be a great source to keep around.

Might not be a popular opinion but I like being able to access any book from my phone/computer. Mainly when traveling, it feels like you have an endless library. You can easily purchase new books you're really interested in.

Though, I do understand how some bookstore may suffer. I actually believe we may see more of them. They could benefit from the co-working space / coffee shops culture that's growing.

On the top of that, I would say the ease of purchasing a book today has likely helped a lot of authors increase their revenue or general awareness.

I have to say I always found it quite intriguing but never actually got one. I am quite positive this will eventually come back, in some way by Amazon or not.

It could be interesting if it was direct with the merchant, on a Shopify kind of level or even from bigger suppliers. All while bypassing Amazon pretty much.

The irony in this working would be wonderful.

that's so high, it has been increasing here in Miami as well.

However, it is nowhere near that much. In Miami, that's about a 4-5 bedroom house.

That's pretty cool, though, knowing me and Alexa I will send that drone to the first wall or tree around me lol.

Interesting, I think some of these are quite valid. It's just important to know when to turn the switch at times.

Was really hoping to land on an app that would help you tune it.

I wonder what position the investors prior to the IPO still have.