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Thanks for the feedback! Most of these are already in place -- you can add horizontal rules, and global shortcuts can be configured in the app's settings. I'll look into a the dark theme issue though.

Thanks for pointing this out! The calculation should be fixed now.

Author here!

I originally posted last week as a paid product to get some feedback on the idea, but after some thinking decided opening it up as a free resource.

This collection is basically an expanded version of a bookmarks folder I have been collecting for around a decade of building side projects and businesses. I tried breaking it down into an easy to follow format (although I think the navigation is still a little wonky) so that it can be something you refer back – a personal knowledge-base of sorts.

Would love to here more feedback!

Thank you for your feedback.

These are just links. Nothing is downloadable, and I don't claim ownership of any of the content in the list.

I realize charging people for this seems a little unorthodox -- it's one of the reasons I posted this on HN before anything, to see what people think of it. Calling it a bookmark folder is a little underselling it; I've spent the better part of a decade collecting most of these links. When I built this, it felt like what I'm offering is the time and effort saved collecting this, instead of the actual content.

I’ve been using Backblaze to back up my mac for the last four years.

Would there be any advantage for me to look into a self-hosted alternative like Restic?

I've thought a lot about this. My biggest problem is that I'm the only one maintaining the project, and using something like vue + cross-platform would make things a lot easier than maintaining 3 different code bases (ios, android, web).

My understanding is that cross-platform tools have matured enough to be used as replacements to native implementations. Is that not the case?

I’ve been putting off switching my native apps to cross-platform simply because I’m too busy to learn react, so it’s great to see that vue is finally an option.

Of course it’s probably a little too soon to completely switch live apps to this, at least until it stabilizes a little bit.

Edit: never realized this existed for the past two years and is simply a wrapper for react native.. any reason it’s being posted now?

Exactly, other than very minimal metrics you can't do much of anything without cookies. It's great that there are now many alternative analytics services available, but I feel like they all just do the exact same thing – stick a two-line script on your website, then get some very minimal data about your website. This is probably good enough for most people, but it becomes very hard to actually do anything with this data if you're running a more "serious" project.

But I'm always amazed at how much popularity these projects seem to gather. I myself made a very simple landing page [1] for a similar service (but one that caters more to the saas based applications), and it's managed to gather some interest even though I've barely done any promotion to it.

[1]: https://tinylens.io

This was inspired by Sahil's twitter thread [1] the other day. I included the number of employees along with any relevant blog posts or interviews for each company to provide more context.

Interestingly enough, it turns out Basecamp's founders actually kinda sorta got some money from Jeff Bezos [2] when they were starting out, but apparently the money was never used to fund the company so technically they're still bootstrapped.

[1]: https://twitter.com/shl/status/1220111852312518656

[2]: https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-deal-jeff-bezos-got-on-baseca...

A little more context:

Maker Bites is an aggregator-based community site that helps surface the experiences, lessons, and thoughts of members of the maker community. Submissions generally include blog posts, interviews, stories, lessons, experiences, and tips.

Since submissions on Maker Bites are aimed at spreading knowledge and fostering discussions, most content is timeless in nature. In fact, outside of "Show MB" style posts, announcements and news submissions are discouraged.

In most contexts, a "maker" is someone who's involved in a technology-based project, generally as startup founders or bootstrapped developers building businesses.

For a second, that "raised 5 mil" line really made me doubt everything I've learned from you guys until I actually read through the post. Congratulations!

Re downvotes: the problem with that is sometimes book recommendations can be very personal or context-dependent. Sure 10 might not recommend, but what if the recommendations come from people whose background / experience / goals better align with yours? I included profiles for each founder under every book for exactly that reason — so you can learn more about them and about what might have driven these recommendations.

Technically I'm using Algolia to sort/filter these so doing something like this should be easy. Something like a hidden attribute that when searched for sorts the list, for example by searching for a term like "bootstrapped" or "remote" you'd get books or founders tagged with these attributes.

Wow thanks for posting this!

Some more context:

Over the past month, I must've reached out to at least 70 founders and asked them about some of the books that most shaped their professional careers. Obviously not a lot of them responded, so I started going through some book lists (Sivers' and James Clear's lists are great!), the 400+ indie hacker interviews, and personal blogs, and adding everything I can find.

I managed to get recommendations from a little over 100 founders and makers heavily involved in the tech scene — all suggestions here come from people who run or are involved in revenue-generating businesses.

Hope you find this useful! Still would love to get some suggestions from people like patio11, austenallred, etc so if you're reading this drop me a message!

Mirrored FAQ: https://web.archive.org/web/20060306132156/http://www.millio...

I'd like to know some more about how exactly you go about executing the plan? The landing page doesn't go into any detail there.

I think you'd have a much better chance of getting open source maintainers' attention if they know more about what you do, your credentials, and how you approach working this out as a business. There's really nothing on the website!

Apparently the $1.1k figure is the latest? Unless that figure is profit, not just revenue.

I pulled that number from an older post. Updated!

Good catch, fixed!

Been following Gumroad for a while! Would love to add it but I don't recall seeing anything like interviews or "making of" posts anywhere – I tried to add a little more than revenue numbers here.

Yeah was on the edge thinking whether to include it or not, but pre-acquisition Courtland posted some really useful stuff about how he grew it. Felt it was a shame not to include, especially since it's very helpful.

Thanks! Tried to keep it as clean as possible, which turned out good I guess. It's plain bootstrap for the front end, built and served by a SSR Nuxt application.

That data would be interesting, but it's not something I found while compiling this list.

Yup, monthly revenue. Of course these aren't in real time but are the most recent data I could find online.

As a developer who really struggles with design, this is the last thing I expected to hear from this. Thanks a lot!

Never thought of that honestly. Most of these companies have information about their employees, so maybe I can add them.

Wow I did not expect this to blow up so fast! I'm sure there's a bunch I missed, so if you have any please let me know and I'll add them in.

Actually you can, but to prevent abuse you'll need an account to do that. I'll try making this more obvious.

Thanks! I tried to keep this as relevant as possible by only showing the most important stuff: pricing and a quick description.

The idea behind sign-ups was so that users would upvote and leave reviews. I needed something that's associated with a "public" identity. I'm still toying with this honestly.

Re the check out later button – what did you have in mind, outside signing up for the newsletter?

OP here!

This is an idea I've been toying with for the past year, and only recently decided to take it a little more seriously. Like you said there are a ton of similar lists, and it seems that every week a new comes along.

My issue with most of these is that they seem to be one time flings. Someone gathers all these great resources, compiles into a site, submits them to a couple of websites to drive some traffic, and that's the end of that.

The thing is, lists like these usually get huge amounts of love because they're really helpful, and it's a shame they just die after a little amount of fame. So I decided I would focus on monetizing this from the get-go – if I'm going to build something that's sustainable, it'll need to be self-sustaining at least. I tried to keep the directory's presentation simple, only listing the important stuff (pricing, category, an overview, and outbound links), and categorizing them by tags. I think the homepage's timeline turned out to be a nice way of presenting the tools.

As for marketing, outside of submitting the list to HN / etc, so far I've focused on reaching out to the businesses I list in the directory with help in spreading the word. The idea is if they can promote the directory/sponsor the website, they'd be driving traffic to their businesses. Getting them to agree from the get-go with nothing to show for in terms of traffic is stuff, which is I seeded the directory with most of the tools you see.

I talk a lot more about this on the website: https://postmake.io/faq. I hope that made sense!