MattBearman

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My experience is the exact opposite, I've received hundreds of MailChimp emails, and I HAVE signed up for every single one of them.

I have no doubt that some people do use MailChimp to send spam, but it seems to me that the majority of MC's customers are just sending to legit lists.

Unless it's been changed since you posted this, I can't see anything that would give away the scammer's identity.

BugMuncher - https://www.bugmuncher.com I've been transparently blogging about my experiences going full time and trying to get profitable without outside funding - it's been a pretty crazy year but I'm still on target :)

Speaking as someone who turned their 5 year side project into a full time startup, I whole heartedly disagree with point 1 - split testing is likely to be a waste of your time.

Unless you have a tonne of traffic, and let's face it, side projects tend not to, A/B testing simply doesn't work. I've tried it a few times with BugMuncher, but the results take 3 - 4months, and are usually inconclusive. I've spoken to other people in similar situations and they've found the same thing. For reference, BugMuncher is lucky to see 3,000 uniques a month :)

I believe A/B testing is a good idea when you have the traffic for it, and I'd love to be able to make use of it, but unless your side project is getting 10s of thousands of unique views each month, there's much better things to spend your limited time on.

Pretty sure there are laws against this. But then, it was widely reported that the old 'TV detection equipment' was bullshit, so I suspect this will be too.

I personally use www. simply for the symmetry. To me, www.bugmuncher.com looks a lot nicer than just bugmuncher.com

Ha, I did it in my early PHP days! At one stage I even tried using MySQL column comments to store metadata.

I think these kinds of things are great learning experiences, I'm just glad that abomination of mine was never released.

It's the air intake, rather than the exhaust, that suffers underwater. The scoops you seen on proper off-road cars are actually for the air intake, hence them being called 'snorkels'.

I use FastSpring for managing BugMuncher's subscription payments. It works really well, and it's great not having to worry about VAT.

Having said that, as revenue grows I'll be looking into just doing it manually with Stripe. Partly because FastSpring takes a much bigger cut than most other payment providers, but also because their payment pages are a bit shit.

Content creators have known this for a long time, and it's become a self-fulfilling prophecy/positive feedback loop.

Most videos I see on Facebook now have subtitles, because most people watch them without sound. And now because most videos have subtitles, I don't have to click on a video that catches my interest.

I agree that prepared statements are much better than sanitising inputs, but surely a sanitised version of his name would be Gijs in \'t Veld Leaving the apostrophe in tact

That I did, oops

Having just read The Website Obesity Crisis[0] I was instantly intrigued by the video loop at the top of this article, so fired up Chrome's network inspector.

Not only is it 6.7Mb, but it's sent using streaming (Status: 206 Partial Content), and for me at least, every time the video reaches the end, it's loaded again, and not from cache.

I didn't actually read the article, but according to Read-o-meter[1] it would take around 18 min, during which time the 15 second video would play 72 times, consuming 482MB of data!

0 - http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm#crisis

1 - http://niram.org/read/

Edit: Ha, caught out by my own dev setup, ie: disable cache when dev tools is open. My bad, feel free to ignore everything I said :)

I was just (sorry) gonna post the same thing.

'Just' and '16 months' are pretty far apart in my mind, I found the headline quite awkward to read because of it.

I really want to try this on a VM in OSX, just so it could be "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows on VirtualBox on OSX"

I didn't find this one particularly funny, until I saw the picture of the guy using it in 'portrait mode'. Well played

Feel like their tagline should be "We're making supersonic flight a reality. Again" :P

Looks interesting though

Once the novelty wore off, I only ever used Siri to set timers - saying '10 minute timer' was easer than doing it through the app interface.

Since iOS introduced the shortcuts to apps on the lock screen, which included timers, I never use Siri.

Although I did recently discover Siri can be useful for DnD - "Roll a d20" :)

That's awesome! At 3 hours a week you are truly living the dream. What are your plans for a premium pricing model?

Holy crap, I remember seeing these kinds of threads before and being amazed by people making good money from a side-project, I can't believe I'm now one of them!

My project is BugMuncher - https://www.bugmuncher.com - a website feedback tool I created back in 2011, and it's currently making $1,489 Monthly Recurring Revenue.

Strictly speaking it's not a side project anymore, as in Sept 2015 I fired all my freelance clients to focus on BugMuncher full time, but I've never taken funding, and I'm the only person working on it, so it still feels like a side project :)

If anyone is interested I've been writing a blog series about my mission to go from side project to profit, which starts here - https://blog.bugmuncher.com/2015/10/22/from-side-project-to-...

I was going to say exactly the same thing. Blocking/warning about them at the browser level is a great move, especially as it will also work for ads not served by Google. But they should also be working to stop these ads getting published on their network as well.

Offline viewing is definitely a cool feature, but for me, and I imagine many English people, it was the fact that Amazon signed the guys from Top Gear

At the moment I don't have a defined way of updating users of new features. As I'm aiming to run BugMuncher as openly and transparently as possible, a public road map has been on my todo list for quite a while. I'm very interested in your product, which brings me to my next bit of feedback:

I clicked the 'Get Early Access' button, and it opened what looked like it was going to be a survey, which put me off. I decided to give you the benefit of the doubt and clicked the 'Start' button, but my initial instincts where correct, and there where 8 survey questions to answer. I'll be honest, at that point I closed the tab and went about my day.

I'm BugMuncher's solo-founder and only employee, so all tasks fall to me, this makes me really value my time, to the point where those survey questions where enough to make me move on.

When someone clicks the early access button you should do nothing but capture their email address, so you can keep them updated and notify when beta access is granted. Once I've started using your product I'll be much more receptive to the survey.

It's a good, clean design, but the page doesn't make it clear what your product does. To be honest, I'm guessing it's road map / change log as a service based on the name more than anything. So assuming I'm right in what productmap does, you've definitely got a good name :)

While they're cool demos, you've definitely not ditched CSS, the markup is full of style attributes

I'm really happy to see this. As the solo-founder of a bootstrapped start up nowhere near Silicone Valley, things like Product Hunt can make me feel like a complete outsider.

Quick question: PH wants people to sign up with their personal Twitter account, rather than a company one, is that the case here? I never use my personal account, so would prefer to be able to sign up using @bug_muncher

Also, I love the "You reached the beginning!" message at the bottom, not sure why, but it really made me smile :)

I'm actually on the same path, I've built a SaaS website feedback tool, which started 4 years ago as a side project, but since Sept this year I've been working on it full time, hoping to reach around $3,000 MRR (currently at $900)

So far it's working, I'm way ahead of my target 7% month on month growth, so I'd recommend doing something similar - build a SaaS app that you can manage by yourself, and invest as much time as you can in learning marketing.

If you're interested I'm doing a completely transparent blog series about my progress - https://blog.bugmuncher.com/2015/10/22/from-side-project-to-...

Good luck!

Disappointed that this 'UK' salary report focuses entirely on London. There's a lot more to the UK than the overpopulated, overpriced, and overpoluted capital of England

I'd not heard of Twoo before, but they've just landed on my list of companies not to be trusted. Their response is almost worse than the lack of SSL.