annagrigoryan2

https://usefathom.com/blog/google-analytics-seo

They argue that it's better (?) because your website will be faster.

"This is because Fathom’s tracking code is super-lightweight and blazingly-fast to load. Our tracker file is tiny whilst Google Analytics’ file is much larger. This is a little funny, because Google’s search engine rewards faster sites, so a case could be made that using Fathom instead of Google for your analytics could potentially increase your page rank in their own search engine!"

Privacy focused, good shared calendar.

The UI is not always my cup of tea but I still choose it instead of Google or other services just because of the product mission.

Low energy and meaningless procrastination is tell tell signs, also time spent on twitter or youtube is.

I became some kind of expert in managing my pre-burn out parts. I usually recognize that it is happening, and take a break for 1 day or 2. I also have an accountability buddy with whom we speak once a week and update each other on our projects. So talking to them also helps me to get out of that rut. Sometimes outside perspective helps.

But yeah my thing is: recognize it's happening, take a break (if you can), and talk to somebody who's not in your field.

But I use this open source project https://anvaka.github.io/redsim/ for that purposes.

Unless there's something else I don't see here, i think this open source thingy gives all you need.

I write about communtiy creator economy and startups for creatives.

I got to #3 on producthunt last year and still get traffic from them. Does it convert to users? On the day of launch I got 600 new users but they were not very active.

Imo it's a shiny new toy syndrome place. They have a lot of eyes on their website so you can leverage that. The people will try your product just because.

But marketing strategy should be more complex then just launching on product hunt.

In terms of launching its just for 1 very tiring day.

Here in Baltics it's very good for B2B SaaS fintech, deep tech, and that kinda stuff.

Everywhere else e-commerse is big.

Also depends if you're bootstrapping or fundraising. Fundraising is easier if you're incorporated in Estonia, in other countries no one cares, you'll still need to incorporate in US with C-Corp.

The community in Europe is still forming imo.

It's just a place where a bunch of corporates and startup people say how cool they are.

However surprisingly I heard that for the folks who are looking to fundraise is the best place to be. So I guess if you're not looking for work or funding no? There's Polywork (https://polywork.com) that tries to replace linkedin. Gotta wait to see if it works out.

And human transcription costs like a lot 45 cents a word, imagine a 1 hour conversation.

Really helps.

Increasingly I want to stop relying on google for essential services.

They are marketing themselves towards content and course creators, however the structure of their community is geared towards creating long discussions, and long form writing.

I'm a member of a neuroscience community hosted on circle, it works great.

as a cherry on top you can host it on your own website, and change the appearance.

the only con i see is the pricing.

Just from performance perspective I can see that the listicles and how to's are doing better then any other niche topics.

I use RSS for my newsletters, gather all of them in one place with Zapier.

I feel like if this is for intros/hiring a simple community would've worked better.