Greg Dickens

I built a small thing 👉epilocal.com/free-chart-mak… A simple, free tool to make charts from CSV data. All chart makers on Google first page were old or needed an account to work, so thought I could do better Any feedback welcome and I will turn into new features! #buildinpublic

@pyroach1 Thanks! no worries, but must be someone else. Haven't done anything with scraping

@dickens_greg Hey Greg, good to see epilocal.com. I think I remember seeing an API product on your profile too at some point. Did you have a google maps scraper API or something like that hosted on Rapid API if I'm not mistaken? Sorry if not, just trying to find that.

@rikschennink congrats man! not that slow... has taken me similar amount of time to get to $500. Really big milestone, for me at least it feels like from there you have a playbook to get to 3-5k if you just execute consistently

CropGuide now at $500 MRR. It's a snail pace but our customers are over the moon so we're on to something.

Finally automated my flow for blocking accounts that churn... Shows that you really can go a long way with manual processes. Don't waste time at the beginning overengineering for scale you don't have yet.

Thinking of open sourcing my Open Company page... anyone interested in tutorials on how to build it for your own startup using the @ProfitWell API?

Just did an updated comparison on @ghost vs @WordPress. In short: - Simplest sites -> WordPress - More complicated -> Ghost - Most complicated -> WordPress Full post here 👉epilocal.com/blog/wordpress…

I've had to work part-time and really flexibly the last few weeks. It's tough knowing that I can't grow my business as much as I want, but that flexibility is the reason that I went solo in the first place - always good to remind myself of that!

For my new Stripe Data Studio connector here: epilocal.com/products/strip… And these are the docs: epilocal.com/docs/stripe-da…

For once my docs are ahead of my landing page for a product! Not sure if that's a good thing, but I'm glad to have docs already done at least.

Any other @IndieHackers out there trying to give back somehow through their business? I just started open sourcing more of my code and I have been doing pro-bono projects here and there for a while. What else are people doing?

Recently changed my About page. I find it difficult as a solo entrepreneur to get the right balance of professional vs. up-front about being a small business. epilocal.com/about/

Many people will tell you to avoid selling products that are too cheap, but: - a cheap product is quick to build - can get you lots of users - and based on their feedback, you can add features that people will pay more for

And check out the original tool here: epilocal.com/free-chart-mak…

My Free Chart Maker is now open source. Should be some good examples in there for anyone building charts in @reactjs and @GatsbyJS. Tutorials coming soon. Code here: github.com/epilocal/free-…

My Data Studio connector for Plausible Analytics is now getting more signups than my Mailchimp connector. I guess this might tell you something about the trajectory of these two companies?

I see lots of @IndieHackers discussing what's better: - Build 10 different startups for diversification - Or 1 startup for focus My compromise: build multiple small products under the same brand. This way you can still build new things, but not start from 0 every time.

Just added a new Data Studio connector to my lineup: Stripe! epilocal.com/products/strip…

@DamianSkotzke @yongfook @bannerbearHQ Thanks! it's a bit of both - plus since I'm happy to share, it gives me a few more topics to talk about for content

@dickens_greg @yongfook @bannerbearHQ Congrats on the milestones! How do you feel about the open metrics impacting your business? Is it more about transparency or motivation?

My open company page is now live! 🎉 I always said that I would start one if I made it to $500 MRR, so here it is. Credit to @yongfook, I took a lot of inspiration from his Open Startup page at @bannerbearHQ.

The startup advice I find myself giving more and more: Take all of the ideas you have in your head of different directions you can go, pick the one that you can do the quickest and easiest and just do that and see what happens.

Link is here: epilocal.com/open/ It updates in real-time from the @ProfitWell API which is linked to my @PaddleHQ account.