Dan Rowden

I was walking my dog while “coding” a fragile and important feature in Subsail’s renewal flow

Casually spinning up an agent from my phone browser. Cursor is doing a lot right now

@helloitsolly @robwalling 0 to 1 is always the best time. Sounds like you’re living the dream, do you need anything different?

My SaaS revenue and sign ups are flat I'm plateau-d at $1,000,000 a year A great achievement but a challenging spot to be in According to @robwalling only 5% of bootstrapped startups escape these types of revenue plateau The more complicated issue is that I am struggling to stay motivated The business is funding my lifestyle and that lifestyle is really good I travel constantly, see friends, train 5x week, give back, connect with other makers, spend time in nature, and fly business class The things that motivated me no longer do, and the idea of pushing through feels almost ridiculous At times, when things are flowing I feel capable and ready to keep going But my desire to move through tougher challenges (hiring, addressing technical debt) is decreasing I'm unable to cultivate urgency in the way I was before Maybe the lifestyle business I've built is enough

@mansfieldrv6 @robj3d3 Foreign income is taxed if you remit it to Mauritius. Just wanted to make sure you’re aware! 😅

I’ve also lived in LatAm Dominican Republic and Panama. Honestly? Mauritius is the only place that’s ever really felt like a real home. It’s kind of like the best bits of the U.K. from 40 years ago. Polite, friendly, low crime. And honestly it’s not expensive at all and there’s huge new shopping malls everywhere. No problem buying things! Much better than Cyprus and cheaper than Turkey. No tax on foreign income. I love it - and good air connections via Dubai and South Africa with multiple flights daily.

I'm leaving Cyprus 🇨🇾 Brutally Honest Review Tax, rent, loneliness:

@robj3d3 @mansfieldrv6 Lived there for 7 years. Can vouch for Mauritius as somewhere to research 🏝️ It’s beautiful. Maybe too far if you want to be near family though

@mansfieldrv6 Mauritius was never on my radar, time to do some research!

@martingarnett01 Nice, did you submit it?

@dr I’m gonna be preparing some iPad screenshots for my new app that I’m hoping to submit tonight: photospec.app :)

Anyone working on side projects this weekend? I’m busy planning updates to Subsail based on some customer feedback I gathered recently. You?

@stalmico Just useful getting feedback that doesn't match my own plans. For example, I got some very specific requests to tweak the Subsail checkout for purposes I hadn't thought of

@dr what kind of feedback hit hardest

@yazinhal That's cool! Looks super useful

@dr Today i scraped 900 instagrams so id have infinite side quests on my campus: eventsatuiuc.com

@Mike_Andreuzza Love themes. Didn't you make Ghost themes a while back?

@dr I am working on lexingtonthemes.com. Website templates crafted with Astro JS and Tailwind CSS

@sir_erii You can also enjoy your weekend!

@dr love that you're actually listening to customers instead of just shipping whatever you want. that's the move. i'm procrastinating on mine but let's pretend that counts as strategy

@alex_pustovalov Looks impressive!

@dr I built an online editor for video guides, and now I’m trying to figure out where to use it :-)

@marcelfahle Nice! What are you using to scrape?

@dr Internal tool for the wife and I to track ultra trail races and runners in the region. The typical sites are painful to use, so I scrape the f out of them and build is proper ones.. 😀

I would imagine people who can clearly explain ideas and communicate well like Farza don't know how useful and important that skill is. Just talking is hard. Let alone streaming live for almost an hour while being incredibly clear with what you're saying.

@ollee Beautiful!

@dr Reminds me of this one that I built this one as a school holiday gig in 1999. It was basically unchanged for 20 years! I was paid $1k which I spent on CDs at Waterfront Records in Sydney (R.I.P.). Table based layouts, too (!)

Found an internet gem today. This is exactly what my first websites looked like

I've been thinking about Subsail's positioning. <h1>s are always hard. You only get a few words. Left is what the site's said for maybe 8 years. Right is my new idea. Which is better in your eyes?

@jamesperkins @uncorkcap @unkeydev Congrats! 🥂

Unkey raised $4.5M led by @uncorkcap. Deploy production APIs on real servers. No serverless. No cold starts. Instant rollbacks. Ship APIs, not infrastructure. ↓ unkey.com/blog/unkey-rai…

@GustavS My kids are part of the Family plan, but I don't see any options to turn off podcasts or anything

@dr @danielcberk @Spotify Also @dr if you make your kids account managed accounts in the Spotify.com/family plan hub, your kid’s accounts will not have podcasts, messaging etc at all. Hope that helps

Spotify needs to release a “kids” setting so I can play all the songs my kids listen to without it affecting my own Discovery algorithm. Insane that I can’t do this already. My Discover Weekly is just nursery songs and Moana. @Spotify please fix this.

@GustavS @danielcberk @Spotify While you’re here, is there a setting to turn off videos in accounts? I set up accounts for my three kids but their apps are just podcast video feeds and I only want them to listen

Hey @danielcberk We currently have two different tools to help you with this challenge (which I have myself as well btw 🙂): 1. You can create a separate playlist and choose to exclude it from your taste profile (see screenshot). 2. If you just want to be able to use the whole app without it affecting your taste profile for a while, you can start a private session (see screenshot). More coming, but that’s it right now.