Jonathan Markwell 🇺🇦

I've helped 4 B2B subscription services go from zero to £1 million+ - All are still in business today. - All did it with fewer than 10 people. - 99% of revenue via self-service @stripe payments. The first £100K was always hardest. The rest came from repeating what worked.

@dhh What I don't get about you tech bros, is how on the one hand you can seem so smart in your individual businesses, and then when you turn your attention elsewhere, you can immediately appear so utterly ill-informed, factually inaccurate, naive, foolish and quite frankly dangerous.

.@jot is taking about how great developers do more than just development 🙌

@yarotheslav @andrewculver I've always use ngrok for that... and I love that ngrok became a Urlbox customer a couple of years ago :) I pay for ngrok but I can't see a reason for not being able to do it on their free plan. If costs of screenshots in dev are an issue and quality isn't Ferrum probably best.

@andrewculver @jot but how would these cloud solutions work on localhost urls? would I need to pay for ngrok? and use credits for each screenshot I take in dev mode, right?

> so, I needed to visit urls & generate screenshots. > went with gem ferrum. works great on localhost > ferrum totally sucks on heroku. prod app on heroku > add firecrawl. firecrawl cloud sucks on localhost => ferrum on localhost, firecrawl on prod wdyt?

@andrewculver @yarotheslav All good options. Friendly reminder that urlbox.com is where many Ruby teams come when they hit the limitations of the alternatives.

@yarotheslav I would use url2png.com!

20.5%

Woke up to learn that this is officially the most popular thing I've ever said on the internet. 🤯

All but one now. And that one was paid.

Bonkers. This has already had more engagement than all but 4 of my posts on here. I only have 12.15% of the followers over there.

Based on my feed over in the good place the only person we're now all missing is @aarondfrancis. There is some creepy stuff going on to make up for his absence. My most popular post there is about databases. 🤷‍♂️ The rest of you are probably fine to stay here ;)

Who has more followers than their user_id #?

10.28%

How many followers did you lose this week? Wonder where they went. 🤔

9.15%

@julian_rubisch Don't expect to be updating much more than that number here :)

@jot And also unsurprisingly, my number is the same 😂

7.9%

No. 3

5.6%

As with everyone else departing twitter, you can find us posting a lot more regularly (by comparison!) over here: bsky.app/profile/ffconf… We also made a starter pack so you can follow all our speakers on bsky too 💖

If you miss Larry (the blue bird) you might miss him less where there is a blue butterfly.

Updated my github