leading podcasts & integrations engineering at @beehiiv β’ husband, pet dad, & amateur pitmaster β’ award-winning investigative reporter β’ fmr @espn, @dotesports
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New on @beehiiv: Spotify Open Access π
Lock podcast episodes or entire shows behind a paywallβdirectly inside Spotify. Your listeners. Your revenue. Your rules.
Oh, and we still take 0%. Always.
Learn more π
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Jacob Wolf π retweeted
record week last week @beehiiv:
> added $600k+ ARR (net of churn)
> paid ~$300k to creators via the ad network
looking ahead:
> dropping one of our biggest launches of the quarter tomorrow
> shipping dozens of new updates every single week
godspeed
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Theyβre using Islamophobia against a Catholic Latina now.
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Write your TypeScript backends in @EffectTS_ or live long enough to realize you should have.
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I know itβs killed a lot of media businesses and I donβt want what Iβm about to say to make light of that.
But Iβm glad SEO is dying and Google has only themselves to blame for it. The AI-in-search product is terrible, often wrong, and itβs because Gemini models suck.
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Jacob Wolf π retweeted
Fyi all of his mail used to be in my inbox but now they all automatically land in my junk...
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signs that your SaaS is vulnerable to be displaced:
> unspecialized software
> lack of focus from team / founder
> minimal domain expertise on the team
> price is the only differentiator
> no proprietary data or network effects
> zero switching costs
> it's a feature, not a platform
> zero brand equity
> no relationships outside the codebase (partners, providers, industry)
> non-existent support
shoutout to @ahmedgagan11 for identifying an opportunity and crushing the launch π
Introducing DataBull π
I was paying $39/mo for DataFast just to see which posts made me money.
That's $468 a year. Forever. And it goes up as your traffic grows.
So I built my own.
Same idea: revenue by traffic source.
$29 lifetime. Unlimited sites. Unlimited events. Lifetime updates.
> databull.app
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Effect is just Ruby on Rails for JavaScript nerds.
@EffectTS_ 4.0.6 comes with a new method on SqlClient: afterCommit
Use it to enqueue best effort work that should run once a transaction commits:
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Opening on the day I get paid... this is dangerous.
π¨Austin Texasπ¨ The Grand Opening of your local Micro Center is just weeks away on November 13th! Come celebrate Tech Heaven with food trucks, a DJ, and of course deals. Learn more: micro.center/wzfu
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It's pretty wild how twice, relatively right before the holidays, Anthropic's released a revolutionary model.
Last year Opus 4.5 gave a lot of engineers AI psychosis during the Christmas break. I recognize Opus 5.5 will do the same for the non-believers this Thanksgiving.
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We do have a monorepo at beehiiv that includes a lot of things related to the main admin app + the publication websites.
But now that Iβm using @t3dotcodes a lot, I have a project folder that includes all of beehiivβs apps. Thatβs been the most helpful so far.
i think i kept seeing people say "monorepos are good for agents"
but we just switched to multi repos. i have a hard time caring about the benefits of monorepos anymore
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I cannot believe I get to type these words, but..
I have a new title π€― π€― π€―
You're looking at the newest Creator in Residence @beehiiv
But.. what heck is this? Well, I'll be:
~ creating long-form educational videos for youtube
~ sharing my journey building Generalist World to 55,000+ subscribers
~ getting to help LOTS of folks build indie, profitable businesses with a newsy at the centre
It's a fractional gig that I'll do on the side of my GW work :) truly building out that portfolio career life! π
And while update is ofc fun for me, I think it reallyyy matters for *everybody* because this role didn't exist even a year ago.
I didn't apply for it. I didn't send them a CV. I didn't "interview".
I've been a super-fan of the product for years, we built a genuine(!) relationship, and then shaped a role around it.
If you're looking for the sign to start that newsletter / podcast / digi product.. you know who to come chat to! πββοΈ
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ππ€ Grace π€π
Anyone at @ShopifyEng @ShopifyDevs who can help me get this Ruby LSP change merged?
It's very small and is the last step to having on type formatting default enabled for @zeddotdev's Ruby extension.
github.com/Shopify/ruby-lsp/β¦
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ADHD is so unfair. Especially the apathy symptoms.
Itβs wild how quickly they subside once I take my Vyvanse every morning and it kicks in 90 minutes later. Just a level of self-determination that I canβt muster any other way.
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Imagine telling John Carreyrou (!) that he missed the point of a movie about Elizabeth Holmes. John might understand You Can See Everything more deeply than Nathan Fielder himself. Reading Bad Blood is borderline essential for audiences wrestling with their own interpretations.
A few readers have taken me to task for βmissing the point of the film,β which is apparently that Elizabeth Holmes is unknowable and everything is ambiguous. Hereβs my response: She went after Tyler Shultz and Erika Cheung with everything she had. I was threatened with litigation on a daily basis for months on end. It was a ruthless cover-up of a breathtaking fraud, and she was at the controls. Just a little context for those who have forgotten or didnβt follow the original story. By the way, I loved the film. #BestPicture, IMO.
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