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Lesson Learned 22 Aug 2013 | 09:32 pm
Historically, I’ve put an enormous amount of pressure on myself to constantly improve Sifter. Add a constant flow of customer requests on top of that, and there’s never been a shortage of feelings tha...
Unplanned Downtime 8 Aug 2013 | 05:12 am
Imagine for a moment that you’re self-employed, married with a child and a mortgage, you’re the only full-time employee of your company, and the sole breadwinner for your family. Now, imagine having a...
An Interview with Garrett Dimon 2 May 2013 | 07:40 pm
An Interview with Garrett Dimon: Recently did an interview with Des Traynor from Intercom about building and growing Sifter, features, and business in general.
Payment Processing from Starting + Sustaining 30 Apr 2013 | 12:17 am
When I started writing Starting + Sustaining, payment processing was the most daunting topic. I felt that I had a cursory understanding of it all, but that turned out to be wrong. It is without a doub...
Get Help 4 Apr 2013 | 08:13 pm
If you’re building a company as a solo founder, you have a long lonely road ahead of you. The sooner you start putting together a team, the better off you’ll be in every possible way. I originally ma...
Starting and Sustaining is Available for Purchase 18 Mar 2013 | 03:08 pm
Starting and Sustaining is Available for Purchase: After months of writing, editing, and reviewing, Starting and Sustaining is finally available for purchase. If you have dreams of launching a hosted...
Book Update 29 Jan 2013 | 02:17 am
Three months after deciding to write a book about building, launching, and maintaining a web application, the progress is good. I’d like to be further along, but took a break from writing to spend som...
Take Your Time Quitting 30 Dec 2012 | 07:48 pm
It seems like many stories about quitting a job are dramatic and quick. i.e. “I had finally had enough and just quit.” It doesn’t need to be that way, and it’s probably easier if it’s not. Instead of ...
Rebuilding vs. Refactoring 31 Oct 2012 | 11:01 pm
At some point, we’ve all faced it. Do we rebuild from scratch or simply refactor? With personal sites, it seems the rebuild is the default option. We see an archaic mess of code and a design that’s at...
Acceptance 30 Oct 2012 | 07:22 pm
Prior to Sifter, I was a specialist. I needed to keep up with two or three high-level topics in order to stay current and not be left behind. I had a few RSS subscriptions and kept up with a few topic...
