The great migration. Experiments. And a special anniversary.
Plus, flying into turquoise water.
Thread
There’s a lot of hype today about the new Threads app. The twittersphere is going crazy and seems to be migrating fast.
We’ll see if it sticks.
If you’re on either, I’d love to connect over there.
Follow me on Threads here: https://www.threads.net/@saasmakermac
And Twitter here: https://twitter.com/saasmakermac
Good things come to those who experiment
It’s been an exciting week over here for me and The SaaS Bootstrapper, as I had some posts get a lot of attention (at least it was a lot for me).
Thank you and welcome to all the new subscribers that found their way here from those posts and beyond.
And if you missed those posts - titled From $0 to $58k MRR in 30 months. But the path leading there was long. Here's how it went:
Here’s the twitter thread,
And here’s the Indie Hackers post
They are essentially the same post, different format.
Goes to show what happens when you keep trying and experimenting, despite countless posts that result in nothing but crickets.
Here’s what happened to my newsletter growth:
And as a result, this newsletter you’re reading also became mildly profitable (which was never my goal with it), thanks to Upscribe.
If you have a newsletter, definitely check it out - it’s a way to refer your subscribers to other newsletters that you love -and get a little kick back for doing so. It’s not life-changing by any means, but as a result of something I’m doing anyway, I’ll take it. Dinner out tonight!
If you haven’t started a newsletter and are thinking about owning your audience - especially with all the uncertainty around Twitter (hence the migration to Threads) - I highly recommend beehiiv.
It’s from the creators of Morning Brew, one of the biggest and fastest growing newsletters in the world, so it’s optimized to help you grow, and if anyone knows how to grow a newsletter, it’s these guys. Check it out here.
Life without regrets
We left the U.S. a year ago today on digital nomad visas…
My wife, two boys, and me.
So far we’ve been to:
France
Croatia
Italy
Slovenia
Bosnia
Hungary
Austria
And I went to Malta on my own for MicroConf.
In the next 45 days we will be adding:
Montenegro
Serbia
Portugal
Spain
We are so grateful to be on this journey. And while it’s not always easy, it’s the most amazing thing we feel we could be doing for ourselves and our kids.
As citizens of planet Earth, it feels like a waste not to explore as much of it as we can - culturally, geographically, and socially - if we are fortunate to be able to do so.
For those of us highly driven individuals, one of life’s biggest challenges is balancing an intense work ethic with the desire to enjoy and appreciate every moment.
Who knows where we’ll be a year from now, but I feel that we will confidently be able to look back and know we’ve lived without regrets, and it’s a mission of mine to inspire others to do the same.
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Stay inspired, and have fun!
Mac