@johnfdoherty.com yo! Congrats on selling EditorNinja, just scheduled a call and then started putting the pieces together when I saw the guy I was scheduled with had a proofed.com email

There's a B2B lesson in here somewhere

We've made some big improvements to the MetaMonster crawling and onboarding experiences over the last month! You no longer have to wait for a crawl to finish to start queuing up your first workflows. This makes the overall experience of getting started with a new project WAY faster. Next up:

Three years ago I sold my agency to one of our long time clients and went to work for them. I made it 11 months before I got fired. I wrote about the experience, how it felt, and what I took away from it: www.andrewaskins.com/how-to-get-...

How to get fired

“There’s no easy way to say this, so I’m just going to get into it.” Ah, shit. As soon as I heard those words, I knew what was coming next. I was being fired.

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Something we've found helpful when testing prompts for MetaMonster: have the LLM output it's "rationale."

Pretty cool: - I crawled our site - Told the AI to analyze my page titles and generate an engagement score from 1-10 - Filter to < 5 - Generated optimized titles - Had the AI score the optimized version and provide a justification

The MetaMonster WordPress plugin is live! You can now: - Crawl your site to find missing metadata - Generate optimized titles and descriptions w/ 1 click - Publish directly to WordPress That's 3-5 clicks to update titles and descriptions for every page on your site. wordpress.org/plugins/meta...

MetaMonster SEO – AI-Powered Metadata Optimization

Fix missing metadata in minutes instead of months. MetaMonster's WordPress plugin helps you generate and manage SEO-optimized page titles and met …

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Rolled out handy little feature in MetaMonster this week to let you export all of your page content as markdown.

I think I may have taken the "bootstrappers need to charge more" advice a little too seriously and overpriced the MetaMonster beta... 😬 Don't want to overreact to small sample sizes just yet, but seriously considering cutting the price by 50% (add increasing what's included in each plan)

This season of Tiny Seed Tales with @leenyburger.bsky.social is so good because THIS is the hard stuff!! It's easy to keep doing what's working. It's easy to shut down something that obviously isn't working. But so many businesses spend time somewhere in the middle.

Some stuff is going well. Some stuff isn't. This is true of everyone, all the time. Which stuff is which, changes. The magnitude changes. The nature of the puzzles change. But there’s always stuff. So don’t get discouraged; get used to it.

Loved talking to Benjamin and Marie on Grief & Pizza. We got into a lot of great stuff around mental health and the ups and downs of being a founder.

Benjamin Borowski@typeoneerror.com · 2y ago

Really enjoyed this conversation with founder @andrewaskins.com. Talked about the experience of growing an agency, getting acqui-hired, and then getting fired from your own company! Plus: company culture, the challenges of being a founder, and what it's like to bootstrap a software business.

LOVE this newsletter CTA from balsamiq

Really appreciate the real talk from @leenyburger.bsky.social in the latest episode of Tiny Seed Tales www.startupsfortherestofus.com/episodes/epi...

Episode 759 | TinySeed Tales s4e6: Does AI + Pivot = Success?

In this episode of TinySeed Tales, Rob Walling speaks with Colleen Schnettler, co-founder of Hello Query, as she shares her latest startup journey pivot. After reigniting her “shipping muscle” whil...

startupsfortherestofus.com

Over the last 6 months, @amy.stackingthebricks.com & I have worked on a handful of high-profile (and high revenue) product launches that *aren’t our products.* It’s been a lot of fun, & it’s inspired some new resources for us to share! Here’s the first: stackingthebricks.com/email-ideas/

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I've been in a season of bad ADHD lately and this week I've been using Cursor Composer in Agent mode to help me just get started. Big unlock. Helps that: - Our code is a monolith (API context) - My cofounder already had components and styles built out - I'm working on super simple stuff

Just closed customer number 1 for MetaMonster 👀 It's a friend, but they fit our ICP AND they're using the heck out of the product and getting a lot of value from it. Lot more to do from here!!

We just released directed crawls to alpha users! 📋 Now you can choose to crawl your entire site or crawl a list of pages you specify This is a great way to narrow suggestions only to the pages you care about, or break a large site into batches

Why did no one tell me building a web crawler would be such a pain in the ass? 😂

We got path planning working on our robot today! Now the students can design an autonomous routine in the pathplanner UI by drawing lines on a field map. Super cool open source tool.

Looking through analytics this morning and this looks like it was actually coming from our google ads campaign Not sure why our ads were showing up on youtube... they aren't video ads and I thought they were restricted just to google search But that makes more sense

Andrew Askins@andrewaskins.com · 2y ago

We currently have 4 SUPER low production value videos on our @metamonster.ai YouTube channel that up until today didn't even have direct links to our site and we're still seeing a small trickle of traffic from YouTube That's hella encouraging

Hot take: I don't hate Jira They've put a lot of work into updating it, and it's a powerful tool that can be really effective in certain circumstances

If you can't build a good remote culture that's on you, not your employees. Honestly the push back on remote work makes me want to build a team again. It's going to be so easy to compete for great people and give them a better environment than 90% of what's out there.

We currently have 4 SUPER low production value videos on our @metamonster.ai YouTube channel that up until today didn't even have direct links to our site and we're still seeing a small trickle of traffic from YouTube That's hella encouraging

I dig this essay from Edmar Ferreira about the differences between building in AI versus traditional software startups. every.to/source-code...

Why Building in AI Is Nothing Like Making Conventional Software

Introducing Source Code, your backstage pass to Every Studio

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New episode of Small Efforts is out! 🤖 My robotics team is upgrading our tech 🌶️ Sean's time at Shmoocon got spicy 👹 And I'm riding the high of a great prospect call for MetaMonster. share.transistor.fm/s/b13b6954

When should you charge your first customers? | Small Efforts - with Sean Sun and Andrew Askins | Episode 46

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Currently hiring at Miscreants! Searching for our next product marketer, project manager, or Webflow developer 🎉 More details here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Getting some really positive early feedback from our first MetaMonster users! Excited to start slowly opening up the alpha. Only problem is I have SO MANY IDEAS. I want to build all the things, but now have to focus and prioritize. Ugh.

Stoked for this season! Just listened to episode one this morning and can’t wait for more

TinySeed@tinyseed.com · 2y ago

Welcome to Season 4 of TinySeed Tales! In the first episode, @robwalling.com introduces us to @leenyburger.bsky.social, the co-founder of Hammerstone (now Hello Query). Check out the rest of the episode 👇 www.startupsfortherestofus.com/episodes/epi...

Just did a lightweight SEO audit for a friend, really helpful for putting myself in the shoes of our @metamonster.ai users