Most companies put testimonials on their home page. However, since elmohq.com is an AEO platform, we also added testimonials from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity by asking for the best open-source alternative to Profound. All four picked Elmo!

Just launched europe.poach.vc today! Excited to provide founder leads in Europe!

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Find undiscovered pre-seed / seed founders in Europe. Click to read poach.vc (Europe), by PoachVC, a Substack publication. Launched 13 days ago.

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I'm switching poach.vc from MWF sending to Tues/Thurs. Instead of 2 paid days and 1 free day, each email will be 1/3 free and 2/3 paid. This: - gives free subs a reason to open every email - less manual work (there's no substack api) - should help newsletter conversion rates

💰 Just broke $20k ARR. My current goal is to 5x by the end of the year, and I can finally see a real path to self-sufficiency!

I'm going to start testing @PoachVC expansion in the UK (~680 firms, ~1.8k VCs, and ~2.2k angels). I was thinking Europe (or Western EU), but focusing on full coverage of individual countries should be higher value to VCs + be easier to market.

So it looks like Beehiiv boosts will be absolutely amazing or a total money pit. A week after starting, I have 10 partnered publications, and almost 100 pending subscribers from boosts. If 1-2 of these convert, it will already be worth it.

Trying to grow a fresh newsletter with Beehiiv boost. I've matched with 7 highly relevant publications in 24h, let's see how long it takes to get some subscribers!

data.poach.vc is starting to get some interest!

As part of Poach, I've had to build a method of finding a LinkedIn profile for a Twitter profile. I'm considering packaging it like tweetscraper.io: select a set of Twitter profiles and get a list of LinkedIns to download for $0.07/profile. Anyone doing LinkedIn outreach want to try this out soon?

Rough start with Mechanical Turk. 80% of responses were complete garbage. This might be preventable with additional form validations + upping requirements on worker rejection rates, but at the end of they day it doesn't seem like a great fit for Poach compared to LLMs + data providers.

shelved.domains didn't get featured on ProductHunt, but due to Reddit and posting around, it got 300 visitors, a few people submitted domains to list, and one listed domain (not one of mine) sold.

www.producthunt.com/posts/shelve... ProductHunt launch is live! Please check it out! (and hopefully they decide to feature it...)

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Indie makers and founders register so many domain names that are perfect for other projects. Why not put them in a marketplace vetted for quality, where other makers can find cheap options to start th...

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It's kind of crazy that shelved.domains has made $500 with only 50 visitors so far! Looking forward to the Product Hunt launch tomorrow: www.producthunt.com/products/she...

Just put up a landing page for data.poach.vc With the newsletter going fairly well, I figured it'd be useful to expand to providing larger amounts of data directly to VCs.

Just launched www.shelved.domains My idea is that it'd be good if there was a directory where founders/makers can list their cheap but high quality domains and find interesting domains from other founders. Let me know if you want to list (for free)

I made a tool to generate favicons from any React Icon: favicon.to

AI generated shorts didn't work well. One video got ~50 views, and the rest under 5 views, so it ends up costing more than advertising without the ability to attribute sales.

Jared Rhizor@jrhizor.dev · 2y ago

I'm trying out AI generated short form content for mealbymeal.com on TikTok. I'll run 5 shorts per day and report back in a week with how many total views they get, and whether it impacted signups on the site.

Substack has a great component for building composite filters, so I made my own version for keywordgems.com

Here's an initial version of an AI title generator for keywordgems.com that rates the titles on various criteria and shows both SERPs and generated titles!

New blog post: www.jrhizor.dev/posts/how-to...

How to Grow a Newsletter

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I'm trying out AI generated short form content for mealbymeal.com on TikTok. I'll run 5 shorts per day and report back in a week with how many total views they get, and whether it impacted signups on the site.

New personal site up: www.jrhizor.dev Time to write some blog posts!

Jared Rhizor

I'm Jared Rhizor, a maker, founder, and software dev.

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Looking at a site through a revenue per pageview lens is interesting. For example, if I increased Otamatunes traffic 3-4x, I'd be able to make the same amount of money from ads that I do from sales. Maybe I could drive that much more traffic if all of the music on the site was free?

There are a few signs I've seen this year across different projects that indicate that people *actually* are looking for what I'm building. Lack of these signs is a major signal, but it's hard to notice when you're not expecting them.

KeywordGems.com app page is starting to come together!

Added usage tracking for KeywordGems

2024 Recap mealbymeal.com (calorie tracker) - $1k ARR poach.vc (vc newsletter) - $500 ARR otamatunes.com (niche sheet music) - $250/yr Not what I hoped for, but I learned a lot about marketing/distribution.

It turns out sheet music for a niche instrument is very seasonal. Over December, otamatunes.com made $133.85 (versus $81.90 total since launch) from people getting an Otamatone as a gift and searching for sheet music!

It looks like the starter pack frenzy has almost completely died down.