Check your analytics at least once every 3 days. Do it for the motivation if nothing else.
Travis Street
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Building since 2011 👥 https://consult.now 📅 https://siliconmingle.com 🔗 https://joi.st 📰 https://links.supply 📦 https://product.now 🏠https://travis.st/reet
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Consulting pays the bills. Building is where I hide from the bills.
A consultant's real product is a night of sleep the client wouldn't have gotten otherwise.
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The best product decisions I've made were deletions. Building is too fun. And that's a problem.
Being a solo founder means you're the CEO, the intern, and the guy who has to renew the SSL cert.
Clients don't pay you for the deliverable. They pay you to stop thinking about the problem. Sell the trust that they can off-load onto you.
Introducing the Jobs Portal on @Consult.Now. The platform scans 175+ hiring portals daily, sends the fractional and advisory roles that fit you straight to your inbox. Early, but already surfacing some amazing roles.
The next decade belongs to people who combine their domain expertise with AI, not people who outsource their thinking to AI.
Fourth year running Silicon Summer. Can't believe how big this event has gotten. Fully sponsored, hundreds of attendees every year. Feels so good to make a real, positive impact on my local community.
The best niche is often one sentence more specific than you're comfortable with.
There has never been a cheaper time to build software. There has never been a harder time to get noticed.
AI has given millions of people an appreciation of how hard software development really is.
Biggest tip I can give about building products is to build something YOU will use everyday.
Everybody talks about how quickly they can do cold outreach but nobody talks about how much time replying to successful messages takes.
People underestimate how much trust comes from consistently showing up in feeds.
You don't need to wait for permission. You can just go out and do it.
Totally obsessed with this screenshot API. I've integrated it into three products so far.
Website Screenshot API — Convert URL to Image — Microlink
Capture pixel-perfect website screenshots with one API call. Free to start. Sub-second responses, full headless browser control, device emulation & ad-blocking.
microlink.io
I made a website that lets you cut out old magazines from the internet archive (or any PDFs you own) and make collage art out of them: ✂️ clipart.studio
Shipping fast only matters if you're shipping the right thing to the right audience.
The internet is shifting from search to recommendations. If AI never recommends you, you might as well be invisible.
The consultant with 500 followers and clear expertise will beat the consultant with 50,000 followers and vague positioning.
The system is designed to separate us, to make us think we can only succeed on our own. Don’t fall into this trap - find your people, find your community, create a community around you. The only way forward is together.
Just stopped myself building my own affiliate programme SaaS and am just using a paid option. I really am growing up.
Consultants who publish consistently will outperform consultants who simply have more experience. Visibility compounds.
Most consultants have a LinkedIn profile. Very few have a discoverable digital presence that AI systems can understand.