Makers.dev

Christian quickly bought a google ad for Chris (for acornchat), but there were some unexpected results that required a lot more tweaking. Christian is doing a consulting project and enjoying it, and is wondering how to get more projects like that one. 

 00:00 Intro 
 02:15 Dedicated marketing days 
 03:07 Buying google ads 
 08:45 Adding more documentation for certain install paths 
 15:37 Conversion tracking and SEO 
 17:32 Google metadata tip 
 20:23 Filesize vs memory error in Google cloud 
 25:24 Building file sending in a day 
 32:28 Consulting tasks and rate 
 38:53 Tackling a personal email backlog with an EA 
 46:59 Building cabinet drawers 
 
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Chris gets another customer for acornchat, which is 100% user growth! Christian is thinking about marketing for FileInbox using SEO, youtube, a new feature, and more. 

 00:00 Intro 
 05:55 2nd Acorn Chat user 
 09:18 Buying Google ads seems hard 
 16:35 Winning $5k from Kaggle 
 21:54 Twitter recommendations 
 30:09 FileInbox SEO changes 
 38:04 Youtube is underused for SaaS 
 45:34 File sending feature as a marketing channel 
 52:11 Serverless transition - using less memory 
 58:04 Doing more consulting 
 01:03:51 Making cabinets 
 
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Chris wins $5k from Kaggle! Christian fixes some bugs and picks up woodworking to fix his new organization troubles. 

 00:00 Intro 
 02:43 Winning $5000 in an AI competition 
 12:10 The hardest problem in the competition 
 24:41 AI master's class 
 32:15 AcornChat: why people switch 
 38:32 Motivation comes and goes 
 42:03 FileInbox bugs and features 
 49:26 SegMetrics Analytics 
 54:27 Woodworking hobby 
 58:42 Cleaning and organizing 
 01:01:39 iPhone vs Android 
 
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We've reached 10,000 downloads for makers.dev! (a while ago). Chris has started his next master's class and is working on AcornChat. Christian is doing end-to-end testing with Playwright, and is still trying to figure out how to get better metrics for FileInbox. 

 00:00 10,000 downloads 
 00:54 3 redactions 
 03:29 Kaggle CTF updates 
 07:24 Learning things through challenges 
 10:43 Case studies in Machine Learning 
 15:33 AcornChat updates 
 19:59 Violent and original work 
 28:14 End to end testing 
 40:13 Metrics and analytics 
 45:43 Running paid ads? 
 48:52 How to throw a good party 
 52:35 Talking to strangers 
 54:44 CO2 levels indoors 
 
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Christian got married! Chris got his first paying customer for AcornChat. 

 00:00 Intro 
 01:24 First paying customer 
 07:32 Heroku is removing the free tier 
 10:43 Kaggle CTF competition 
 20:13 Taxes 
 24:36 Killing grass weeds 
 30:03 Next marketing thing for acornchat 
 39:48 💍🎉 Christian got married! 
 47:15 2nd customer migrated for fileinbox 
 51:43 Next marketing channel for fileinbox 
 56:22 Youtube as a search platform 
 59:57 TikTok for B2B saas? 
 01:05:36 Smartwatch for kids 
 
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Christian is in up state New York so he hasn't done much SaaS stuff this week - but he is preparing his business taxes. Yippee! Chris is recovering from being sick, so he's working on an AI security competition on Kaggle. 

 00:00 Intro 
 03:19 Kaggle DefCon AI security competition 
 15:07 DALLE prompts and AI art 
 22:40 Tricks to make AI art generators output a specific style 
 24:31 Systems to reduce friction 
 28:37 Business taxes 
 37:56 Full sized CNC machine 
 40:28 Neat wedding gifts with 3d printers 
 43:41 Manual labor 
 
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Chris got covid; Christian is in upstate New York, and wonders about a new marketplace project. 

 00:00 Intro 
 05:09 AcornChat feature requests 
 12:41 Marketing for acornchat 
 15:23 What do you use for analytics? 
 21:20 Outreach strategies 
 29:59 GPS Gold Medal 
 32:57 AI driving to the woods 
 39:28 Weird birthday project with artist commisions 
 55:15 FileInbox 
 
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AcornChat has real users now! Christian loves how TDD makes his code bulletproof. 

 00:00 Intro 
 06:58 Kaggle GPS update 
 14:09 AcornChat real users 
 15:33 Reaching out to users is hard 
 19:00 Analytics 
 27:50 MarketingChangelog ? 
 30:32 FileInbox work time 
 33:55 New features for fileinbox 
 35:16 TDD 
 41:45 Dropbox OAuth 
 43:09 File uploads and virus scanning 
 48:32 SEO links 
 50:03 How to get MRR up faster 
 52:42 Personal updates 
 
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Chris had his name and face on a billboard. Christian is pushing forward FileInbox stuff, and is looking for the next marketing task. 

 00:00 Intro 
 01:40 Face on a billboard 
 10:10 How to evoke emotion 
 11:09 Marketing strategies work until they don't 
 14:38 AcornChat trials 
 21:17 DALL-E 2 
 25:21 Kaggle GPS 
 28:12 Free shirt 
 30:01 FileInbox SEO 
 32:08 Live video chat widget 
 34:46 Next marketing activity 
 38:14 Next projects for EA 
 45:23 Paramotoring is dangerous 
 
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