Patrick Nomad retweeted
There's no "perfect" route. Even Google Maps can get this wrong.
There's so many attributes: distance, speed, traffic, tolls, ferries, road type, grade, curve, vehicle type, number of intersections, stops, lights, turns…
(image: github.com/gis-ops/routing-p…)
Patrick Nomad retweeted
Building a complex product as an indie developer.
My current approach:
1. Remove features
2. Remove more features
3. Rethink the problem I'm trying to solve
4. Rescope to the bare minimum number of features
5. Split up work into mini projects
#buildinpublic
Patrick Nomad retweeted
0 -> 1k: 9 years
1k -> 8k: 7 months
8k -> 25k: 5 months
Starting is the hardest
Patrick Nomad retweeted
One company increased sales 262.5% with this pricing strategy:
The Decoy Effect.
What it is & how to use it: 🧵
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“You got to do marketing today”
5 minutes later: proceed to add new features nobody asked for 😂
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Free plan user: "If guys added X feature, I would definitely upgrade to a paid plan."
*1 week later*
Me: "Hey there, wanted to let you know that we added X feature :)"
Free plan user:
Me: "You can upgrade to a paid plan here"
Free plan user:
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I'm gonna waste $100 and promote this tweet just to test how Twitter Ads works.
Let's see what happen 😂
Patrick Nomad retweeted
Meetings are a necessary evil. Necessary, but still evil. So there should be as few as possible, and they should be as short as possible.
Patrick Nomad retweeted
Paying $500+ per month in location-related API calls.
Maybe I should switch startup.jobs to being remote-only 😅



















