Aditya's Newsletter Edition #8

In today’s edition:

• Reality Check: Important Updates on Health, Newsletter, and eBook

• Ideas and Success Stories: Next-Gen Marketing Tools

• Articles: Towards Productivity, MVP in 24 hours, and more

• News: Killer Robot, More Layoffs, Samsung Gauss, and more

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Reality Check
Important Updates on Health, Newsletter, and eBook

Happy Diwali! Wherever you are in the world, may the festival of light bring peace and prosperity in your life🪔

Health

The past week was a very difficult one.

My father was admitted to a hospital with dengue fever. He’s back home but still recovering. It was very busy and tiring for me too. My mother being a heart patient herself also requires regular care. I managed it all somehow and I’m back writing this for you.

I feel I also have caught a fever. I hope it’s just fatigue. Hope for the best!

I wanted to know how are you. I hope you’re in good health. Remember to take a break whenever you need one.

Newsletter

The responses I got to the last edition suggest that having separate emails for News and the regular edition would be a good idea.

I’m still open to ideas but I’ll probably be switching to a two-emails-per-week model very soon.

eBook

I’m writing a complete guide to micro-SaaS but I could not make much progress on the eBook in the last week.

I’m at around 25-30% with my draft. I don’t want to rush it.

Trust me, it’s going to be valuable and free for all my subscribers!

Ideas and Success Stories
Next-Gen Marketing Tools

You’ve made your product and are ready for the big day. You have a great launch on Product Hunt but you still did not get paying customers. What did you do wrong? Perhaps, you did not target the right audience.

Marketing is painful. It takes multiple iterations to find the right audience on the right platform successfully.

The marketing automation market is open to competition.

There are countless books, podcasts, and videos on marketing. Just pick up anyone with a good number of views and think of how you can automate the same.

Perhaps, you can use your tool to market itself? (For those who’ve seen Nolan’s Inception, it’s marketing within marketing!)

Success Stories

• ReferralHero: One of the best tools to make referral programs for your products. Estimated $18K MRR.

• PodSqueeze: Automated podcast creation. Generate transcripts, show notes, titles, blog and social posts, video clips with a single click. PodSqueeze makes $10K MRR.

• CartStack: Probably the biggest player in the abandoned shopping cart business (yes, it’s a pretty big field). CartStack provides solutions to convert abandoned shopping carts to sales. Reported annual revenue of $630K.

• AiTrillion: The big bad boy that claims to be the all-in-one marketing solution. 1 platform for more than 11 marketing use cases. $7.8M ARR.

Articles
How I went from 2 hours of productivity a day to 12–14 hours

Akshay Raveendran

Here’s someone who was addicted to gaming and spent his days sleeping with a sugar addiction who transformed himself into a productive person. Akshay made 3 simple changes in his life. Read to know about his difficult bur fruitful journey.

Read the complete article

How Pinterest scaled to 11 million users with only 6 engineers

Engineer’s Codex

Pinterest hit 11 million user way back in 2012 and it was then the fastest company to do so. Read about the complete tech stack they used and lesson’s from Pinterest’s interesting journey.

Read the complete article

Minimum MVP: Build your startup in 24 hours.

Marc Lou

You can build an MVP in 24 hours. Whether it fits your plans or not is for you to decide. But it is one way for shipping startups and Marc Lou explains how you can do it.

Read the complete article

News
Killer Robot, More Layoffs, Samsung Gauss, and more

• A robot crushed a man to death in South Korea after the machine apparently failed to differentiate him from the boxes of produce it was handling, the Yonhap news agency reported on Wednesday…read more

• Elon Musk’s Neuralink will have a vision chip that will be released in “a few years,” and it will solve eye conditions that cause blindness. Musk said this morning on X, the social media platform he purchased, that his company Neuralink is developing a chip that will solve issues with vision…read more

• Even as the festive season is just around the corner, there seems to be gloom looming over hundreds of tech professionals. This is because tech giants like Google, Amazon, Snap, and others have announced fresh rounds of job cuts…read more

• Samsung has started to detail its own generative AI model, Samsung Gauss, that can run locally on devices. Korea Times reports that Gauss will be integrated into the next Galaxy S24 handset, expected in early 2024…read more

• Today, the wondering about Humane’s gadget is over. The company is opening up about its high-tech device designed to be fastened to a shirt or blouse—a fit that Humane hopes can become as accepted among people who aren’t sworn officers as sporting wireless earbuds or smartwatches…read more

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