3 resources, 2 updates, 1 gift


Howdy! 🖖

To celebrate the 30th issue, today I'm sending a totally different email because…why not?

Let me know if you appreciate it.


Three interesting resources

​A guide to pre-selling your SaaS for $1000+.

Awesome story of a 47-year-old indie-maker juggling between 10 side hustles.

As I always say, look for problems, not ideas.


Two personal updates

1) Alohi made its first sale, and I'm sooo thrilled 🤩

Tell you what—opening the sales has been one of the scariest things I've done this year!

It took me a few weeks to implement the subscription system inside the app, and now it's almost ready to launch. The beta test phase ends this Sunday, so my goal is to work on the landing page next week.

Would you appreciate a round-up on how to create landing pages?

2) We lost a week of subscribers for BlackTwist.

Yes, there was a bug on our landing page that went unnoticed. Errors happen, especially when moving fast—I'm glad a user spotted it and told us before it was too late.

So, if you tried to sign up for the waiting list but it didn't work, here's your chance to join.


Grab this before it's gone

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Mattia

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