From Burnout to $2,300 MRR in 18 Months
Hello! What's your background, and what are you working on?
👋 I'm Owen, a New Zealander living in Amsterdam and working as a self-employed writer and creator of digital things! I started out my career as an infrastructure engineer but moved sideways into writing a few years ago.
I went to university and thought that working on servers would be fun, and while I enjoyed a few years working in the budding cloud industry, tinkering with DevOps and helping companies scale beyond their own data centers, I got tired of putting out other people's fires.
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@ow Great interview - I just became a subscriber! Wishing you the best of luck with both the newsletter and Mailcircle.
Great interview. Great perspective. I really like the creative way you're managing your discount program.
Thank you so much!
Very cool. Have you considered Substack (https://substack.com/) to manage the operations? The price might not be all to different from your current individual pieces added up.
Hey! Yeah I know the Substack folks, they're great! It doesn't really glue together anything beyond the email part unfortunately, but I love that they've lowered the barrier for those who want to monetize newsletters.
Nice interview. You did a great work! Chapeau 🎩 Pivoting away from the daily newsletter sounds like a good idea to me, especially if you want to create a product that on the long term can sustain itself and generate revenue without asking you 24/7 work.
Thanks so much Dave! Yeah I struggle with it because it's really hard to find the time, but it seems to work as well, so I just have to do a bit at a time.
This is a great interview! I especially like the bullet points on "the couple of things learned along the way", especially the lower pricing for whoever asks for it. We need more trust in the world, it's inspiring.
Thanks, Markus! I figure the majority of people won't ask if they can afford it, but those who wanted a cheap pass probably wouldn't have ever been customers otherwise.
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