I'd buy this book. Always interested in hearing how others get their products to market with regard to work/life commitments, what the balances are, shortcuts to market, first customers, etc.
Check out the indiehackers podcast. It has a lot of interviews with founders working in what I consider more realistic conditions than VC financed ventures.
GMail showed mine in the spam filter. It looks like the author is using ConvertKit and his personal e-mail address for the replies. May have set off a red flag to Google.
Also, the confirm link leads to a server timeout. Maybe a hug of death?
Can't tell you how many times this happens to me with my gmail account. I'll sign up for something I actually want to receive, and then Gmail just decides to block the email before it even gets to my spam folder.
It's the most infuriating thing about email today.
It's the most infuriating thing about Gmail today. Just use another provider, Fastmail is better and switching takes a few minutes if you use your own domain.
They included the pdf in an iframe on the page, which most browsers will want to load instantly. If a browser is configured to download PDFs instead of render them inline, this is expected behavior.
Using an iframe is a pretty bad way to offer a PDF to viewers, but the website definitely has quite a few strange mannerisms apart from that.
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 59.9 ms ] threadBut 15 minutes later I haven't received an email. I've already checked my spam folder.
EDIT: still nothing
Also, the confirm link leads to a server timeout. Maybe a hug of death?
It's the most infuriating thing about email today.
My malware senses are tingling, tread carefully.
Using an iframe is a pretty bad way to offer a PDF to viewers, but the website definitely has quite a few strange mannerisms apart from that.
Whatever about the content, you need to up your design and marketing game.
First impressions are key and these feels somewhere between lazy and scammy.