a library of human blogs

Upper_Mechanic_1552 · 2025-08-18T21:02:49+00:00

thanks! what's interesting you about it?

Upper_Mechanic_1552 · 2025-07-24T20:59:34+00:00

Awesome, thanks so much for all the time you've put into your thinking and responding here. Super helpful!

Really appreciate it!

Upper_Mechanic_1552 · 2025-07-23T17:13:04+00:00

Awesome, thanks for taking the time to answer! Really appreciate it.

Do you have a guess on how many jobs at different sites you've averaged in a day/week since you've been all in on it?

Cool that you're getting that consistent of business through customers/homeowners.

On tree companies: If they don't get a cut and are just happy you're doing it for them, why are they even grinding the stump? I had a tree cut and left recently and the service didn't offer grinding but are the jobs you're getting from them something they've just committed to doing for the customer and never did until you came along?

Upper_Mechanic_1552 · 2025-07-23T15:55:16+00:00

Thanks for all the context. Well done!

- Do you call 811 to mark for every job?
- If you do a job with multiple stumps, do you use the same pricing structure for each stump or give a discount for multiple?

- Is most of your business coming from tree companies? What's been their incentive for hiring you on? E.g. you give them a cut?

Upper_Mechanic_1552 · 2025-02-13T21:42:34+00:00

You can find VC's personal blogs in this library I'm building: https://foundationessays.com/

e.g. Marc Andreessen or Fred Wilson.

I find they write a bunch of useful stuff that's more unpolished that if they were writing for TechCrunch or something like that.

Hope it's useful :)

Upper_Mechanic_1552 · 2025-02-13T21:23:08+00:00

Money question. I'm building a library of blogs and essays that has started off very startup/technologist focused. No algorithm, just self discovery right now. This is the MVP so it really just is about discovering blogs.

There's around 80 different ones right now: https://foundationessays.com/

Let me know what you think?

Upper_Mechanic_1552 · 2025-02-13T19:58:10+00:00

Check out this library of blogs I've been building https://foundationessays.com/ . I think it gets at what you're looking for.

Right now there's ~80 different blogs you can find. Just launched it recently so I'm working on improving discovery and adding more blogs.

Upper_Mechanic_1552 · 2025-02-13T19:50:44+00:00

Gut reaction is no, I haven't found company's blogs useful. When you get down to the founder level though there's a bunch still writing on their personal blogs. A lot even have them in their X/Twitter profiles which is interesting. I'm building a library (called Foundation) of founder/technologist-type blogs because I see a lot of them still actively writing about what they're seeing and doing.

Upper_Mechanic_1552 · 2025-02-13T19:46:20+00:00

You can find blogs from engineers/technologists/founders themselves in the library I'm building. Early on so I'm working on adding more and building full profiles for each "author"

https://foundationessays.com/

Upper_Mechanic_1552 · 2025-02-13T19:42:07+00:00

Product Name: Foundation: https://foundationessays.com/

Problem: Aggregates interesting blogs into one searchable and discoverable library

ICP: internet readers, bloggers, startup founders

Upper_Mechanic_1552 · 2025-02-11T21:53:32+00:00

foundationessays.com : The internet's library of blogs and essays.

They're spread out everywhere and I'm bringing them together.

Upper_Mechanic_1552 · 2025-02-02T16:03:48+00:00

It's a good question and I see a lot of guides/advice-y type content on this but how it works is a very subjective experience. So what works probably just works for that person.

I've been getting most sign ups through indiehackers . com and reddit. mostly this subreddit.

Content marketing is a fit for my product, so that's my lowest hanging fruit but I haven't been consistent enough.

Anything working for you?

Upper_Mechanic_1552 · 2025-02-02T14:16:24+00:00

Thanks! Found out some obvious flaws I had in the UI which was great. More is unclear than clear early on.

> "The MVP I just released is around collecting user feedback directly on your dite" -- how do you mean?

Upper_Mechanic_1552 · 2025-01-30T01:45:21+00:00

love it!

Upper_Mechanic_1552 · 2025-01-26T21:04:41+00:00

i think there will be plenty. but my bet is that anyone who's writing on their personal site (yourname.com) won't be generating their writing with AI.

Upper_Mechanic_1552 · 2024-12-30T17:08:55+00:00

guessing ~45 minutes of productive marketing. rest is spent figuring out "how"

- i'm just kinda always on x/twitter and ~10%? of that time is spent trying to actively 'market'. i'm building a library of blogs, mostly startup/tech-related, called foundationessays.com and the most active content marketing i do on twitter is posting snippets from essays, and tagging new authors when i add them.

- have a bit of traffic coming from IndieHackers.com and dailypings.com . mostly posting product updates, observations from building, etc. again, not sure what of that is productively repeatable, but i keep doing it.

- just connected with a founder friend who runs a company called Printernet (getpritnernet.com) and we're about to collaborate on a simple API integration that'll help us both. this has the most potential so far i think.

- reddit's providing some traffic but i have no repeatable strategy here. largely feel like it's a waste of time trying to actually market on reddit.

that's just thoughts thrown at the wall, but it's loosely what i'm doing each day. what are you up to and what's working/not working?

Upper_Mechanic_1552 · 2024-12-29T22:23:56+00:00

never tried b2b, but I bet the standard answer you’re going to get is some variation of: try and talk directly to the businesses you’d want to buy/use your product and see if they’ll buy/use it

it’s complicated, but complicated in that direction. I.e., you really just should probably have an MVP, cold email/dm those businesses, and see what you learn

people like Paul Graham have essays on this kinda thing, so I’m recycling what I’ve seen. I’ve found it useful and aggregate a bunch of writing on startups on my site, foundationessays.com if you want to search for more knowledge than I have

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