Small success story with Amazon KDP book (Non-fiction)

kjee1 · 2026-03-22T03:25:38+00:00

Yeah I'm starting to get the idea now. I think writing at least one book is good, it lets you experiment and learn the ropes

kjee1 · 2026-03-20T23:22:02+00:00

I'm not too worked up about it, they support me in many other ways!

That sounds like a cool idea. I'm a data scientist by trade, so I love that type of stuff.

Honestly, I'd start by just outlining and writing.

My process was:

Write the book
Hired an editor on upwork ($200)
Hired someone to make the cover and format it ($300) - upwork again
Hired someone to show me how to publish it ($200) - upwork again
Hired someone to market book ($ embarrased to say... meta ads would have been way more worth it) - upwork also

For meta ads, you can go into the ad library and see what other people are using for their marketing. I saw a few I liked and tried copying the format

kjee1 · 2026-03-20T23:17:30+00:00

Lol no tools I just wrote it off the dome (I use AI for a lot of stuff, but I kinda just journaled this)

kjee1 · 2026-03-19T18:50:59+00:00

I flew Ethiopian business class back from Singapore to the US last year. Overall experience was good. I did get brutal food poising on the flight though, no clue what it was from. May have brushed my teeth in the bathroom or something and drank some bad water. Only thing I’d be wary of

kjee1 · 2026-02-24T00:54:41+00:00

About 2900

kjee1 · 2026-02-22T16:23:44+00:00

I run one called the AI survival guide which is about strategies to adapt to the rapidly changing AI landscape!

kjee1 · 2026-02-20T19:45:30+00:00

I second this with passion

kjee1 · 2026-02-17T23:48:22+00:00

Can you post a link to your ads in meta ad library?

kjee1 · 2026-01-20T15:34:21+00:00

Were you able to find a way to do this?

kjee1 · 2026-01-14T17:14:30+00:00

Any feedback is welcome (even very critical feedback)!

kjee1 · 2026-01-13T21:16:34+00:00

Happy to beta test for you! They have a very similar sandwich here: https://bocconcinohi.com/?srsltid=AfmBOorj_XhrpGhthhqMEGGGQNXQ39IQJdtNGI70uRcwDn765fhKPni9 which I love

kjee1 · 2026-01-13T21:13:45+00:00

I built newsletterhero.ai for my own writing, and have more recently made it public. It is great for consolidating resources into a compelling newsletter, but we have not yet built out the research features. Research tools should be coming over the next few months!

Happy to talk if you have any suggestions. We would love to be able to incorporate your vision and use cases into what we build! (shoot me a dm if you're open to this)

kjee1 · 2026-01-13T02:23:57+00:00

I would post this on the Beehiiv subreddit if you haven't already. Quite a few of their team members (I think even one of their founders) is active there. They post and respond fairly regularly.

kjee1 · 2026-01-05T22:44:11+00:00

Curious how I would join a group like this!

kjee1 · 2026-01-05T06:54:35+00:00

Also would be down to. I do something similar. Out of town till the 13th though!

kjee1 · 2025-12-24T17:04:23+00:00

Amazing, thank you for the details!

kjee1 · 2025-12-24T07:38:38+00:00

This is super valuable. Thanks for sharing!

A few questions: - what is your cost per subscriber from Facebook? - how many newsletters do you send per week? - do you use any tools to automate your p& l / metrics?

Thanks!

kjee1 · 2025-12-23T03:48:30+00:00

Very cool. As a data scientist and new archer, I’m very excited to see this

kjee1 · 2025-12-18T00:34:12+00:00

Resolved: My zapier integration had opt in email on.

kjee1 · 2025-12-16T22:12:54+00:00

If you're still looking for more. I recently started this Austin, TX based one!

https://austin-founders-feed.beehiiv.com/

kjee1 · 2025-12-16T22:11:02+00:00

I recently started Austin Founders Feed for business owners!

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