Lifelog

– Hit $100 MRR, continued
– 80:20 approach for #100daysofmarketing
___• Double down on what works in Twitter
___• Continued experimentation
______- engineering-as-marketing - word count tool for markdown? Writing prompts web app?
______- Reddit, Hacker News, LinkedIn?
– No side quests till #100daysofmarketing is over!
– Sleep biohacking - Continue to get back to basics. Buy Moona, the active cooling pillow pad.
– Home desk setup - finish setting up my desk as part of my physical posture plan.

Day 61 #100daysofmarketing

🏠LifeBlog https://golifelog.com/posts/the-via-negativa-way-of-optimization-1635663511204

ℹ️Quora https://www.quora.com/What-s-the-best-way-to-stay-motivated-to-achieve-your-goals/answer/Jason-Leow-14?prompt_topic_bio=1

📚Medium https://medium.com/@jasonleow/how-do-you-make-your-writing-unique-fbdfbc2e4f61

👍FB https://www.facebook.com/106430768053361/posts/276057591090677/?d=n

🖥Dev•to https://dev.to/jasonleowsg/how-i-ended-up-making-a-jamstack-app-on-rails-vue-1pb5

🐣Codenewbie https://community.codenewbie.org/jasonleowsg/how-i-ended-up-making-a-jamstack-app-on-rails-vue-2ko

💻Hashnode https://jasonleow.hashnode.dev/how-i-ended-up-making-a-jamstack-app-on-rails-and-vue

🐦Twitter marketing

Revenue:
– MRR: US$60 [No change, still need 4 more subs]
– One-off revenue: ~ US$210

Twitter stats - Oct vs Sep
– Tweets: 1014 vs 931
– Tweet impressions: 322.7K vs 180K
– Likes: 3.1K vs 2.0K
– Engagement rate: 3.9% vs 3.7%
– Profile visits: 29.6K vs 16.9K
– Mentions: 720 vs 427
– New followers: 359 vs 90

I passed mid-point of my #100daysofmarketing challenge. YET, there were no new subscribers to Lifelog. Based on MRR movement being the ultimate metric of success for me, it’s hard to say I had any real success so far.

Will Lifelog be that one true SaaS that will bring me to $5k MRR? Might be hard to expect that for B2C. I want to try a B2B product in parallel next. Exploring now.

Most importantly, Oct was the month where I can finally say “I am a marketer”! The metamorphosis is complete, the new identity had finally stuck.

I think that shift alone makes Oct a win, despite the revenue woes.

Side opportunity - can the public /write page now be a side tool for word count? Or saving quick notes on the web browser (as it's saved into localStorage)?

Day 60 #100daysofmarketing

🏠LifeBlog https://golifelog.com/posts/what-everyone-gets-wrong-about-balance-1635575545645

ℹ️Quora https://www.quora.com/What-s-the-best-way-to-overcome-writer-s-block/answer/Jason-Leow-14?prompt_topic_bio=1

📚Medium https://medium.com/@jasonleow/habit-hacking-productivity-tips-for-keeping-a-daily-writing-habit-4fe4bc6a0c00

👍FB https://www.facebook.com/106430768053361/posts/275495917813511/?d=n

🖥Dev•to https://dev.to/jasonleowsg/side-projects-i-wouldnt-build-in-2021-48jm

🐣Codenewbie https://community.codenewbie.org/jasonleowsg/side-projects-i-wouldnt-build-in-2021-5ak1

💻Hashnode https://jasonleow.hashnode.dev/side-projects-i-wouldnt-build-in-2021

🐦Twitter marketing

Fill in the blanks: Anytime you [X], that’s a startup idea there.

Anytime you have 20 browser windows open to do a task, that’s a startup idea there.

Anytime you see someone taking more than 10 steps to book something, anything, that’s a startup idea there.

Anytime you see a massive, bloated Excel sheet with hundreds of columns and thousands of rows, that’s a startup idea there.

Anytime you see businesses still using paper forms, clipboards and log books, that’s a startup idea there.

......

Next: To add a demo page to try the writing page

Day 59 #100daysofmarketing

🏠LifeBlog https://golifelog.com/posts/7-habits-of-highly-ineffective-amateur-writers-1635489872860

ℹ️Quora https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-find-time-to-write-journal-daily-and-what-makes-you-pen-down-your-thoughts/answer/Jason-Leow-14?prompt_topic_bio=1

📚Medium https://medium.com/@jasonleow/temptation-bundling-your-daily-writing-habit-45927989fdda

👍FB https://www.facebook.com/106430768053361/posts/274887924540977/?d=n

🖥Dev•to https://dev.to/jasonleowsg/step-1-reboot-the-server-435b

🐣Codenewbie https://community.codenewbie.org/jasonleowsg/step-1-reboot-the-server-22e0

💻Hashnode https://jasonleow.hashnode.dev/step-1-reboot-the-server

🐦Twitter marketing

https://dev.to/jasonleowsg/secret-dev-tools-for-every-code-newbie-5a8a

Article stats:

22760 Readers,
479 Reactions,
30 Comments,
84 Followers
10k views organic Google search
3.8k from daily.dev
1.6k from within dev.to

Good conversion copywriting helps, SEO writing helps, valuable content that’s contentious helps. Those are the only things I can control.

Day 58 #100daysofmarketing

🏠LifeBlog https://golifelog.com/posts/self-improvement-doesnt-require-self-loathing-1635390284287

ℹ️Quora https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-habits-of-an-amateur-writer/answer/Jason-Leow-14?prompt_topic_bio=1

📚Medium https://medium.com/@jasonleow/write-double-of-what-you-read-learn-2d2dec293e12

👍FB https://www.facebook.com/106430768053361/posts/274238501272586/?d=n

🐦Twitter marketing

As an indie hacker and solo bootstrapper, you got to be a bit loopy and crazy to keep going.

Earn $10 on the internet from a single new customer, after months of hard work, and I go “Yaaassssss!”
Earn $22k from a one-month consultancy gig, and I’m like “ok.”

This double life, this internal tension, is killing me. Such is a founder’s life.

You got to allow yourself some crazy, otherwise you’ll really go crazy.

My 300th post here on Lifelog. Had it been 300+ days already since I launched Lifelog? It felt like forever… yet, gone by in a breeze. Indeed, the days are long but the years are short.

Over the 300 days, I made 7 goals here:

• Monthly goals
• $5k MRR
• 1% compounding
• Biohacking sleep
• Decoding coding
• Steal back curiosity
• #100daysofmarketing

How did I fare?

Day 57 #100daysofmarketing

🏠LifeBlog https://golifelog.com/posts/smart-goals-aint-that-smart-1635289622992

ℹ️Quora https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-overcome-creative-block/answer/Jason-Leow-14?prompt_topic_bio=1

📚Medium https://medium.com/@jasonleow/the-sea-a-womb-for-a-tired-creative-soul-bd2da1e7aab2

👍FB https://www.facebook.com/106430768053361/posts/273480158015087/?d=n

🖥Dev•to https://dev.to/jasonleowsg/daily-code-like-daily-bread-2cc9

🐣Codenewbie https://community.codenewbie.org/jasonleowsg/rubberducking-422b

💻Hashnode https://jasonleow.hashnode.dev/daily-code-like-daily-bread

🐦Twitter marketing

How I know I’ve successfully incorporated something into my identity – I no longer have hang-ups about doing the work.

That’s by far, the best measurable metric I came to when it comes to identity shifts.

It happened with coding, and now it happened with marketing.

Next up: Time to start shifting my identity to a “Wealthy Entrepreneur” and “Opportunistic Trickster”.

Day 56 #100daysofmarketing

🏠LifeBlog https://golifelog.com/posts/being-creatively-spendthrift-and-not-finishing-on-empty-1635202294190

ℹ️Quora https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-manage-your-time-and-find-time-to-write/answer/Jason-Leow-14?prompt_topic_bio=1

📚Medium https://medium.com/@jasonleow/the-power-of-1-compounding-growth-46c10fb5ce00

👍FB https://www.facebook.com/106430768053361/posts/272870351409401/?d=n

🖥Dev•to https://dev.to/jasonleowsg/secret-dev-tools-for-every-code-newbie-5a8a

🐣Codenewbie https://community.codenewbie.org/jasonleowsg/secret-dev-tools-for-every-code-newbie-2pid

💻Hashnode https://jasonleow.hashnode.dev/secret-dev-tools-for-every-code-newbie

🐦Twitter marketing

Day 55 #100daysofmarketing

🏠LifeBlog https://golifelog.com/posts/knowing-how-to-make-or-break-habits-is-a-superpower-you-never-knew-1635124447447

ℹ️Quora https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-benefits-of-journaling/answer/Jason-Leow-14?prompt_topic_bio=1

📚Medium https://medium.com/@jasonleow/personal-growth-falling-in-love-with-yourself-683c8e41f069

👍FB https://www.facebook.com/106430768053361/posts/272616754768094/?d=n

🖥Dev•to https://dev.to/jasonleowsg/i-couldnt-foresee-myself-coding-before-but-i-do-now-499p

🐣Codenewbie https://community.codenewbie.org/jasonleowsg/a-simple-formula-for-coding-mastery-27a5

💻Hashnode https://jasonleow.hashnode.dev/i-couldnt-foresee-myself-coding-before-but-i-do-now

🐦Twitter marketing