$30k for SlapMac 💰

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$30k for SlapMac

This guy made a MacOs app that makes noises when you slap your Mac. It's now made $30k in the first month. He also got interviewed for a US radio show that reach 6.5 million listeners. Wild.

Claude Code pricing confusion

It looked like Claude Code was briefly no longer part of the $20/m plan that Anthropic offers. Then they said "it's just an A/B test" and restored it for everyone in the $20/plan.

It seems like a great way to sow doubt and confusion about a product.

Post about Claude Code pricing confusion

Backlinks for launches

Here's a good list of places to launch your startup (and get backlinks):

Justin Jackon tweet archive

Justin, who co-founded the successful TransistorFM SaaS, has archived all of his tweets using ClaudeCode: https://justinjackson.ca/tweets/

I imagine such a site could be useful for other people who have left Twitter and it's nice his posts aren't truly gone.

Astro SEO guide

Another great post from the founder of Yoast SEO. This time he's made a Claude skill for SEO and written a guide on how to do SEO with a static Astro website: