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News
$85k for SocialKit
Congrats to Jonathan for selling SocialKit for a total of $85k via the TrustMRR website .
The product is an API for scraping social media posts and it looks like he built and sold it in only a year! Awesome job.
Reddit is losing ground
An interesting post here suggesting that LLMs are no longer relying so much on on Reddit. Bad news for the Reddit marketing agencies that have sprung up.
300,000 YouTube views for AI tutorials
Congrats to indie hacker Kourosh for reaching 300k views for his cheekily titled AI for Seniors (it’s aimed at millennials and above)
This guy also has a $10k MRR startup AND a full time job.
https://m.youtube.com/@kouroshVoicy/videos?ra=m
Fun meetup in Edinburgh
I went to a great founder meetup in Edinburgh last night. It featured Colin Gray, who recently sold his podcast hosting company.
I asked him about the future of podcasts and he was actually bullish on audio remaining viable. So if you’re camera shy, you don’t need to make videos.
It was ably hosted by my friend Cam.
Episode 2 of A Smart Bear drop
Jason Cohen is back with another episode of his new show where he breaks down how SaaS founders should grow their businesses . This time he’s helping friend of the newsletter Jesse from DropInBlog https://smartbearlive.transistor.fm/2
End notes
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Pete
p.s. I’m going to the SEO Gathering meetup tonight at Skyscanner in Glasgow if anyone is around
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