Hatchbox price increase

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News

Chris Oliver has announced the pricing of hosting on Hatchbox is going up. Hatchbox is a specialist hosting provider for web apps built with Ruby, Rails and Node.

It looks like the current price of $10 (which seems like a steal for unlimited apps) is changing to $15. No grandfathering current customers.

He mentioned that his video tutorial business GoRails has been suffering what with everyone using AI to code or to learn to code.

$18.6k for Voicy

Congrats to Kourosh for hitting $18.6k with his Whispr alternative Voicy. It's very impressive that he has reaching this level and he's still not quit his day job!

$10k month for Hasan

Well done to Hasan for making $10k last month.

Two interesting apps here - one is a social media scheduler for agencies (which is smart because you can charge more for B2B) and the other is an AI tool for getting backlinks.

I grew my revenue for the 5th successive month

I had my 5th month in a row of revenue growth. Quite a lot of variety in August with newsletter ad sales and SEO audits complimenting my ghostwriting for founders.

Two months in a row over $10k for the first time ever! Feels pretty good, not gonna lie 😀 A big thanks to all my clients and sponsors plus all my internet friends for your support.