patrics123

Imagine you have an existing business at your hands. You have one or more products, some cash in the bank and a customer base of a few hundred B2B customers.

If you had 12 months to 10x the revenue / profit - what would you do? What steps would you try?

If you had 3 years, would you do something different?

Are you selling a plugin / extension (i.e. for Wordpress or Shopify, etc) and want to chat about other marketplace opportunities?

Do you know somebody who is in the plugin industry and who might be interested in expanding their business to lesser-known marketplaces / platforms?

For our project WhatMarketplace I'd love to talk and understand what information / insights one would need to make the leap to another platform. Hit me up via E-Mail or Twitter @patrics.

Thanks!

Patric

Hello HN!

Are you looking to build an extension, app or plugin as a side project?

If you ever wondered what other software ecosystems and marketplaces there are besides the crowded WordPress Plugins, Shopify Apps and Chrome Extension Store we have a solution for you.

A free crowd-sourced list with (50+) plugin marketplaces, app stores and software extension directories for different target markets.

Check it out:

>> https://goo.gl/rpBPQx (Airtable spreadsheet)

If you'd like to stay in touch or add your thoughts and experiences into the database, check out the “More Info” tab in the spreadsheet.

Patric

I was wondering what you folks will tell your kids about Money, how it works, what to do, differences between working, trading lifetime hours and creating value / assets.

How would you explain it to a child to understand?

Any great resources you know on this topic?

Courious to hear your thoughts!

Patric

Do you use just paper, Email drafts or any special apps? And how do you remember where you have noted down some specific thought or idea?

I've tried several apps like Evernote, Trello, Asana or voice Memo apps ... Also I am maintaining like 2-3 ToDo lists on paper troughout my home. But in the end I often loose tasks, or interesting ideas come up again like 2 months later and I cant remember where I already wrote about it.

What Tools do you use?

Hey folks, I tried to validate a business idea but it failed.

But some people are telling me a landing-to-payment page conversion of 20% should be good enough to push forward...

What is your advice?

all stats and the story: https://www.indiehackers.com/@patrics/i-was-excited-about-an-idea-and-now-its-dead

Thanks Patric

Just read this piece https://medium.com/join-scout/the-rise-of-the-weaponized-ai-propaganda-machine-86dac61668b

tldr: Bot Networks and Micro targeting are used to manipulate your opinions and spread propaganda 1-on-1

You wanna win an election in your home town or Country? Hire a few data analysts and run some bots and ads...

So my question is: What are ideas to stop / dismantle those propaganda activities from a technical point of view?

Imagine you need to - schedule an appointment at the dentist - call a customer to inform them about a delay - or even just call your mom

I often find myself to move it to "I'll just do it tomorrow" for a few days/weeks in a row.

Is it just me or do you know this too?

Does anybody have experience with one of the emerginng chatbot plattforms or chatbot APIs?

Or is there a extensive comparison of the existing plattforms?

(Goal is to create one bot logic and deliver it on multiple chat plattforms)