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Remote job board hits $1m revenue

Remotive, one of the first bootstrapped remote job boards, has reached the excellent milestone of $1m revenue. Congralutions to Rodolphe!

Rodolphe Dutel @rdutel .@remotiveio bootstrapped milestone 🚀🙏 pic.twitter.com/7NrTskMTUX May 17th 2022 0 Retweets 70 Likes

LeaveMeAlone founders buy their dream boat

While lots of founders dream of buying a Lambo, LeaveMeAlone founders Danielle and James have long wanted to buy a sailing boat to live on. Well, this week they acheived their dream and bought their boat! All about the HMS LeaveMeAlone ⚓️

James Ivings @JamesIvings WE DID IT TWITTER!!! ⛵⛵⛵⛵⛵ pic.twitter.com/oXT2xZlyOo May 16th 2022 1 Retweets 418 Likes

Dan Rowden hits $100k ARR

Dan is taking the 'tiny bets' approach and has several products making money including Ilo Analytics for Twitter, Ghost themes, a Ghost comments app and a new Twitter course. He's now hit $100k ARR which is a great achievement, especially with so many products to manage.

Dan Rowden ⚡️ @dr 12 years after I started building web applications, I've hit $100k ARR 🥳 My first paid app launched 5 years ago. Most revenue now comes from the apps I launched in the past two years: Cove, ilo, Gloat and Refermo. Not a rocket ship by any means, but steady, stable growth 👌🏼 pic.twitter.com/EJEz2ZtMO2 May 13th 2022 9 Retweets 560 Likes

Digital Ocean raise prices

The 1GB droplet now costs $6 instead of $5 a month, a 20% increase.

The 2GB droplet costs $12, the 3GB costs $18 and so on.

Maybe they are taking advantage of people deserting Heroku...

Ethical AI assistant hits $400 MRR

Gladys is an AI like Google Home but one which protects your privacy.

Pierre-Gilles Leymarie @pierregillesl Finally seeing some growth on @gladysassistant paid plan, Gladys Plus! 🤩 Launched a yearly plan with a discount last month, and Gladys users loved it! I'm now at 60 paid customers for 400€ MRR. Next target is 1000€ MRR 🚀 gladysassistant.com/open pic.twitter.com/bZvE4CBBFZ May 16th 2022 0 Retweets 18 Likes

NoCode site acquired

Congratulations to Nile for having his no-code resources site bought by Stacker!

Nile @Nile NoCode.Tech has been acquired by Stacker! 🥳 twitter.com/nocodetech/sta… NoCode.Tech @nocodetech NoCode.Tech has been acquired by @StackerHQ ! 🎉 May 13th 2022 1 Retweets 27 Likes

Podcast of the Week

I interviewed Julian from Embarque about hitting $500k ARR with his SEO content marketing agency. Once a month the High Signal community hosts a guest speaker on Zoom and after a few questions from me to warm things up, the community members can ask the guests questions directly. Pretty neat, huh?

Julian talked about common SEO mistakes, why unlimited agencies fail and why AI won't succeed. Listen here​

Funny of the Week

Dashiell Bark-Huss @DashBarkHuss me: here's detailed steps on what I did to grow my 1m gmv bootstrapped startup build in public community: 🦗🦗 _____________vs______________ me: here's a picture of my stripe dashboard build in public community: 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🍆🍆🍆🍆 May 18th 2022 0 Retweets 33 Likes

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