Jonathan Markwell

Day 3 of why you should join @friendlyrb.com, let's discuss the venue:

The event is taking place in Romania at the Apollo111 Theatre. Located in the city center, it's a genuine theater experience.

The Tiny MBA Book - Alex Hillman You don't need an MBA or fancy investors to be successful in business. Use the 100 ideas in this tiny book to evaluate and execute on your built

Oh hey, today is the 5 year anniversary of when I originally launched my book tiny.mba.

If you don't have a copy, or want to grab a copy as a gift, I set up the discount code 5YEARS to take 25% off the purchase price of both the print bundle and ebook options.

there are more engineering geniuses than business/marketing geniuses bc engineering deals in hard facts and creating a world-wide successful product is 100% squishy humans

if you’re not selling sex, wealth, health, or fear, creating a mass product is actually really difficult

Life is where it’s at [534] Greetings from The Borders...

Ask me the worst sound I’ve ever heard and I can now tell you. It’s my daughter screaming as she was swept out to sea... open.substack.com/pub/document...

Max MRR: Your growth ceiling Your company will stop growing sooner than you think. The “Max MRR” metric predicts revenue plateaus based on churn and new revenue.

I've been battling the same tired misconceptions for years:

• 7% cancellation is fine
• I’ll build a real business with just $300/mo new MRR
• I’ll scale past millions doing what I've always done

Nope… but here’s the way to calculate things for yourself:

Final lineup update on FriendlyRB!
September 10-12 in Bucharest 🇷🇴

Why you should come:
✨ Network with your Ruby community IRL
📚 Learn beyond just Ruby - SaaS, product, marketing
🏰 Enjoy beautiful Bucharest (aka "Little Paris")

Thread and video below 👇

It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA Native CSS transitions have quietly killed the strongest argument for client-side routing. Yet people keep building terrible apps instead of performant websites.

this from ‪@jono.id is a position I've been suggesting for a while now–that modern APIs and CSS like View Transition obviated the need for the SPA architecture.

www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/i...

This is big news for anyone who wants to use Tailwind UI components but are turned by the complexity and weight of using React or Vue.

i.e. Me!

Getting the fine details right of JS implementation of a UI control is painstaking work.

tailwindcss.com/blog/vanilla...

Tom Rossi saying about the nicest people at Friendly.rb

If you are still thinking about joining FriendlyRB this year here is what other people said about last year's conference.

Here is @tomrossi7 sharing about the participants last year:

Over 4 million registered users now. Thank you, Aurelie! ☺️

Absolutely hilarious comms strategy from Heroku about the rollout of their new app router.

For us this amounted to two emails: “we’ve automatically migrated <list of critical apps> with no warning”, and “be warned we will soon migrate <list of apps you’ve forgotten about>”

I suspect Adrian might have the most Ruby Friends of all.

I may have a handful here:
rubyfriends.app/profiles/MAUF

Lessons in SaaS Customer Service from Responding to 21,623 Support Tickets | Outseta As a Co-founder of a SaaS start-up, customer service is simply part of the job. Here's what I've learned about SaaS customer service from responding to 21,623 support tickets over 8 years.

Lessons in SaaS customer service from responding to 21,623 support tickets over the last 8+ years.

www.outseta.com/posts/lesson...

Thank you - yes so many times it almost didn’t make it.

Congratulations!

Left Logic played (and continues to play) a big part in helping The Skiff get to 19. Thank you!

That was quite a game too. :)

Maybe next year for the 20th!

My eldest business, The Skiff Ltd, turns 19 today.

To mark the occasion, I did something that makes me uncomfortable:

I recorded and shared two short video messages with our members.

A new chapter for June: our founding team is joining Amplitude After five incredible years of building new ways of understanding how people use products, we have an important update to share: June will officially wind down operations. The founding team will be j...

A reminder of why I try as hard as I can to help the companies I work with avoid depending on VC track startups.

30 days notice and they’re gone:

www.june.so/blog/a-new-c...

YouTube video by Friendly rb Tom Rossi - SaaS Lessons Learned

One of my favourite talks from @friendlyrb.com 2024.

So much value packed into 30 mins - regardless of your choice of programming language.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaZ-...

Will do. I’ve suggested an obvious one. :) Wish they were all so easy to support.

Now wondering what other open source projects and communities Urlbox should be sponsoring.

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Pleasantly surprised by this bonus: Urlbox.com is getting twice as much traffic from tailwindcss.com as it gets from a similar level of Google Ad spend.

I know it’s not for everyone but after years of struggling with my CSS skill issues, Tailwind CSS & Plus make a huge difference to my work every day.

So good that the Urlbox decided to became a sponsor to give back a little of the value the team has got from it.

bsky.app/profile/adam...

Booked my flights and accommodation today. You’re coming too right?
bsky.app/profile/adri...

I’ve been aware of you running this course for a long time. (Maybe over a year?)

I think this video is the first time I really understood why I should be making time for it… beyond the already compelling fact that it’s you doing it! :)

Missing out on @ffconf.org is annoying... but can be avoided. Get your ticket as soon as you can!

The huge tech news from Octopus and BYD that the tech media ignored Something big happened in tech yesterday, and NONE of the tech press reported it. So here I am, breaking some news (again).

Yesterday’s huge tech news that the tech media totally ignored:

www.linkedin.com/pulse/huge-t...

I feel like you two should know each other. You’re both brilliant at building communities both online and offline.

bsky.app/profile/alex...

Who else do I know that’s coming to Philly for Railsconf in early July?

@thomascannon.me and @indyhall.org are hosting a low key gathering on Monday night before the conf.

Drop me a DM if you’re interested in joining!

So for every blog/link etc like this piccalil.li/blog/javascr...

We have an “OG” route too piccalil.li/og/javascrip...

Then urlbox.com does the rest