Ben Robertson

Turn Iconic Photos into Coloring Pages with AI (History Meets Creativity) Transform famous historical photographs into printable coloring pages using AI. Download our free collection featuring iconic moments like the moonwalk, Wright Brothers flight, and more.

new coloring book just dropped

these are super fun to make

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this support email made my cry, but in the best way possible

i love my job

on trustpilot, 6 five star reviews average out to 4.2 stars

people are so weird

as soon as I got one (REAL) review on trustpilot, I started getting emails like this every day :(

i am very happy with my progress on operation "send a lot more email" this month!

i'm now sending a weekly broadcast along with a bunch more welcome / lifecycle emails

Ha!

competing with the big boys now

email subject line testing

I turned famous paintings into coloring pages (and you can too): 17% open rate

What happens when you feed a Van Gogh into AI?: 30% open rate

feel like i should lean into the questions more

Emails to my email list, either broadcast or automated sequences

Sending with Bento

new home page hero and font

i do nothing with my personal site

but still fun to update it once in a while

i'm going to see what happens if i send more email

on track for 70k emails sent this month

and maybe 100k next month

taken me a long time to come up with a new strategy but very excited about this

one thing you should know about me is that i completely borked my attribution tracking right before heading into my highest revenue month ever

so it's been a fun past few weeks

but i have no idea why

😅

Turn Famous Art into Coloring Pages with AI (and Try It on Your Own Photos Too) Recently, I started wondering: What would happen if we ran famous artwork through our AI-powered photo-to-coloring-page tool?

I had fun turning famous art into coloring pages this week

I put it together into a coloring book to use as an asset for email sequences

it's a nice evergreen piece of content

got a few more evergreen ideas to put together that I'm excited about!

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i think this is so cool

i use @getfernand for my support inbox

they allow you to fetch custom data and initiate actions from their sidebar

hooked up a bunch of common tasks so i can see and do everything in one view without hopping over to my admin.

saves a ton of time for me!

Magic Coloring turns any page into finished art in seconds New Magic Coloring feature automatically colors any page with AI in 7 artistic styles. Perfect for teachers, publishers, and parents who need instant professional results.

i thought this was an odd feature request, since coloring is supposed to be the fun part

but enough people asked for an auto-color feature that I shipped it

use cases:
- for making a cover for your coloring book
- getting ideas for how to color a page
- for fun

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yeah, and i gave them some free credits to come back and try it again :)

a user just responded to an onboarding email i sent them over a year ago

added support for flux-kontext to colorbliss today!

you can now edit your coloring pages with text prompts

here are some image edits from today:

- change the background to the grand canyon
- make his hat say "grateful dad", outline only
- turn the sun into the moon

i also solved a super frustrating performance bug that actually followed the migration to astro

turns out svg gaussian blur filters are super expensive and can add 10s or more to total blocking time!!

excited to finish this out!

i started migrating the colorbliss marketing site to astro (from nextjs) this week

i have the home page and another template migrated so far, and I'm very pleased at the initial results.

Claude 4 has been super helpful converting my react templates to straight html astro components

Growth and churn met each other

Photo to coloring page converter | ColorBliss Convert your photos into coloring pages, in seconds. Start for free with our photo to coloring page converter.

Try it here:

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mothers day is on sunday

here's a fun idea

get some pictures of each kid with mom, turn them into coloring pages, and let them color them for her

you're welcome :)

link in reply

Content Writer custom mode for Cursor Turn Cursor and Claude 3.7 into a powerhouse content research and writing tool.

Content writer mode is here: playbooks.com/modes/conte...

cursor pro tip

before you ship your next feature, add "Content Writer" mode from @ian.is playbooks.com

point it at your changes and ask it to write a help doc

instant help doc

i'm very happy to see some growth after that plateau

and also happy to see that the growth isn't wrecking my emotions right now as far as i can tell

just feeling grateful and looking forward to get to keep doing this

but when things flat-lined, every day was tough. month after month of trying things, with no indication that they were working. felt like running to stand still

after 6 months of that slog, I think I have a much calmer relationship between my emotions and the day to day of the business

this monthly recurring revenue plateau has been the hardest part of the ride so far

it was easy to share wins and lessons and tips when the business was growing