Michael Lynch @michael@m.mtlynch.io

I was disappointed at first because I signed up for Notion after Mercury and thought I blew my chance at the perk, but then when I realized I still qualified, I felt like I basically found $1k on the ground.

My thousand-dollar tip of the day.

I just discovered that if you're a @BankMercury customer, you get $1k in credit for Notion. The best part is that they'll honor the coupon even if you're already a Notion customer.

I did get more Gumroad ratings. I think I had 9 five-star ratings before the experiment. During the week, I got 3 more five-star ratings but also 1 one-star rating (no other feedback given). Oddly, Gumroad still shows this as a perfect 5-star rating overall.

The sales page had 318 unique visitors over this period, so almost exactly 1/3 of people who were interested enough to visit the site ended up purchasing the course.

Final results of my weeklong pay-what-you want experiment for my blogging course, Hit the Front Page of Hacker News.

105 new customers
$755.34 in new sales
$7.19 average price paid
$39 max price paid

The $588 in revenue makes this the strongest sales month since March.

At this point, offering pay-what-you-want pricing has increased my total number of customers by 50%. In just over one day:

71 new customers
$458.20 in new sales
$6.45 average price paid
$39 max price paid

Only one customer has chosen a price that's not a whole dollar amount. They made two separate purchases, and I feel like the numbers they chose are some sort of riddle for me to decode.

In five hours, this sale has exceeded my revenue for all of July.

32 new customers
$273.20 in new sales
$8.54 average price paid
$39 max price paid

After two hours:

10 new customers
$97 in new sales
$9.70 average price paid
$30 max price paid

Here's what sales look like today, 30 minutes after I offered pay-what-you-want pricing on Hit the Front Page of Hacker News.

6 new customers
$58 in new sales
$9.60 average price paid
$25 max price paid

Here's what sales looked like from pre-launch announcement through the course launch in January

Here's what I got done this week:
* Automated a frequent TinyPilot support task
* Enjoyed being outside the critical path for code reviews
* Cleaned my dangerously dirty dryer duct
https://whatgotdone.com/michael/2021-08-13

A "do things that don't scale" that I've finally gotten around to scaling. If a TinyPilot customer's install got screwed up, I directed them to email me for a new image.

Now they can just prove their purchase through the website and get the latest image. Thanks @jdeanwallace!
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RT @tinypilotkvm
Ever need to reset your TinyPilot back to its original state? You can now download the image for your device and flash it to your device's …
https://twitter.com/tinypilotkvm/status/1426295572563173376

I just upgrade http://logpaste.com to @litestreamio v0.3.5. The latest Litestream release supports running your app as a child process, which allows me to get rid of a gross hack I used to run Litestream alongside my app under Docker.