new post: original thoughts have terrible UX sunilpai.dev/posts/original…↗

a saas company wants to charge me $900/year to renew. let's just clone their business instead. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…↗

free idea: a site that just lists the rough cost of common pieces of industrial equipment charge $500/yr and print $$$↗

How I made $200,000 with Unlimited Consultations Earlier this year, I tried something a little different: I started offering one-on-one consulting to members of the Small Bets community. But I put a twist on it. Instead of charging for my time by the hour, or per session, or per…↗

The SaaS Era is Over ; Software is a Business Tool not a Business Model↗

If you're thinking about starting an AI newsletter, don't. If you started one already (and don't have 100k+ subscribers) you need to rethink your business model. CPMs are too low (~$20) to build a business on sponsorships alone. You need another way to monetize. Services, sub…↗

💡 Simple Software Holding Company Look for expiring .com's with keywords that imply some sort of simple tool you could build on top of it. Should have existing backlinks and even better if it's got traffic. Build said tool. Ideally self-contained with no need for third-party A…↗

Why is it that the companies with the highest gross margins and zero marginal costs are also, as a group, consistently unprofitable? It just seems odd to me. Over the past few years, one hypothesis I have can be summarized as follows: "Your marginal advantage is inversely corr…↗

Every startup needs to figure out its flywheel - it provides incredible strategic clarity on what levers to focus on. This is a great example from Doordash's S-1 showing how their business has 3 interlocking flywheels built around local network effects, economies of scale & brand↗

Barstool Sports Content Model: - Find amazing talent - Give them a platform - Provide them with the infrastructure to succeed - Align incentives so they don’t leave This is the model for the next generation of media companies↗

I had an epiphany today about how we could literally unlock the entire egghead catalog and still function as a profitable company 🤔↗

Costco is a fascinating business. You know all those groceries you buy? Yeah, they basically sell those at breakeven and then make all of their profit from the $60 annual membership fees. Quick [THREAD]↗