The Warren in downtown Pittsburgh. One side is a dive bar; the other side is a wine and beer shop that's staffed by sommeliers. They also have the largest supply of indie wines in the state.

Hey dragonsh — you left a comment on my submission a while back about e-commerce data models and it inspired us to write a post about nosql and hybrid e-commerce data models. Here is the nosql one (https://resources.fabric.inc/blog/nosql-ecommerce-data-model). The hybrid one is coming soon. I will delete this comment soon as it is not relevant to this thread.

I've written similar pieces about leaving jobs in the past. Since then I've stopped. For some reason publishing them was never fulfilling. I think a simple journal entry would have sufficed. I was just in need of clearing the air and forgiving people. In hindsight, a public forum wasn't the best area for doing that.

It's getting hot in here!

I turned part of my personal site into a membership site for aspiring remote workers.

On the membership landing page is a free signup. You get access to a 12-lesson course with tutorials and tactics I’ve used to land three FT remote jobs in my career.

The upsell was group coaching. Some people got excited about this. Only a few people paid.

I learned that unemployed people are not usually willing to pay for a service (especially if there are no video testimonials).

I’m confident that if I persevered this could have become something but I lost interest. Many people are still registering for the membership. I may return to the project soon and find a way to turn the content into a paid, self-paced course—-without paying for SaaS.

This business sounds like it would lend itself well to an ISA model.

I Googled ISA model but it didn't make sense to me in the context of monetizing this site. May you expound on this?

Income Sharing Agreement. I think they are mostly used by coding boot camps. The idea is to pay a percentage of the salary for a fixed time/amount. It probably depends on the price of the sessions if this makes sense

I assume by ISA they mean this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_share_agreement

This is beautiful.

I hadn't heard of obsidian.md before reading this. Thanks for the tip! Excalidraw is cool, too.

Been using it for a while and really like it, just really wish it would get an option to combine edit and view mode to work on things directly.

As far as I know it’s not open source either, which I don’t mean to be the Stallman-type, but is kind of a deal breaker for me.

I wrote my own, if it ever gets to a point of not being terrible I will open source it as a not-as-pretty FOSS alternative.

I think the second brain notion is very powerful though, regardless of platform.

Another tool to look at might be Dendron[1]. It's a VS Code plugin with similar functionality to Obsidian (according to the docs, it actually evolved from being a standalone app like Obsidian into the plugin form). My understanding is the client/plugin are FOSS, and the developer plans to implement some (optional) server-side functionality to fund ongoing development.

[1] https://dendron.so/

Neither had I, and I’m excited to try Obsidian.

I was really looking for a local Roam Research equivalent and org-roam didn’t fit my style.

- Similar to cloud, no code is not a category itself, but rather a shift in how users interface with software tools.

- In the same way that the cloud democratized the purchase and deployment of software, no code will usher in the next wave of enterprise innovation by democratizing technical skill sets.

- No code is empowering business users to take over functionality previously owned by technical users by abstracting complexity and centering around a visual workflow.

Another good tactic is to find newsletters that cover the type of content you are creating, reach out to them, and say that you created something that might be good for their newsletter. To do this, I recommend using Google to find popular newsletters on substack and revue. Do a search like such as...site:substack.com [your content topic]. Contact the editors. Getting good content out their is the best way to build backlinks IMO.

Wow, thanks for the help! I'll try these techniques out and see if it helps.

My pleasure. Cooperpress.com has an awesome suite of newsletters, too, and their editors are pretty responsive. However, they only cover technical content related to webops.

We get the most backlinks to our site when we create an interesting technical post (example: https://resources.fabric.inc/blog/ecommerce-data-model) and share it on HackerNews and subreddits. For instance, that post I shared as an example hit the first page of HackerNews (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25353148) and our backlink profile went from 100 to 218 backlinks in a matter of days. (We are a new site.)