Tried it for a real estate search, and to my surprise - it’s better than the “alerts” at major real estate marketplaces. It was particularly useful to me since I don’t speak the language in the area I’m trying to buy.
I am going through the same thing myself right now. After eight years of running this small product, I’ve gotten to the point where the revenue hasn’t increased significantly, but the complexity of Admin work has increased exponentially.
I plan to make it this year’s theme to simplify. For me that means:
- automating or delegating all recurring tasks;
- eliminating all processes that have become complex but are not worth it;
Eg:
- I plan to move from Stripe to Paddle (MoR) because I don’t want to deal with EU taxes anymore; we’ve save me a few hours every month + A few hundred dollars on accounting;
- we gave an affiliate program that isn’t working out great; i plan to cut it;
- we have a referral program… same, cut it;
- we have a public email address, cut it;
- etc.
In addition, what’s worked for me so far is day-theming. Mon & Tue are for admin and management. Wed-Fri are creative - I don’t even open my inbox some days. I checked recently, the world is not on fire.
P.S. One of the automation tools I use it https://recurrr.com - saves me a few hours every month. Not a lot. But enough to have kept it alive for the past 7 years (under a different name).
I read it the same way, yes. Good point with the cleanup:
- it’s one thing to need to run build for it to work;
- it’s another thing to run build to make it smaller;
Why? Why does it need to be good for big projects in order to be good practice?
I’m genuinely asking. I never understood this argument that people bring.
In my view, the web is 95% small to medium projects. Most technologies should be focused on that - simple solutions for simple projectS. Add complexity later.
Just wondering what other use cases there are…