- Had hundreds of of calls and thousands of chats with founders looking to create paid communities.
- Helped many create their own profitable, paid communities.
- Became a solo founder.
- Became profitable enough to cover both business and personal expenses.
- Rebranded to LaunchPass (https://launchpass.com) due to inevitable trademark issues with the use of "Slack" in our name, and plans to expand beyond Slack. (btw Slack has been awesome regarding the transition)
- And plenty more I intend to write about in a "year in review" post I'm working on.
Becoming a founder this year was one of the most challenging, fascinating, and deeply rewarding experiences I've ever had.
Here's to a happy, healthy, productive, and successful 2018
The challenges I've had with outsourcing been due to outsourcing prematurely. Similar to premature optimization. Until I've spent significant time in a role, outsourcing it tends to create more work than it saves.
Let's anyone create invite pages that can accept payment (monthly, one-time) for access to a Slack community.
It's been a blast to work on. Learned React, Redux, and got into Flow and Tcombs while building it. Interest so far has lead me to realize more people are interested in creating private/paid communities online than I had previously expected.