Lunch Pail Daily

It's the week-in-review episode (here's the template I use). Discussing the wins and setbacks at Lunch Pail Labs this week (04/08-04/14/23).

Links mentioned in the episode:

• Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender
• “Not Much” Adds Up | Circle of Control
• #8 🤖 The Robots are coming

It's the week-in-review episode (here's the template I use). Discussing the wins and setbacks at Lunch Pail Labs this week (04/01-04/07/23). TLDR ya girl needs to simplify

Links mentioned in the episode:

• The Truth About Consistency...

• #221 — 😶‍🌫️ No-Code and Platform Risk (jamming about the Bubble pricing update in 2022 that they've back peddled)
• Bubble pricing updates

• Inngest
• #351 — 🤖 Personal Assistants for everyone

It's the week-in-review episode (here's the template I use). Discussing the wins and setbacks at Lunch Pail Labs this week (03/27-04/01/23)

Links mentioned in the episode:

• 173: Cut Your Losses—Even While Pivoting in Public—with Khe Hy — Free Time with Jenny Blake
• Steven Pressfield the Resistance

• Typedream Marketing Experiment
• The original HustleGPT thread
• How to Get Ahead of 99% of People (Starting Today)

• LangChain

• Algolia (not Agora 🤦🏿‍♀️) article comparing vector search vs. keyword search
• The Fast Foodification of everything
• Imitate then Innovate

• #161 — 👨‍👩‍👦 Nature of the firm and solopreneurship
• #182 — 🛠Operational tools replacing the firm
• Chatbot UI
• LangChain JS docs

• Generative AI: autocomplete for everything
• AI Research Paper on human-computer interaction (TLDR; human + ai outperforms only human, only ai)
• Everyone gets an upgrade
• Build your own LLM (large language model) powered apps with LangChain
• Toolformer research paper

It's the week-in-review episode (here's the template I use). Discussing the wins and losses and all that jazz at Lunch Pail Labs this week (12/10/22 - 12/16/22).

Links mentioned in the episode:

• Tim Ferris’s Comfort challenges
• Annual review questions by Sahil Bloom 
• Process Template
• Experimenting with Linkedin

It's the week-in-review episode (here's the template I use). Discussing the wins and losses and all that jazz at Lunch Pail Labs this week (12/02/22 - 12/09/22).

Links mentioned in the episode:

• Solve for Happy by Mo Gawdat
• Chat GPT
• Repeat tasks in Notion
• Supercharge Notion with these 8 tools

• We get it, your dad died
• S2 E2: MO

It's the week in review episode (here's the template I use). Discussing the wins and losses and all that jazz at Lunch Pail Labs this week (09/23/22 - 09/30/22).

Links mentioned in the episode:

• 29 Self- Growth Rituals
• Autogenerate Open Graph Images with Tailgraph

It's the week in review episode (here's the template I use). Discussing the wins and losses and all that jazz at Lunch Pail Labs this week (09/16/22 - 09/23/22).

Links mentioned in the episode:

• Draft.dev promotion checklist
• Tweet on quitting or staying the course
• The dip summary by Seth Godin
• V1 of the no-code guide to APIs and integrating code with code

It's the week in review episode (here's the template I use). Discussing the wins and losses and all that jazz at Lunch Pail Labs this week (09/09/22 - 09/16/22).

Links mentioned in the episode:

• Draft.dev
• Public lab

• Wordstream
• Rankiq
• Reach out to Sukh about his Pseo community

• Everybody lies
• The mom test

Integrations directory has a newsletter now what's next? Jamming about the other important types of communication in this episode.

Links mentioned:

• Outsetta's first 500 course
• Thread on why brand accounts don't work

It's the week in review episode (here's the template I use). Discussing the wins and losses and all that jazz at Lunch Pail Labs this week (09/03/22 - 09/09/22).

Links mentioned in the episode:

• Developer experience
• API as a product
• The API economy
• Thread on creating content from Zooms

Got the very first integrations request since launching that feature on the integrations directory jamming about that in this episode

Jamming about freemium and free trials in this episode. Have any thoughts? Feel free to tweet me

Links mentioned;

• Trends #0093 — Freemium
• The Pricing Experiment That Doubled Outseta's Growth Rate Without Raising Prices
• Free Trial or Freemium? Going From 0 to 100,000 Users In Six Months

Bootstrapped products with free trials (instead of freemium models)

• Bannerbear (40K MRR)
• Stridist (40K MRR)
• Tweethunter (50K MRR)

Bootstrapped products with freemium models

• Testimonial ($300K ARR)
• Black magic (~10K MRR)
  

• LogSnag
• #329 — 🔢 Product analytics
• #332 — 🏄🏾‍♂️ Feedback loops for search

It's the week in review episode (here's the template I use). Discussing the wins and losses and all that jazz at Lunch Pail Labs this week (08/26/22 - 09/02/22).

I've been shipping more than I've been getting customer feedback with integrations directory lately. Jamming about that, some corrections and the build trap by Melissa Peri

Finally launched the first experiment to reengage users for integrations directory. Jamming about that in this short episode.

• #256 — 🔁 Feedback Loops

The stats are in, and users aren't returning to integrations.directory. Jamming about an experiment to try to improve that metric in this short episode

It's the week in review episode (here's the template I use). Discussing the wins and losses and all that jazz at Lunch Pail Labs this week (08/19/22 - 08/26/22).

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Automate all the things Stream
• Ayrshare blog post

Jamming about OKRs and Logsnag in today's episode

Had a stream with AATT today, and it was too fun. Jamming about fuzzy search with the directory

Jamming about procrastination and how a looming deadline helped push the v2 for integrations directory

It's the week in review episode (here's the template I use). Discussing the wins and losses and all that jazz at Lunch Pail Labs this week (08/12/22 - 08/19/22).

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Integrations for No-coders with Lola Ojabowale

Jamming about another interesting stat as it relates to the API economy and some indie opportunities. Here's the source article mentioned in the episode

Gartner's chief of research shared some interesting API stats, TLDR the economy is exploding. Jamming about that in this short episode

Noticed a few major no-code players (airtable, tray.io, coda) were mentioned as API-first rising stars in 2015 begs the question is no-code a subset of the api economy? Jamming about that, some differences in positioning of no-code companies vs. api companies and some thoughts on a better value prop for integrations directory 

Jamming about integrations directory pricing thoughts and day passes. Saw this experiment the Gummy Search team and thought their approach was interesting.

It's the week in review episode (here's the template I use). Discussing the wins and losses and all that jazz at Lunch Pail Labs this week (08/05/22 - 08/12/22).

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Product-Led Growth Goals

The next content piece I'm working on to promote integrations.directory is on some integrations that help apps become enterprise-ready. Jamming about that and some low/no-code gaps in this episode. Here's the link to the guide on enterprise readiness that's referenced in the episode.

Another common piece of feedback for the integrations directory has been around reliability. How do I know what integrations will work for me? If some are similar, which should I choose? Jamming about ways products build trust, curation, reviews, and what I'm slotting in to experiment with next!

Links mentioned in the episode:

• How to build trust in a marketplace
• Re-Organizing the World’s Information: Why we need more Boutique Search Engines
• Wirecutter
• Thingtesting

Helloo, this episode continues on the series of what I'm doing to grow integrations.directory. Today jamming about some directory patterns I'm observing in the wild (moving to a true directory is my main hypothesis of reducing product overwhelm (Episode #313 — 😩 Reducing product overwhelm). Feel free to send over a dm if you have any thoughts.

Hey y'all 👋🏿 Jamming about some maintenance upgrades to integrations.directory today

Link mentioned in the episode

• Use google sheets to check for broken links

It's the week in review episode (here's the template I use). Discussing the wins and losses and all that jazz at Lunch Pail Labs this week (07/29/22 - 08/05/22).

Links mentioned in this episode:

• When Lower intensity leads to higher results

Testing a few content writers to improve my flow from turning threads into blog posts. I used Jasper.ai to turn this thread on Bubble plugins into a post

Other links referenced in this episode:

• #305 — 🪄 Software stack as the firm pt 2
• #307 — 🪜 Content ladder

Jamming about Lenny's guide to acquiring first 1000s users (based on case studies of early user acquisition from Tinder, Uber, Instagram, etc) and some tactics I'm swiping for integrations.directory

Links mentioned in the episode

• How to kickstart and scale a consumer business—Step 4: Find your early adopters by doing things that don’t scale
• Buffer guide on Quora marketing
• Get customers from Quora

The most recurring theme amongst critical feedback with integrations.directory is that the Airtable list is overwhelming. Jamming about making it less so. Have any feedback or thoughts? Feel free to send me a DM on Twitter

Links mentioned in the episode:

• #213 — 🐒 Applying Fogg's behavior model to products
• Fogg's behavioral model
• Thread summary on the model
• Making the Fogg Behavior Model actionable (from UI-patterns)
  

It's the week in review episode (here's the template I use). Discussing the wins and losses and all that jazz at Lunch Pail Labs this week (07/22/22 - 07/29/22).

Links mentioned in this episode:

• #308 — 🧫 Embeddable experiences
• Thread on email courses
• #283— 👯‍♂️ Joining the Trends community