Rolewire
A live feed of fresh jobs from leading tech companies
What is Rolewire?
Rolewire is a new job aggregator focused on two things:
- Strict 48 hour freshness: the feed only surfaces roles published in the last 48 hours. This allows users to be early applicants.
- Quality: only the very top tier companies are tracked.
Rolewire also has fantastic agent support if you need that.
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FounderPlaybooks.
What other founders did to grow.
2722 dispatches from hundreds of founders, pulled from the week's best podcasts.
For the first couple of years I started to monetize using banner ads — it was making around $8,000 a month. But then the pandemic hit and suddenly my ad revenue just disappeared. I knew I needed to pivot quickly. I rebuilt the app with subscriptions in mind, with premium features that would entice people to pay on an annual basis.
Pandemic forced an ads-to-subscriptions pivot — that is where the real money was
Ad revenue on a commuter app evaporated overnight in March 2020. The forced rebuild around annual subscriptions plus A/B-tested paywalls is what produced the $30K/mo business. Lesson for bootstrappers: ad-supported single-app revenue is fragile to one black-swan event; subscription pricing is what compounds. The crisis was the gift.
there's a sort of an early phase where building in public sharing everything is a really good idea and then there comes a point and it's not well defined you kind of get the feeling maybe you'll see the copycats maybe you'll see your competition speaking about you where it makes a little bit more sense to dial back how transparent you're being
Dial back building in public when noticed
Build-in-public has a phase, not a permanent setting. Share aggressively early to bootstrap attention and distribution, then watch for the signal — copycats appearing, competitors quoting your numbers, your data being scraped. That's when transparency stops compounding for you and starts compounding for them.
There's a play for whatever you're stuck on.
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