Val Sopi

Time and again I think that the name of the business matters a ton.

I was walking back from the gym to my car the other day, when I ran into an old friend of mine who runs a successful SaaS with a small team.

I launched Blogmaker (initially named blogstatic) 5 years ago, on April 2021.

In business, the success of a product, depends largely on “who” made it.

{try-blogmaker} I've spoken about quitting a few times before.

{try-blogmaker} "I can't do this!"

{try-blogmaker} I was walking on the beach.

{try-blogmaker} I always think that I’ll be happy when everything is running smoothly.

{try-blogmaker} From all that is currently happening to us, I want to believe that we’re at the dawn of a new era ✊ I am predicting year 2300 to be the one when we’re living the progressive dreams of today.

{try-blogmaker} Growing up I was always told to work hard, wait my turn, and good things will happen.

{try-blogmaker} March was an absolutely insane month for blogstatic.io.

{try-blogmaker} blogstatic had another above $1K month. $1,208.38 to be exact.

{try-blogmaker} Context: Read Nick Cave's letter first. — ChatGPT (or similar) are just tools!

{try-blogmaker} A bit over a year ago, I wrote a post in which I talked about embarking on my journey to financial freedom.

For context, read this article first.

One thing I've gotten really good at over the years is using time in terms of how it affects my product-making process.

Monthly tweet update Looking back at the tough June, I thought I should clear up a few things as the much better July is almost over. ?

Rion, my 11-year-old son, plays tennis.

blogstatic is growing slowly at around 20% month-to-month.

I first started "building in public" back in 2017.

February was yet another month with unexpected expenses on top of my planned budget of -2500.

In January, I managed to pay myself $500 for the first time — from my Saas making — since setting sail on my journey to financial freedom.

One of the things I'm most proud of in 2022 was that I stuck to some personal habits like going to the gym, eating well, and meditating.

This is a diary of blogstatic's launch on Product Hunt.

Coming from October, November was again another solid month. blogstaticOctober '22November '22GrowthTotal revenue$305.19$472.5955%New paid blogs182750% On average, there was a new payment every day, which is excellent.

I announced the new blogstatic pricing ($19/year) and launched the new website on October 11th.

I have never really given blogstatic a real chance to succeed.

About a month ago, on September 1st, I made a big leap: I stopped my consulting work for the 3rd time to chase my SaaS dreams.

Subsection is an app that helps create support docs, such as user guides, knowledge bases, documentation, and changelogs.

EDIT: After reading the article: read this update. —— This is the first of many updates in the Financial Freedom series, where I hold myself publicly accountable for my big challenge ahead!

blogstatic has been going well.

On a given workday, you only have a few hours at your disposal to create.

I had a solid year compared to the shit-storm 2020 had brought on.

Sort of without fail and unplanned, every year in December, I usually think of a word that I want to live by the upcoming year.

One change I’ve made recently in my product making process is that I stop as soon as I sense that I am “pushing it”.

A friend recently boasted how they're working 15 hour days.

I was listening to two founders on Twitter Spaces talking about both ends of the spectrum when it came charging for their Saas.

With so much going on in the world and information traveling faster than ever before in the human existence, it's easy to lose track of the basics.

Pop culture glorifies quitting.

I've been making Saas products since 2013.

Hey, you probably know me as the founder of Claritask or as a Podcaster where I nakedly talk about my Bootstrapping Saas journey.

In the past year or so, I’ve been thinking about Luck a lot — in terms of how a chain of random events can lead us to our destination.

UPDATE: This post got such a great response that it inspired me to start playing and building Claritask while documenting it out in the open — I'm going to let you in on a great secret.

Here's a quick rundown about the article.

I started toying with the web circa 2000.