November 8, 2022
Building an app for virtual phone numbers
A couple years ago we set out to build an online fax service half jokingly as a way to launch a micro SaaS and play with the Stripe API and the Twilio API. It has since seen a number of record sales days and we've sent thousands of faxes. I've been a...
ReadFebruary 10, 2021
Building An Online Fax Service
A goal I had in 2020 was to build and launch a micro SaaS product. What is a micro SaaS? Well, it's essentially a software as a service product but smaller in scope. A micro SaaS product is often...
ReadJanuary 23, 2019
Weekly Agtech Email Newsletter
Today I launched a new project for 2019 - an Agtech focused email newsletter. The goal is to give the audience the best information over the last week. I read a lot, rip out all the PR, add some...
ReadJanuary 19, 2019
How I Migrated WordPress to a Static Website
My first project of 2019 was to migrate this 10+ year old WordPress website to a static website. For various reasons, the stack I chose is as follows... Static Website Generator: Jigsaw CSS...
ReadNovember 15, 2018
Blockchain 101
On November 15, 2018 I spoke at the Iowa IT Symposium discussing the basics of blockchain and how it will be used in our global food supply chain. Learn the basics of blockchain technology along...
ReadOctober 31, 2017
Full Stack Marketing
Full Stack Marketing is the concept of building analytics into your tech stack. Why would you do that? Fundamentally we want to answer the question “Do you know what your users are doing?”. And...
ReadDecember 15, 2016
Building a Referral System with Laravel
I recently launched a small product for Amazon Affiliates built with Laravel. At the heart of the application is a referral system. Users get bonus credits when they refer another user while getting...
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