People often share that they find my ScreenshotOne blog posts valuable:

I am incredibly grateful and lucky. But I do try to help people as much as possible and write the most valuable piece of content I can. I do that on purpose.

I truly believe that you must write that way and make sure that if people find your content, they don’t go back to the Google Search and can satisfy their search request. Share your best knowledge and try really to help people. That’s the only way to get real long-term pay off and maybe a few backlinks.

Brainstorm, evaluate and place bets

I don’t believe in building 12 products in 12 months, but SEO and AI optimization is a space where a similar strategy might work.

Invest in writing 10 blog posts in 4 weeks. But do not write random blog posts, otherwise it will be waste of time. Consider them as bets ranked by the change of the return on your investment.

Use AI for suggestions

First brain storm all possible ideas for your API product niche. I didn’t have ChatGPT when I launched my product, so my approach was to just share my journey and how I am building my screenshot API. It played out well for me, but you can shorten this time and use AI to help you. For example: “In the table format, suggest 10 blog post ideas to write about a screenshot API that might bring paying customers and what keywords they should be optimized for.”

It might be already a good enough hypothesis to start with.

Use Google Search for suggestions

Google has a brilliant feature that hints what people search for related to your niche. For example, for the “screenshot API” keyword:

Compared to AI, these are real keywords people search for and it is worth considering to write about them.

Use Bing for suggestions

In Bing there is a block “Deep dive into …” that you can also use as suggestions for your potential posts.

I assume it works similar to Google’s “People also search for” and based on the real

Competitors

You can consider using your competitor posts for inspiration and ideas on what to write about. Don’t copy anything though.

I didn’t use that approach, because I generally don’t believe in following competitors. You need to focus on your customers and build your position based on what they. You don’t know why your competitors do what they do and if that works for them. Also, if you are similar to your competitors, why will they choose you?

I did notice that competitors follow my blog posts and copy them or copy ideas from them, but there is nothing I can do about that except constantly improving my content and making it better and better.

Using Ahrefs and similar tools for evaluation

You can also use Ahrefs to collect ideas and search keywords you can optimize for. They also have a high quality and really helpful post on how to blog.

The post itself is a good example on how to write blog posts.

I find tools like that especially useful, once you collected all your hypothesis and you check if they have any real traffic. You don’t want to write blog posts that won’t get any traffic. However, if you have a strong feeling that your post might work and there is no data to back up your decision, you can try that. You will later see and build your all intuition on how good are these tools on evaluating traffic.

Consider if AI can already answer

If AI can already answer the question you are writing about in your blog post, is it still worth writing?

I believe yes, because:

1. AI still can search the Internet to answer that question to answer the prompt.

2. You share from your experience and from your point of view. It is more valuable than an average Internet answer.

3. People still use Google Search and Bing. However, Google has AI overviews, but your post can be ranked.

Write and publish

Once you identified blog posts you are going to write. Write and publish them. Submit them to Google Search Console for indexing and wait.

I do not recommend to use AI for writing your blog posts. Unless you can write a really helpful high quality post that works. But I haven’t seen that somebody writes incredibly well with AI in practice, even once.

I would use AI to check facts and get opinions on if everything in the blog post can be improved, but not to write it completely for you.

As much as you can try to write from your personal perspective. It is one of the few ways to really differentiate your content, secondly it is valuable for Google and AI to have a personal position on the topic, especially if you might be considered an expert in your niche.

Link to it and promote the blog post

Internally put as many links as possible in the relevant context to your new blog post. Both for search and AI, and for people who might navigate and check out the post.

Share your blog post on social media and other platforms. Consider cross-posting to Medium and similar resources, but do not forget to set the canonical URL to your original blog post.

Backlinks

The same as you try to promote your main landing page with backlinks and rank it higher. It works the same way with your blog posts.

One of the best ways to get high quality backlinks for your technical (and not only) blog posts is reach out to people who own technical blog posts and ask for writing a blog post on exchange for the backlink.

Services like Help a B2B Writer can also be helpful. You get a request to share your expertise in exchange for the backlink. And you specifically target your blog posts or even write new ones to satisfy the request.

Wait and collect data

Once published and indexed, and you promoted the post. You need to wait and collect data:

1. Impressions in search.

2. Visits to the posts.

3. Conversions/subscriptions/paying customers.

You will need all that data to make decisions and what to improve and how. And what to post more about.

Use ads to boost posts and learn faster

If waiting is not an option, you can consider buying paid ads, but specifically for your blog posts to see if people click on them and these posts bring conversions.

It might bring you first results much faster but it will cost you money.

Analyze, improve and write more

Check search data and improve your posts

Once you get the first impressions for your posts and can check for keywords in Google Search Console:

For my ScreenshotOne post on how to detect fonts with my API, I get keywords: “detect fonts”, “font detection API” and so on.

Now, I can decide if I want to create more posts and describe on how to detect fonts, or if I want a separate endpoint or even an API for font detection and so on.

Once I have real data, I can see how I can improve these posts.

Check what posts convert and write more like these

If you haven’t set up a product analytics for your API product, there is no way you can advance with SEO and AI to see what bets are paying off and what not.

I use PostHog, I consider it a collection of developer tools for product engineers. It has a lot of features and affordable pricing. But you might use any similar tool.

I can query it to see what posts brought real paying customers from Google:

Once I know what posts work, I can make more of them and I need to make sure that I keep positions for these posts high.

If I didn’t know this data, I couldn’t optimize for revenue. I don’t know how people do it without product analytics tools.

Summary

I tried to be focused on writing blog post for getting paying customers, but there are many other types of posts you can write and for different goals:

• For example, it makes sense to write a blog post with a research and data on a specific topic that can be backlinked and then promote it. Once it is popular and people search from it, you can link your other posts in it.

• Or you can write a blog post about your monthly product updates to establish more trust and show that your product is alive.

However, when you are starting all that doesn’t make sense on your sole purpose should be focusing on bringing your first paying customers as fast as possible.

The post was originally published on DmytroKrasun.com.

In the post, I share why it is worth publishing your API and become verified on their network and how I achieved that with ScreenshotOne.

Postman API Network

Postman API Network is the largest collection of public APIs. Many companies use it to publish their whole API documentation and changelog, for example HubSpot and Safesforce.

Postman itself was developed as a simple product to play with and test APIs and later advanced into a complete platform for testing, documentation, exploration and collaboration of APIs. Now, it is trusted by over 500,000 companies and 40 million users.

You can still use it as a standalone lightweight API client. But a lot of its features has been migrated to the cloud and the whole company focus is on the whole API platform.

While the platform intended for developers mainly, but since a lot of no-code tools allow to run API requests, too, you might find no-code makers using it, too.

Two benefits of publishing your API

Marketing

The first and the top benefit is that it they give you a high-quality backlink to your product. Ahrefs evaluates its domain authority as 90:

Your API is featured among other APIs and available for exploration. A lot of API products use Postman as their main source of documentation and API testing and drive traffic to it.

But not only other developers might find your API through exploring the network, it might be ranked higher on Google, Bing and even have higher chances to be recommend by ChatGPT, Claude and other AI platforms for certain keywords. For example, if you search for “travel APIs”, Postman is ranked the second:

If you had a travel API and it was listed on the Postman Public API Network among these travel APIs, it would save you years of hard work to rank high on Google for certain keywords.

Developer Experience

A lot of developers are already familiar with Postman as API testing and documentation tool. And using and playing with your API will be super easy and convenient for them.

Especially, if you add a “Run in Postman” button to your API documentation.

It will open a one-click playground to test and play with your API.

Tips

1. Create (and test) many requests with examples

The more requests and examples you create, the higher chance your potential users might find something that fits them well and jump to use your API.

Consider, investing time into names and descriptions to match your use cases and features. It is also helpful for marketing and SEO/AI ranking.

2. Invest time in visuals and description of your API product

You want your Postman collections to bring you real paying customers. Consider it as your landing page but hosted on the Postman Public API Network:

1. Add customer reviews.

2. Links to your documentation.

3. Share use cases and features your API provide.

4. Tell stories and build trust.

It is not guaranteed, but it also might be useful and relevant for search/AI optimization, and marketing.

3. Publish your workspace and get verified

In order to get most all these benefits, you need to get verified and published on the network. Apply and make sure to pass all checks. For ScreenshotOne, it took me around a few hours to complete the whole checklist:

I might have been really lucky but the whole verification process for ScreenshotOne took less than one day! If you assume it will take one week, it is worth investing your time into it.

4. Link it in your documentation

Update your documentation with a “Run in Postman” whenever it fits.

I find that code examples is one of the best places to put it.

5. Promote on social media

Once your public API is verified, share news on social media:

1. To signal trust and to show that you do care about your API.

2. To bring more attention to it, maybe somebody already knows Postman, will play with it and will remember that there is an API that they can use in the future if they have a specific use case.

6. Synchronize your product updates

Of course, you need to update your changelog and share with your customers and potential users that your API available now.

But also, consider automating and synchronizing your changelog updates with your Postman workspace updates to signal that your API is alive and taken care of.

7. Integration pages

Create a dedicated integration page or even a blog post about Postman and how to use collections with your API, and consider as a bonus recording video to walk your potential API users through it.

Summary

Consider publishing and getting verified on the Postman Public API Network for marketing and developer experience benefits. Once published and verified, keep maintaining your API public page.

The post was originally published on DmytroKrasun.com.

Writing to sell you a course or to milk my recent milestone to get more attention could be a reason, so be cautious. But this post is not the case—I wrote it for myself:

1. To clarify my thoughts.

2. If I am lucky, to get feedback.

3. And it might be useful to others at similar points in their journey.

Reviewing my journey helps me frame the next steps, and I would recommend everybody to do the same once in a while.

$0 to $20K MRR with ScreenshotOne

I quit my job in 2021, later I launched ScreenshotOne (in May 2022), and by September 2024, I reached $10K MRR (almost 3 years). Then, in June 2025 (8 months later), it was $20K. It was a long journey.

$10K was my personal super goal. It was a milestone where I could call myself an entrepreneur. I knew that once I reached it, I would feel that I had made it. And indeed, it worked!

Then I aimed for $20K as a “curiosity” goal, to see if I could reach it and also to have more profit to finally start investing again. And I reached it!

I surpassed my salary. I now have enough money to travel and buy almost whatever we want as a family (except a house, but later about that). Eventually, I lost motivation to earn more money.

I am in a privileged position, and I know it might sound crazy, but I am honest—making more money doesn’t drive me much anymore. It seems that $20K MRR was my turning point to realize that. And I really wish everybody could reach that point to realize it is not the answer, as Jim Carrey beautifully put it once.

But what does drive me then?

Super goals and meaning

I realized that not having a global mission, or super goal, or even convincing meaning in life, it is alright:

1. There is a lot in life without it and it doesn’t make it less fun: grow your kids to be nice humans, talk to your parents, stay healthy, make your customers happy, travelling, reading, hiking, camping with friends, and so much more.

2. I have a few candidates for such a global mission. But I question if that’s the right way to approach the life at all? I want my mission to build up authentically and

3. And there are many things I can do almost forever with some recovery breaks and one of them is building products.

Building products

I like everything about building products: coding them, growing MRR, fixing churn, marketing, getting feedback, sleepless nights (?), working with people, and making my customers happy. All of it!

And that’s what I will keep doing. I will grow one or a few products to $100k MRR because it is a fun challenge to tackle. I will build side projects for fun. I will partner with people.

Yes, $10k MRR was my personal goal. $20k MRR, too. But $100k MRR is the goal for my business, not for me. They might coincide, but now business goals and personal goals are different. And my goal is to keep building such a business that can achieve this goal.

Building is what wakes me up and makes me excited. Why not keep doing it? And by the way, that’s also what most people keep doing past achieving their money goals:

And now honestly

$20k MRR is a huge number and a lot of money. But we still can’t buy a house.

Also, my business can go out because of competition, AGI or something else I don’t see.

I didn’t earn enough money to retire completely. Money will be still a huge part of my life. It is just less so in my mind. I am lucky and I feel I earned it—to spend some time having fun and focus on what I am excited the most.

Back to building

Thanks for reading, my friend!

I hope what I shared might help you, too. Or if you are in a similar situation, please share. I am curious to read your thoughts and to chat about the topic. And now… I am back to building!

The post was originally published in my personal blog.

I didn’t have any! I shared everything: revenue, profits, code, infrastructure, my wins, my failures, and my plans.

And I like it that way. It is simple. I don’t need to build complex narratives or try to manipulate people. I share what I think about related to my business, get feedback and talk to people.

”Money won’t make you happy”

It is bullshit. Don’t trust people who say that. Money will make you happy by removing most of your problems. And there will be only a few problems left that you will finally have time to solve.

Money is still of great interest to me, but more as a prism through which I can dissect stock markets, other businesses, or even people’s lives.

However, more and more my mind is occupied by how good my product is, how I can make customers happier, retention, my family, friends, books… And rarely I think about MRR and money. As a result, I have less and less impulses to share these MRR screenshots.

I am broke

Most entrepreneurs are broke.

My bank account only has money to pay for servers. Everything else I invest, or we travel, or we spend on our life. I have loans!

No matter how often I told people about my margins and paying thousands of dollars for servers, SaaS, and contractors, people still don’t see it. They perceive your MRR as your profits you can spend on buying a new MacBook, clothes, or an iPhone.

It is a shame to share, but I wear clothes that are on average 10+ years old. People don’t notice that.

And most entrepreneurs I know are like that.

MRR screenshots, while being the most true thing you get about any business, distort the perception of others.

You won’t get more followers

It turns out I am addicted to social media, I love attention, but I never truly cared about the exact number of followers.

I got a few hundreds of followers initially when I share MRR screenshots, but these days, people either mute or unfollow. Some even questioned if I share fake numbers.

What will get you more followers is sharing your story and build cool stuff.

Your brand looks cheap

You shared your huge win of getting $253 MRR. Do you think your potential customers can trust you now? They will see it is a new and fresh product; they will think twice before paying for it.

It might be a joke, but I can believe it:

Copycat generator machine

But if you share a big number, you will see copycats popping up every week. And I mean copycats with your style and all your content synonymized by AI, not even competitors with differentiation.

I shared everything with people because I wanted to help others to start and to show that it is possible. And I still want that and will keep helping.

But when others see big MRR numbers, they forget about everything. Even one of my closest friends wanted to build a screenshot API.

I also wrote a lot about more interesting niches and how hard it is to make money with screenshots. But people don’t believe. I see people launch a new screenshot API and abandon it after a few months.

I hope more people can succeed, but by just copying what I do, I don’t believe it will work.

Competitors get stronger

I was never worried about my competitors. I am fully focused on my customers. But I noticed even they started to copy your tactics and strategies. They get stronger and more convinced to keep fighting.

And they know all your numbers, all your moves, everything.

I still see it as an interesting challenge. Can you still succeed by sharing everything? Or it plays against you? I am not decided on that.

But you should be aware that when you share all your numbers, your competitors have an asymmetric advantage.

I don’t sell you lifestyle

People asked me about building API products, and I did think to write a book about that. But how to find time?

MRR screenshots in that case would help. Because I could use them as proof that I built a working API product and you can trust me. But can you? I didn’t build 100 products. Am I the best person to extract lessons from my journey? And is MRR enough of proof that it is possible and repeatable? I don’t know.

I rarely share about my travels or my lifestyle. And I don’t plan to sell a course on how to get rich (today?). Why then keep sharing?

I want others to succeed

But there is so much more to share and in such a better way. Write a post about marketing, about improving churn, about improving product health. But will people trust you if you never shared numbers?

Think twice

It has become a huge habit of mine on social media. Should I keep sharing MRR screenshots? Next time, I will think twice.

Should I only keep sharing the big milestones instead? I do not know. But it might be the first time I seriously thought about why I post about money and should I.

What do you think?

It was originally posted in my personal blog.

(By the way, have I made you laugh? Did you notice what I just did? Yes, I am promoting my tools in my newsletter—they also need backlinks.)

Everybody will tell you to build free tools, but after the analysis it is not clear for me, if you should do that:

1. Time spent (building): ~1 day.

2. Traffic: ~500 visitors for the last 90 days.

3. Paying customers: 0.

4. Money made: $0.

Is it a skill issue? Don’t be so fast to judge.

I will share with you everything I did with all real data, and you will decide for yourself.

1. Have a hypothesis

I am a maker of ScreenshotOne—a screenshot API for developers. But not only developers. Recently, more and more new users came through the integration with automation platforms like Zapier and similar.

Many customers came just to automate website screenshots which led me to my simple hypothesis:

If somebody searches for the “website screenshot” keyword, they might as well want to make more than one screenshot and if so they will need to do so, they might prefer to automate that process. And that is how they will become my paying customers.

If it worked, I would get more paying customers! As it turned out, reality was more nuanced than what I initially thought.

2. Check search volume

I went to Google Ads and checked the potential traffic with the Keyword Planner tool (it is free, by the way):

Average monthly searches was in the range between 10,000 and 100,000. It is perfect! Enough searches to try to compete for them and to experiment with conversions.

Google Ads showed low competition, but it means that there is almost nobody buying ads for that keyword. And it was cheap by the way to try. Maybe I should?

3. Check keyword difficulty

I was doing that for SEO, not for Google Ads. So I went to Ahrefs and checked the keyword difficulty with their free tool:

It would be a tough keyword, but my website already had a decent domain rating, decent backlinks and high rankings in the related niche. I decided I can try to compete. And I started building the tool.

4. Build

4.1. List all your tools

I added a dedicated page for all the current and future tools under the “/tools” location.

Even if today you plan to add only one tool, I still recommend to you start from the directory of your tools anyway. It will be much easier to scale later and add more tools. And it will be better for semantics and SEO. You can add more synonym keywords through the additional webpage.

Notice the keyword I use in the link and in the tool description:

4.2. Link internally

To add more weight to the tool, I added a link to the tool in the footer:

You can also add links in the documentation, your header and any other relevant place.

And do not forget to link to all the tools. In my case it was the “Screenshot Tools” heading in the footer.

4.3. Build the tool

I built the tool. Tested that it works. And added protection from bots and potentially from abusers. Yes, rendering screenshots is not cheap.

Do not forget to add page title, description, all the headings, link back to all the tools.

4.4. Add FAQ with structured data markup

I added FAQ to target more keywords:

Also when you add FAQ make sure that it uses the structured data markup. It often to occupy more space in the Google search results when you are lucky and your URL is rendered with rich snippets, like:

Google has a guide on how to markup structured data and a tool to validate test rich snippets.

4.5. Mention more keyword synonyms

To get more related keywords and ideas, you can use Google Ads Keyword Planner, but for keyword generation:

And then I got results like:

As you can see, there is a lot of interesting synonyms like “website catpure tool”, and even “full page screenshot”. But “the full page screenshot” is a good keyword for a different tool, which I built later.

One more way to discover more synonyms is to go directly to Google and search for “website screenshot”, the check the “People also search for” section:

E.g. “website screenshot online” is a good keyword for my tool, I can try to optimize for, too.

5. Promote your tools

Once you built your tools, promote them. Like me doing right now in this newsletter issue, or even, like Damon Chen did with his PDF AI tools. First he posted about every tool on X:

Then he launched his tools on Product Hunt.

Your tools also need marketing and backlinks.

6. Evaluate results

6.1. Check Google Search Console

After approximately three months I checked Google Search Console to see how the tool performs:

The number of impressions is growing, visits are growing. It is a good and healthy sign.

Also, you can check now the real keywords that people search for:

And update your tool headings, name, FAQ, and other parts of the page to target more real keywords.

6.2. Check Conversions And Money Made

And now, ladies and gentlemen, the main question… Did I make money and got paying customers from the tool?

No, it didn’t lead to any profits. I got zero paying customers and I made $0 from it.

It is sad. For me, it was not worth the effort or?

7. Improve

I might give the tool more time and will probably need to improve it. I need to make it like a landing page with code examples and automation examples with invitation for visitors to sign up for the API and try it out.

8. Think for yourself

Social media is flooded with advice to build free tools for marketing and SEO and you will reach $10K MRR just right after the launch of the tools.

But as usual, the reality is more nuanced and you will need to analyze it for yourself. And even if you get visitors from Google, what’s the point if nobody converts?

However, what if they are now aware of my tool? And now that such a solution exists? Or it might be me failing to convert visitors into customers?

Your situation might be different. But you will never know if you do not try.

Thanks for reading! If you have any questions and suggestions, please, ask and suggest.

The post was originally published on dmytrokrasun.com, but I decided it would be valuable to share it with more people.

Short answer: I don't give up and don't quit because I am curious about how far I can go. I am also ready to fail. But I don't want to live in the unresolved "what if I could" state—it is a life of torture. But I want determination and inner peace. Who doesn't want it? 

Spoiler: I still don't have that inner peace.

It all started two years ago...

Tears of pain

I came home, sat in front of my wife, and just began crying. I couldn't stop myself but cried loudly. I wanted to scream. 

Stock options, decent compensation, a super exciting project in the growing industry, challenging tasks, the kindest and the smartest ever team lead, coworkers from elite universities, perfect location... 

I found the best job I could ever find. And I still wasn't satisfied. My intrinsic self was protesting, even torturing me. And I didn't understand why. 

It was so damn painful. Why I can't be like others? Just go to a job, enjoy all the benefits, write code, and work with great people. Why? 

Tired of torturing myself, I needed inner determination

I stopped crying and told my wife: "I must resolve that problem. I can't keep dreaming about building my products. I either fail or succeed—I don't care. But it has to be determined. Enough of these tortures."

I was tired of dreaming about working on my product. I felt exhausted from not finishing side projects or launching them but not progressing much. 

I wanted to be content internally so that if I failed, I could just go back to employment and be fully dedicated to it without even having side projects. Or if I succeeded, I would keep growing my products, then my company, and then whatever happens I surrender to it. 

Resigned

I went back to work, I told my manager that I was going to resign. 

It was a humiliating experience, since how I could explain what what was the problem? People probably assumed that I lied that everything was good. But indeed everything was good. The job itself wasn't the problem. I was the problem. 

At least one paying customer 

I also decided to act differently this time. Instead of building something ambitious. I decided to build something small. I joined Twitter and started talking about what I was building, making friends, and in general having fun. 

I said to myself, if I can get at least one paying customer in 2-3 years (limited by runaway), I will be happy and keep grinding—that will be a validation for me. 

I built a few tools and then built my project ScreenshotOne which I keep polishing to this day. 

It is a long story for another issue, but after 6-8 months, and my first tough marketing month, I got my first paying customer.

Then I set my goal to have 10 paying customers. Then it was 100, now it is 300 and $10K MRR. And I am slowly approaching it:

Focus on the journey

I don't know what my goals will be after I reach $10K MRR. Seriously! I can go traveling around the world, hire, or build another company, start learning the guitar, whatever. 

But I keep grinding almost daily. Because I am curious how far I can go. And I don't feel that I have failed, yet I haven't succeeded. I want it to be determined and now it is not. 

It is crazy to say, but I started to love the journey and care less about the goals. I don't know if it is right or not. But I really appreciate that opportunity so that I can follow my intrinsic motivation and explore myself as an entrepreneur.  

I don't plan to quit and don't plan to give up until I see a complete failure or complete success. 

I know, I might be dumb. But I want to be determined and content. 

Thank you!

Damn! Thanks a lot to the Twitter community for all the questions asked. Writing all that really helped me to clarify what I am doing now and why I am doing it. 

You swallow and put aside your ego and your pride, which is not a virtue anyway, and ask: "Excuse me, would you mind helping me to improve my language speaking skills, please? How would you say it the right way?"

And you listen carefully, you repeat and learn. You have all the power in the world to turn any interaction from negative into positive for all sides.

The world doesn't owe you to be fair.

If a customer churns because of your nationality, or jurisdiction or they just don't like you, then you simply can't do anything about it.

You can't get back into the past and reborn yourself as a different person. And you shouldn't!

You tried to serve them best and it didn't work because of reasons that are out of your control.

It hurts, yes. It might feel unjust. But it is what it is. The world won’t suddenly become just. Don't take it personally.

It might feel like a slap, but you get up and don't give up. Don't blame and don't complain.

Take a deep breath, and keep pushing as twice as hard. Yes, it is freakingly hard, but it is still easier than giving up and losing yourself.

Focus on those who are with you and your values.

It is OK to be beaten and to fail. But keep your heart away from cynicism and yet open to the world and love.

Since I started to read the book:

1. I launched a new product (Open Graph Examples) on Product Hunt on a weekend and made it to the top product of the day.

2. I became an affiliate partner for ogimage.org to make a dollar or two.

3. I got one real United States dollar from Noah Kagan via PayPal.

4. I published my first newsletter issue.

And it feels like it is only the beginning of my journey. However, did I make a million? No.

But I started to act as never before and I opened myself to the possibility of starting a business on a weekend that indeed might lead me to my first million dollars.

The value of these books is not in the information they share, but in the energy the author of the book possesses and is vibing.

I started to read Noah's book because I saw Jason Cohen (the top business writer you can ever find on the Internet) was reading it. I didn't know anything about Noah Kagan before. But I heard about AppSumo and they reached out to me with a proposition to feature my ScreenshotOne. I politely denied the proposition, but it is a different story.

Why did the chemistry of the book work for me, though? 

I was on a low day because one of my customers sent me a deeply saddening message—(it didn't relate to my product or its quality, it was something else if you are curious). But that same day, I asked Noah for a dollar and he replied, then we had a small chat. 

I decided, you know what? I will not only stop crying and languishing, but I will stand up, and push as twice as hard as possible despite whatever mood or state I have. 

I will focus on people who want me to win, and not on those who wish me bad luck. I will promote and help others as much as I can. I will keep fighting "the naive cynicism movement" and not surrender to it by being extremely naive, kind, and open. 

And that's why I am grateful to Noah Kagan because he simply replied and changed the sign of my mood. 

I shared everything related to my entrepreneurial journey. Literally everything: my revenue, expenses, my lows and highs, and lessons I learned.

I was interacting with people I admire and respect. And was ignoring people with malicious intentions who wished me bad luck. I am blocked by 100+ people, yes.

I succeeded in not commoditizing myself and staying true to myself. Just look at my Twitter profile banner and picture—it is raw and not professional. These are just photos from the places I love hiking and my true face.

I helped everybody I could help without expecting anything in return. I still try to promote and help at least one person every day by being the first paying customer, helping them with SEO, reposting their Product Hunt launch, or just hugging them at their lows.

And the community of entrepreneurs and developers on Twitter helped me, too, by advice, bringing my first paying customers, supporting my launches, supporting me at my lows, and celebrating my wins.

I met many people eventually in real life and made hundreds of friends online. I want to meet all of them one day.

I am forever grateful for all that love.

I started to spend way too much time on Twitter. It hit my mental health and creativity. And now I am taking a break from it to recharge, focus on growing my business, and explore new opportunities.

If you know how I can help you, please, feel welcome and reach out.