Hey, it’s Patrick. Sliding into 2023 was a huge challenge for me. I was working quite hard, churn was high, and I may end this month with a revenue decrease of 35%. Let’s start with some good things first. The good things: WP Tavern Podcast I had the pleasure of being a guest on the…

I’m a huge fan of reading these “Year in review” articles from others ( Feel free to reach out to me if you have one, I include it at the end here!), but I never managed to write my own. This year, I blocked some time in December to finally make that happen and publish…

I recently started working on a little side project called webtozip.com. It’s a simplified version of Simply Static, where you can add the URL and your email address and receive a static copy of the website as a ZIP file. How it started The whole idea is born out of a problem some of the…

I never really did any discounts, marketing campaigns, or anything with newsletters for my business. I’ve done Black Friday sales several times but never got much in return. I thought my product or business just wasn’t a good fit for anything related to this. That being said, my expectations for Black Friday were quite low.…

As my products gained more and more popularity, I spent a lot of time thinking about how support should work. I worked for a WordPress product company for a few years and have seen how much time and money is required to offer good support. As a solopreneur, it’s even harder as you don’t have…

The block editor disrupted the WordPress industry. We have fans, haters, and a solid base in the middle. I was skeptical for quite a while. What’s the case for blocks? Why do we replace WordPress widgets, menus, and other parts with blocks? I couldn’t really get it. Full Site Editor Then the Full Site Editor…

I built the initial version of Qyrr 3 years ago, in the summer of 2019, before Covid came along. It was just a fun little idea in my head, and I never intended to rework it or do a premium version of it. I uploaded it the w.org and kept pushing little updates now and…

As an indie hacker/ solopreneur, its hard to keep everyone updated on all the things you are doing. Check out what I’m working on right now. This multiplies if you, like me, have multiple unrelated products with their own roadmap and feature sets. More often than not I spent a huge amount of time answering…

While my old website design was still quite decent, it really struggled with flexibility. The more moving parts I tried to include, like a better call-to-action design for my products, a new design for tutorials, or just some performance improvements – almost all of this was kind of hacky due to the theme I was…