Bootstrapping a privacy-protection service to $3000 MRR

Interview with SimpleLogin's founder

👋 Hey Failories! It's Nico over here.

This week I published an interesting interview with the founder of a privacy-friendly service, which are on the rise lately. He is bootstrapping it and is currently making $3k/mo.

Below that, there's a review article of Penji, an unlimited design service (about which I've written this article in the past). If you're looking for an affordable way of outsourcing design tasks, make sure to give it a read.

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    Bootstrapping a privacy-protection service to $3000 MRR

    After watching Edward Snowden’s movie, Son began to care more about his privacy. He thought that, in order to avoid getting tracked, he needed different identities on each site he signed up. That’s how he came up with SimpleLogin’s idea, an open-source service that protects users’ privacy via email aliases. He left his job and began bootstrapping the SaaS which, nowadays, makes $3k/mo.

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    Penji Review: My Experience Using It + 25% Off Code

    I spent a month trying Penji. Here's what I liked, what I didn't, an explanation of how it works, and an analysis of the company (+ 25% off promo code).

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    Penji Review

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    Last week I sent an article about the failure of Google Glass, which is part of the Google Cemetery I'm building. I've also recently published articles about the shut down of Google Inbox and Picasa (acquired by Google).

    That's all for this week - sorry for all the links! Reply to this email if you have any questions or feedback ;)

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