Mia Jones

Lead Designer. Film-buff. Taker of walks.

20 Articles

Llama Life: How Building a Calm Productivity Tool Started a Quiet Revolution

Marie built Llama Life in public, finding community and feedback

By Mia Jones Apr 25, 2025 5 min read

AI

From Startup Graveyard to $50k MRR: How JotBot Used Absurdly Long Domains and Viral Hacks to Win

Absurd domains, viral videos fueled JotBot's rapid $50k MRR growth

By Mia Jones Apr 18, 2025 4 min read

Failures

RankAtom Shuts Down: When Good Tech Meets Bad Timing

RankAtom is closing. Google broke it. AppSumo helped bury it

By Mia Jones Apr 17, 2025 1 min read

Analytics

How Baremetrics Built in Public, Hit $100K MRR, and Burned Out Anyway

Baremetrics: Transparent growth, faced challenges, founder burnout led to sale

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By Mia Jones Apr 14, 2025 5 min read

SaaS

Sketch: How Focus, Community, and Saying 'No' Built a Design Disruptor

Bootstrapped success, funded by sales, later shifted to subscription model

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By Mia Jones Apr 3, 2025 6 min read

SaaS

How SaaS Founders Can Book More Demos That Actually Convert

Book fewer demos but make each one count toward revenue

By Mia Jones Apr 1, 2025 2 min read

SaaS

Tailscale: Quietly Powering a Better Internet

How a dev-first VPN solved a $10B problem—without marketing hype

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By Mia Jones Mar 26, 2025 5 min read

SaaS

Kushank Aggarwal's Journey to 1M Followers and $35K/Month in Revenue

Kushank Aggarwal shares how he built a $35K/month indie business

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By Mia Jones Mar 22, 2025 3 min read

SaaS

Testimonial: How One SaaS Made Collecting Customer Reviews Effortless

Testimonial makes collecting and sharing customer reviews stupidly easy

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By Mia Jones Mar 18, 2025 2 min read

Hiring

From Resume Template to $5M SaaS: How Jacob Built Rezi

A viral Reddit post turned into a $5M AI resume SaaS

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By Mia Jones Mar 15, 2025 3 min read

AI

From Zero to $40M ARR in Months: How Bolt.new Is Killing DevOps and Speedrunning SaaS

What do you want to build?

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By Mia Jones Mar 14, 2025 3 min read

Pivoting

Mark Cuban Says Laid-Off Tech Workers Should Start Businesses—Here’s Why He’s Right

Mark Cuban says layoffs spark startups—here’s how to start yours

By Mia Jones Mar 2, 2025 3 min read