[laktek]

I struggled with this building Pragma. I was going to a crowded market with established incumbents. Most early talks with customers would always lead to "How is it better than Wordpress, Webflow, Squarespace, etc." So I started to feel we have to tick all the boxes and product never felt shippable.

However, two weeks ago I took a step back and thought what if we can ship a product in 48 hours and get people to pay. The result of it was Page.REST. In reality, it still took 7 days to launch it properly, but it had 10 people paid customers after the first day in business. That was a revelation to me and gave me a different perception of the approach.

I can attest being in the market is the best way you could learn and iterate a product (no matter how simple & rough the early version looks).

PS: I blogged some of my learnings from shipping Page.REST - https://www.laktek.com/what-i-learned-from-building-pagerest...

[justboxing]

This is cool! Thank you for the detailed blog post. Very informative. Now to scale Page.REST... !

[chrift]

Really good idea, a much simpler and lighter solution than import.io

Do you use proxies to stop your requests getting blocked or are you just going balls to the wall and making requests from your server's ip(s)?