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Niche of One
I Published 75 Medium Posts and Made $267
TL;DR: One saved Partner Program page, 75 posts, $267 in displayed whole-dollar earnings. The spread between the top of that list and the bottom is the only reader survey I’ve ever run where every answer came back priced. I pulled a saved page off my Medium Partner Program accoun
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Niche of One
Birds Aren't Real Is a Parts List I Already Own
TL;DR: Peter McIndoe wrote a nonsense phrase on a protest sign in Memphis in January 2017, and it came back to him from strangers he’d never met. What he and his collaborators bolted onto it afterward is the same equipment I use to run a newsletter and a store, and none of that e
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Niche of One
Twenty-Nine Posts, One Sitting
Between 8:23 on Saturday night and 2:52 Sunday morning, the whole Dispatch blog backlog got written. Twenty-nine posts. Six commits. One sitting. I want to be careful about how that sounds, because “twenty-nine posts overnight” is the kind of number people put in a screenshot. Th
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Niche of One
One File, One Truth
Yesterday I didn’t ship a new room. Didn’t write a new guide. I spent the whole day hunting down every place this operation said the same thing twice, and made it say it once. That sounds like nothing. It’s the most useful nothing I’ve done in weeks. Where it started A price was
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Niche of One
Number Six Was the Door
Yesterday I wrote a build-log about five pieces of this operation that died after the hardware move. Green lights, no errors, five dead things. I listed them out because the point of this feed is that you watch the build happen, cracks included. That post did not publish. The pub
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J.D. Forrest on Medium
How I Use AI to Write Without It Eating My Voice
The tool is not as important as the user. Continue reading on Creator Ops »
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J.D. Forrest on Medium
Creator Ops Submission Guidelines
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J.D. Forrest on Medium
Some Money Belongs on the Table
The two failure modes of creator pricing, and the narrow road that runs between them. Continue reading on Creator Ops »
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J.D. Forrest on Medium
The Shelf Beats the Feed
A $2.50 PDF sold while I was asleep. The platform had nothing to do with it, but it makes me $100 a week. Continue reading on Creator Ops »
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J.D. Forrest on Medium
This Post Could Make You $400 a Month
Your affliate program sucks, and this is how mine make $400+ a month… every month. Continue reading on Creator Ops »