Building datafetcher.com - connect any API to Airtable, without code.
Joined November 2016
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12 Sep 2022
I wrote up my story bootstrapping @data_fetcher to $10k MRR!
datafetcher.com/blog/bootstr…
Including:
- Coming up with & building the idea
- How I got my first customers
- Hiring marketing help
- Growing pains
- Handling support for 100s of customers as 1 founder
- What's next?
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Jan 24
One-shotted a pricing page redesign with Claude Code... conversion rate has gone from 14% to 20%
What a time to be alive
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Andy Cloke retweeted
Jan 21
Airtable's powerful, but connecting it to external data can get confusing fast. Here's a quick breakdown of your options:
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Jan 21
2 years on the SaaS plateau rollercoaster.
Determined to break through $25k this year.
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Jan 12
Basic but easy-to-forget SEO tip:
If Google is ranking a page for a keyword you weren't really targeting, create a dedicated new landing page for this keyword.
The new page will rank well and quickly, since Google 'wants' to rank you for it.
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Jan 12
e.g. The page `/airtable-integrations/json` was ranking around #8 for 'airtable import json' keyword.
I built `/airtable-import/json` and it's in #4 position after within a day.
CTR will be higher too.
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8 Dec 2025
Just migrated Data Fetcher's help center from @GitBookIO ($80 / month for custom domain) to @mintlify (free).
better editor and more customisable
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1 Dec 2025
Just saved my business £650 / year.
Switched from @MailerLite to @brevo_official for email newsletters.
Brevo is way cheaper and have 40% off annual plans for Black Friday!
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19 Aug 2025
Are there any GitBook alternatives out there?
Paying $79 per month and can't even remove their branding 🤮
I want:
- Friendly but professional, clean UI like GitBook
- Easy WYSIWYG editing
- Custom domain
- Hosted, not self-hosted
- <$50 month
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14 Aug 2025
Wild SEO hack: spam low-quality YouTube videos constantly because Google favors recent uploads in search results.
Challenge accepted. Let's see if quality wins long-term.
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7 Aug 2025
Your web & mobile UI are completely knackered @Fastmail
Can't select or read any emails
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14 Jun 2025
1,800 to 2,500 shipments per week. Same team size. Here's how @foxlogisticllc did it...
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12 Jun 2025
Firebase and Google Cloud are down, affecting all Data Fetcher users... what a week.
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10 Jun 2025
Salesforce status page (which everyone was using because Heroku one was down) down too
Holy shit
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10 Jun 2025
Right, need to seriously look at alternatives to Heroku.
What is everyone using these days?
fly & render seem unreliable
railway's autoscale pricing is weird
10 Jun 2025
I stumbled onto a very relevant HN comment from 4mo ago about Heroku's ex-CEO, Bob Wise.
Nothing has improved since he left and today is a prime example of that.
ALT Oh thank god. I had the displeasure of meeting with him once, and it was so bad that when we hung up I had our team to start planning a migration off of Heroku. The crux of the issue was that he told me that he philosophically didn't believe Heroku should put up status notifications about downtime or performance issues until AFTER they fully understood the problem and had a fix. (My theory was actually that no engineers worked there and they didn't have on-call rotation anymore)
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10 Jun 2025
No end in sight
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Andy Cloke retweeted
10 Jun 2025
Understatement of the year
10 Jun 2025
Issue: Beginning at 06:03 UTC, Heroku is having intermittent outages which are currently being investigated.
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uh oh
ramen tattoo at $10k mrr
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