Tsiriniavo Rabemananjara

Has a press release ever actually brought you a customer?

For a recent launch I sent a free press release out through a handful of distribution sites. One of them got it onto AP News, a couple hundred local news sites and Google News within a few hours. No journalist wrote about it though, it was all automatic reprints.

What did come back was a bunch of sales pitches, an affiliate network asking to list the product, and a sign-up from a company that found us through ChatGPT. I'd done the same thing for my Mac apps before and got nothing like that, so my guess is people watch those feeds for B2B tools.

Have you tried one for a launch? Did anyone actually reach out because of it?

For me, I finish the tasks I didn t complete during the week, then try to get ahead on a few things.

And I always finish my weekend by preparing my tasks for the next week.

I know some founders completely disconnect on weekends, but I ve never really managed to do that

What about you? Do you work on weekends or completely switch off?

In my 4 or 5 years of working at startups, I ve noticed that people always have a problem when they are told about changes:

free version jumped to a trial with a subscription or lifetime purchase

subscription and lifetime purchase prices increased