Jonathan Markwell

@Jot
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Curious about small, long-lasting, calm companies.
Screenshots, Image Generation & Morehttps://urlbox.com
Coworkinghttps://theskiff.org
Podcasthttps://EmpathyDeployed.com
Newsletterhttps://BrightonDynamic.com

For the next few days I'm hanging out with people from these ~100 SaaS-related businesses.

It's MicroConf Europe, a two-day conference focused on self-funded & indie-funded startups that have launched and are growing to 7-figure revenues & beyond.

Any you know or use?

For Christmas I would like The Skiff to hit £10K MRR again.

It'll be 10 years on from the first time we did. Thankfully we don't need to hit it again. Lower costs & lower stress these days.

Long-term businesses have their ups, downs and pleasantly financially boring phases.

Today I am running over one million jobs with Solid Queue using SQLite.

Loving Ruby on Rails on a Hetzner EX44.

I built a thing as fun side project at Urlbox.

It's a fresh perspective on the web. A way to explore over one million homepage screenshots. You can zoom, pan and click to navigate.

It's called One Million Screenshots.

It's built using data collected since the start of this year. We'll soon share that data in new API. It's also been fun to experiment with a few things we're considering adding to Urlbox's core API.

Here's the link:
https://onemillionscreenshots.com

One Million Screenshots

Explore the web's biggest homepage. Discover similar sites. See changes over time. Get web data.

On the train to #ffconf.

Looking forward to a healthy dose of getting excited about future of the web and having my ideas challenged.

Pleased to have found my retro (I think 1st edition) t-shirt.

Looks like we picked a good week to go camping.
Great question on Hacker News with so many good answers already.

Refining the pitch for @BrightonDynamic.

What do you think?

Looks like Brighton's businesses have been processing over £100m on Stripe since 2018.

And it was one of the first 10 cities in England to achieve that milestone.

From this article:

Stripe and the UK: A decade in the digital economy
https://stripe.com/gb/newsroom/stories/internet-businesses-are-everywhere-uk

Stripe and the UK: A decade in the digital economy

More accessible financial infrastructure has made it easier than ever to build an online business.

Here's part two:

Who did you have lunch with last week?