Danielle Vermeer

Curation as a Service saves you time, money and energy. Community-curation platforms will help crowdsource research. Curated commerce will help brands stand out in commoditized markets. Indie Hackers will increasingly launch curated digital products. By definition, curation is biased. Beware of blindspots. Reference multiple curators if you rely on... See more

Future of creator commerce: Making it easy for anyone to recommend a product and be compensated for their impact is the path forward.

There are four atomic units of a 1.0 flywheel:Acquire: how users are acquired into the community (e.g. they sign up)Consume: the mechanisms that drive content consumption (e.g. a newsfeed)Create: the mechanisms that entice users to create content (e.g. social status)Harvest: how new content created leads to more inbound growth (e.g. SEO)

This guide will help you hone in on the best metrics for tracking user acquisition, activation, engagement, retention, and monetization. We’ll show you what those metrics are, what they mean, how to calculate them, and why they matter.

So choose a niche — and then commit to being the best at it.

Signaling and counter-signaling are hidden methods of communicating with each other. We do it all the time as a way to “prove” we are who and what we claim to be.

But the “rockstars” of any profession usually have another secret: they’ve found themselves in a situation in which they’re able to still do one job. I don’t mean that they’re not doing several things at once. I mean they’re not trying to do the work that three or four people.