Jack Lewin

software engineer @ fonoa 💻 🌍

[Jack Lewin @jackmlewin]

Going in circles with @Airbnb support... offered a £200 refund on a £2k stay, for an ongoing leak the host didn't tell us about.

2.5 weeks of disruption, a couple of days with no running water & countless insurance/builder/neighbour visits. @AirbnbHelp

[Jack Lewin @jackmlewin]

@benradack Meta Ads Playbook

[Jack Lewin @jackmlewin]

Nice, it works - this came from here: https://t.co/bkbIeJU1P4

[Jack Lewin @jackmlewin]

Cross-posting from Bsky to Twitter!

[Jack Lewin @jackmlewin]

Lots of great insights & conversations - looking forward to the next one! Thanks @sab8a, @tmrmmdv, @im_max_sinclair & @tobenxe, and @charlierward for organising 👏🍜

[Charlie 'Ramen Space’ Ward 🍜 (ramenspace.com) @charlierward]

On Thursday, we threw the second ever @RamenClubHQ Live event in London, and it was a huge success! 🇬🇧🍜

Our headline fireside chat with my friends and https://t.co/LX1seWCILA co-founders @sab8a & @tmrmmdv was a full-circle moment. They've been coming to our meetups since before they had revenue, and 5 years later, they're making 10s of millions per year in ARR (after starting off bootstrapping).

These sessions are deliberately unrecorded – so we can have real conversations and learnings that you'll never hear on a podcast, and it more than delivered.

This was a masterclass in tactics, insights and inside stories on how to grow a SaaS from $0 to $1m ARR in a year, and way beyond that.

We had two other fantastic talks. @im_max_sinclair shared "The 20-Minute SaaS Paid Ads Masterclass", giving us the download from years creating successful paid ads campaigns for major clients.

And @tobenxe shared her journey learning to code then building/growing SellerAider (a huge SaaS and community for eCommerce sellers) to 2,000 customers by age 24.

Each event is designed to help you launch and grow your own bootstrapped SaaS – and the feedback was overwhelmingly positive.

Our plan is to make these more regular, eventually ending up in our own RamenConf someday 👀 Watch this space people.

Thanks to our amazing speakers, attendees and of course @PaddleHQ for hosting us again.

We'll be back very soon. 🫶

[Jack Lewin @jackmlewin]

@codyschneider I'll bite: what did you spend the $1 on?

[Jack Lewin @jackmlewin]

@outofmydepth_ Awesome - could you follow so I can DM please?

[Jack Lewin @jackmlewin]

@marckohlbrugge Interesting - still couldn't repro FWIW, but I'll shout if I see it again.

Just applied to join 😄

[Jack Lewin @jackmlewin]

@marckohlbrugge I manually cleared the old network requests before recording the Loom, so I'm fairly confident it was triggered by navigation.

Don't think it happened upon refresh, but I can't reproduce it any more...

[Jack Lewin @jackmlewin]

@bentossell interested!

[Jack Lewin @jackmlewin]

@dbasch Reminds me of an excerpt from "This is Water" - https://t.co/8CneMqspZ8

[Nathan Manousos @trafnar]

Figma acquisition shows how hard it is to turn money into software. You'd think for $20B you could build something as good as Figma yourself, but you can't. Software is art.

[Jack Lewin @jackmlewin]

@evnsio Are there any books/websites/articles you'd recommend as a 101?

[Jack Lewin @jackmlewin]

@dustin I've heard lots of super positive things so far - congrats on the work so far! looking forward to giving it a spin

[Jack Lewin @jackmlewin]

@johncutlefish We've implemented something just like this at Fonoa. It makes sense for the company, and for candidates: https://t.co/HChtkqPzc3

[Jack Lewin @jackmlewin]

@testcross @ahrefs I like the idea! how did it go?

[Jack Lewin @jackmlewin]

@samjulien Good timing, I'm reading Deep Work right now. What's the main thing you'll take from it?

I'd recommend Digital Minimalism if you haven't read it - and Atomic Habits

[Jack Lewin @jackmlewin]

@mxstbr @bradleyjkemp shared a good thread about how this works at Monzo (plus a couple of more in-depth posts at the end) https://t.co/Nnu8y8gRih

[Bradley Kemp @bradleyjkemp]

Between the odd occasions I use it, I forget just how well thought out @monzo's on-call compensation is

On-call is:
🙋 Totally optional
💰 Paid per shift whether you get paged or not
🌴 Repaid with time off in lieu if you do get paged

A thread on why that works so well 👇🏻

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