Some things I learned so far in bootstrapping my part-time startup

Nice post, and the home page is well designed but it's hard to tell what the product does without a screenshot or walkthrough of some sort.<p>It sounds reminiscent of HelloBar although you say in your post that it isn't like HelloBar at all - bad sign. I'd also recommend saying explicitly a few of the customers you're targeting e.g. bloggers, companies with large audiences etc etc.<p>Good luck!

I read your blog post and the front page of Anchor Tab and I still have no idea what the product does.

I like the idea, it seems like there is a pretty large, mostly unexplored market there, but the thing that personally makes me pause as a potential customer is that <i>I have no idea how to write those emails.</i><p>If you could create a micro-course that illustrates what a mailing list should be like, or even bake some kind of "meta wizard" into your product, I'd be much more willing to sign up.

". As it turns out, we had enough people enjoy the beta and sign on after the 30 day trial that we're covering our monthly systems operations expenses. "<p>This is great, congrats. Would be willing to share more information about this? Conversion rates? Were these "real" customers or people that you know who paid?