Create Your World Ben McCarthy and Liam Gibson
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A weekly look at two content creators on the journey to profitable online content businesses 🎨
Share the pain of 0 views, and the glory of the first dollar 💸
Ben McCarthy is the founder of Discover Earth, a web app with a daily feed about the Carl Sagan-esque wonders of the cosmos. Check out https://discover.earth & twitter.com/benmcc. He lives in Sydney.
Liam Gibson is the founder of Policy People, an article aggregator for communities of think tank professionals. Check out https://policy-people.org. He lives in Taipei.
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Feed me.. ! Tinkering with RSS plugins
Liam's notes on a bunch of RSS feed plugins as he tries to filter out posts based on authors. Snippets of Ben's notes included too.
Simple Link Directory
WP RSS Aggregator - Premium US$150
WordPress Automatic Plugin - US$18
Youtube Vid: How to Make an AutoBlogging Website with WordPress and Automatic Plugin & Make Money in 2020
YD Buddypress Feed Syndication
Uncanny Automator Plugin
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Creating under Quarantine
Getting cabin fever under quarantine..? Nothing like good conversation when in isolation..! Liam (almost) finishes his thesis and looks ahead to create new synergies between Policy People and Global Voices, Ben maps out his game plan for the Product Hunt launch.
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Ben's preparing for launch / A disastrous internship
- Ben's upcoming ProductHunt launch
- How to collaborate with creators
- Success with automated traffic generation
- Liam's launch feedback
- Liam gets a new disastrous internship
Product Hunt
Product Hunt Launch checklist
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Liam: 3, 2, 1 .. Policy People has launched! 🚀
Recording taken of the night of Policy People's first mini-launch. Check out the site now at http://policy-people.org/ (and please give feedback ;-) In this quick ep, I give an overview of the site's stack plus which users I chose to test out the MVP. Updates on first user feedback due in the next episode with Ben, so stay tuned!
http://policy-people.org/
https://www.livechatinc.com/
https://www.quantumcloud.com/products/simple-link-directory/
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Liam: My Minimum Viable (Free!) WordPress Stack
Quick update on cobbling together a basic working free stack for the site. Great to have a set up which can grow steadily from core MVP to additional features and build out as we grow overtime. Check out what I toyed with in the notes below !
https://www.buddyboss.com/ (Free Platform and Paid Theme)
http://rankitwp.com/ (A Promising Link Aggregator but likely abandaned now...)
https://www.quantumcloud.com/products/simple-link-directory/ (Heaps of features if you want to do Lists of Links. Freemium.)
https://www.wprssaggregator.com/extensions/ (Autoposts Pulled RSS Feeds. Free version with paid add ons.)
https://8degreethemes.com/blog/best-free-buddypress-wordpress-themes/ (Bunch of free themes for buddypress)
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