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No https, a design that looks like it's from 2003, and a sample rendered in a PDF!

Whatever about the content, you need to up your design and marketing game.

First impressions are key and these feels somewhere between lazy and scammy.

Does this offer much more than the free content + interviews on indiehackers.com

I signed up for the mailing list and got a message 'Success! Now check your email to confirm your subscription.'

But 15 minutes later I haven't received an email. I've already checked my spam folder.

EDIT: still nothing

Same here, however for me it did end up in my spam folder.

GMail showed mine in the spam filter. It looks like the author is using ConvertKit and his personal e-mail address for the replies. May have set off a red flag to Google.

Also, the confirm link leads to a server timeout. Maybe a hug of death?

hey Rahim, shoot me a quick email (firstname@gmail) and I'll send you the book. Not sure why it's not working for you.

Hi, site's dead - thanks!

I'm an idiot. I was checking in 'All Mail' instead of 'Spam'. I found the mail. Thanks!

Can't tell you how many times this happens to me with my gmail account. I'll sign up for something I actually want to receive, and then Gmail just decides to block the email before it even gets to my spam folder.

It's the most infuriating thing about email today.

It's the most infuriating thing about Gmail today. Just use another provider, Fastmail is better and switching takes a few minutes if you use your own domain.

You may see a growth in audience if you extend your site styling to support mobile devices.

I'd buy this book. Always interested in hearing how others get their products to market with regard to work/life commitments, what the balances are, shortcuts to market, first customers, etc.

Check out the indiehackers podcast. It has a lot of interviews with founders working in what I consider more realistic conditions than VC financed ventures.

How old is this book/interview? If I recall, Patrick sold BCC 4 years ago.

WARNING: This triggers a file download (unsuspiciously named bcc.pdf) immediately. My mobile browser downloaded it automatically.

My malware senses are tingling, tread carefully.

It's a PDF with the interview. Didn't automatically download for me in Chrome, just loaded on the webpage.

Promise promise this isn't malware, it's just a segment of my ebook so people can see what its like if they want to download the full thing.

You might have browser prefetching enabled. Not sure this is default behaviour.

They included the pdf in an iframe on the page, which most browsers will want to load instantly. If a browser is configured to download PDFs instead of render them inline, this is expected behavior.

Using an iframe is a pretty bad way to offer a PDF to viewers, but the website definitely has quite a few strange mannerisms apart from that.

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