Builder Retrospective: Automated Newsletter Reached 72 Subscribers, No Revenue
This is a build-in-public retrospective about a 97-day project to automate a GitHub-idea newsletter, which reached 72 subscribers and zero revenue. It shares the builder's own learnings rather than describing an external user problem.
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