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Ivan Nedyalkov is an indie developer and designer living in Varna, Bulgaria. Explore the workspaces of creative individuals, sent directly to your inbox every Saturday and Sunday.

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Take a trip down memory lane and explore the humble beginnings of your favorite tech companies.

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The Workspaces Journey

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Explore the workspaces of creative individuals. Sent directly to your inbox every Saturday and Sunday.

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Short, bite-sized conversations with indie hackers that have started small, profitable and bootstrapped businesses. You'll learn how they come up with ideas, what they do to validate, find those first customers and make a sustainable income. Episodes every Tuesday.

Indie Bites | Carving a new life path with a newsletter about Workspaces - Ryan Gilbert, Workspaces

https://www.workspaces.xyz/p/265-fatih-arslan

In this week’s Installer: Android apps, football games, and the TinyPod.

Two new must-have Android apps

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/21/24202162/notion-calendar-claude-android-tinypod-ea-football-installer

Workspaces in 2024

> 14,000 subscribers
> 750,000 pageviews
> 1,100,000 emails sent
> 18,000,000 twitter impressions
> 60,000 social followers

I’ll miss you Posts 🥺

If you need me or want to stay connected I’ll be over at workspaces.xyz and @rjgilbert everywhere else

AI this, AI that… I’m all in on newsletters 

https://ryangilbert.co/p/ai-this-ai-that

pro tip: book that airbnb with the dream workspace

Listed a few of my unused domains on a new little product called Naymee 🤙

This setup by @andy is a thing of beauty 👌

Introducing: H1 Gallery 

A collection of the best marketing headlines on the internet. No BS.

I'll scour the internet every single week collecting marketing copy that makes me stop doomscrolling without warning.

Sent to your inbox every Friday morning.

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@rjgilbert I see you liking my desk posts! lemme back on workspaces!!! (I'm not actually yelling, I just like exclamation points)

If you’re not subscribed for the Workspaces newsletter already, you should be. Someday it might even include you. 👀

Workspaces sent 1,251,928 emails in 2023 🤯

These Sticker Mule emails are so simple yet so good 👌

Workspaces in Jan 2024:

💻 70,038 website page views
📈 1,150,000 twitter impressions
👥 37,000 followers
💌 12,500 subscribers

Thank you random Workspaces subscriber ❤️

Excited to announce a new little project! 🎉

Archived - a new weekly newsletter that will take you on a trip down memory lane as we explore the humble beginnings of your favorite tech companies 

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What are you most proud of from 2023?

Personally or professionally!

I sent the very first edition of my newsletter to 10 subscribers

Today there are more than 14,000 readers from some of the top companies in the world

Here is everything that happened in between 👇

https://ryangilbert.co/p/the-workspaces-journey

Decided to put some Google Domains alternatives into a little graphic

Explaining to friends and family that I’m paid to post pictures of desks on the internet

Launching on Product Hunt this week! 

Any last min tips? 😬

Day 1 of trying to turn workspaces.xyz into a “real” business 🤞

It’s 404 day!

Who has the best 404 error page you’ve seen lately?

Recently launched Loops to the public on Product Hunt

The final results?

#1 product of the day
#1 product of the week
#1 dev tool product of the month
#2 product of the month overall

Not too shabby!

Recently redesigned the Workspaces landing page with a renewed focus on capturing emails over pageviews.

The result?

2x increase in conversions.

Small change yielding big results. 

Bonus: pageviews have not been impacted.

Why I started a personal newsletter:

https://ryangilbert.co/p/why-a-personal-newsletter

Who has a workspace that should be featured in workspaces.xyz? 👀

H1 Gallery thumbnail exploration. Thoughts?

Did my first podcast interview! 😅

Talked about:

- transitioning from supply chain to tech 
- starting and selling my Workspaces newsletter
- side projects 
- imposter syndrome

Listen here: https://indiebites.com/92

I sold workspaces.xyz to a venture-backed startup in 2022

Last week I bought it back for $1

AMA

This is the most beautiful home office I've seen in my life. I love the idea of having a coffee place inside your office. https://www.workspaces.xyz/p/265-fatih-arslan

I was featured in the Verge's Installer newsletter (🤯)

I shared my phone home screen, the apps I use, and why I still play Wordle

Take a look: https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/21/24202162/notion-calendar-claude-android-tinypod-ea-football-installer

March numbers for Workspaces 📈

Twitter impressions → 1.25M
Twitter followers → 38,400
Unique website visitors → 58,436
Website pageviews → 79,564
Newsletter clicks → 5,136
Newsletter open rate → 52%
Newsletter subscribers → 12,500+

People love their desk pics.

My newsletter is read by someone at each of these logos 🤯

Getting those featured Google snippets always feels good 🙂