I got tired of manually calculating tax owed per country across all my apps for my quarterly 🇪🇺 EU and 🇬🇧 UK VAT filings so I made this quick tool.

jamespotter.dev/stripe-tax-fil…

GPT-4 did most of the work and I added quick styling with MVP.css

This story went under the radar but it's potentially quite interesting if you do any web scraping.

For now it would be optional but you can imagine a future scenario where servers require that all clients have a TPM chip.

We have a winner! 27x price increase.

Something I didn't convey well in my original (now regretted) tweet: for those receiving these emails, it's not immediately clear *why* the price is going up so much.

There's no link to a dashboard showing the overages. It was all a bit…

Jeffrey Jose we heard you loud and clear: bandwidth and functions are too expensive.

so we just made it 15x more expensive.

enjoy!

✅ Just passed $500 MRR for meals.chat and I haven't marketed it at all for a couple of weeks so it seems to be slowly growing by word-of-mouth

My OpenAI bill is still ~$300/mo though so I need to work on that. It's probably due to my essay-length prompts.

Spotify just added ratings to their web app so Rephonic now scrapes them across ~3m podcasts.

I calculate a weighted average across all platforms (according to the number of ratings on each platform) so I *think* this is now the most accurate overall rating for a podcast that…

More sharing of the lows! So far influencer marketing didn't work well at all for meals.chat

I spent $1070 for a total audience of 178k on TikTok/IG

They barely registered as even a blip on the App Store downloads chart and resulted in ~100 visits to the landing…

✅ First influencer marketing reels/tiktoks going out for meals.chat

Attribution seems tricky with iOS apps. How do people track this? Coupon codes?

✅ Added calories for individual ingredients to meals.chat

Also started adding blog content for SEO and it's already ranking.

MRR: $423 (come at me copycats!)
Customers: 83
Users: 7914
Days since I started: 50

Telegram users are still converting way more to paid…