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Things I built, shipped, and learned from.
PaperDrop
6 weeks
Send articles, PDFs, and EPUBs to your Kindle via Telegram. "Read later" that actually delivers.
40 users, 16 Kindle deliveries, 0 paid subscriptions. Cost-conscious audience + easy to replicate = no pricing power. Two competitors appeared the same week we stopped.
EPUB Fixer: Paid Experiment → Free Utility
7-week paid-business experiment
The paid-business thesis failed; the active free utility helps Apple Books exports work with Kindle, Kobo, and Calibre.
EPUB Fixer failed as a paid business but succeeded as a free utility. Keep the focused repair tool live; do not force unrelated monetization into the download flow.