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2024 Summary - A year of trips and professional work
Closing out 2024 my highlights were mostly in conferences. The majority of my time was occupied with professional work going towards a big product release, viral posts and many conferences in Italy,...
2023 Summary - Data Driven Stories About The Cloud
Another year down, so that means another recap. For the past recaps, you can see: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022. The goals for 2022 were essentially in two parts: to grow on YouTube, and to build out...
2022 Summary - The Open Up The Cloud System
Hello, friends of Open Up The Cloud ! 👋 Welcome to the 2022 annual report for Open Up The Cloud. Here we’ll reflect together on last years goals, data and revenue, and then look at plans and goals...
2021 Summary - A Rebrand To “Open Up The Cloud” & The Start Of Video Content
It’s now become a tradition for me to sit down and do an end of year review, if you want to see the previous years, here is 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020. But wow, what a crazy year 2021 has been!...
Income Report – Dec 2021
This is the first in a series of monthly income reports. In these reports, I will share where Open Up The Cloud generates it’s revenue, and where every penny is spent. Open Up The Cloud is a...
2020 Summary - Traffic Growth, The Websites First Income & The Plans For 2021!
Woah! Here we are, another year down! 2020 was a very interesting year for the website, and I’m super excited to share how the year went down with you, diving into what went well, not so well, and...
How I Gained Consistent Traffic To My Website Using SEO (And How You Can, Too)
Are you growing a website of your own? Are you looking to generate traffic to view your work? I want to take a slight step away from the usual proceedings of cloud content to talk about a somewhat...
2019 Summary - Up & Running With Serverless and Regaining Blogging Motivation
At the end of the year it’s now become somewhat of a tradition that I partake in the whole year in summary thing. I do find it interesting to read these posts, and I like doing my own since it’s a...
2018 - A Year In Review
Last year when I put out content around the new year about my plans I got a spike in traffic. I guess something about the personal nature of the post was attractive. Based on how much people seemed...
Iterating to product/market fit
We’ve been working hard over the past few weeks to put together finishing touches to the UI design. Whilst it’s not perfect, and with many more ideas to come, the product is starting to come...
The one and only thing I’ll be focusing on in 2018
“You seem Zen. Do you meditate?”. We were in a bar having a catch up drink before Christmas. We hadn’t spoken for a year, but we’ve been friends for a long time. I didn’t think much of the comment at...
The best reads of 2017
2017 it seems was the year of marketing, business and philosophy reading. A big (reading related) revelation of 2017: Used books on Amazon. This has saved me a huge bunch of cash. I read around 75...
The Secret Splitoo Master Plan (just between you and me)
On the 2nd of August 2006 Elon Musk wrote a blog: “The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan (just between you and me)”. A prophecy about what he would achieve with Tesla. 10 years on in 2016 he responded...
A rundown on the insights from user-testing Splitoo.
This Saturday was our first round of user testing with the Splitoo product. It’s been a year in the work. From discussing ideas, looking at payments solutions and settling on a business model. We are...