fail more, win more - chiang mai recently

keep failing until you win

hey friends,

Q4 is nearly 50% over.

everything’s speeding up. launches, ideas & experiments.

and honestly, most of them fail.
and i’m ok with that :)

because i keep seeing the only way to win more… is to fail more.

Builders gonna build 🏗️

quick lesson/raw brain dump

i keep getting reminded to zoom out

short term doesn’t matter

just keep stacking the days. play long term games with long term people 🏗️

if you want to win more, you have to fail more.

failing more isn’t the goal. it’s the cost of winning more.


and it’s a price I’ll happily keep paying. 🙂 

the last month has been hectic.


launched a coin ($jars) and started live streaming daily(300+ hours streamed)


redefining building in public. raw, unfiltered, no edits.

$0 → $649,900 in 1 month 🙂 

ChatGPT sent us 95 users. Here's how.

$0 ad spend. 95 visitors for DMpro 

Here's what worked:

Brand mentions

Got DMpro mentioned in tons of directories & Youtube videos. LLMs trust sites that mention you.

Also testing some press releases for more brand mentions.

Programmatic SEO

Keyword research. Then used ChatGPT to create Cursor prompts. Generated pages at scale.

One warning:

Start with quality. Don't publish hundreds of pages overnight. Build slow, then scale.

95 visitors isn't massive.

But it's new traffic we didn't have before. And it's growing.

Jars Updates

  1. Agencies

    The highest quality leads come from networking.

    But it’s just the first step, content keeps you top of customers mind.

    So I’m still networking, then nurturing with content. That way when someone is ready to buy, I'm the first person they think of.

  2. SaaS

    1. DMpro → Still doubling down on the agency side. Becoming more of a lead generation agency since that’s what’s growing MRR fastest :)

    2. Outbrand & Saylo

      Honestly been lacking. Trying my hardest to build agencies into automated cash cows & capitalize traction DMpro is getting.

      Both products get decent traffic & signups, but need funnel optimization to improve growth.

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