Tobi Hikari

New traffic record 🔥

Current trends in newsletters 👇

Hi, I am back here ✌️

So I looked at LinkedIn Talent solutions - it makes 7 billion revenue. Every job board founder cut get probably a bite of the cake by implementing: Employer branding options Job slots/listing/ads Recruiter tools Talent insights Pipeline builder Learning like courses etc.

After couple of days I can say that @vivaldibrowser is really a great EU-based alternative to any US browser.

Tesla’s sales continued to crash in Europe in February, with the first few markets reporting car sales data confirming the American automaker’s ongoing troubles in Europe 💕 Now replace Starlink as fast as posible!

So starting to replace US tech - checked out some browser alternatives to google chrome. Choose to go with Vivaldi...easy to set up and you can easily import all bookmarks you have on google chrome.

This orange douche bag in the white house costs me a lot of money! What the hell is he doing?

If you have not already...now is the time to support 🇺🇦!!! war.ukraine.ua/donate/

Started using AI to analyze every job on Sportstechjobs[.]com The most in-demand hard & soft skills in sports tech: 💻 Tech: Python, SQL, JavaScript, Data Analysis 🧠 Soft: Project Management, Communication, Problem-Solving 👇 sportstechjobs.com/skills

Finished the skills subpages Each new job gets analyzed with AI Most important skills get saved into DB Each page shows job openings for each skill 💸 salary 📈 growth rate 🏛️ top companies hiring www.sportstechjobs.com/skills

Just read i funny comment under a YouTube video: Leaving the US, the new "American dream". 😂

Just added some code to my job crawler - now every job description gets analyzed by AI (deepseek) and spills out the main skill required for the job. Works quite fine!

I will start to replace most of the software and tools I use (mostly us software like gmail etc.) with European alternatives - any suggestions? What are some cool tools coming from the EU?

I asked Perplexity for a good investment strategy as the world is going crazy: Small-cap U.S. stocks Dividend Stocks Diversify with Bitcoin Real estate investments Financial stocks Defense stocks

If you want a career change solopreneurship might be your best shot

My dividend payments over the last three years: 2023 - 3,12€ 2024 - 8,66€ 2025 - 27,13€ I know not much - but there is a 📈

I’m now 90% done with automating sponsor identification in newsletters. This will not only save me a lot of time but also allow me to add hundreds of new sponsors daily 🔥

I think job board owners are sleeping on Sparkloop. Every job board collects emails and sends new job posts daily/weekly. So just join Sparkloop, add their newsletter recommendations pop-up, and get paid some extra 💸.

I need to stop reading tweets from the "right tech crowd" about how messed up Europe is—free speech this, MAGA that—and just start watching Friends from the beginning.

Finished the new @sponsorgap sponsor page! Each brand has: 📅 Founded Year 👥 Est. Employees 📢 Ad Activity 🔗 Insights with similar sponsors 📊 Analytics with est. newsletter ad budget 📇 People to contact with necessary data

"Passive income" - at least the closest it can get. Getting now dividend payouts* every month/year 💪 *not much in some months but still quite motivating

Took me 5 minutes with the help of chatGPT to replicate this make scenario and the outcome is even better! Just built a script of 112 lines of code.

Finished the analytics part of the sponsor page - data is not yet 100% accurate but I like it. Creators can now see the annual revenue, marketing budget, and above all estimated newsletter ad spend. Also added a Sponsorgap score calculated from the data I have.

Added new trending sponsor 📈 calculation to the dashboard view: The calculation is based on: 30 days Total mention Appearance in different newsletters

Starting to enrich data on @Sponsorgap - adding to each brand the following fields 💸 annualRevenue 👩‍⚕️est. employees 📅 foundedYear 📈 growthStage 🫰 budget Built little automation for it - make checks if a sponsor exists in brand db, if not creates the necessary data with AI.

Sponsors statistics 2024 is out - tracked 3907 ads: 👑 Most tracked overall: Hubspot 💻 Most tracked in Software: Vanta 🌍 in Remote Work: Surfshark 📢 in Marketing: Hubpot 💸 in Finances: Betterment 🏦 in Investing: Ryse See more here: sponsorgap.com/newsletter-s...

Trying something new in 2025 - want to try out journaling.

Interesting to watch if you want to monetize your substack newsletter www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGWX...

I asked ChatGPT based on my accounting data where i can save money - up to €500?!

I think I'll focus mainly on brands with newsletterscan.com I now have over 3000 topics created from newsletter I am analyzing. Use case: If a brand wants to promote e.g. a new calendar tool they can target the right newsletters by finding the ones already writing about it.

Built a little logo for newsletterscan[.]com - searched for some old logos of cool brands and "designed" a Nintendo like logo

Struggling to find a startup idea that you are passioned about? Do the following: Go to your google account Go to Data & privacy. Under "History settings," click My Activity. Copy your search activity Go to ChatGpt or Claude Write a prompt like 👇 See results 👇

Just watched @gregisenberg.bsky.social very intereseting video with Omar Choudhry - one key lesson is how important JSON schema is for ranking in Google so I just added the schema structure to each topic I generate on newsletterscan[.]com: Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t96l...

Added blurred charts to the landing page of newsletterscan.com so the user goes to the pro version and becomes paid user

Here we go little programmatic seo approach - each topic gets now a ai generated description. This hopefully will boost the topic pages and rank them on google. 👉 newsletterscan.com/topic/chatgpt

Currently sending out (still manually) welcome emails to new customers for Sponsorgap.com - Heavily inspired by @justinjackson.ca What welcome emails do you send out? Would love to see some examples!

Finally, it is working... Added openai so each keyphrase/topic from scanning the latest newsletter issues gets a description text - I try to make it SEO friendly and hopefully, i can rank for most of the topics. Would be 🔥

Me reading the news and trying to get back to work on my projects

Almost there 😀

Totally re-set up the sitemaps for sportstechjobs.com as the pages got de-indexed in google. Also trying to improve the page content so hopefully this will get me back to the traffic I had a couple months ago

If other social media platforms would have a starter pack feature (and would bet that they will implement it soon) a lot of "Get followers on XYZ platform" would be totally obsolete!

Experimenting with creating a AI Avatar - tried out HeyGen and Synthesia. Both feel a bit buggy and missing an easy way to change the background of the video. Also quite expensive. Any other tool I could try out? Could be good product to build for indiehackers

Two weeks here and I have already over 400 followers - one of the best features here are the starter packs.

Improved the label page sportstechjobs.com - added the median salary 💸 and the job growth rate 📈 + the top companies hiring 🏣.

One minute scrolling on X and you quickly realize that it is a place full of assholes…sorry to say

If I think some years back it was totally nuts that something like this would happen - if countries like the US, Brazil etc. really start to build up a bitcoin reserve I am really curious how high the BTC is in a couple of years. www.theblock.co/post/328448/...

What is the best ai model to create my own ai video avatar?

Got totally de-indexed by google for sportstechjobs.com - currently trying to improve my sitemaps as a lot of pages got crawled but not indexed - not 100%sure why probably also need to improve content a bit.

Of all the products I use, make.com has the best pricing - for just $9/m you can automate a lot of your tasks.