#21: High traffic websites powered by open data + Skiff Summer Promo is Live
The Skiff's Summer Promotion is now Live You can be one of 10 people to join The Skiff with 50% off your first month. Snap up one of our new pricing plans designed to be a better fit for new and returning members like you. Isn't it time you had a change of scenery during the working week?
Use promo code JUNE2350 to get 50% off your first month In this 21st edition of Brighton Dynamic:
SaaS Saturday If you're woking on a SaaS and want to hangout with like minded folk put Saturday 1st July in your diary. Jon's running a kind of all day conference “hallway track” at The Skiff. A bunch of people with things in common. Hanging out/hacking, going for walks around town, eating lunch together and drinks at end of day. You can pop in to say hello, stay for the whole day or anything in between. It's free, just let us know you're coming here: Attend SaaS Saturday Meet Tom Buck Tom Buck is a programmer and entrepreneur who harnesses the power of open data to create high-traffic websites. From building a site that analyses mobile broadband speeds in the UK to pioneering projects like crimerate.co.uk. You'll learn how Tom:
Tom's websites hold the number 2 and 3 spots of highest traffic websites owned and operated by members of The Skiff with hundreds of thousands of visitors each month. Don't miss this deep-dive into Tom's fascinating world of data and entrepreneurship. Listen to the interview or read the transcript Check out Fair Internet Report and CrimeRate Check out Touch Stay One of Touch Stay's founders, Joe Jones, works from The Skiff. He holds the current crown of owning and operating the highest traffic website among Skiffmates. Inspired to start Touch Stay after a 21 month travelling trip across 3 continents, Joe is a firm believer that the best way to experience any destination is to ask the locals. While proudly profitable, Touch Stay, raised a seed round to bolster their coffers last year: It’s the second time we’ve taken a small amount of investment – the first being pre-pandemic when some of our customers fuelled the funding that saw us through an unexpected couple of years... This time, some of those same customers invested again.
From this post in the Touch Stay blog.
Customers really can make the best investors! They ended 2022 with:
Touch Stay is currently ranked 30th on our list of successful Sussex SaaS. Know some we're missing? Disagree with the rank? Hit reply to let us know. Also let us know if you're a customer of TouchStay. Jon would love to ask you a few (easy!) questions. 6 Local Events: Two of last week's events Doodle Club & Show & Tell were really wonderful. You can find a write up of them here. The Farm Freelancers Networking (weekly) — Weds 21st, 8–11pm — Battle of Trafalgar Cinematic Synthesis: A Journey into Generative AI — Thurs 22nd — 9am-10am — The FuseBox Brighton R — June Meetup — Thurs 22nd — 6pm-9pm — Location TBC Brighton JUG — Summer Social — Thurs 29th — 6pm-8pm — 13–14 Foundry Street Brighton Ruby - 2023 Conference — Fri 30th — 9:30am-6pm — Brighton Dome A huge gathering of people who use Jon's favourite programming language. 7 wonderful speakers from around the world joined by hundreds of Ruby developers. SaaS Saturday — Sat 1st July — 9am-6pm — The Skiff A kind of all day conference “hallway track”. A bunch of people who are working on software products. Hanging out/hacking, going for walks around town, eating lunch together and drinks at end of day. Every reply we get makes a difference! If you like what you read from us, let us know and we'll see if we can power through to 50 editions of Brighton Dynamic. And do send us your tips - which people, companies and events do you think 2,000+ people like you would like to hear about? Jon, Caroline & Paul PS If you'd like to hangout with us it would be great to see you at The Skiff, either at SaaS Saturday or as a new member - that promo code again JUNE2350 to get 50% off your first month If you liked this you might like to:
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