@andrewaskins.com - Andrew Askins

07 Jan 2026 21:21 +0000

@johnfdoherty.com yo! Congrats on selling EditorNinja, just scheduled a call and then started putting the pieces together when I saw the guy I was scheduled with had a proofed.com email

15 Dec 2025 12:59 +0000

There's a B2B lesson in here somewhere

11 Dec 2025 16:15 +0000

We've made some big improvements to the MetaMonster crawling and onboarding experiences over the last month! You no longer have to wait for a crawl to finish to start queuing up your first workflows. This makes the overall experience of getting started with a new project WAY faster. Next up:

26 Nov 2025 05:55 +0000

Three years ago I sold my agency to one of our long time clients and went to work for them. I made it 11 months before I got fired. I wrote about the experience, how it felt, and what I took away from it: https://www.andrewaskins.com/how-to-get-fired/

08 Jun 2025 16:00 +0000

Something we've found helpful when testing prompts for MetaMonster: have the LLM output it's "rationale."

07 Jun 2025 20:15 +0000

Pretty cool: - I crawled our site - Told the AI to analyze my page titles and generate an engagement score from 1-10 - Filter to < 5 - Generated optimized titles - Had the AI score the optimized version and provide a justification

21 Apr 2025 17:43 +0000

The MetaMonster WordPress plugin is live! You can now: - Crawl your site to find missing metadata - Generate optimized titles and descriptions w/ 1 click - Publish directly to WordPress That's 3-5 clicks to update titles and descriptions for every page on your site. https://wordpress.org/plugins/metamonster/

17 Apr 2025 16:18 +0000

Rolled out handy little feature in MetaMonster this week to let you export all of your page content as markdown.

14 Apr 2025 17:03 +0000

I think I may have taken the "bootstrappers need to charge more" advice a little too seriously and overpriced the MetaMonster beta... 😬 Don't want to overreact to small sample sizes just yet, but seriously considering cutting the price by 50% (add increasing what's included in each plan)

13 Mar 2025 14:50 +0000

This season of Tiny Seed Tales with @leenyburger.bsky.social is so good because THIS is the hard stuff!! It's easy to keep doing what's working. It's easy to shut down something that obviously isn't working. But so many businesses spend time somewhere in the middle.

06 Mar 2025 17:57 +0000

Loved talking to Benjamin and Marie on Grief & Pizza. We got into a lot of great stuff around mental health and the ups and downs of being a founder. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

27 Feb 2025 20:20 +0000

LOVE this newsletter CTA from balsamiq

20 Feb 2025 16:58 +0000

Really appreciate the real talk from @leenyburger.bsky.social in the latest episode of Tiny Seed Tales https://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/episodes/episode-759-tinyseed-tales-s4e6-does-ai-pivot-success

12 Feb 2025 21:40 +0000

I've been in a season of bad ADHD lately and this week I've been using Cursor Composer in Agent mode to help me just get started. Big unlock. Helps that: - Our code is a monolith (API context) - My cofounder already had components and styles built out - I'm working on super simple stuff

05 Feb 2025 16:59 +0000

Just closed customer number 1 for MetaMonster 👀 It's a friend, but they fit our ICP AND they're using the heck out of the product and getting a lot of value from it. Lot more to do from here!!

05 Feb 2025 16:20 +0000

We just released directed crawls to alpha users! 📋 Now you can choose to crawl your entire site or crawl a list of pages you specify This is a great way to narrow suggestions only to the pages you care about, or break a large site into batches

29 Jan 2025 16:24 +0000

Why did no one tell me building a web crawler would be such a pain in the ass? 😂

26 Jan 2025 00:22 +0000

We got path planning working on our robot today! Now the students can design an autonomous routine in the pathplanner UI by drawing lines on a field map. Super cool open source tool.

22 Jan 2025 14:45 +0000

Looking through analytics this morning and this looks like it was actually coming from our google ads campaign Not sure why our ads were showing up on youtube... they aren't video ads and I thought they were restricted just to google search But that makes more sense [contains quote post or other embedded content]

21 Jan 2025 17:13 +0000

Hot take: I don't hate Jira They've put a lot of work into updating it, and it's a powerful tool that can be really effective in certain circumstances

20 Jan 2025 22:44 +0000

If you can't build a good remote culture that's on you, not your employees. Honestly the push back on remote work makes me want to build a team again. It's going to be so easy to compete for great people and give them a better environment than 90% of what's out there.

20 Jan 2025 21:22 +0000

We currently have 4 SUPER low production value videos on our @metamonster.ai YouTube channel that up until today didn't even have direct links to our site and we're still seeing a small trickle of traffic from YouTube That's hella encouraging

20 Jan 2025 16:15 +0000

I dig this essay from Edmar Ferreira about the differences between building in AI versus traditional software startups. https://every.to/source-code/why-building-in-ai-is-nothing-like-making-conventional-software

16 Jan 2025 21:37 +0000

New episode of Small Efforts is out! 🤖 My robotics team is upgrading our tech 🌶️ Sean's time at Shmoocon got spicy 👹 And I'm riding the high of a great prospect call for MetaMonster. share.transistor.fm/s/b13b6954 https://share.transistor.fm/s/b13b6954

16 Jan 2025 17:14 +0000

Getting some really positive early feedback from our first MetaMonster users! Excited to start slowly opening up the alpha. Only problem is I have SO MANY IDEAS. I want to build all the things, but now have to focus and prioritize. Ugh.

16 Jan 2025 17:10 +0000

Stoked for this season! Just listened to episode one this morning and can’t wait for more [contains quote post or other embedded content]

15 Jan 2025 17:27 +0000

Just did a lightweight SEO audit for a friend, really helpful for putting myself in the shoes of our @metamonster.ai users