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How Publer Went from $0 to $3M ARR and Almost Died (Twice) Along the Way

Ervin Kalemi @ervinkalemi.com · 20h

TL;DR: Luck sides with those who refuse to give up when it makes absolutely no sense to keep going

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Ervin Kalemi @ervinkalemi.com · 2d

Trying Vegemite for the first — and probably last — time in my life.

Ervin Kalemi @ervinkalemi.com · 4d

The full uncut video will premiere soon on YouTube

Ervin Kalemi @ervinkalemi.com · 4d

Q: If you could go back, what would you do differently?

A: Build in public since day one, and not just LinkedIn!

Ervin Kalemi @ervinkalemi.com · 4d

The Publer Story

Ep 5: Q&A

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Ervin Kalemi @ervinkalemi.com · 5d

Going with linkie.bio/ervinkalemi until Linkie ≥ Linktree

Santiago on X: "@ervinkalemi Enterprise is not affected. This is only for self-serve tiers" / X

Ervin Kalemi @ervinkalemi.com · 5d

Left or right?

If I want to promote my link-in-bio tool in my bio, which URL to use:

L - My custom domain, supported by the tool, looks more professional

R - The branded domain, which looks cheap, but helps with brand awareness

Both links will take you to the same spot.

Ervin Kalemi @ervinkalemi.com · 7d

It didn't 😅

@ervinkalemi Enterprise is not affected. This is only for self-serve tiers

x.com

Ervin Kalemi @ervinkalemi.com · 7d

Hopefully this will age well 🤞🏻

Developer Console

An all-new Developer Console and consumption-based billing. No fixed monthly costs, no monthly caps.

console.x.com

How Publer Went from $0 to $3M ARR and Almost Died (Twice) Along the Way

Ervin Kalemi @ervinkalemi.com · 7d

The full uncut video will premiere soon on YouTube

How Publer Went from $0 to $3M ARR (and Almost Died Along the Way)

www.youtube.com

Ervin Kalemi @ervinkalemi.com · 7d

The Publer Story

Ep 4: Elon Musk X API Saga

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Ervin Kalemi @ervinkalemi.com · 10d

The full uncut video will premiere soon on YouTube

How Publer Went from $0 to $3M ARR (and Almost Died Along the Way)

Ervin Kalemi @ervinkalemi.com · 10d

The full uncut video will premiere soon on YouTube

How Publer Went from $0 to $3M ARR (and Almost Died Along the Way)

Ervin Kalemi @ervinkalemi.com · 10d

The full uncut video will premiere soon on YouTube

Ervin Kalemi @ervinkalemi.com · 11d

The Publer Story

Ep 3: AppSumo breakthrough

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Ervin Kalemi @ervinkalemi.com · 14d

The Publer Story

Ep 2: The lowest point of my life, and ironically, Publer's

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Ervin Kalemi @ervinkalemi.com · 18d

The Publer Story

Ep 1: Road that led to Publer.

The full video will be posted on Publer's YouTube channel.

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Ervin Kalemi @ervinkalemi.com · 20d

I was there too

Ervin Kalemi @ervinkalemi.com · 21d

As my last commit, I launched these free tools for the Publer + social media community:

publer.com/tools/background (used for the screenshot above)

publer.com/tools/quote

publer.com/tools/screenshoter

🙇🏻

Ervin Kalemi @ervinkalemi.com · 21d

This has been my coding contribution to Publer this past year.

It used to be much "brighter" in the previous years, but this is still abnormal for a CEO.

I call it the heartbeat of my professional life.

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Ervin Kalemi @ervinkalemi.com · 21d

All the ins and outs. All the failures. All the lessons. No filters. No fancy talk.

But to make this more interesting, please ask me anything that you would like to know. Anything!

P.S. I bought a professional camera and mic just for this.