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Inspiration is the thing that gets you to the thing.

You’re blog post was 1000% better than the landing page, because it was real. Stick to that voice. Replace the stock images and marketing-speak with halt-and-catch-fire design/quotes, code snippets and sample output.

Don’t try to get customers. Get early adopters who share the vision and want to come along for the ride as you experiment and push the envelope. If you’re vision is clear and speaks to a real pain (getting structured data from the web is a pita) there will be early adopters willing to pay. Those same people are your best market and will make great future employees.

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