#31 –Fire and spam

California is burning, and Justin's got cousins were in the evacuation zone. So, they, their kids and their pets are all staying with him and it's a crowded house for a bit. That affected Justin's plan to use the trampoline daily but he's made good progress on Slider. Mark got three premium screencasts and one free one published, did a bit of work on the Alchemist Camp site itself, and finally got some work done on Phoenix Igniter! He also survived a fairly persistent spammer attack. It's unclear what their goal was, but they created hundreds of accounts in a short periods of time. Many had odd usernames, such as URLs or a concatenation of obvious spam terms, but those names aren't visible to other users. Mark had to deal with it in real-time, harden the signup process enough to deter them and then do a bit of research to make sure the next bots have an even harder time. Mark loves the new iPad & pencil! It's completely replaced his Wacom tablet and he's been doing some drawing drills and even putting a few sketches into his YT videos. He's also gotten back into using it to generate ideas about different topics daily (see link to "Altucher Idea Muscle"). One thing that's come out of this is a lot of offerings he could add to Alchemist Camp. Nugget Bootcamp's stats have worked out to very round numbers. Out of 330 people who started, 30 finished. Of them, 3 bought. So it's about a 10% conversion from starting to finishing the mini-course and about 10% of those who finish buy the full course. The next step is to get feedback from successful students and add testimonials throughout the course. Today's Topics include: Fire Spammers iPads Idea generation Subscriptions vs One-off sales Freemium as marketing The content treadmill Successful Nuggeteers Mentioned California fires Invisible Capcha Procreate app Altucher Idea Muscle Alchemist Camp Nugget Academy Mark's goals for next time Get 5 screencasts recorded Justin's goals for next time Make a DB abstraction for the Roblox game (Slider) Video version at https://youtu.be/kuePKu5jwCc Comment at https://reactor.am/podcasts/31 Recorded on 2020-09-23