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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 15/09/2026

my new automated support agent surprised me today for context - I shipped a new "frame" feature for ColorBliss a few weeks ago. A power user replied to my changelog email with a few use cases where it could be made more useful. I put it in my backlog.

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 08/09/2026

it’s that big bug time of year

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 14/08/2026

who else got a sneak peek of origin? i was able to enable it for a few codebases and click around a bit. it synced all the code / files very quickly

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 11/08/2026

The first proof came in from the new ColorBliss print product. It turned out really good I think, a few updates and I should be ready to handle printed and shipped custom coloring books later this month

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 10/08/2026

one thing i've been working on over the past month is automating some of the more rote parts of my product/business stack, and putting myself into the reviewer/decider position instead of the investigator position as much as possible this has been going very well... ben.robertson.is/jottles/one...

A list displays project names, authors, creation dates, and statuses, all from Ben Robertson's database automation efforts.

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 08/08/2026

pretty excited to introduce this new product into the ColorBliss fold - this is the prototype of the new "mosaic mystery" coloring page recommended by a ColorBliss user this week! my home team product tester really likes it

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 07/08/2026

It's been a while since I've had something for my home team product testers to try out for ColorBliss - but made some progress on two long-awaited feature requests! the team stayed busy yesterday afternoon with the first batch of color by number coloring pages ben.robertson.is/jottles/its...

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 07/07/2026

time to add "email automation expert" to my resume

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 12/05/2026

this is what customer support looks like when you run an image generation company this originally appeared at ben.robertson.is/jottles/thi... on May 11, 2026

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 08/05/2026

something has gone horribly wrong this originally appeared at ben.robertson.is/jottles/som... on May 8, 2026

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 05/05/2026

celebrated my 37th birthday over the weekend, surrounded by some little ones who love me unconditionally life is good

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 30/04/2026

should i add this to the colorbliss landing page? after seeing the savannah bananas sign up, i had my ai scan signup domains and found some legit companies in our database. not sure customers will care, but i think it’s pretty cool. ben.robertson.is/jottles/sho...

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 20/04/2026

I had the great privilege to take this past week off, spend all day in quiet and prayer, and answer support tickets from this nice little bench for 30 minutes or so each evening huge thanks to my wife for holding down the fort while I was gone. coming back super recharged and ready to work clean

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 14/04/2026

i found out about this clone of ColorBliss because someone submitted a responsible disclosure not only did this clone forget to change the brand name from ColorBliss to their name on most of the pages of the site, the contact email is my email 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 11/04/2026

testing out a new image model for colorbliss photo conversion it works really well with text! this originally appeared at ben.robertson.is/jottles/tes... on April 10, 2026

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 09/04/2026

adding a bit of fun to the colorbliss home page or rather, a bit MORE fun, since there is already plenty of fun on the page 🖼️👨‍🎨 (this originally appeared at ben.robertson.is/jottles/add... on April 8, 2026)

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 11/03/2026

the engagement baiting on chatgpt has gotten really bad in the past few days. first noticed it over the weekend. i'll ask it a question, and it will give me an answer and a long rationale for that answer example: ben.robertson.is/jottles/the...

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 11/03/2026

First pizza from the new oven 🍕

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 03/03/2026

a trial user just let me know that the ColorBliss pricing plans are more expensive than a company that has $45 million in funding with a team across 25 countries (pictured below) that's my competition. pretty wild that a 1 person operation can even be on the same field!

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 23/02/2026

A new thing I'm trying out: having the LLM keep track of the experiments I ship I realized I'm shipping a ton of updates but having a hard time remembering two weeks out to go back and check to see if they worked (this originally appeared at ben.robertson.is/jottles/a-n... on February 23, 2026)

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 18/02/2026

i was inspired to try making an astro theme that is semi-terminal based why? i'm not sure i don't even plan to use this for my personal site i just kind of thought it would be an interesting UI quick demo of what i came up with this afternoon would you use it?

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 13/02/2026

This prompt from the nextjs mcp makes me chuckle

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 12/02/2026

If you haven't been able to tell, I've been spending a lot of time on email marketing for ColorBliss this month. One big initiative is a new drip campaign. After folks go through the onboarding flow, I'll hit them with one email a week. Each one is short, following the rule of one.

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 10/02/2026

✅ launch new feature ✅ announce the new feature ✅ follow up with an upgrade email one week later to the people who clicked on the new feature announcement 93% open and 89% click rate is an all time high for me. but so far a 0% conversion to paid plan

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 09/02/2026

Changing his name to Benito because he’s a bad bunny

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 23/01/2026

did a little spelunking on stats for a year in review email for ColorBliss 92k new users, up from 51k previous year!! interestingly, total coloring pages created was down quite a bit from the previous year (500k this year versus 750k last) I think there's a few reasons:

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 10/01/2026

decided to go ye olde schoole with the dates on my personal site

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 09/01/2026

this looks like a legit review, and then upon further inspection... i flagged it to amazon, but i wonder how they are handling this kind of thing at scale and if they can

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 08/01/2026

did a podcast with my old mentor Adam Landrum. he gave me my first real shot in tech when i joined his agency as an apprentice back in 2014. really enjoyed this one, both recording it and listening back. (link: ben.robertson.is/notes/i-app...) we talk about:

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 02/12/2025

I decided not to do a sale or promotion for black friday this year for colorbliss But I still sent an email out to my list I was mostly just curious to see if it would get opened during the rush of thanksgiving / black friday emails

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 04/11/2025

entering my "i will give you a great quote for your product launch" era

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 30/10/2025

the colorbliss dashboard has been feeling a little sluggish to me today i added proper loading states for each route as well as a nice little sidebar navigation animation / active indicator to make everything feel a lot snappier i'm not going to show the before because....

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 23/10/2025

a fun little update to my personal site - my face now follows your mouse around :) Kylan O'Connor (@kylancodes) posted an example of how he did this for his personal site, and I thought it would be a good fit for my illustration on my home page

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 08/10/2025

seeing the token awards from openai got me curious about colorbliss. i'm at 3-4 billion tokens so far trending at half a billion in the last 30 days. looks like I'm on track to hit 10 billion somewhere in the next 12 months

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 23/09/2025

I've been focusing on optimizing the funnel for ColorBliss the past two weeks, and my latest experiment is a big change to the layout of the "choose plan" page. Conversion rate had dropped off quite a bit there in recent months

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 22/09/2025

if you know me, you probably already know about ColorBliss. (if you don't, it's the coloring page creator I've been working on for two years!) in the spirit of "never stop launching," ColorBliss is live on Peerlist this week.

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 18/09/2025

Missed it by a couple of days, but ColorBliss is officially two years old!!

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 18/09/2025

thinking about a new tagline for colorbliss.........

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 16/09/2025

one fun thing that happens in the colorbliss support queue teachers tell their students about colorbliss and then they sign up for class or something and then reply to my emails

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 15/09/2025

what does it mean if this still image is my best TikTok of the month

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 15/09/2025

new seo milestone for colorbliss 📈

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 13/09/2025

well well well, would you look at that turns out highly targeted emails to your list are much more engaging! gonna have to push this strategy farther...

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 12/09/2025

I got completely nerd-sniped this week...and well...started a new project. I signed up for an expensive-for-me SaaS product to help me with something on ColorBliss. High-priced, but if it delivered on it's promise, it would change the game. But the onboarding experience was clunky and slow.

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 05/09/2025

celebrating two years of self-employment this week... and going strong!!

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 05/09/2025

this strikes me as a really odd email for trustpilot to send out to everyone like...this is so far outside of your core offering (which I use, begrudgingly) why should we care about the font on your website?

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 29/08/2025

gonna clean this up a bit, but webmentions are working on my personal site! it's able to pull likes/reposts/posts from bluesky. looks like every other social network has blocked api access for this kind of stuff now but also it should accept webmentions from your webmention enabled site as well!!

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 29/08/2025

got a google news alert about colorbliss this morning but when i took a second to look at it, it triggered my dead internet theory alarm if you're curious to follow along and take a peak into a hot pile of internet garbage, i documented it here ben.robertson.is/notes/a-perf...

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 28/08/2025

for whatever reason, devin's agent is so much easier to work with than cursor set up was more direct, and I feel like it "just works" most of the time the summary and detail is really impressive to me i find that i go to devin first when i have a small well-defined change

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