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Tobi Hikari @thikari.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Current trends in newsletters 👇

Tobi Hikari @thikari.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

So I looked at LinkedIn Talent solutions - it makes 7 billion revenue. Every job board founder cut get probably a bite of the cake by implementing: Employer branding options Job slots/listing/ads Recruiter tools Talent insights Pipeline builder Learning like courses etc.

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Tobi Hikari @thikari.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

After couple of days I can say that @vivaldibrowser is really a great EU-based alternative to any US browser.

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Tobi Hikari @thikari.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Tesla’s sales continued to crash in Europe in February, with the first few markets reporting car sales data confirming the American automaker’s ongoing troubles in Europe 💕 Now replace Starlink as fast as posible!

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Tobi Hikari @thikari.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

So starting to replace US tech - checked out some browser alternatives to google chrome. Choose to go with Vivaldi...easy to set up and you can easily import all bookmarks you have on google chrome.

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Tobi Hikari @thikari.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Doing the same - hard to replace some tech i am using, though like WhatsApp or Gmail.

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Tobi Hikari @thikari.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

This orange douche bag in the white house costs me a lot of money! What the hell is he doing?

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Tobi Hikari @thikari.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Started using AI to analyze every job on Sportstechjobs[.]com The most in-demand hard & soft skills in sports tech: 💻 Tech: Python, SQL, JavaScript, Data Analysis 🧠 Soft: Project Management, Communication, Problem-Solving 👇 sportstechjobs.com/skills

sportstechjobs.com

Top 100 Most In-Demand Sports Industry Skills

Explore the top 100 most in-demand skills in the sports industry. Find out which technical and professional skills are most valued by employers in sports tech. Updated regularly with real-time job mar...

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Tobi Hikari @thikari.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

My second home 😍 my wife is Barbadian 🇧🇧. Enjoy!

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Tobi Hikari @thikari.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Finished the skills subpages Each new job gets analyzed with AI Most important skills get saved into DB Each page shows job openings for each skill 💸 salary 📈 growth rate 🏛️ top companies hiring www.sportstechjobs.com/skills

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Tobi Hikari @thikari.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Just read i funny comment under a YouTube video: Leaving the US, the new "American dream". 😂

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Tobi Hikari @thikari.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Just added some code to my job crawler - now every job description gets analyzed by AI (deepseek) and spills out the main skill required for the job. Works quite fine!

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Tobi Hikari @thikari.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I will start to replace most of the software and tools I use (mostly us software like gmail etc.) with European alternatives - any suggestions? What are some cool tools coming from the EU?

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Tobi Hikari @thikari.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I asked Perplexity for a good investment strategy as the world is going crazy: Small-cap U.S. stocks Dividend Stocks Diversify with Bitcoin Real estate investments Financial stocks Defense stocks

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Tobi Hikari @thikari.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

If you want a career change solopreneurship might be your best shot

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Tobi Hikari @thikari.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

My dividend payments over the last three years: 2023 - 3,12€ 2024 - 8,66€ 2025 - 27,13€ I know not much - but there is a 📈

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Tobi Hikari @thikari.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I can’t keep up :-) - why is windsurf better? I am still at vs

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Tobi Hikari @thikari.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I’m now 90% done with automating sponsor identification in newsletters. This will not only save me a lot of time but also allow me to add hundreds of new sponsors daily 🔥

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Tobi Hikari @thikari.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I think job board owners are sleeping on Sparkloop. Every job board collects emails and sends new job posts daily/weekly. So just join Sparkloop, add their newsletter recommendations pop-up, and get paid some extra 💸.

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Tobi Hikari @thikari.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I need to stop reading tweets from the "right tech crowd" about how messed up Europe is—free speech this, MAGA that—and just start watching Friends from the beginning.

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Tobi Hikari @thikari.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I feel currently a bit overwhelmed to find a proper strategy keep growing. I have a product market fit and getting news users every month but feel like lacking a overall marketing and growth strategy

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Tobi Hikari @thikari.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Finished the new @sponsorgap sponsor page! Each brand has: 📅 Founded Year 👥 Est. Employees 📢 Ad Activity 🔗 Insights with similar sponsors 📊 Analytics with est. newsletter ad budget 📇 People to contact with necessary data

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Tobi Hikari @thikari.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

"Passive income" - at least the closest it can get. Getting now dividend payouts* every month/year 💪 *not much in some months but still quite motivating

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Tobi Hikari @thikari.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Took me 5 minutes with the help of chatGPT to replicate this make scenario and the outcome is even better! Just built a script of 112 lines of code.

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Tobi Hikari @thikari.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Finished the analytics part of the sponsor page - data is not yet 100% accurate but I like it. Creators can now see the annual revenue, marketing budget, and above all estimated newsletter ad spend. Also added a Sponsorgap score calculated from the data I have.

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Tobi Hikari @thikari.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Added new trending sponsor 📈 calculation to the dashboard view: The calculation is based on: 30 days Total mention Appearance in different newsletters

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Tobi Hikari @thikari.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Starting to enrich data on @Sponsorgap - adding to each brand the following fields 💸 annualRevenue 👩‍⚕️est. employees 📅 foundedYear 📈 growthStage 🫰 budget Built little automation for it - make checks if a sponsor exists in brand db, if not creates the necessary data with AI.

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Tobi Hikari @thikari.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Sponsors statistics 2024 is out - tracked 3907 ads: 👑 Most tracked overall: Hubspot 💻 Most tracked in Software: Vanta 🌍 in Remote Work: Surfshark 📢 in Marketing: Hubpot 💸 in Finances: Betterment 🏦 in Investing: Ryse See more here: sponsorgap.com/newsletter-s...

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Tobi Hikari @thikari.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Trying something new in 2025 - want to try out journaling.

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Tobi Hikari @thikari.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Interesting to watch if you want to monetize your substack newsletter www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGWX...

youtube.com

Turning Substack into a $60,000 a Year Business

YouTube video by Tim Stodz

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Tobi Hikari @thikari.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

I asked ChatGPT based on my accounting data where i can save money - up to €500?!

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Tobi Hikari @thikari.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I think I'll focus mainly on brands with newsletterscan.com I now have over 3000 topics created from newsletter I am analyzing. Use case: If a brand wants to promote e.g. a new calendar tool they can target the right newsletters by finding the ones already writing about it.

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Tobi Hikari @thikari.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Built a little logo for newsletterscan[.]com - searched for some old logos of cool brands and "designed" a Nintendo like logo

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Tobi Hikari @thikari.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Struggling to find a startup idea that you are passioned about? Do the following: Go to your google account Go to Data & privacy. Under "History settings," click My Activity. Copy your search activity Go to ChatGpt or Claude Write a prompt like 👇 See results 👇

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Tobi Hikari @thikari.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Just watched @gregisenberg.bsky.social very intereseting video with Omar Choudhry - one key lesson is how important JSON schema is for ranking in Google so I just added the schema structure to each topic I generate on newsletterscan[.]com: Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t96l...

youtube.com

Build a high traffic startup using AI, Webflow and Zapier

YouTube video by Greg Isenberg

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Tobi Hikari @thikari.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Added blurred charts to the landing page of newsletterscan.com so the user goes to the pro version and becomes paid user

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Tobi Hikari @thikari.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Here we go little programmatic seo approach - each topic gets now a ai generated description. This hopefully will boost the topic pages and rank them on google. 👉 newsletterscan.com/topic/chatgpt

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Tobi Hikari @thikari.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Cool - how is the response rate?

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Tobi Hikari @thikari.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Currently sending out (still manually) welcome emails to new customers for Sponsorgap.com - Heavily inspired by @justinjackson.ca What welcome emails do you send out? Would love to see some examples!

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Tobi Hikari @thikari.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

100% - especially when they are very young and crying the entire flight!

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Tobi Hikari @thikari.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Finally, it is working... Added openai so each keyphrase/topic from scanning the latest newsletter issues gets a description text - I try to make it SEO friendly and hopefully, i can rank for most of the topics. Would be 🔥

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Tobi Hikari @thikari.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Totally re-set up the sitemaps for sportstechjobs.com as the pages got de-indexed in google. Also trying to improve the page content so hopefully this will get me back to the traffic I had a couple months ago

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