Unbelievable, but this little project turned one year old yesterday! 🥳

Let’s celebrate! 🎊

To mark the occasion, I’m sharing some insights - and a few surprises!

💡 Why this newsletter?

I started the Nerdletter out of pure curiosity.

• First, I wanted to experiment with a daily, atomic newsletter format.

• But more importantly, I wanted to highlight great work by great people. All that nerdy stuff out there, happening every day, but often flying under the radar.

• Social media today is filled with hate, fake news, heated arguments, and nonsense. This Nerdletter is my personal contribution against all that crap.

• And why a newsletter? Honestly: As a reaction to Elon Musk ruining Twitter. 😤

📊 We love stats!

• 1 supporter on Ko-Fi (Thank you, Leobard! 🙌)

• 1 giveaway so far (It was a blast! Thank you ?BREAK ERROR)

• First post: Blind Run – followed up by this second post 9 Ways to actually get gamedev done in time -> That already clearly defined the vectors of the content direction! 🚀

• New landing page to better explain what this is all about: nerdletter.carrd.co

• (Almost) weekly review posts on Patreon – check them out! 👉 patreon.com/nodepond

• No real data on RSS and online readership (But I know you’re out there! 😄)

• 80 subscribers. Grow is slow, but steady. 80 subscribers is a lot and a little. My biggest surprise is, that the unsubscribe-rate is very low - which is a thing, if you receive e-mails so often from me! 😄 Also the open and click-through rates make me very happy.

🎊 Now, the celebration part!

🥁 The Nerdletter now has its own domain! 🎉

From now on, you can find it at nodeponds-nerdletter.de

🎁 Giveaways!

I’ve got some goodies coming your way! 🎁

I’m producing mugs and mousepads - and you can get one!

👉 How to participate: Just reply with "Mug" or "Mousepad" – and feel free to add a few kind words for me and the newsletter. Or if you are missing something. Also a good occasion to give some feedback!

And if you’d like to support this project:

❤️ Patreon
☕ Ko-Fi

Every donation helps! Thanks for being part of this journey! 🙌💙

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