Pete McLeod

Founder, No CS Degree · 1 appearance on the record.

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Pete McLeod is an Edinburgh-based self-taught developer who founded No CS Degree, an online platform, job board, and interview newsletter highlighting developers working without traditional computer science degrees. Through Pete Codes Limited, he also publishes the founder newsletter High Signal and provides executive ghostwriting and SEO consulting services.

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The record, in short

What the tape says about how Pete argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

McLeod: Starter Story Founder Pat Walls Reached $10k a Month

“One of my, like, main mentors, Pat Walls, who runs Starter Story, he just hit 10,000 a month”

Pete McLeod Aug 31, 2020 ▶ 7:21 NoCSDegree used HackerNews and ProductHunt to Get 4500 Subs, $15k in Revenue

How they sound: not measured why? →

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What they said10 Episodes1

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Insight

McLeod: Product Hunt builds steady followings; Hacker News is an all-or-nothing lottery

“I think Product Hunt is probably Better for kind of, like, building up the following, whereas Hacker News can be more of a kind of, yeah, you can plug away at lots of things, and it can either go sky high or nothing, so it's more of a black or white situation,…”

Pete McLeod Aug 31, 2020 ▶ 14:52 NoCSDegree used HackerNews and ProductHunt to Get 4500 Subs, $15k in Revenue

Insight

McLeod: Flight deal newsletters like Scott's Cheap Flights require mass consumer scale

“With Scott's Cheap Flights, which is obviously the original numero uno, I think that works because he's got, like, a vast number of subscribers, and you can, there's so many, so I think It's, he can only, if he, if you have say like a million subscribers, you …”

Pete McLeod Aug 31, 2020 ▶ 17:09 NoCSDegree used HackerNews and ProductHunt to Get 4500 Subs, $15k in Revenue

Assertion Supported

McLeod: Starter Story Founder Pat Walls Reached $10k a Month

“One of my, like, main mentors, Pat Walls, who runs Starter Story, he just hit 10,000 a month”

Pete McLeod Aug 31, 2020 ▶ 7:21 NoCSDegree used HackerNews and ProductHunt to Get 4500 Subs, $15k in Revenue

Assertion Not checkable as stated

McLeod: Hitting #1 on Hacker News for a day drove 30,000 visits

“I launched on Hacker News. And I didn't have any profile there or any kind of, you know, yeah, any like big kind of following or backing there, but everyone really loved it, and it stayed top of Hacker News for like a day, so that got like, I can't remember ho…”

Pete McLeod Aug 31, 2020 ▶ 8:49 NoCSDegree used HackerNews and ProductHunt to Get 4500 Subs, $15k in Revenue

Insight

McLeod: Exit-intent pop-ups outperform immediate pop-ups by timing asks

“I think a lot of people intuitively now are a little bit, you know, against pop-ups, and I'd say that's true if they're, like, straight away, but an analogy I heard from Harry Dry, who does a great marketing website, is kind of like, If you go into a museum an…”

Pete McLeod Aug 31, 2020 ▶ 10:10 NoCSDegree used HackerNews and ProductHunt to Get 4500 Subs, $15k in Revenue

Disclosure

Pete McLeod: Nomad Flights had Product Hunt traction but no viable model

“There's lots of things that do great on product hunt, and it was like the perfect kind of niche for that audience, but I couldn't really find a business model that worked with that.”

Pete McLeod Aug 31, 2020 ▶ 16:46 NoCSDegree used HackerNews and ProductHunt to Get 4500 Subs, $15k in Revenue

Disclosure

McLeod: NoCSDegree charges in the hundreds of dollars per sponsored article

“In the, like, hundreds of dollars range.”

Pete McLeod Aug 31, 2020 ▶ 4:52 NoCSDegree used HackerNews and ProductHunt to Get 4500 Subs, $15k in Revenue

Disclosure

McLeod: NoCSDegree generates near $2,000 monthly from sponsorships

“Near two grand.”

Pete McLeod Aug 31, 2020 ▶ 5:36 NoCSDegree used HackerNews and ProductHunt to Get 4500 Subs, $15k in Revenue

Insight

McLeod: Newsletter pop-ups should frame CTAs around value, not 'subscribe'

“Some other tools that you can use on a pop-up to help would be things like talking about values. So instead of saying subscribe, you can say, you know, get help with coding. So make a value proposition rather than, you know, subscribe is kind of like a bland k…”

Pete McLeod Aug 31, 2020 ▶ 11:00 NoCSDegree used HackerNews and ProductHunt to Get 4500 Subs, $15k in Revenue

Assertion Not checkable as stated

McLeod: Launching a niche job board generated 1,000 subscribers in one week

“When I launched my job board a few months later, that I had everything prepared for that, and I got a thousand subscribers in a week.”

Pete McLeod Aug 31, 2020 ▶ 13:07 NoCSDegree used HackerNews and ProductHunt to Get 4500 Subs, $15k in Revenue

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
NoCSDegree used HackerNews and ProductHunt to Get 4500 Subs, $15k in Revenue	Aug 31, 2020	10m

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