What I learned from the Priceonomics "Content Marketing Handbook"
I read through a guide called The Content Marketing Handbook recently after seeing it on Hacker News.
The guide instructs how to w ...
Monkey Light M232 review
While browsing Amazon for something cool, I happened to notice an item for sale called "Monkey Light". It's a circuit board w ...
Launch press release
Congratulations! You did your first newsworthy thing by launching your product. If your concept is something unique, you may be ab ...
0.01 + 0.001 + 0.0002 + 0.00003 + 0.000005 + 0.0000008... = 1/89
The fibonacci sequence shows up in surprising places.1/89 = 0.01 + 0.001 + 0.0002 + 0. ...
Two years after LASIK eye surgery
Two years ago I decided I'd had enough of wearing glasses and decided to go get LASIK eye surgery done. How do I feel now?The ...
DRAFT - Buying the perfect domain name
Instead of working on your idea, you are stuck trying to find the perfect domain name for it. Let me give you a push.Should y ...
How I became and un-became a manga translator
Recently Forbes published an article titled "How American Fans Pirated Japanese Cartoons Into Careers". After reading that I thoug ...
Startup School London trip report
TL;DR;By attending Startup School, you'll get infected by a burning desire to start something big. If you already have an idea wha ...
Candy Japan crosses $10000 MRR
It's been a while since I blogged about Candy Japan (http://www.candyjapan.com). If you've been actively reading Hacker News for s ...
AirWheel X3 Electric Unicycle Review
On my first ever visit to China, I saw a bunch of people riding these strange devices (the red one on the left in the picture ...
How to bet against bitcoin by shorting
If you think that the price of bitcoin is going to go up, buying and holding on to some can be profitable. But what if you believe ...
LASIK 6 months later
Around half a year ago I made a detailed post about getting LASIK eye surgery. In short this is a surgery which enables nearsighte ...
Hack your motivation
Nothing is better than being truly motivated by an exciting project. But if you're stuck, here are some things to try out that can ...
JLPT test
The Japanese Language Proficiency Test is the most recognized standard test for judging your Japanese language ability. It has sev ...
Life as an expat coder in middle-of-nowhere Japan
Living in Japan was my dream. Being a programmer was another, and getting paid to work on my own projects directly from individual ...
AirBnB censors the word "CouchSurfing"
AirBnB offers a range of more interesting places to stay than a predictable hotel room. Like a hotel, you pay per night ...
Intensive Japanese course @ ICU
I was on a two-year exchange program to ICU in Tokyo, Japan. This is a short description for those considering taking part in such ...
Oculus Rift first impressions
Want to be immersed in a virtual world that only exists inside a computer? Have your own holodeck and experience the virtual reali ...
Two years of life as an expat coder in middle-of-nowhere Japan
I was living in Finland and about to fulfill my ultimate anime geek dream of living in Japan for good. I had already made shorter ...
Facebook event search coming soon?
Being an expat in Japan, I'm often looking for events in the area to get more connected in the local community. Facebook pages sup ...
Getting LASIK eye surgery
This is the story of how I decided to fix my eyes with LASIK, how the experience was and how the result is turning out, written fo ...
What it costs to live in Japan
Two years ago I moved to Japan, working from home and hacking full time on what I would have used to call side projects in Finland ...
Competitors can target ads at your Facebook fans
Ever thought all those Facebook fan page likes you've been gathering for your business page might actually give your competitors a ...
2D skeletal animation
One of my various side-projects is getting some simple 2D skeletal animation working, since dealing with that would be a useful sk ...
Japanese study tools
Compared to languages like English or Spanish that use the familiar latin alphabet, for learning Japanese many more software tools ...
Would you like to glance at my lousy Japanese garden?
Japanese is a fascinating language. The most remarkable features of it are the honorifics and the writing system. Even physicist R ...
Bemmu Sepponen
This is the blog of Bemmu Sepponen, an expat living in Tokushima, Japan.I run Candy Japan, a Japanese candy subscription ...
Panty by Post founder Natalie answers my questions
Running a business based on a monthly subscription fee (subcom) is an attractive model, as it gives added predictability to your i ...
Thanks for the suggestions for Candy Japan
It's been a while since I last posted an update on Candy Japan. Last time I got tons of useful feedback, so ...
PayPal payments standard
I've had to refuse money from people, because my system simply isn't up to the task yet.
It's kind of amazing how many small deta ...
It's easier to ask for forgiveness than it is to get permission
Candy Japan has scaled from sending just a few envelopes a month, to a few hundred and now nearly a thousand envelopes a mont ...
Python ImageFilter for fun, profit and spinning candy
Having product images increases sales, but post-processing is a chore which involves clicking around in Photoshop/Gimp to isolate ...
First year of Candy Japan
Last July I posted on Hacker News about an experiment to start a Japanese candy subscription service. I live in Jap ...
I heard you like A/B testing
While doing split testing for Candy Japan I started thinking if there could be a better way to decide which page variation to ...
Stats from advertising Candy Japan on Reddit
Three months ago I started a Japanese candy subscription service called Candy Japan. It is growing well from word of mouth alone, ...
Brief report and August numbers for Candy Japan
As you may already know, Candy Japan is a subscription service for random Japanese sweets that we run from our living room in ...
How I listed my first item for sale on Amazon.com
I recently listed my first item just to see how difficult the process is. About 2 hours of learning about the service and 2 weeks ...
I just gave advertising a try.
As you might already know, I run a service called Candy Japan which mails subscribers Japanese sweets twice a month. It has been m ...
Candy Japan: Anxiety of the month club
My Japanese candy subscription service Candy Japan has been steadily growing. While the club is still small and sending the envelo ...
How I decided the price for my Japanese candy subscription service
This is just a small update to show that Candy Japan is alive and well. There are now 180 subscribers. My ramen-profit ...
Candy Japan: Huge subscriber growth
Candy Japan is a subscription service for Japanese sweets. In this blog I have been writing openly about the business side of it.
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Candy Japan: June & July subscriber stats
Two months ago I started a club which sends random surprise candy directly from Japan to subscribers paying on a monthly basis. Th ...
Candy Japan: Variable cost breakdown
Candy Japan is a subscription service delivering bi-monthly envelopes of random Japanese sweets. In this post I am going int ...
Candy Japan: Getting my first subscribers
Candy Japan is a subscription service where for a monthly fee you get a surprise envelope filled with random Japanese candy ...
Experiment: Japanese candy subscription service
Instead of a single up-front fee many services are now based on subscriptions, since the web makes it easier to offer services on ...
Facebook page apps, an opportunity you might not have considered
Platform launches are exciting times. A lot of small players turn into big ones as their apps take off and their studios expand fr ...
Profit from the inevitable Google+ app platform launch
Here's my own limited perspective on how Google+ apps will offer new opportunities for budding entrepreneurs. The release of suc ...
A world without advertising
Most people would agree that cold calling, unsolicited email and advertising are annoying things that the world would be better of ...
Additional ads made no difference in conversion rate
Inspired by patio11's comment on Hacker News, here are the results of my latest A/B test that I ran on Coolest Friends.& ...
The Antiviral Effect
I am the author of "Coolest Friends", a viral (and at times antiviral) MySpace application about ranking your coolest friends. Pat ...
This is the blog of Bemmu Sepponen, an expat living in Tokushima, Japan.
I run Candy Japan, a Japanese candy subscription club and wrote a book called How to Start and Grow your Subscription Box.
Candy Japan also has its own blog.
I like coding, travel, fun experiments and learning things.
