Show HN: Startup Marketing Case Studies

I'm Elan, a SaaS marketer with 15+ years of experience. I've led marketing for two SaaS products from zero to $1M in revenue.

I recently launched a newsletter called Startup Marketing. Every other week, I break down the marketing strategies behind B2B startups that grew from $0 to $1M.

There are plenty of SaaS growth deep dives out there—but most try to cover everything: product, sales, and marketing. As a result, the marketing insights often feel surface-level.

So I focus only on the marketing side—what they did, how they did it, and why it worked. I've published 8 case studies so far, with the next one dropping this week.

Would love your feedback—and ideas for making it better.

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Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor (zed.dev)

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The Death of Daydreaming (afterbabel.com)

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Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++ (collabora.com)

A critical look at MCP (raz.sh)

Evolving OpenAI's Structure (openai.com)

First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV (cnn.com)

LegoGPT: Generating Physically Stable and Buildable Lego (avalovelace1.github.io)

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Unity’s Open-Source Double Standard: the ban of VLC (mfkl.github.io)

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Leaving Google (airs.com)

Reservoir Sampling (samwho.dev)

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VVVVVV Source Code (github.com)

So Much Blood (dynomight.net)

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The vocal effects of Daft Punk (bjango.com)

I hacked a dating app (and how not to treat a security researcher) (alexschapiro.com)

Embeddings are underrated (2024) (technicalwriting.dev)

Rust’s dependencies are starting to worry me (vincents.dev)

Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negative (blu-ray.com)

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Show HN: Startup Marketing Case Studies

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