this is what customer support looks like when you run an image generation company this originally appeared at ben.robertson.is/jottles/thi... on May 11, 2026

something has gone horribly wrong this originally appeared at ben.robertson.is/jottles/som... on May 8, 2026

celebrated my 37th birthday over the weekend, surrounded by some little ones who love me unconditionally life is good

should i add this to the colorbliss landing page? after seeing the savannah bananas sign up, i had my ai scan signup domains and found some legit companies in our database. not sure customers will care, but i think it’s pretty cool. ben.robertson.is/jottles/sho...

I had the great privilege to take this past week off, spend all day in quiet and prayer, and answer support tickets from this nice little bench for 30 minutes or so each evening huge thanks to my wife for holding down the fort while I was gone. coming back super recharged and ready to work clean

i found out about this clone of ColorBliss because someone submitted a responsible disclosure not only did this clone forget to change the brand name from ColorBliss to their name on most of the pages of the site, the contact email is my email 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

testing out a new image model for colorbliss photo conversion it works really well with text! this originally appeared at ben.robertson.is/jottles/tes... on April 10, 2026

adding a bit of fun to the colorbliss home page or rather, a bit MORE fun, since there is already plenty of fun on the page 🖼️👨‍🎨 (this originally appeared at ben.robertson.is/jottles/add... on April 8, 2026)

Default queued jottle

the engagement baiting on chatgpt has gotten really bad in the past few days. first noticed it over the weekend. i'll ask it a question, and it will give me an answer and a long rationale for that answer example: ben.robertson.is/jottles/the...

First pizza from the new oven 🍕

happy friday

a trial user just let me know that the ColorBliss pricing plans are more expensive than a company that has $45 million in funding with a team across 25 countries (pictured below) that's my competition. pretty wild that a 1 person operation can even be on the same field!

A new thing I'm trying out: having the LLM keep track of the experiments I ship I realized I'm shipping a ton of updates but having a hard time remembering two weeks out to go back and check to see if they worked (this originally appeared at ben.robertson.is/jottles/a-n... on February 23, 2026)

i was inspired to try making an astro theme that is semi-terminal based why? i'm not sure i don't even plan to use this for my personal site i just kind of thought it would be an interesting UI quick demo of what i came up with this afternoon would you use it?

Just shipped bsky-comments! Embed Bluesky threads anywhere with a zero-dependency Web Component. • Framework Agnostic (Native WC) • < 3kb gzipped • Zero Config: Just paste the Post URL • Light DOM: Fully customizable (CSS/Tailwind) github.com/florianschep... #webdev #opensource #buildinpublic

I like the idea of using something like Super Whisper or another speech to text app, but found them a little too clunky or hard to use. Plus it seems like the kind of software that shouldn't require a subscription I was excited to come across handy.computer this week!

Meg Ryan and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth

someone made a little web app to generate settings for the yamaha thr series of guitar amps, and I think that's really coool ben.robertson.is/notes/using...

This prompt from the nextjs mcp makes me chuckle

If you haven't been able to tell, I've been spending a lot of time on email marketing for ColorBliss this month. One big initiative is a new drip campaign. After folks go through the onboarding flow, I'll hit them with one email a week. Each one is short, following the rule of one.

✅ launch new feature ✅ announce the new feature ✅ follow up with an upgrade email one week later to the people who clicked on the new feature announcement 93% open and 89% click rate is an all time high for me. but so far a 0% conversion to paid plan

journalism is not dead www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...

Changing his name to Benito because he’s a bad bunny

Conversions slowed way down for ColorBliss in January. It's been a little concerning for me, but December was a really great month so I've been trying to roll with the punches. But I have a new theory as to why...

did a little spelunking on stats for a year in review email for ColorBliss 92k new users, up from 51k previous year!! interestingly, total coloring pages created was down quite a bit from the previous year (500k this year versus 750k last) I think there's a few reasons:

Posting this to X, Threads, and Bluesky as an experiment

decided to go ye olde schoole with the dates on my personal site

this looks like a legit review, and then upon further inspection... i flagged it to amazon, but i wonder how they are handling this kind of thing at scale and if they can

did a podcast with my old mentor Adam Landrum. he gave me my first real shot in tech when i joined his agency as an apprentice back in 2014. really enjoyed this one, both recording it and listening back. (link: ben.robertson.is/notes/i-app...) we talk about:

Something I've learned building ColorBliss: you only hear the bad news by default. Customers rarely reach out to tell you you're doing a great job. This can really mess with your head if you let it. Wrote about how I deal with it on my blog: ben.robertson.is/notes/you-h...

new year, new home page layout trying to encourage myself to write more this year :) ben.robertson.is/notes/new-y...

I decided not to do a sale or promotion for black friday this year for colorbliss But I still sent an email out to my list I was mostly just curious to see if it would get opened during the rush of thanksgiving / black friday emails

a while back on x I saw people recommending cerebras for super fast text generation tl;dr: prompt improving now runs in 400 milliseconds instead of 4 seconds or more!

entering my "i will give you a great quote for your product launch" era

I wrote up a little doc on how to get the ahrefs MCP working in cursor so you can do keyword research / queue up site audit fixes without leaving your editor ben.robertson.is/notes/how-t...

the colorbliss dashboard has been feeling a little sluggish to me today i added proper loading states for each route as well as a nice little sidebar navigation animation / active indicator to make everything feel a lot snappier i'm not going to show the before because....

a fun little update to my personal site - my face now follows your mouse around :) Kylan O'Connor (@kylancodes) posted an example of how he did this for his personal site, and I thought it would be a good fit for my illustration on my home page

seeing the token awards from openai got me curious about colorbliss. i'm at 3-4 billion tokens so far trending at half a billion in the last 30 days. looks like I'm on track to hit 10 billion somewhere in the next 12 months

this is the best review of colorbliss i have seen "Well Lord Liftin Jesus I have found it" lol love this blog too! gotta love real people being real people on the internet utopianpudding.com/2025/09/21/...

i got early access to this, and it was nice to be able to make quick changes to my sites from a dashboard i'm already familiar with and in regularly! and colorbliss is mentioned in the blog :)

I've been focusing on optimizing the funnel for ColorBliss the past two weeks, and my latest experiment is a big change to the layout of the "choose plan" page. Conversion rate had dropped off quite a bit there in recent months

if you know me, you probably already know about ColorBliss. (if you don't, it's the coloring page creator I've been working on for two years!) in the spirit of "never stop launching," ColorBliss is live on Peerlist this week.

Missed it by a couple of days, but ColorBliss is officially two years old!!

thinking about a new tagline for colorbliss.........

achievement unlocked

one fun thing that happens in the colorbliss support queue teachers tell their students about colorbliss and then they sign up for class or something and then reply to my emails

what does it mean if this still image is my best TikTok of the month

new seo milestone for colorbliss 📈

well well well, would you look at that turns out highly targeted emails to your list are much more engaging! gonna have to push this strategy farther...