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...

I got completely nerd-sniped this week...and well...started a new project. I signed up for an expensive-for-me SaaS product to help me with something on ColorBliss. High-priced, but if it delivered on it's promise, it would change the game. But the onboarding experience was clunky and slow.

celebrating two years of self-employment this week... and going strong!!

this strikes me as a really odd email for trustpilot to send out to everyone like...this is so far outside of your core offering (which I use, begrudgingly) why should we care about the font on your website?

new open graph images who dis ben.robertson.is

gonna clean this up a bit, but webmentions are working on my personal site! it's able to pull likes/reposts/posts from bluesky. looks like every other social network has blocked api access for this kind of stuff now but also it should accept webmentions from your webmention enabled site as well!!

got a google news alert about colorbliss this morning but when i took a second to look at it, it triggered my dead internet theory alarm if you're curious to follow along and take a peak into a hot pile of internet garbage, i documented it here ben.robertson.is/notes/a-perf...

for whatever reason, devin's agent is so much easier to work with than cursor set up was more direct, and I feel like it "just works" most of the time the summary and detail is really impressive to me i find that i go to devin first when i have a small well-defined change

cursor made me a nice little link preview plugin for my personal site

i finally did a write up on that weird SVG issue that gave my marketing site 100 seconds of total blocking time dev.to/benrobertso...

new coloring book just dropped these are super fun to make colorbliss.com/blog/turn-i...

this support email made my cry, but in the best way possible i love my job

on trustpilot, 6 five star reviews average out to 4.2 stars

people are so weird

as soon as I got one (REAL) review on trustpilot, I started getting emails like this every day :(

i am very happy with my progress on operation "send a lot more email" this month! i'm now sending a weekly broadcast along with a bunch more welcome / lifecycle emails

competing with the big boys now

email subject line testing I turned famous paintings into coloring pages (and you can too): 17% open rate What happens when you feed a Van Gogh into AI?: 30% open rate feel like i should lean into the questions more

new home page hero and font i do nothing with my personal site but still fun to update it once in a while

i'm going to see what happens if i send more email on track for 70k emails sent this month and maybe 100k next month taken me a long time to come up with a new strategy but very excited about this

one thing you should know about me is that i completely borked my attribution tracking right before heading into my highest revenue month ever so it's been a fun past few weeks but i have no idea why 😅

I had fun turning famous art into coloring pages this week I put it together into a coloring book to use as an asset for email sequences it's a nice evergreen piece of content got a few more evergreen ideas to put together that I'm excited about! colorbliss.com/blog/turn-f...

i think this is so cool i use @getfernand for my support inbox they allow you to fetch custom data and initiate actions from their sidebar hooked up a bunch of common tasks so i can see and do everything in one view without hopping over to my admin. saves a ton of time for me!

i thought this was an odd feature request, since coloring is supposed to be the fun part but enough people asked for an auto-color feature that I shipped it use cases: - for making a cover for your coloring book - getting ideas for how to color a page - for fun colorbliss.com/blog/magic-...

a user just responded to an onboarding email i sent them over a year ago

added support for flux-kontext to colorbliss today! you can now edit your coloring pages with text prompts here are some image edits from today: - change the background to the grand canyon - make his hat say "grateful dad", outline only - turn the sun into the moon

i started migrating the colorbliss marketing site to astro (from nextjs) this week i have the home page and another template migrated so far, and I'm very pleased at the initial results. Claude 4 has been super helpful converting my react templates to straight html astro components

mothers day is on sunday here's a fun idea get some pictures of each kid with mom, turn them into coloring pages, and let them color them for her you're welcome :) link in reply

cursor pro tip before you ship your next feature, add "Content Writer" mode from @ian.is playbooks.com point it at your changes and ask it to write a help doc instant help doc

this monthly recurring revenue plateau has been the hardest part of the ride so far it was easy to share wins and lessons and tips when the business was growing

having a lot of fun with old family photos and colorbliss this week! i never saw this photo until after my grandfather passed, but would love to know the story behind it

been working on colorbliss for 18 months this week and finally have an amazing photo to colorbliss converter waited a long time for this launching it on product hunt today! www.producthunt.com/posts/turn-...

ok this shocked me playing with the new photo to coloring page converter on colorbliss it got the reflection in my sunglasses!? (added some words apparently too