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Building LawStar – a year long indie hacking journey

A year long indie hacking journey

There were initially a bunch of reasons automated internet citations would break (e.g. they’re trying to cite a PDF, the site doesn’t like bots, non-standard page layouts). The biggest and most surprising stroke of good fortune, though, was when someone very prominent in the industry, Steve Errick, answered my cold email and proceeded to tell me who to reach out to at almost every major legal tech company with free reign to drop his name. They were interested in the fact that students might come into their site and use their prep courses more if a citation tool was also packaged in the software - the Chrome Extension’s ability to drive people back into LawStar was particularly appealing.

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