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Doug SilkstonemaxNov 2014 – Nov 2016

Performance Marketing & Automation — Vouchercloud

I ran multi-million-pound paid search across 15 international sites, then wrote the software that ran it instead.

  • The React tooling I wrote saved 240 hours a month and cut team overhead by 40%.
  • I won Performance Marketing Awards in 2016 and 2017: Most Effective Cross-Channel Campaign for NOW TV, and Most Creative Performance Marketing Campaign for Topman.
  • The company was later acquired by Groupon.
#react#growth#ecommerce
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Doug SilkstonemaxNote

The first time I wrote software to delete my own job. It worked, and I've been doing a version of it ever since.

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Doug SilkstonemaxNov 2024 – Present

Technical Founder — Dinners With Friends

I built the product, the operations platform and the acquisition for a social-events business, and then I ran it.

  • Shipped a mobile app on both the iOS App Store and Google Play, built with Expo, alongside the web product.
  • Product and ops: ticketing and payments on Stripe Connect, guest messaging, lifecycle email, AI-assisted admin.

dinnerswithfriends.co.uk
#typescript#react#reactnative#expo#nextjs#hono#postgres#gcp#stripe#seo#lifecycle#growth
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Stack: TypeScript, React, React Native, Expo, Next.js, Hono, Postgres, GCP, Stripe Connect.

Doug SilkstonemaxWithSeismic · for Contra

Contra / Indy.ai — #1 Product of the Week on Product Hunt

I built Contra's Indy.ai Chrome extension, which turned the marketplace's own freelancers into its supply pipeline.

Product Huntcontra.com
#typescript#react#growth#gtm
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Doug SilkstonemaxNote

The mechanic: every install becomes a crawler with a human attached. The inventory a marketplace can't scrape is inventory its users walk past every day.

Doug SilkstonemaxGrowth Society

Mapping the UK's top 200 ecommerce brands

A four-week MVP sprint. An ecommerce benchmarking report with KPIs, screenshots and McKinsey-style commentary on the UK's 200 largest brands.

#ecommerce#growth#nextjs
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Four weeks from brief to a report clients paid for. The deadline made the product decision for me: anything that couldn't be automated didn't make the cut.

Doug SilkstonemaxSTRV

AI lead-generation chat, for STRV

A conversational lead-gen interface that qualifies inbound the way a good salesperson would, in the product rather than in a form.

strv.com
#llms#react#typescript#growth
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Forms convert badly because they ask everything at once. A chat interface earns the next question by answering the last one.