#seo — work by Doug Silkstone

Doug Silkstonemax•Nov 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.

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Stack: TypeScript, React, React Native, Expo, Next.js, Hono, Postgres, GCP, Stripe Connect.

Doug Silkstonemax•Jan 2016 – Nov 2022

I built a voucher platform on programmatic SEO and ran it for six years at 90% margins.

I automated offer data for 100,000+ brands into landing pages, which is where nearly all the traffic came from.
250K sessions a month, with no paid spend and no content team.
Around £100K ARR at exit. Sold to private-equity investors in 2021.

Stack: TypeScript, Next.js, Node.js, Puppeteer, Postgres.