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Hey Michael, been following for awhile now - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21882791#21883808 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21882791#21883808 Many
by jimhi 4y ago
Hey Michael, been following for awhile now - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21882791#21883808 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21882791#21883808
Many entrepreneurs dream of being able to get to nearly 1 million in annual revenue, very surprised you only are taking 6k. Hopefully you won't spend much more on redesigning and web design? 30k is an insane amount for a startup to spend on web design. It sounds like you are happy with it but I hope you do not continue to spend that next year.
It looks like Tinypilot is mostly a one time purchase. I could imagine there are software addons many of your customers go through - like taking a screenshot every x seconds and sending to aws that you could eventually for an extra cost (or even monthly subscription)
Just thinking you have something nice here and it hardware will always need to be improved and redesigned so maybe you can continue to add nice products on top of this with healthy margins. I look forward to reading next year when you finally pay yourself a decent salary from this.
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- mtlynch 4y agoThanks for reading! Yeah, we've thought about add-ons but haven't found anything yet that would be a great match. One of the most common requests is cloud access. We teased the idea in a blog post,[0] but not that many people signed up, and a lot of customers balked at the idea of $30/month when Tailscale and friends are free. [0] https://tinypilotkvm.com/blog/tinypilot-cloud-waitlist https://tinypilotkvm.com/blog/tinypilot-cloud-waitlist