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I did not like any Kubernetes UI so I built my own https://aptakube.com https://aptakube.com It went from side project to my primary job in less than 6 months.

I did not like any Kubernetes UI so I built my own https://aptakube.com https://aptakube.com It went from side project to my primary job in less than 6 months. Everyone was saying that $99 was too much for “an API wrapper”, but here we are, 2 years later and with hundreds of small to enterprise companies using it :)

anonzzzies 2y ago
You really shouldn't listen to too many people. The only thing that counts is paying customers; everything else is just jealous people.
- archontes 2y ago
  Dismissing disagreement as jealousy always bothered me. To think a person is jealous of you requires a lot of ego, like... narcissistic amounts of ego in my opinion. Either that or a world view so small that it can't conceive of other world views that don't align with yours. Some folks just can't imagine buying what some folks are selling.
  - Loxicon 2y ago
    Sure but... what is there to "disagree" with? customers are paying for it. If you don't want it, don't pay. But why expend energy on "disagreeing"? weird.
    - IIsi50MHz 2y ago
      For me, a key point is "everybody _was_saying_". An implication is that early on, or before release, people thought the price seemed too high. Possibly some of those people no longer think so. Or possibly the price really is too high _for_them_. Could also be that some of those people just don't expect to get enough use (or some other kind of 'enough') out of a service for a given price point. There are loads of people who have no problem paying for YouTube Premium, while others find the price too high. Some people pay for the highest-end smartphones, getting them as soon as they come out. I think they're crazy. (-:
j0hnyl 2y ago
How did you go from "I built my own" to making your first few sales?
- goenning 2y ago
  I shared with a couple of co-workers/friends and they all liked it, I then built a simple website with screenshots and a download button for free. Then I started sharing the progress on LinkedIn/X, my co-workers shared on their network too which also helped. After 4 months I put a price on it and sold it with a 50% discount for early adopters. A lot of people bought it, which to me was a signal that I was into something that could become bigger if I invested more time on it.
giancarlostoro 2y ago
That UI looks nice, do you blog anywhere about tech you used to make it?
- trollied 2y ago
  It uses Tauri https://tauri.app/ https://tauri.app/
- deleted 2y ago
  [deleted]
TheJoeMan 2y ago
Any architecture advice on making receiving payments from small-to-medium businesses streamlined? Struggling on how to go from an employee trying the free demo to their company paying that employee’s subscription… like no PO request nonsense, is there a “master” account you bill and they dole out the seats?
- badcppdev 2y ago
  Are you saying that you don't want to deal with Purchase Orders? Is that because you don't want to provide a product in advance of payment or just the overhead of creation/tracking?
  - Taters91 2y ago
    I want to do business, but without all that nasty business stuff
    - goenning 2y ago
      99% of my customers buy straight from the website no questions asked. I only get PO from larger companies, and I only do it if they’re buying a lot of seats, or if it’s a strategy customer
adhamsalama 2y ago
How does it compare to Lens?
- 392 2y ago
  Lens isn't all that great so I'm sure it must be better. Lens shows me repeats of log lines when I'm trying to scroll down in a live log. It has checkboxes but no means to operate on checked boxes. If I have my Secret set to show b64 decoded, and paste in a new secret that is very clearly non b64 encoded, it tries to push it as-is and fails quietly. It shows things as Healthy whose only sub resources are not healthy, but that's par for the course in Kubernetes land. I also have to fully quit it (not just close the window) on my new MacBook whenever I make the mistake of looking at it after a gcloud auth timeout, even when simply running fresh kubectl commands in the background every time would outperform the garbage Electron tab changes. Plus, this new thing has resource diffs, which I was surprised Lens didn't have. Frankly I was surprised how little Lens has once I started actually using it and figured there'd be easy money in building the community's new favorite editor. But I'm glad to have seen this post, here's hoping it becomes the new standard.
mystickphoenix 2y ago
Just wanted to say you've built an amazing product. So much so that I got my team hooked on it and am working on getting it out to the rest of the company that needs it. Well done!!
- vtr1130 2y ago
  I noticed it’s open-sourced, right? How do you avoid people coping the code and running by themselves?

anonzzzies 2y ago

You really shouldn't listen to too many people. The only thing that counts is paying customers; everything else is just jealous people.

archontes 2y ago
Dismissing disagreement as jealousy always bothered me. To think a person is jealous of you requires a lot of ego, like... narcissistic amounts of ego in my opinion. Either that or a world view so small that it can't conceive of other world views that don't align with yours. Some folks just can't imagine buying what some folks are selling.
- Loxicon 2y ago
  Sure but... what is there to "disagree" with? customers are paying for it. If you don't want it, don't pay. But why expend energy on "disagreeing"? weird.
  - IIsi50MHz 2y ago
    For me, a key point is "everybody _was_saying_". An implication is that early on, or before release, people thought the price seemed too high. Possibly some of those people no longer think so. Or possibly the price really is too high _for_them_. Could also be that some of those people just don't expect to get enough use (or some other kind of 'enough') out of a service for a given price point. There are loads of people who have no problem paying for YouTube Premium, while others find the price too high. Some people pay for the highest-end smartphones, getting them as soon as they come out. I think they're crazy. (-:

j0hnyl 2y ago

How did you go from "I built my own" to making your first few sales?

goenning 2y ago
I shared with a couple of co-workers/friends and they all liked it, I then built a simple website with screenshots and a download button for free. Then I started sharing the progress on LinkedIn/X, my co-workers shared on their network too which also helped. After 4 months I put a price on it and sold it with a 50% discount for early adopters. A lot of people bought it, which to me was a signal that I was into something that could become bigger if I invested more time on it.

giancarlostoro 2y ago

That UI looks nice, do you blog anywhere about tech you used to make it?

trollied 2y ago
It uses Tauri https://tauri.app/ https://tauri.app/
deleted 2y ago
[deleted]

TheJoeMan 2y ago

Any architecture advice on making receiving payments from small-to-medium businesses streamlined? Struggling on how to go from an employee trying the free demo to their company paying that employee’s subscription… like no PO request nonsense, is there a “master” account you bill and they dole out the seats?

badcppdev 2y ago
Are you saying that you don't want to deal with Purchase Orders? Is that because you don't want to provide a product in advance of payment or just the overhead of creation/tracking?
- Taters91 2y ago
  I want to do business, but without all that nasty business stuff
  - goenning 2y ago
    99% of my customers buy straight from the website no questions asked. I only get PO from larger companies, and I only do it if they’re buying a lot of seats, or if it’s a strategy customer

adhamsalama 2y ago

How does it compare to Lens?

392 2y ago
Lens isn't all that great so I'm sure it must be better. Lens shows me repeats of log lines when I'm trying to scroll down in a live log. It has checkboxes but no means to operate on checked boxes. If I have my Secret set to show b64 decoded, and paste in a new secret that is very clearly non b64 encoded, it tries to push it as-is and fails quietly. It shows things as Healthy whose only sub resources are not healthy, but that's par for the course in Kubernetes land. I also have to fully quit it (not just close the window) on my new MacBook whenever I make the mistake of looking at it after a gcloud auth timeout, even when simply running fresh kubectl commands in the background every time would outperform the garbage Electron tab changes. Plus, this new thing has resource diffs, which I was surprised Lens didn't have. Frankly I was surprised how little Lens has once I started actually using it and figured there'd be easy money in building the community's new favorite editor. But I'm glad to have seen this post, here's hoping it becomes the new standard.

mystickphoenix 2y ago

Just wanted to say you've built an amazing product. So much so that I got my team hooked on it and am working on getting it out to the rest of the company that needs it. Well done!!

vtr1130 2y ago
I noticed it’s open-sourced, right? How do you avoid people coping the code and running by themselves?