23andwalnut

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Tell HN: I will design and build your MVP for $5,000(letsbuildanapp.com)
48 points by 23andwalnut 12y ago|26 comments
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by 23andwalnut 12y ago
What's wrong with the toptal contract?
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by 23andwalnut 12y ago
Short story - It's a product that I needed that didn't exist. There are only a handful of self hosted project management apps and none of them felt like the right fit, especially with regard to UX. After a couple of years of waiti
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by 23andwalnut 12y ago
It's a great list, but I don't understand why it's limited to SaaS. Self hosted apps could definitely be considered "tools of the trade". Perhaps I'm just biased because I sell a self hosted project management
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by 23andwalnut 12y ago
Very good point. And very true.
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by 23andwalnut 12y ago
It's just me - one person. I'm still figuring out marketing. It's difficult. I wrote about some of the marketing challenges I've had on the blog http://duetapp.com/blog
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by 23andwalnut 12y ago
Hey. Thanks for the compliment. Yes, it's a single person project. The initial release took a long time; I was working on it between freelance projects. I'm using a custom jQuery MVC implementation on the front end, some twitter b
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by 23andwalnut 12y ago
I launched Duet ( http://duetapp.com ) in May 2013 and it's been profitable since day 1. I'm going to start focusing on it more so it can hopefully grow into something I can live off of. *edit: I'm very curious to k
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by 23andwalnut 12y ago
There is is a windows version too: https://github.com/artygus/ios-webkit-debug-proxy-win32
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by 23andwalnut 12y ago
Assuming that the product is boring seems like an unreasonable assumption. I see lots of very interesting Show HNs that never hit the front page. I'm pretty sure a big part of it is timing and luck.
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by 23andwalnut 12y ago
A lot of font-icons allow you to set the the icon using class names. So rather than linking to a specific image file or using some obscure ascii code like in the stackoverflow example you linked to, I can just add a class name like 'ic
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by 23andwalnut 12y ago
http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm/ It's a pretty awesome community of entrepreneurs.
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by 23andwalnut 13y ago
What do you think about having this process automated? The initial ask can be an automated email and if the person wants to do a referral they can grab an email template via a link included in the email. I'm asking because many busines
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by 23andwalnut 13y ago
I've posted things to both of the following: http://reddit.com/r/startups http://reddit.com/r/SideProject/
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by 23andwalnut 13y ago
Hey. I'm the creator of http://duetapp.com . What CRM features would you need for the app to be useful to you?
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by 23andwalnut 13y ago
I use the app that I built for this purpose ( http://duetapp.com ). It has stripe and paypal built in. Customers can download a pdf copy of the paid invoice for their records.
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by 23andwalnut 13y ago
I definitely dogfood Duet ( http://duetapp.com ), but I learned VERY quickly that it's not enough. My customers use the app in ways that would have never occurred to me and if I rely solely on dogfooding a lot gets missed. Es
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by 23andwalnut 13y ago
I'm working on something to solve this problem right now - a drag and drop stripe form builder.
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How HN convinced me to stop selling my product on CodeCanyon(duetapp.com)
5 points by 23andwalnut 13y ago|2 comments
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by 23andwalnut 13y ago
Everything is custom. I designed the Duet and Solo themes, but I used a bit of bootstrap for some of the elements. Both landing pages are custom as well. The Duet landing page uses Foundation and the Solo landing page uses Bootstrap.
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by 23andwalnut 13y ago
I'm doing ok with the freemium model. My app is self hosted project mangement ( http://duetapp.com ) so I created a slimmed down version that I distribute for free - http://getsoloapp.com . The landing page for the
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by 23andwalnut 13y ago
Yes, the source is available. It's built with php and javascript. It has an MVC architecture, but I didn't use any frameworks. It should be pretty simple to pick up if you're familiar with the concepts of MVC or you've w
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by 23andwalnut 13y ago
Everything is custom :)
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by 23andwalnut 13y ago
Thanks! Feel free to shoot me an email from the contact page if you would like to talk.
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by 23andwalnut 13y ago
Almost all project management apps have a monthly fee and are SaaS apps. This isn’t appropriate for all businesses. Duet has a one time fee and is hosted on your own server. http://duetapp.com
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The worst week of sales I've ever had(duetapp.com)
2 points by 23andwalnut 13y ago|0 comments
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by 23andwalnut 13y ago
It's very difficult and I'm still figuring it out, but I get a decent amount of traffic from the free version http://getsoloapp.com .
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by 23andwalnut 13y ago
I make quite a bit more than $1k a month from Duet - http://duetapp.com It's a project management app for freelancers and small businesses. Hopefully one day soon it will be more than a side project.
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by 23andwalnut 13y ago
Thanks for the feedback. Any suggestions for the "buy" wording? Can you shoot me an email? I would really appreciate it.
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by 23andwalnut 13y ago
Happy to help you with some of your web dev and design issues. Check out some of my work at http://www.duetapp.com , http://www.getsoloapp.com , http://www.23andwalnut.com . Shoot me an email at from any one

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