MicahWedemeyer

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by MicahWedemeyer 14y ago
Envelopes are a very common item for anyone who runs a business. The vast majority of correspondence with Uncle Sam is done via USPS.
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by MicahWedemeyer 14y ago
As someone who runs a type A business, gives C+ customer service, and has a significant amount of unplanned downtime (ie. "oh shit, the server is down"), I can back this up 100%. We lose some customers due to my bungling, but it's never eno
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by MicahWedemeyer 14y ago
Slight correction to this statement: Startups that set out to make a great product are, on the whole, adored for their work, and often enjoy success as a side-effect. Startups that set out to make a great product are, when they get anywher
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by MicahWedemeyer 14y ago
Great plan. I love it. My only suggestion would be to figure out the free message volume and storage size...then half it...then half it again. Give the free plan a paltry size. I think it's fair to give only a taste and require people to up
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by MicahWedemeyer 14y ago
I wonder how many of these speeches are motivated by salesmanship? Like, Do it because you've got a decent idea and you kinda think it might work and maybe you'll make a little bit of money just doesn't have the same ring to it as Go cha
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by MicahWedemeyer 14y ago
I love niche apps like this. Is it a just-for-fun project, or are you planning to monetize it? If so, how?
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by MicahWedemeyer 15y ago
Any blog post that ends with a discussion of what "potential acquirers" are looking for makes me wonder if the author understands the concept of "monetization". Ignoring revenue and praying for a buyout is not a business plan any more than
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by MicahWedemeyer 15y ago
As a current Chargify customer, I'll list some of my pain points: 1) Price keeps changing. We've had the underlying price change multiple times over the past few years. This can make it very difficult if your margins are thin. I see your pr
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by MicahWedemeyer 15y ago
I run http://obsidianportal.com From the beginning we focused on the story aspect of tabletop games and avoided the gamey crunch. That decision has paid off time and time again. If you guys want to bypass some of the journal features and
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by MicahWedemeyer 15y ago
http://en.wordpress.com/tos/
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by MicahWedemeyer 15y ago
The cynic would say: Why were you working on a mundane problem? That's for some other nameless jr. dev to fix while you focus on the high-profile-yet-easy stuff.
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by MicahWedemeyer 15y ago
The source is available and the license allows for derivatives. Would you be interested in forking the code and putting together a plain-javascript version?
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by MicahWedemeyer 15y ago
To anyone thinking of jumping on the App store get-rich-quick bandwagon, this is probably the most important piece of the article: The studio, which has been in operation for about four years, had previously struggled to make any traction
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by MicahWedemeyer 15y ago
Each "page" in this multi-page article is literally 1 image, about 50 words of text, and 3 ads. The article content is fine, but there is no reason it has to be spread across 7 different pages. Publishers chasing pageview and ad impression
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by MicahWedemeyer 15y ago
I agree that a lot of small companies have really unrealistic expectations about these kinds of things, and I cringe whenever I hear about a 3-man shop who drops $10k so they can get a booth and attend a trade show or something. I just don'
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by MicahWedemeyer 15y ago
While I agree this is a great idea (as opposed to shooting-from-the-hip on proposals), be careful of putting too much faith in the process. From the article: While how one calculates the price may vary, all the information is now available
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by MicahWedemeyer 15y ago
I really love this analysis. People see a gigantically successful fundraising campaign like Double Fine and they think Kickstarter is the magic sauce, when in fact the sauce is good old fame and social capital.
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by MicahWedemeyer 15y ago
I run a freemium business and it's very lucrative. I'm 99% sure that no one would sign up for the paid model straight up. Everything we offer is offered somewhere else for free, but we just package it all together in a much easier format. T
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by MicahWedemeyer 15y ago
Selling unlimited messaging to users for a fixed fee while paying Twilio $0.01 per message sent is pretty ballsy. Further, paying $0.01 per message while offering a free plan is extremely ballsy. In their defense, though, my understanding i
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by MicahWedemeyer 15y ago
Power of the internet my friend Come on, is that really a helpful comment? It's not like he posted his project on the "non-internet" Kickstarter and that's why it's doing poorly. I would imagine Kickstarter success comes with fame and mar
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by MicahWedemeyer 15y ago
It's easy to get frustrated at 1:00am and type a field in as "This software is a huge pile of shit" and forget that it's there. It will always come back to haunt you one day.
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by MicahWedemeyer 15y ago
I've learned over the years to never put profanity or anything even mildly offensive in test data. Too many times have I had to give an impromptu presentation off my test database, only to see user names like "Asshat Joe" and "Jack Off" sho
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by MicahWedemeyer 15y ago
I really liked wasitup, so thanks for providing the service for this long.
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by MicahWedemeyer 15y ago
I can't speak for the OP, but 2 that have gotten me are t-shirts and advertising. http://peachshake.com/2011/06/02/should-i-buy-t-shirts/ http://peachshake.com/2011/08/15/when-work-and-play-collide-...
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by MicahWedemeyer 15y ago
Thanks for writing this up, and I know exactly what you mean about making all the mistakes you've read about. I've been there too. If you're smart, you only need to make them once. I'm still making a few of them over and over. I'm also happ
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by MicahWedemeyer 15y ago
I really hate this cliche when applied to startups. Here's how I see it: The night is darkest just before the dawn...or before it somehow gets even darker. We read a lot of "I stuck it out 1 more day and then we got rich" stories but it's
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by MicahWedemeyer 15y ago
It sounds like they're working hard to restore it, so I'm not posting this as a rant about downtime. Instead, I think reading the status log sounds like a lot of my own "oh shit" late nights.
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Chargify down, working to restore database(status.chargify.com)
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by MicahWedemeyer 15y ago
Funny that this posted the same time as Backblaze declaring DVD to be dead. http://blog.backblaze.com/2012/01/25/the-dvd-is-dead-usb-fla...
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by MicahWedemeyer 15y ago
While I think this is a good move for backup restoration, I think it's a little hasty to call DVDs dead. Redbox doesn't seem to mind raking in the cash on a "dead" media format.

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