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by a13n 9y ago
Thanks! It was 1.5 years of making no money, so it's definitely been a grind... Feels good that something's working, and would love to save others the trouble we went through!
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by a13n 9y ago
Cool! We're currently staying in Ruzafa and loving it. One of our favorite cities in Europe so far.
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by a13n 9y ago
Hey Shane, we have toyed with the idea of introducing a free tier, but aren't 100% sure if that's the right move for us. Would love to chat more, want to message us on Intercom whenever you've got a few minutes?
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by a13n 9y ago
Right now we're just 2 co-founders. We don't have employees, investors, or an office. So there isn't much management that we can't do online. We talk to our customers using Intercom and email. Most of them are in the US,
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by a13n 9y ago
What a beautiful chart you've got there. Congrats to you too!
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by a13n 9y ago
Fixed! Sorry about that.
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by a13n 9y ago
Fixed!
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by a13n 9y ago
Actually it was a 500MB instance, upgrading to 2GB now. Hang tight.
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by a13n 9y ago
Oh no! Looking into it.
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by a13n 9y ago
Hey there, I have read Traction! Definitely a great way to brainstorm channels that might work for your product. Revolutionary when it came out. Marketing is hard. I think we had a good day!
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by a13n 9y ago
Right??! I can't hear Product Pains without cringing.
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by a13n 9y ago
Hey, thanks so much for this. Zendesk + intercom + salesforce integrations, plus segmentation (by MRR, etc) are all on the roadmap. Feedback that internal teams track (opposed to users voting) is kept internal, so users can't see stuff
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by a13n 9y ago
Looks like a bug! Thanks for the report. Will get that fixed asap.
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by a13n 9y ago
Hey! This is great feedback, thank you. The widget is always a full page. Here's a public example: https://kitsu.io/feedback/feature-requests We've heard that "small side thing" a few times before s
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by a13n 9y ago
Hey! Author here. It's monthly revenue. You get to write off expenses from your revenue before paying taxes. Also for our bracket, tax is only 15%.
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by a13n 9y ago
Keep in mind we have 2 co-founders, so this is about $10/hr working full time. Definitely not a crazy amount of money, just a big milestone for our startup.
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by a13n 9y ago
Hey Amjad, thanks for chiming in! It's definitely been awesome watching our companies grow together.
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by a13n 9y ago
We're a US corporation, so we file there.
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by a13n 9y ago
Fixed! Thanks for the protip. :)
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by a13n 9y ago
Hey Nathan! Thanks. :) I definitely don't think we'd be breaking even if we were still in SF.
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How We Bootstrapped Our SaaS Startup to Ramen Profitability(blog.canny.io)
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by a13n 9y ago
In the past, I've received both invitation and rejection emails around 5-6pm PST
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by a13n 9y ago
Yes, in past batches I've received invitation and rejection emails around 5-6pm PST.
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by a13n 9y ago
What's your point?
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by a13n 9y ago
Yeah good point. Maybe it'd be better as a blog post with an associated repo in one implementation (Node + Mongo) and great documentation.
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by a13n 9y ago
It's way more than that. – Automatically handling duplicates – Avoiding needing to include the unique ID in the URL – Updating the URL after editing the post – Redirecting previous versions to the new version
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by a13n 9y ago
For Canny, I wrote some awesome code that I'm proud of that turns a "post title" into a unique URL. https://react-native.canny.io/feature-requests/p/headless-js... For example, a post with title &qu
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by a13n 9y ago
Installed Qbserve. Makes it easy to cut down on daily distractions. https://qotoqot.com/qbserve/
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Building our startup as digital nomads(blog.canny.io)
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by a13n 9y ago
Marketing for the YC application due tomorrow.

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