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   by a13n 5y ago

   Yeah it's definitely not a company you could bootstrap with 2 people. You'd need funding to build the team and product. But once you've actually built everything and gotten traction it'd be really hard for competitors to
2. 152.▲
   by a13n 5y ago

   I think you integrate with their Stripe account (you have to anyway to set up billing/subscriptions anyway), and each month generate a report on how much they billed, then bill their credit card 3% of that. If they don't pay then
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   by a13n 5y ago

   I mean I think a lot of people want to build a SaaS, but it's a lot of work. You need to build a landing site, set up pricing plans, integrate with Stripe, build user authentication, build company accounts + team invites, and that&#x27
4. 154.▲
   by a13n 5y ago

   I've thought a lot about this specific idea. I think the problem with your business model is: - People who have already built their company/website/product are not going to move the world to adopt your platform. It's jus
5. 155.▲
   by a13n 5y ago

   Canny | Senior Full-Stack Engineer | REMOTE | Full-time | https://canny.io Canny helps software companies keep track of feature requests to build better products. * Early-stage startup, 10 person team, $1m+ annual recurring reve
6. 156.▲
   by a13n 5y ago

   I mean at the end of the day whether you store it in the cookie or the URL it’s still persistent key value storage for tracking purposes, so I don’t see why the EU’s stance would be any different. It’s effectively still a cookie. Some activ
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   by a13n 5y ago

   Canny | Senior Full-Stack Engineer | REMOTE | Full-time | https://canny.io Canny helps software companies keep track of feature requests to build better products. * Early-stage startup, 10 person team, $1m+ annual recurring reve
8. 158.▲
   by a13n 5y ago

   Agreed! I found myself looking for a video demoing your product or showing the difference between typical chalk.
9. 159.▲
   by a13n 5y ago

   I'm not so sure I'd write off this startup as a failure. I feel like many people who can afford $80/mo climbing gym memberships might look at $5 chalk and $12 environmentally friendly chalk with nice packaging/branding a
10. 160.▲
    by a13n 5y ago

    At your price point ($10-50 per sale, $10-500 lifetime value), it simply is not worthwhile to have anyone doing 1:1 sales. You should be acquiring customers via marketing. There's a pretty famous book called Traction that introduces fo
11. 161.▲
    by a13n 5y ago

    Just speaking from first-hand experience.
12. 162.▲
    by a13n 5y ago

    uBlock does detect this automatically, without reverse engineering your setup and adding it to their lists. This assumes you self-host analytics.js and proxy GA API requests through your domain without changing path/query. If you manag
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    by a13n 5y ago

    Canny | Full-Stack Engineer | REMOTE | Full-time | https://canny.io Canny helps software companies keep track of feature requests to build better products. * Early-stage startup, 10 person team, $1m+ annual recurring revenue * O
14. 164.▲
    by a13n 5y ago

    Yes it can. It blocks the request to your first-party domain based on path/query.
15. 165.▲
    by a13n 5y ago

    Ublock still blocks this
16. 166.▲
    by a13n 5y ago

    Don't love it. Would much rather: git push origin f1:f1 git checkout f2 git merge f1 git push origin f2:f2 git checkout f3 git merge f2 git push origin f3:f3 Merge is generally less effort to handle conflicts too. I
17. 167.▲
    by a13n 6y ago

    Canny | Full-Stack Engineer | REMOTE | Full-time | https://canny.io Canny helps software companies keep track of feature requests to build better products. * Early-stage startup, 10 person team, $1m+ annual recurring revenue * O
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    Year four in review: Overcoming the unexpected(canny.io)

    2 points by a13n 6y ago|0 comments
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    Year four in review: Overcoming the unexpected(canny.io)

    1 points by a13n 6y ago|0 comments
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    by a13n 6y ago

    If you make $100k in profit, you pay 21% in taxes, so it turns into $79k. If you instead invest that $100k into growth (eg. ads, sales people, marketers, engineers), you pay $0 of taxes, and can ideally generate an additional $200-300k reve
21. 171.▲
    by a13n 6y ago

    A lot of companies, and particularly Amazon, always have an easy path to profitability in their back pocket. They simply choose not to be profitable because it means they'll pay less taxes and grow faster. It's a lot easier to &qu
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    by a13n 6y ago

    Canny | Full-Stack Engineer | REMOTE | Full-time | https://canny.io Canny helps software companies keep track of feature requests to build better products. * Early-stage startup, 9 person team, $1m+ annual recurring revenue * Ov
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    by a13n 6y ago

    Canny | Support Engineer | REMOTE | Full-time | https://canny.io Canny helps software companies keep track of feature requests to build better products. * Early-stage startup, 9 person team, $1m+ annual recurring revenue * Over
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    by a13n 6y ago

    We've used MongoDB at our SaaS and have grown to well over $1m ARR and never had an issue. Maybe if you're trying to build a massive ($B) company, starting with PostgreSQL makes more sense for you. For everything else, MongoDB wor
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    by a13n 6y ago

    > But the Fedora community has publicly stated that "to consider the SSPL to be 'Free' or 'Open Source' causes a shadow to be cast across all other licenses in the FOSS ecosystem." My takeaway from all this
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    by a13n 6y ago

    I mean the number of people who are willing to commit forgery and lie to border patrol is probably pretty small. This is a huge step in the right direction that will prevent loads of air transmission. We don't really have time to wait
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    by a13n 6y ago

    Canny | Support Engineer | REMOTE | Full-time | https://canny.io Canny helps software companies keep track of feature requests to build better products. * Early-stage startup, 9 person team, $1m+ annual recurring revenue * Over
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    by a13n 6y ago

    > Posted a video demo on YouTube and keep getting the few odd messages once a month asking if it’s available for sale This is your validation! People are literally reaching out to you asking if they can give you money for it.
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    by a13n 6y ago

    > 1. Writes can be lost if the primary dies and a secondary is promoted before data from primary has been replicated to it. Is this any different than how things work in eg Postgres? > 2. The whole point of adding secondaries — again,
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    by a13n 6y ago

    I mean to be fair, in a single node MongoDB database (one primary, no secondaries), it would be impossible to read stale values as well. Eventual consistency only comes in when you introduce multiple nodes / secondaries. As long as you