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by ahoyhere 14y ago
But Brennan is selling a class teaching what he used to do -- consulting -- not what he's currently doing. And he had a $1m/yr consulting biz without any products at all. I understand your feelings, but the facts don't match them.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Freckle's earning the better part of $400k/yr… not sure how that's "somewhat less." Did 30x500 bring in the same money as Freckle in 2012? Yeah, but that's after a lot of neglect of Freckle… which we're rectifying.[1] Infoproducts are no le
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
"If IBM was not 'delivering' as a consultancy then it's highly doubtful they would be enjoying the growth and financial success that they are…" A priori reasoning doesn't work in Big Biz Land. As a (former) high-priced consultant, who worke
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Niches aren't markets, they're demographics… statement of facts, essentially, which may be incidental or immaterial. A job title doesn't tell you about beliefs, aspirations, willingness to pay for things, sense of community, etc. Do dog wal
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Nice to see another one of my 30x500 alumni rocking the HN charts. With great, solid advice. Congrats, Paul. Great post.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Many tests have been made along these lines, and the sales are usually lower for the single high price. The theory is because it makes the lower tier look like a steal.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Offering everyone the option to pick their favorite pricing tier isn't the same thing as you're describing. It's volitional.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Is offering a higher price tier really "wringing every penny out of them"? Considering it's an optional goodie that nobody has to buy, and it's not like they're arriving at the airport only to be hit by surprise baggage fees, I can't see ho
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
First: If you can't even start something, no amount of "connections" will do you any good whatsoever. But it sure is nice to fantasize that if you were somewhere else, it'd be easy. (It wouldn't be.) That's one insidious kind of excuse. You
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Baseless speculation is one thing, when the original post actually contains information which contradicts you, it's just a sign of laziness.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
If you'd like to prove your "experience" -- an exceptionally weighty assertion, given I don't know you from Adam, and you know nothing about my product -- I'd be happy to read that writeup.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Thanks! You're right, in SV, people rarely talk about real numbers… even to the point of never discussing how much money a founder actually makes from an $x mil exit. Which, to me, is astonishing, since on the other hand all people talk a
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Yes, because it's not like Thomas (my partner/husband) is a performance expert or anything. And it's not like 3-4 Rails Core team members who tried very hard to help us have ever heard of profiling tools. My mind just exploded, too, due to
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
I shared your comment with people who actually hire for technical positions, and we all had a good laugh.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
When running out of toilet paper causes your house to fall down and people to lose money, your metaphor will actually make sense.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
I never said there were leprechauns, nor unsolvable. What I said was: Some of the absolute best & most knowledgeable people couldn't find them. We did have 3-4 of the Rails Core team members investigating our Rails 3.x problems and none
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Yes, "Amy" is a historically male name.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
You realize that in your example, "somebody" would be several Rails Core team members, right? It's easy to armchair quarterback… especially if you're not hampered by actually reading the very brief bit of content you're speculating about.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Not sure why you got downvoted, because we agree with you.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Think twice, like what? "Gee, there's a woman with integrity who shuts down a service while it still works 99% of the time, and refunds my money, instead of growing it like a nutjob until it has weekly downtime like oh I don't know Desk.com
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Thanks, I'll keep that in mind for the future. I don't even know what we're running Freckle on, because it's an app that's had zero problems. Alas, Charm is a troubled baby.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
What I find interesting about the reaction to this email, from you bench spectators, is that you completely missed the point of the email. The email isn't "Wah we hit a server problem, bye bye." The point is: "What this has really shown us
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
If you ask me, it's bad to advertise that you publicly speculate, with resounding authority, on things you know absolutely nothing about. Haha, won't get funded ever? I have VCs knocking on my inbox doors on a monthly basis. We don't take f
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Yes, Daniel helped us backport to Rails 2.x and make a lot of improvements while we were at it, after everybody had given up on finding our Rails 3.x performance problems.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Yes, the other gentlemen are correct. This was all our own money. Which we earned from scratch from our other products (all doing very well, thank you). And, perhaps more galling, VCs approach us every month to try to invest (but we're agai
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
If you read the email I wrote, it's clear that we're not "giving up because of software failure." Look at it again and you'll see it's a different reason altogether.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
We had Rails Core team members spend lots of time trying to fix our Rails 3.x slowdowns. As you probably know, Thomas is a Rails Core Alumnus and we have lots of personal connections in the Rails community. Nobody could identify it. Our sys
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
It's always nice to hear from people who are informed on the facts of the situation, who analyze things calmly and rationally and consider all the individuals involved. Thank you for participating. BTW — you got all the facts wrong. Just in
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
You're assuming that the most important thing to clients is cost. For a decent client, it never is. It's a huge amount of work and risk to hire somebody else after a service provider has already shown themselves to be self-managing, self-di
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
You're right. It probably doesn't help that the main "watering hole" for industry professionals is run by an investment firm. People tend to think of HN as simply "the place entrepreneurs go," but that too is a (facilely) monolithic thing!

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