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The Planned Obsolescence of Old Coders(onezero.medium.com)
269 points by coffee 8y ago|349 comments
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Alternative Funding Calculus: A Quant Comparison of Tiny, Indie, and Earnest(medium.com)
1 points by coffee 8y ago|0 comments
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by coffee 8y ago
Not if it's cash ;) Hence my point.
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by coffee 8y ago
Honestly, I don't really care about all of that. If it's horrible service I can complain and most likely get a refund of some sort. I care that I want hot food, delivered in a reasonable time, and that I can pay a tip AFTER servic
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by coffee 8y ago
> It's because drivers can and will reject orders with $0 tips. That's what I said ;) Drivers can see the tip (or lack thereof) and NOT take the order. So the end result for a customer who likes to pay a cash tip AFTER service
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by coffee 8y ago
That's what they see, that I'm going to "tip cash"
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by coffee 8y ago
You are correct.
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by coffee 8y ago
It's really not a fine model, though. This isn't groceries, or a package from Amazon, this is hot food ready to serve that goes cold and soggy.
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by coffee 8y ago
Most likely this did NOT play out as you've described. I'd wager to bet it was a very high level, executive decision that got green lighted and quickly shuffled down to a low-level developer for implementation.
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by coffee 8y ago
> ...couriers have braved the elements, gotten by on meager wages and dealt with annoying customers, growling dogs and fifth-floor walk-ups, all for the chance of a big tip from a happy customer. This is not how I experience it working,
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by coffee 8y ago
You've missed the point, he said: > It's a lot easier to make $1-10k/month with just a few hours work per week (and time invested upfront of course) ...and time invested upfront of course There are many stories of folks wh
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by coffee 8y ago
It's hard to deny that there is a whole industry out there doing just this. It must be valuable to people, whether you think they are lazy or not, or it wouldn't exist. Here is someone filling that existing need, with their produc
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by coffee 8y ago
So here's how I see this (and what I believe you're missing)... There may be 200 things you MUST do when you open a cake shop or burger joint. This being one of them. Having a service available, for a reasonable price, to help you
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by coffee 8y ago
This looks like a fantastic service and it's really great that you are being open/public about your progress. Well done! I suppose being open also opens you up to attacks from your competitors. Sorry to see that. I could definitel
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by coffee 8y ago
I've often wondered the same, thanks for raising this question! I hope somebody with direct experience can chime in!
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by coffee 9y ago
Well done! Here's the IndieHackers link for those interested: https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/cronitor
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by coffee 9y ago
or.... You could consider living somewhere like Berkeley, which is a short (and direct) 20 minute BART ride into S.F. (if you don't have a remote or local job). I'd push hard to get your salary up to ~$165k/year as a senior-l
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by coffee 9y ago
Here are some things I've do (or still do)... 1. Turn off notifications on your phone. How-to on Android [1] iPhone [2] 2. Turn off all global notifications on your computer. How-to on Windows [3] OS X [4] Apple Watch [5] 3. Set up a C
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by coffee 9y ago
Well worth mentioning the link to the Cronitor Indie Hackers Interview: https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/cronitor Love the thinking behind "why" they raised their prices and the results after doing so.
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by coffee 10y ago
I'd love to see you write the book you mentioned at the end of the post. I'd buy it :=)
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by coffee 10y ago
That is an amazing talk by Jonathan Blow, never seen it before, thank you for posting it.
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by coffee 11y ago
Your points are valid, no need for them to be blindly discredited. You obviously have real world experience. The key here is your approaching the problem from a "here's what I think" standpoint and not a "based on the pa
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by coffee 11y ago
Of course you haven't. So you're claiming that you don't see the email-specific barrier to entry. Which is to say, you're arguing against it. While people who have authored such software are claiming the opposite. Yet yo
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by coffee 11y ago
> I just don't see the email-specific barrier to entry. Syncing is hard in general, dealing with legacy systems is a pain, parsing poorly compliant file formats is annoying... But you have that everywhere. Have you ever written a pr
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by coffee 11y ago
Email, unfortunately, is very broken. Spam, in the I'm getting random Viagra emails sense, is being handle very well lately. That said... We have a very large industry that easily helps you get your "ham" (the mail in-between
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by coffee 11y ago
> For intra-corporate mail, email works just great Not really. Hence the rise of intra-corporate chat software. People instead prefer to join focused, well defined groups to send and receive intra-corporate communication. Not bee CC&#x27
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by coffee 12y ago
I say Congratulations! 5 years is long enough as a employee at any tech company that isn't your own (or that you have serious upside in). Take what've you learned and forge you're own path. A path with control. Yes control...
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by coffee 12y ago
Yea those sound like good results. It would be interesting to see, over say 1,000 free trials, how many you could covert into monthly subscriptions and understand if the numbers I mention align or not. Sounds like you may do much better. Wo
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by coffee 12y ago
Actually, those stats are not horrible. If you dig around online (sorry, can't find the link right now), you'll find people reporting conversion numbers for SaaS free trials --> paid accounts at: 10% convert to a free accou
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by coffee 13y ago
Thx anonhacker, just replied to your email :)

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