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by czue 5y ago
Loved the post, and congrats on the success of TinyPilot this year! I thought the "Do I still love it?" question was so interesting and so important. I'm curious if you harbor any regrets about the type of business you got in
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A Five-Year Journey to Financial Freedom and Beyond(coryzue.com)
9 points by czue 5y ago|1 comments
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by czue 5y ago
Thanks! The tech behind it is pretty embarrassing. Source data is Stripe (profit), Toggl (hours) and a tiny amount of manual accounting for expenses. I manually dump the raw data once a month into a CSV file, and then have some Python scrip
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by czue 5y ago
It tanked for the first six months of the pandemic. It's started coming back as the world has started having events again
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by czue 5y ago
Mostly royalty-free image sites, e.g. pixabay.
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by czue 5y ago
That's odd. It's mostly SEO and content, actually. I believe it's in the front page for Django SaaS, Django boilerplate and related terms. I haven't gone as hard after Python keywords, though I probably should...
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by czue 5y ago
Haha, thanks! Dates me I'm sure.
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by czue 5y ago
The free tier only imports 1,000 messages and hides a couple features. There's a $10/year upgrade to import your full chat and unlock them.
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by czue 5y ago
Ha, there's a metric that would be interesting. Probably the secret is that I try to spend as much time marketing as I do coding... (I usually fail but I'm guessing I still manage to market more than most devs)
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by czue 5y ago
I went full time independent in June of this year which gave me a lot more time. Since then I've averaged 60-80 hours a month on it, so I guess it's approaching a half-time job...
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by czue 5y ago
Place cards was a ton of content, SEO and a long game. Chat stats is so niche that I've literally just shared it a couple times on reddit and that's basically it. But somehow Google has figured out to show it for relevant queries.
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by czue 5y ago
These days basically zero because most of my attention has moved on. I invested a ton in SEO and content early on though.
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by czue 5y ago
Someone already added a great summary below, but yeah the short answer is "it's complicated". I personally have a single LLC for the businesses and also now hire help to make sure I'm compliant.
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by czue 5y ago
Good tip, thanks. Will make it a priority.
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by czue 5y ago
Thanks Nick, loved geeking out with you! All the best. :)
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by czue 5y ago
Heh. Black Friday sale. https://www.coryzue.com/writing/nov-2021/
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by czue 5y ago
I use an app called toggl: https://www.toggl.com/ . Highly recommend it!
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by czue 5y ago
Yeah, I'm sure it would but it would also increase the complexity a lot. I like how simple and low-touch the business is - it's one of my primary criteria for choosing projects!
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by czue 5y ago
Awesome, so cool you are sharing it and that's exactly the goal I have (both for myself and to inspire others). I had the idea of adding a "time travel" feature to it, so you can see literally how terrible the numbers were ea
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by czue 5y ago
I have two! An app for making wedding place cards that does about $1000/mo https://www.placecard.me/ A boilerplate for making SaaS apps with Python/Django that does $5k/month (highly variable) https:/&#
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by czue 5y ago
100% agree. Frameworks are an incredible starting place and allow everyone to get a head start. But there's still a big gap between what a framework will cover versus what a SaaS app needs. Also boilerplates occupy a very important wor
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by czue 5y ago
The need for a native mobile app (or any kind of platform-agnostic behavior) probably negates much of the value of these stacks. That said, many projects don't have or need mobile apps, and many more can probably get away with a web-fi
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by czue 5y ago
Alpine should be able to do this by itself.
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by czue 5y ago
I'm not sure! As I say in the article, I kind of think of HTMX as "alpine for AJAX"
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Django, HTMX and Alpine.js: Modern websites, JavaScript optional(saaspegasus.com)
450 points by czue 5y ago|274 comments
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by czue 5y ago
+1 for https://htmx.org/ . It's perfect for what you're describing
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by czue 5y ago
Creator of https://www.saaspegasus.com/ here. I'd be thrilled to have you as a customer, and very happy to answer any questions you have about the Pegasus product, community, etc. Almost all of the popular boilerplates
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Too Good to Check: A Play in Three Acts(astralcodexten.substack.com)
11 points by czue 5y ago|1 comments
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What to do when no one tells you what to do anymore(coryzue.com)
9 points by czue 5y ago|0 comments
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by czue 6y ago
I tried to make an analytics tool for Github repository contributions, but never got it "good enough" to do much with. It also times out a lot on API calls which makes it a pretty poor UX. https://repostory.app/

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