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   by destroytoday 11y ago

   Thanks! I do all the design, too. I went to school for design and I've been coding all my life—it's a useful balance.
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   by destroytoday 11y ago

   The majority of paying users are monthly, but mostly because of the demographic—freelancers. Most freelancers aren't full-time freelancers, so they don't always freelance (and don't always need a freelancing tool). That makes
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   by destroytoday 11y ago

   Also, I mentioned to them that the cost was becoming a bit much for me as a solo dev, so they worked with me to build a custom plan that I could afford. I couldn't recommend Intercom enough.
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   by destroytoday 11y ago

   I plan to transition to AWS this year, so hopefully costs will go down a bit from that. :)
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   by destroytoday 11y ago

   The decision to cancel Baremetrics is a long story, but the main reason is that I don't agree with a few tactics they've used to improve MRR, like removing the ability for users to cancel their account on their own (you now need t
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   by destroytoday 11y ago

   The marketing site is static-hosted on S3 and I think when I first set that up it was either too expensive for SSL or not possible. I'm not 100% sure, but I'll definitely look into it again. The wildcard SSL was a recent additio
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   by destroytoday 11y ago

   I definitely plan to write about it on the journal ( http://cushionapp.com/journal ). I have channels for new users, Stripe charges/subscriptions, errors from Sentry, build notifications, and support notifications. I pla
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   by destroytoday 11y ago

   I definitely plan to share the cost of my time to work on Cushion. I've been tracking my time since the original idea. To give you an idea, I just crossed 2,000 hours for design and development. I didn't track time for customer
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   by destroytoday 11y ago

   For Cushion, I use Intercom to handle support, in-app feature updates, newsletter emails, user tracking (tagging to follow up with feature updates), automated emails (trial expiring, etc), and a slew of other things. When I added the cost o
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    by destroytoday 11y ago

    Correct—the font licenses were a one-time cost. Previously, I was using Typekit, but I hit an issue with the requests stalling for ~3 seconds. Apparently, Chrome has a threshold of not loading more than ~5 requests from a single external lo
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    by destroytoday 11y ago

    For some insight, the $25 carousel was more about supporting the indie dev who built it. :) And sometimes the startup is 1 person, which Cushion currently is. I'm hoping to hire some dev help this year, though!
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    by destroytoday 11y ago

    Thanks! Fortunately, the app's usage is pretty casual—users check it a couple times a day, or sometimes week-to-week. Because of that, I haven't had too many issues with server load. Honestly, I could probably run it on a single s
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    by destroytoday 11y ago

    Great to hear! My goal is to transition to AWS this year. I'll be sure to write about the cost differences.
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    by destroytoday 11y ago

    At the time, I was eager to build the app and focus on its features and getting it online. I don't know much about renting hardware, setting up a system, and scaling, so I was gladly willing to pay to make that easier on myself. The $3
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    by destroytoday 11y ago

    The strikethroughs are for services I once used, but have since cancelled because I either moved to another service or no longer needed that service anymore. Early on, I paid for Code Climate, but realized it was an expensive non-necessity
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    by destroytoday 11y ago

    I appreciate this.
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    by destroytoday 11y ago

    I'm a solo dev. :) I use Slack as a notification center for all of my services.
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    by destroytoday 11y ago

    Hi! I run Cushion. Moving off Heroku is definitely high on my to-do list. So far, since I'm a solo dev, I've taken the mindset of paying for convenience services that would allow me to spend more time working on the app. Now, I&#x
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    Programmer Disrupt(imjameshall.com)

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