evermike

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by evermike 8y ago
Yes, it's the programmer's salary here. Of course this is not the starting point, it's a senior level salary, but this is not the upper limit.
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by evermike 8y ago
At the beginning, a huge part of leads came to us through the partner websites (tools we integrate with). Now there is more organic traffic. Someone mentioned us somewhere, referred to a friend. The most important thing is to achieve the Ah
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by evermike 8y ago
1) Actually right now we don't have anyone dedicated to marketing :) Our team structure is the following: CTO and COO (two other co-founders), me (design, product and marketing), 1 customer success, 2 front-end devs, 1 back-end dev. We
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by evermike 8y ago
Yep, that's true. I would also advise you to devote some time and collect feedback on such sites as Capterra, G2Crowd, TrustPilot, TrustRadius. Firstly, people search and read reviews before making their final decision. Secondly, readi
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by evermike 8y ago
Great question. 1. Let me give you an example. We were using GitHub and all the embed functionality was working fine because we were using it every day. But we did not use Asana or Trello. Then we decided to use this platforms as well in or
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by evermike 8y ago
1) It was a gradual process. We would not have enough money for the whole team, besides, we could not at one day say goodbye to our existing clients. We had quite interesting companies. Therefore, we gradually ceased all new quotes and when
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by evermike 8y ago
To be honest, the whole secret is in the product itself. At the very beginning we wanted to do everything faster - more features, more blog posts, more visitors, more backlinks etc. Did not work well. Then we decided to stop - pause any ads
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by evermike 8y ago
We were running a small web development company - Weavora for a couple of years. At first were 100% dedicated, then tried a few ideas (i.e. combined existing business and new initiatives) and only now we are mostly a product company. At som
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by evermike 8y ago
Our ARPU is about $50. Most of our clients are fairly small or just at an early stage. And this is natural. Bigger companies mostly have time tracking process in some form, and they do not want to change the tool (something that already wor
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by evermike 8y ago
We do no offer any revenues/profits sharing for employees. Just very competitive salary. But maybe we will consider this in the future. In addition, it is still not very common in Belarus. Even in terms of legislation.
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by evermike 8y ago
Thanks! It feels that you are speaking from your own experience. Indeed, it's hard. But not everyone understands this.
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by evermike 8y ago
We aren't from Ukraine, so I don't know. We are from Belarus. I'm not an expert here. To get the right picture, I would recommend searching for some kind of UpWork report. Like this - https://www.upwork.com/pr
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by evermike 8y ago
It seems to me that everyone understands that personal experience and especially everything money related is way more interesting. Secondly, more and more people believe in transparency. Today you helped someone, tomorrow they helped you. L
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by evermike 8y ago
Dear HN community. Just wanna thank everyone for such a warm feedback and interesting questions. I'll do my best to reply everyone. Although sometimes it's not easy to notice a new comment :)
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by evermike 8y ago
Unfortunately no. But I will be grateful if you briefly explain why it's worth doing. What benefits it can bring?
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by evermike 8y ago
I would like to note that in my opinion 30-days is a bit long. It's more efficient to offer 14 days. This motivates leads to try your product ASAP without postponing at a later date. Some people ask to prolong their trial and we do it,
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by evermike 8y ago
We don't offer a discount except for volume. If the client has 50+ employees, then we negotiate.
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by evermike 8y ago
No special tricks. Firstly, it's cheaper and we try to emphasize this in our interface, and secondly, some do not want to receive an invoice each month, they want to pay only once.
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by evermike 8y ago
(1) We do not consider investments ATM. We have enough cashflow to implement all short-term ideas. But of course I do not exclude such an opportunity in the future. We always start with small experiments and increment. (2) We have no ambiti
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by evermike 8y ago
I think it's very important to choose the stack with which you have the most experience. In this way, you will protect yourself from the situation when something went wrong on PROD and you do not know how to fix it. I generally for rel
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by evermike 8y ago
Are you using Everhour? I'm asking because we do our best to support the most popular browsers: Chrome, Firefox and Safari. We do not force you to use one. I.e. we offer same functionality in your preferred browser. But each browser ha
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by evermike 8y ago
For us, the best growth channel was partnerships and listing on 3d party marketing pages (Asana, Basecamp, ClickUp etc.). It is not difficult and costs nothing (if you have a good integration) while the traffic quality is awesome!
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by evermike 8y ago
I agree. I have not listed many cool companies. It is a long and IMHO impressive list. TargetProcess, PandaDoc, FriendlyData, Eightydays.me, Maps.me (was acquired by Mail.Ru Group), SplitMetrics etc. Plus the biggest company is Epam (Market
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by evermike 8y ago
In truth, Jira is not our main platform. Our plugin isn't so valuable in this case, because Jira has a built-in ability to track time. Such platforms as Asana or Trello or Basecamp converts much better. Yes, there were other solutions,
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by evermike 8y ago
I agree. And once again I will note that browser extension was the crucial idea behind our growth. But there are some difficulties. For example, sometimes our customers do not understand that the extension is needed and delete it :) Or, for
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by evermike 8y ago
Not an easy question. I think I can write a separate blog post about it. But generally speaking, we completely redid the whole system. In the beginning, we did not understand correctly what customers really need, and our architecture did no
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by evermike 8y ago
I can see two questions. Let me start with books I can recommend: (1) Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers — Weinberg, Gabriel (2) Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't — Harnish, Verne (3) The Le
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by evermike 8y ago
Thanks for kind words. It is very motivating. Indeed, not a rocket science. Just do your best, talk to your customers, make their life easier. Although sometimes it was very difficult mentally). I like to say that if you want to earn a bill
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by evermike 8y ago
No problem. Our main tech stack is the following: PHP (Symfony), Angular, MySQL, Redis, Nginx Of course it's not an entire list, but if there are any additional questions - ask, will try to clarify.
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by evermike 8y ago
True. Here is a good article - https://medium.com/marketing-and-entrepreneurship/here-are-t...

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