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by garrettdimon 15y ago
Our billing runs daily and charges each customer once every 30 days based on when they originally signed up for a paying account. So each night, we bill about 1/30th of our customers. It's not exactly 1/30th because some days have more cust
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by garrettdimon 15y ago
I'll give it some thought, but I've always failed miserably at trying to do that. I'm thinking it's easier/more efficient for everyone if focus on answering questions.
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by garrettdimon 15y ago
It's a feature within Sifter. Here's a few blog posts that go over the details. http://journal.sifterapp.com/blog/2007/08/bug-issue-tracking... http://journal.sifterapp.com/blog/2007/08/tracker-status-com... http://journal.sifterapp.co
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by garrettdimon 15y ago
Gotcha. I passed it along. I'm sure they'll get it sorted soon. If you'd really like it now, shoot me an email, and I'll send it along. garrett at nextupdate dot com.
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by garrettdimon 15y ago
The fraud was someone that was using us to validate stolen credit cards. They ran about 100 test transactions before we could lock it down. It took a while because we didn't want to detrimentally affect our customers just to stop it. So, it
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by garrettdimon 15y ago
Every day. In my mind, it will never be good enough. I've found that the philosophy that has worked best for me is that if you're not embarrassed, you've waited to long to launch. (I believe Matt Mullenweg said that, but I've heard it so ma
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by garrettdimon 15y ago
I'll followup with the SpeakerDeck folks. I expect they'll have it working soon. I think they got slammed a bit more than they expected, but they're throwing more resources at it now.
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by garrettdimon 15y ago
I generally worry a lot less these days. There are other people involved now as well, including a sys admin on retainer, and it's been a huge change. I'm probably more neurotic about it than most people, and definitely more neurotic than I
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by garrettdimon 15y ago
Slides obviously miss a lot of context if you didn't attend the presentation, so I'd love to chat with folks or answer questions if anybody has them.
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Bootstrapping a Software Product(bootstrapping.sifterapp.com)
264 points by garrettdimon 15y ago|49 comments
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My Biggest Mistake(garrettdimon.com)
2 points by garrettdimon 15y ago|0 comments
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by garrettdimon 16y ago
Thanks for the recommendation. Unfortunately, we've been with Braintree so long that we're on their original platform, and the gem only works with the new platform. The migration to get on the new platform wasn't worth it for us right now.
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by garrettdimon 16y ago
We use Braintree's vault, and we use ActiveMerchant to access it. We wrote all of the recurring/billing/invoicing logic ourselves. Beyond the initial implementation, we've done one sweeping overhaul of the logic to make some improvements an
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Handling Criticism (garrettdimon.com)
2 points by garrettdimon 16y ago|0 comments
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by garrettdimon 16y ago
For me, this approach is far more impressive than any story about a founder giving up years of his or her life to flip the company for a huge payout. What you've described is what I aspire to once we have children. Working from home. Flexib
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by garrettdimon 16y ago
It's different for everybody. It's better to focus on what's sustainable for you personally rather than a specific quantity of hours.
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by garrettdimon 16y ago
I agree. However, it's just a theme that I purchased. I'll have to look into doing some custom CSS to see if I can easily remove it.
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by garrettdimon 16y ago
Thanks! However, it should be noted that in this case, I simply purchased a Tumblr theme by WooThemes. I've been hoping and hoping that I'd find time to do my own design, but all of my free time goes toward Sifter. So it ended up being a th
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Starting is easier than sustaining.(garrettdimon.com)
39 points by garrettdimon 16y ago|8 comments
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Managing Support for a Hosted Web Application(garrettdimon.com)
2 points by garrettdimon 16y ago|0 comments
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by garrettdimon 16y ago
Sifter ( http://sifterapp.com ) started out as a side project. It was literally just something fun for me to fill my time with until a handful of people encouraged me to actually try to build a business out of it. Within about 18 months of
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by garrettdimon 16y ago
It's important to remember that "expensive" is relative. Depending on an individual's income or company's revenue, $10/$15 can be huge difference or just a drop in the bucket. When a business is billing out consultants at $150/hr, spending