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by plehoux 5y ago
This is list is not a list of thing not to do, simply some popular things we did not do. I'm absolutely not saying type-checking is bad.
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by plehoux 5y ago
Before Missive, we created ConferenceBadge.com, which we ran in parallel until last autumn, when we passed management to a new team.
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by plehoux 5y ago
At the moment we are three (co-founders) + a part-time dev doing integrations.
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by plehoux 5y ago
Do Yoga. I have destroyed my body with the combination of working on chair 10 hours day, and then doing hard sports (Rugby, Ice Canoe, Running).
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by plehoux 5y ago
It's nice, but keep in mind it's a 7 years long journey. :)
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by plehoux 5y ago
Co-founder here, I'm sure there are many things I forgot to include in this list, still, a nice summary of the many things we haven't done. Were we successful because or despite of all of these did-nots? There are presumably many
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Things we did not do while reaching $2M ARR(missiveapp.com)
194 points by plehoux 5y ago|102 comments
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by plehoux 5y ago
Thanks!
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by plehoux 5y ago
Philippe, co-founder at Missive, happy to answer all of your questions.
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by plehoux 5y ago
Thanks! :)
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On Being a Tiny Team (At $2M ARR) and the One Thing We Can't Scale(missiveapp.com)
14 points by plehoux 5y ago|7 comments
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by plehoux 5y ago
Seems like a good plan. :)
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by plehoux 5y ago
I don't know if it's related or not (still trying to figure this out), but I personnally went into a bizarre mental state of mind after hitting the two big milestones I had in life since I was a 20 years old young adult, having 4
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by plehoux 5y ago
I'm the co-founder of a pretty lean & 100% word of mouth >1.5M ARR SAAS [1], but god, I'm jealous of the success of Peter, who got to this point with a simple tech stack. Pretty sure a lot of people here have the same feeli
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by plehoux 5y ago
French-Canadian were too considered like most other catholics as different and undesirable : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan_in_Maine
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by plehoux 6y ago
Thanks Alain!
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by plehoux 6y ago
I haven't looked at newer technologies. We would undoubtedly re-evaluate what's available and best for a small team like us.
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by plehoux 6y ago
I meet Luis at my coworking space in Quebec city. He first started to work on Conference Badge as the sole employee (we were transitioning to Missive ourselves). When the pandemic began, as Conference Badge revenues collapsed, we slowly tra
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by plehoux 6y ago
We did try to get into YC a couple of years ago and made it to the interview. From the rejection email: "However we struggled to convince ourselves that enough people would find this useful enough to switch from Gmail and to pay for an
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by plehoux 6y ago
Not sure I would know how to spend the money...
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by plehoux 6y ago
Sorry for the anxiety! Your critic is a valid one, and one we struggled with a lot, how to make a powerful and simple app at the same time. We worked a lot in the last year to simplify some of the app's concepts and help onboard collea
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by plehoux 6y ago
You can listen to the interview I did with Courtland Allen from IndieHacker to understand that this is far from the case. https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/033-philippe-lehoux-of-...
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by plehoux 6y ago
Awesome, don't hesitate to write me an email at philippe[a t]missiveapp.com if you have more questions! We have a lot of happy ex-Front users.
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by plehoux 6y ago
> Also, is your iOS app still using Cordova? It looks and feels so nice, which is a marked difference from the last time I tried that framework. Yes, it is.
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by plehoux 6y ago
> How did you build push notifications (especially on mobile) with a single codebase? Do you use something like OneSignal? The single codebase for the client. We do have a server/API, which manages push notifications.
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by plehoux 6y ago
I might have mixed both 'goals' and 'long-term planning' in that paragraph; they are not the same. Goals are useless to us. We tried a few times to set them and just shifted them around until we stopped caring about them
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by plehoux 6y ago
No clue, I guess quality/luck? Missive was featured multiple times in 2017-2018. We had no web fame, Missive wasn't popular and it was a JavaScript app, let's say we were really surprised too. At the end of the day, most of t
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by plehoux 6y ago
In Missive's case, it's JavaScript/HTML wrapped with Cordova.
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by plehoux 6y ago
You should listen to the podcast of my co-founder Etienne on the Synthax. podcast: https://syntax.fm/show/184/desktop-and-mobile-apps-with-a-si...
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by plehoux 6y ago
> but if you are not drawing from a fixed pot (eg. your personal savings) Profits from another business, in and itself, are technically also from personal savings. But yeah, maybe our story doesn't subscribe to the purest form of bo

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