rozenmd

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   by rozenmd 5y ago

   As a frontend web team: TypeScript Next.js Investing deeply into making the build run as fast as possible Preview deployments per branch (or preview releases of binaries for CLIs) Integration tests that actually test how users use the produ
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   by rozenmd 5y ago

   Being a media company that happens to sell SaaS subscriptions is becoming a popular way to solve the traction problem.
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   by rozenmd 5y ago

   In my experience, building into a "red ocean" of 200 competitors, the MVP concept is still valid, but the goalposts have shifted. Whereas before the advice might have been "just build a tiny solution to the problem you'r
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   by rozenmd 5y ago

   I'd recommend reading "Digital Minimalism" by Cal Newport. Their writing isn't my cup of tea, but there are good tips in there.
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   by rozenmd 5y ago

   I've had interviews with some interesting companies (think tiny, bootstrapped, making serious cash), but I didn't end up pursuing the opportunities further. Most folks will email/DM you for a chat about what you're looki
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   by rozenmd 5y ago

   The French government considers B1/B2 sufficient to become a citizen.
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   by rozenmd 5y ago

   Happens quite a bit when you post on weekends/public holidays - sometimes folks just miss the content that day.
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   by rozenmd 5y ago

   I managed to get from A1.2 (started there from having a few holidays in France, having listened to a Michel Thomas audiobook once) to B2.4 in two years before moving to France. The InnerFrench podcast helped a lot - I had french courses t
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   Ask HN: Does your team use feature flags for A/B testing?

   1 points by rozenmd 5y ago|0 comments
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    by rozenmd 5y ago

    If you've managed to build trust with your audience (like, they subscribe to your newsletter and read it eagerly), you could sell them another fix for their problems (like a book, workshops or software)
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    by rozenmd 5y ago

    My immediate thoughts: it could be lacking because it's not at all clear what you're marketing here... it seems like random text?
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    by rozenmd 5y ago

    Ah right. I would cancel a project if it couldn't pay its own infrastructure bill after 6 months. If I had to name a goal for the second year, it's to reach $1k MRR across everything I sell online. I still have plenty of ideas for
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    by rozenmd 5y ago

    That's the beauty of my setup IMO, I don't plan on quitting full time work, so the revenue is all a bonus on top of what I learn. That being said, I think I'm at a point where I could spin off an API from OnlineOrNot and make
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    by rozenmd 5y ago

    Thanks (I'm in France, so it's 218 working days, 436 hours). On the education side, my first 3 years as a maker, I didn't grow beyond 1 paid user on any product I sold. I still learned with every failed launch, and every prod
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    by rozenmd 5y ago

    Nope, total over the year.
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    by rozenmd 5y ago

    There probably is, but I like to avoid sharing around customer data unnecessarily.
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    by rozenmd 5y ago

    I use Plausible analytics for site analytics - you can do quite a bit just by firing events when users land on a page (don't need to know who they are, just need a count of people that see page A, B, and C).
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    by rozenmd 5y ago

    $3.5k USD total over the year, roughly.
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    by rozenmd 5y ago

    At the moment, I just handle the monitoring (static websites, APIs, and now JavaScript apps) and alerts. You can then use that data to write accurate status updates on your system's status page, but we do not host public status pages.
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    by rozenmd 5y ago

    I've mainly been emailing customers to try understand their processes better. I read your book though, and I've been working up the courage to do customer interviews over Zoom/calls!
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    by rozenmd 5y ago

    Hey, I'm the creator of OnlineOrNot. I mainly started building it because I wanted to learn more about running a business, marketing, and SEO (all the technical parts of the business were relatively easy in comparison).
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    What I learned running a SaaS for a year(onlineornot.com)

    241 points by rozenmd 5y ago|52 comments
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    What I learned running a SaaS for a year(onlineornot.com)

    3 points by rozenmd 5y ago|2 comments
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    by rozenmd 5y ago

    In one particular country perhaps, not a phenomenon worldwide. edit: misread the title, assumed this was about them doing this in Paris (also recently announced)
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    by rozenmd 5y ago

    Python the hard way: https://shop.learncodethehardway.org/ Something about writing out each example made it stick like nothing else.
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    by rozenmd 5y ago

    I learned this lesson the hard way - 11 months of freemium, decided to add a trial because "why not?" - now something like 95% of new users choose the trial of the Pro plan, instead of the free tier.
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    by rozenmd 5y ago

    Nah there's more nuance to it than that - it's more that customers expect a better featured solution before buying now. It's still an MVP, but the goalposts have shifted as more folks put up "drop your email here if you&
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    by rozenmd 5y ago

    Habits, mainly. Side business at the same time, for the same duration, every workday. Work every workday (lol). Other hobbies I schedule similarly - make it so I don't have to think about when to start.
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    by rozenmd 5y ago

    My other "I don't care if it succeeds project" is an uptime checker I've been building extremely iteratively: https://onlineornot.com/ Mainly started building it because I wanted to learn more about runn
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    by rozenmd 5y ago

    Set it up once, keep using the same configuration across multiple projects. Tweak things that aren't working. Has been working for my side projects since 2017.