sandeepshetty

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by sandeepshetty 14y ago
See my reply above to patio11.
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by sandeepshetty 14y ago
I'm seeing this behavior especially for addons. When customers are paying a recurring fee for the main app and the costs of addons add up, they seem to prefer a fixed one-time fee (not necessarily equal to the CLV).
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by sandeepshetty 14y ago
I've been thinking about this from the perspective of Customer Lifetime Value (CLV). Charging a one-time fee based on historic CLV data, IMO, has three advantages: 1. Customers perceive the indefinite nature of recurring payments more expen
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Ask HN: [Pricing] Charging a one-time fee for a SaaS app?
30 points by sandeepshetty 14y ago|28 comments
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by sandeepshetty 14y ago
Dan, your work is very impressive & inspiring. Where do you host your apps?
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by sandeepshetty 14y ago
Replied.
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by sandeepshetty 14y ago
Mumbai, India. Married with a 17 month old daughter. Home owner. 1. > $3000/mo 2. > $4000/mo 3. $4000/mo
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by sandeepshetty 14y ago
Would be interesting to get your take on "freedom" since you've qualified it with "perceived". Time and location independence is one of the biggest reasons I went solo.
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by sandeepshetty 14y ago
It's big enough for me to make decent money and growing all the time. If you use Shopify's billing system they take 20%. I've written the popular PHP client adapter for the Shopify API ( http://wiki.shopify.com/Making_A_Shopify_App#.E2.80.9
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by sandeepshetty 14y ago
I'm using "solopreneur" to mean someone running a company of one. qiip.me looks nice. How did you get Guy Kawasaki on board? What's your plan in terms of making money with it?
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by sandeepshetty 14y ago
I gradually switched (since Jan 2011) to consulting part-time (I'm down to 2 days in a week) at my previous employer and I've got one product ( http://apps.shopify.com/fliptabify ) that makes a decent amount of money (enough to survive* but
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Ask HN: Any solopreneurs here?
32 points by sandeepshetty 14y ago|27 comments
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by sandeepshetty 14y ago
Based on your stats & the size of your dataset, I'm guessing you could easily host this at AppFog on their free tier: http://appfog.com/products/appfog/pricing/
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by sandeepshetty 14y ago
Looks like you're a solopreneur like me. Would love to connect and exchange notes.
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Ask HN: Which subdomains do you deny/block for your SaaS applications?
5 points by sandeepshetty 14y ago|4 comments
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by sandeepshetty 15y ago
"NOTE: You may choose to validate assertions on your own server. While a bit more complicated you can reduce your dependencies on others. Refer to the specification and the source for the reference validator." - https://github.com/mozilla/
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by sandeepshetty 15y ago
A better approach might be to go the CoffeeScript way or better still, contribute to php itself. Sure it might take longer but languages take years to catch on...
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by sandeepshetty 15y ago
Its pretty good except for the battery. If you need decent time on it then you need to get an additional battery slice which makes it more expensive and bulkier but it also gives you a great keyboard angle.
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The most important reason to do your own startup(sandeep.shetty.in)
6 points by sandeepshetty 15y ago|0 comments
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by sandeepshetty 15y ago
Not having names and pictures or your physical address on your about page and just referring to yourself as "we" is a big trust issue for me especially for a product handling payments.
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by sandeepshetty 16y ago
This is interesting if for nothing else than the hope that the record industry will take them to court and prove that digital content is not the same as physical goods and the same rules don't apply, hence contradicting their current stand.
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by sandeepshetty 16y ago
Here is Kent Beck's take on the four phases of startups where he talks about how these different phases require different development practices, principles, and technologies: http://www.threeriversinstitute.org/blog/?p=252
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by sandeepshetty 16y ago
I'm using the hosting provider for email delivery and already hitting the limits :) Was looking at moving to one of the email delivery services. Would love to talk. My email is in my profile.
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by sandeepshetty 16y ago
That sounds like a great idea. Added to my todo. Thanks.
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by sandeepshetty 16y ago
1. The tabs are like that because I will be adding more tabs to the left (e.g. "Owed by you" as a way to send IOUs to people, etc.) 2. Thanks will fix. 3. I'm trying to keep it as simple as possible so avoiding signup and login. Which just
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by sandeepshetty 16y ago
That idea has crossed my mind but you need a lot of users to make it viable.
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by sandeepshetty 16y ago
No strategy yet. Just solving a problem and it doesn't cost me anything yet.
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by sandeepshetty 16y ago
Nope. Looks great. Thanks.
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by sandeepshetty 16y ago
Whosebill.com looks neat. I'm aiming for a simple, just-get-it-done approach. There isn't even a signup on mine.
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by sandeepshetty 16y ago
Clickable: http://owe.to/

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