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by stevoski 6y ago
OP here. It we because we were getting customers like Schneider Electric and WeWork that made me more confident to raise the prices. > Actually for your product I would expect the price to be around $200 per month I love hearing this. Th
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by stevoski 6y ago
OP here. The main reason I don't put up prices for existing customers is because this is how I'd want to be treated as a customer. Perhaps I'm not making the best decisions to maximise revenue, but part of the pleasure of run
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by stevoski 6y ago
> We also said “no” a lot in our first 5 years. It wasn’t worth the overhead. OP here. I'm grateful to hear that you also said "no" a lot. I do sometimes feel like I'm declining a lot of additional revenue, so it make
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When I raised my B2B SaaS’s prices(discuss.bootstrapped.fm)
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by stevoski 6y ago
> Something fundamentally changed about Stripe's support a few years ago, and it seemed like almost overnight they went from routinely having knowledgeable people replying with helpful suggestions to having people who can't eve
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by stevoski 6y ago
@dang, Maybe the text in italics ("Be kind. Don't be snarky...") should be always shown above the HN comment box? It'd be nice to get the reminder every time we are starting to write something unkind or snarky...
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by stevoski 6y ago
I created a commercial Mac desktop app in 2008. I sold it off late last year (2019). It stopped being fun somewhere along the way. This was partly because I never knew what new requirement Apple was going to add with each new annual release
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by stevoski 7y ago
Josh, I appreciate you being receptive. But I've been asking Stripe for this since 2015. I don't know what info I can possibly offer you that you surely haven't heard from tons of customers over the years.
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by stevoski 7y ago
Hey Patrick, It would be great if Stripe Checkout included VAT-related features: * Detect country and - if needed - add appropriate VAT * Allow customer to add a valid VAT number, so that when appropriate tax is not charged * Offer clear re
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by stevoski 7y ago
Whenever I get a “Good news! We’re changing things” email from Atlassian, I get an ominous feeling. It typically means they are making some changes to one of their products. The changes don’t benefit me at all, but do cause me disruption. I
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by stevoski 7y ago
Starting and Sustaining by Garrett Dimon https://startingandsustaining.com/ This was invaluable to me when getting started with my SaaS.
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by stevoski 7y ago
Hey Lunch Money founder, if you are reading these comments, a big congratulations on reaching $1K so quickly! I loved reading your story so far. IMO getting to that first $1K is harder than getting from $1K to $10K. Most first timers never
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by stevoski 7y ago
This is the typical stuff we discuss at https://discuss.bootstrapped.fm/
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by stevoski 7y ago
I went through a similar thought process a couple of years ago before starting Feature Upvote. Until then I had spent too many years on a technically difficult consumer product. It had drained away my life force and my passion for coding. I
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by stevoski 7y ago
Agree, Netlify is awesome. We recently moved our static sites from S3+CloudFront to Netlify. The S3+CF combination is clever, and very, very cheap. But it gets messy when you want to add things like custom headers and lots of redirect rules
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by stevoski 7y ago
I recently asked someone who helped Fog Creek with sales-y stuff about this quote. He said it had to be taken with the fact that Joel Spolsky's blog in its heyday had a tremendous amount of traffic from developers. He implied that it d
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by stevoski 7y ago
> Most notably, Borland JBuilder, which was an excellent product. I switched from JBuilder to IntelliJ in 2002 I think. JBuilder was good but on oh so expensive, if you wanted the full-featured version! IIRC it was 5 or 10 times the pric
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by stevoski 7y ago
This touches on an underrated problem: whatever stack you choose today for your new product is what you'll be locked into for years if your product is successful. It is almost inevitable that after a few years you'll be dependent
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by stevoski 7y ago
> People have last names, family names, or anything else which is shared by folks recognized as their relatives. My fav example of this is U Thant, who was Secretary General of the United Nations. His name was actually just “Thant”. The
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by stevoski 7y ago
The article is an excellent example of how something that seems easy and common-place ("show tabular data in a table") requires a lot of work to make it really good. I'd say this is common to a lot of our work as developers.
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by stevoski 7y ago
I found the underground poker scene to be a nice distraction from the reality. I got to be around people, and yet they wouldn't ask me bothersome questions. Additionally, the poker kept my mind focused for a few hours at a time on some
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by stevoski 7y ago
This article is spot on. Being triggered with memories of your loss every time you go to the supermarket, not eating properly to the point of experiencing easily avoided physical problems... It is probably hard for many to understand until
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by stevoski 7y ago
The dotcom bust started in March 2000, almost 18 months before 9/11. 9/11 didn't cause it - but it did destroy the last lingering hopes of a dotcom rebound anytime soon.
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by stevoski 7y ago
fuckedcompany.com - it was a site that collated news about all the "dotcom" era companies shutting down.
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by stevoski 7y ago
I love this product and wish I had created it. Here’s a podcast interview I recently did with OP about his product: https://bootstrapped.fm/2019/10/04/109-andy-brice-founder-of... Worth listening to if you ar
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by stevoski 7y ago
The BBC radio show/podcast More or Less recently investigated whether this was a) possible and b) true. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csz3rb
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by stevoski 7y ago
IIRC when Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood started Stack Overflow, they both had strong expertise in the Microsoft ecosystem. So they used the skills and knowledge they already had. It was quite the coup at the time for Microsoft, especially th
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by stevoski 7y ago
Mawson Peak has a claim as Australia's highest mountain. Wikipedia claims that there are three Australian mountains higher than Mount Kosciuszko, but two of them are on land that only a few countries recognise as Australian. https:&#x
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by stevoski 7y ago
I can’t recommend sparkjava enough. It is the only Java web framework I’ve encountered whose “quick start guide” is actually that: a guide that gets you started in minutes, not days. The fully working “Hello world” app is 5 lines of code. I
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Python and Qt: The Best Parts(payhip.com)
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