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by taprun 11y ago
If you are going to build it for free, why do you need him? Just build it yourself.
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by taprun 11y ago
My first piece of advice is to think about your goals. What do you want to optimize for (# of users, short-term liquidity, long term profits, customer churn, etc). My next piece is to be wary of discounts. Consumers will become accustomed
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by taprun 11y ago
I'll just throw Patio11's famous rant here: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pro...
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by taprun 11y ago
Sitting in meetings that had nothing to do with me
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by taprun 11y ago
Well, I wrote a book on how to monetize and price software products... http://taprun.com/pricing
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by taprun 11y ago
No. A company has nothing to gain in telling you. Doing so would only open itself to risk.
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by taprun 11y ago
There are only two big reasons to release a freemium offering. 1) To upsell free users later 2) To use free users as marketing. I wrote an article on this last month... http://taprun.com/articles/secret-to-freemium-pri
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by taprun 11y ago
There are some metrics that you can certainly require. For instance, a maximum threshold on cyclomatic complexity. A less rigorous option is that you could require regular drops at which point you look at the code and only agree to buy the
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by taprun 11y ago
I think you may have forgotten an "r" in your URL. http://hackerparadise.org ?
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by taprun 11y ago
BoxGal.com is currently available. I'm sure others are as well.
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by taprun 11y ago
I found an available 6 letter domain name ( http://TapRun.com ) about a year and a half ago. I've found others since then...
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by taprun 11y ago
My suggestion is The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing. It's a very, very quick read.
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by taprun 11y ago
Go to an event for people in another field and ask people.
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by taprun 11y ago
A "shortage of talent" is actually economic shorthand. The full phrase is "shortage of talent at the rate I'm willing to pay." You can always find a fantastic developer, if you're willing to pay more than t
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by taprun 11y ago
Perhaps I misunderstand your question, but doesn't the article say the source is on github? https://github.com/FogCreek/RoslynGenerator
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by taprun 11y ago
I just wrote a bit of PHP that pulls from a MYSQL table. It's not fancy, but I can do all sorts of custom stuff with it.
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by taprun 11y ago
I would suggest picking one field - either security or usability. While you may actually be an expert in both, it will be easier to position yourself as an expert in one. This will make your marketing more straightforward. Then, you&#x2
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by taprun 11y ago
I would think that if you want to work on challenging things as a freelancer, you'll have to specialize in a niche. Your expertise will allow you to make up for a lack of familiarity with a particular code base.
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by taprun 11y ago
Anything that requires a lot of processing power and very low latency would be my suggestion. My first thoughts would be video games and CAD.
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by taprun 11y ago
Here's a list of some common revenue models: http://taprun.com/revenue/
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by taprun 11y ago
There are all sorts of business models that work for cell phone games. Here are the three most common: * Freemium - Get users then try to charge them money later * Up front - Get paid by people, then provide them with a game * Ad-based - G
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by taprun 11y ago
How about charging money for your product? You could either charge the providers of the services or the customers. If you're looking for other models, I wrote descriptions of a baker's dozen of them here: http://tapru
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by taprun 11y ago
It would probably be less questionable to take the money the firm would have donated and tie it into the creation of new functionality by the software's authors.
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by taprun 11y ago
If the directors can't put a value on the work, you need to work with them in order to do so. If they don't know the value of a project, they'll never be able to figure out if it should be funded or not. If you can help the
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by taprun 11y ago
I keep a blog centered around a niche topic (the pricing and positioning of software applications). I created a backlog of 300+ ideas for posts, but rarely look at it. Once I got into the habit of writing something every day, my posts beca
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by taprun 11y ago
And I'm anticipating that someone will link Patrick's answer... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6717577
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by taprun 11y ago
That's interesting! I would have predicted that "digital natives" would be the most likely to use ad blockers (thus not seeing the ads at all)...
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by taprun 11y ago
The title is very misleading and an example of linkbait. It should be something like "Can Employers Request Traits That Older Folks Are Unlikely to Possess?"
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by taprun 11y ago
If you're asking from a personal standpoint: I would imagine that you'd want to reduce your debt, cut your expenses and increase your personal liquidity.
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by taprun 11y ago
Yes! I've seen screeners who state that they can't find any suitable PHP developers because none of the resumes also list HTML. This is probably a sign that companies could spend a bit more for screeners and wind up with staff w

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