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How I develop features for my side project(blog.kernl.us)
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by vital101 9y ago
I've been working on https://kernl.us for a little over 2 years now. It's currently making $650 / month and growing. Something I "knew" but never really understood about growing a business is how long it
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All Things Open 2017 Schedule(allthingsopen.org)
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Some Thoughts on Elm Development(medium.com)
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0 to 1M: Scaling My Side Project to 1M Requests a Day(re-cycledair.com)
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by vital101 10y ago
Many years ago when I was still a PHP + Wordpress developer, I discovered that getting updates to private plugins and themes was a huge pain. Fast-forward a few years and I finally built out https://kernl.us as a learning projec
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by vital101 10y ago
I started https://kernl.us last May and brought it out of beta in January. I've been growing at the rate of around 5 new paying customers a month. After the closed beta I started out with about $140 / month in profits
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by vital101 10y ago
I build a developer tool for premium plugin / theme authors in the Wordpress ecosystem. If you can build something that scratches an itch in a programming ecosystem, people are likely to pay for it. Although with the amount of work I
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Raleigh Company Offers Tesla to Every Employee(newsobserver.com)
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Ask HN: Who is using GraphQL in production?
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by vital101 11y ago
I just finished the work today of migrating from Mandrill to SendGrid. I can't speak for the other providers, but so far it has been a fairly painless process. The client libraries for Node are similar enough between the two that I d
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by vital101 11y ago
Private Wordpress Plugin & Theme updates + CI services - https://kernl.us It's awesome because I get to work on fun technologies (MEAN stack), learn how to scale Node.js, and interact with a great community. Also, I ha
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Be a little selfish(pippinsplugins.com)
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by vital101 11y ago
Thats a good point. If I can differentiate the plans more, charging more becomes a lot easier. +1 to grandfathering existing users.
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by vital101 11y ago
Yes, thats correct. I initially priced this based on what others in the industry were pricing. I think eventually I'll experiment with pricing a little bit, but I'm worried that with higher prices developers will just say "
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by vital101 11y ago
Thanks for the response (and critique). I think you're probably right. Unless this can target a much larger part of the Wordpress development community, it probably won't attract VCs.
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Ask HN: Out of beta with paying customers. What's next?
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by vital101 11y ago
We make it pretty easy to do with Kernl. It also supports "push to build" from GitHub or BitBucket if that interests you. If you have any questions send me an email: jack at kernl dot us
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by vital101 11y ago
I started working on getting my private Wordpress plugin and theme update service out of beta. It's getting closer! Maybe by the end of the month. https://kernl.us - Come check us out!
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by vital101 11y ago
Thanks for the reply. You make good points. I imagine I'll end up doing a lot of A/B testing on pricing to see what sticks the best.
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Ask HN: Product Pricing
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Continuous Deployment of Wordpress Plugins Using Kernl(re-cycledair.com)
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This Is Windows 10s Edge Browser(maximumpc.com)
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by vital101 11y ago
I'm working on private hosted Wordpress plugin and theme updates. My goal is to do for Wordpress updates what Github did for Git. Its currently in a private alpha, but I've already got 26 users signed up! I have lots of ideas fo
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by vital101 11y ago
Central Michigan University
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by vital101 11y ago
Back in grad school we used the Inferno OS as a learning tool. I don't remember too much about it, but I do remember using Limbo (precursor to Golang) and liking it quite a lot. When Go came out it was really easy to pick up due to m
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by vital101 11y ago
Congrats on 800 sign ups, thats huge! I agree with you on aggressively tracking metrics, although I think I need a bit more than 20 users for my alpha. Its nice to have a concrete number to compare against, even if we aren't in relat
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Ask HN: How many users is 'enough' for an Alpha?
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Show HN: Kernl.us – Private Wordpress Plugin Updates as a Service(kernl.us)
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AMD and PC Gamer Bring the PC Gaming Show to E3(pcgamer.com)
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