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EU sovereign clouds are taking off right now - especially when it comes to sensitive data (government, healthcare, etc.). Lots of players moving into the space. The common denomina…

Canva - I used it for simple designs but ChatGPT is better Grammarly - ChatGPT and Claude are way better, and much more customizable. If I were a human editor I'd be very worried. …

I don't know where the recent idea that em dashes are difficult to type came from. MS Word automates turning a hyphen into an em dash as you type in the same way that it converts "…

Have you considered slashing features in order to speed up your MVP release? Our own "must have" features are often not must haves for users. I was in the same boat a few years bac…

I switched off sales of my last desktop app a couple of months ago. It was still bringing in sales of about $600 a month, but it felt like a weight hanging around my neck. Despite …

Despite being a dev of 20+ years, I use Wordpress as a non-technical user, hosted on a paid for plan on Wordpress.com. I never deploy, never have to upgrade, never have to troubles…

LinkedIn have an automated rater for applications. Any that their tool consider to not be a fit is automatically tagged "Not a fit" and color coded accordingly, making it very obvi…

I'm building a developer tool for working with FHIR APIs called "Vanya Client". - https://vanyalabs.com/ FHIR is a data standard for sharing healthcare data. It's in use all around…

I don't have a great story, but from my own experience I see the key as being a willingness to step outside your comfort zone. Do (if not embrace) the things you tend to avoid doin…

Fastspring or Paddle.

Keep it just for the email addresses and accounts you may have opened using those email addresses. If you don't, there'll be something you've missed and you won't find out for 6 mo…

- Zero to One, Peter Thiel Always makes me feel that I’m not ambitious enough. And that too many smart people are in the wrong industry (finance). - The Dip, Seth Godin Don’t give …

I built one pre-Grammarly that functions as an add-in to Microsoft Word. It's aimed at creative writers and never really took off, though it does have a cohort of die hard fans. St…

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What industry do you work in? What sort of company and team do you work for? Is there really nothing you can think of from a business or work perspective that you need, that could …

You need to use a reseller type company like Fastspring. There's no alternative - you either do the tax yourself or you make it so that you don't have to. It's an extra 5% or so, b…

A variation of this post pops up here a lot. Reminds me of writers on writing forums looking for the perfect "light weight" word processor. Problem being, everyone has one "must ha…

> use the proceeds from your day job to hire a developer to do the work Interesting and timely. I'm close to doing this now - the time just isn't there to devote to the product and…

Focused on a particular industry and domain instead of jumping between industries on each contract. All of us can write code - that's not a hard skill to find. But combining code w…

It's possible the University of Bedfordshire role at the top makes it look like you're a student - to a lazy recruiter who doesn't read. The first bullet point "as part of a resear…

I really don't see a problem with newsletters. If one starts getting too dull or is no longer of interest, I unsubscribe. Functionally, they all work the same and all have the same…

> I need to find some signal from users The clearest and most unambiguous signal from users is "I will pay you money for this" or "I will not pay you money for this."

There's no pricing on the website that I can find. Are you really saying that you spent years of work and $1m+ of your own money building something that you love but that has no in…

As a solo developer who has built B2C software in the past, 1600 sales in your first year is outstanding. But I have to say your pricing is terrible - from all perspectives. For yo…