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Oh crap! What a horror story. We recently migrated from Heroku Postgres to Crunchy Bridge and can totally recommend it. So maybe set up your new database there instead.

When my co-founder Jane and I started working on Userlist a couple years ago, we set out to build a better behavior based email tool for SaaS companies. We wanted small to medium s…

That's a good idea. I'll experiment with that. Thanks! I'd probably bill Metallica a lot more than that… ;)

I usually design directly in code without a CSS framework.

Yes, that's the UI I did. My tip to improving your design skills: Try to replicate designs you like. Pick one and analyze every pixel (literally!) of it and try to build it yoursel…

Even if you don't convert anyone from the mailing list, you're still better off than without it. You know that there is interest in your product and that there will be more people …

I'm happy to hear the article resonated with you :)

Thank a lot for your feedback on this! Based on my past experience the storage limits are well over the actual needs. It usually only grows when bands have a lot of photos on their…

Yeah, it is hard to understand. The regulations for VAT on SaaS products got insanely complicated a few months ago. Thanks for the feedback, though! I'll try to rephrase it without…

Thanks for the feedback! I agree that the pricing isn't perfect, yet. I'm currently segmenting by visitors/day as it seems to be the only way to separate bands into the different p…

The websites don't have a fixed structure. As a front-end developer/designer you're able to define templates with a set of elements (text, image, datetime, concerts, twitter integr…

Yes :) I do some of the design on my own (like the UI), work with a designer (the marketing website) and my customers usually work with a designer for their website design.

Oh wow! My post made it on Hacker News! Thanks so much for the nice comments. I'm glad my story inspired some of you :) If you have specific questions about anything or would like …