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caffeinatedwes
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About caffeinatedwes
Most recently, I led growth at Microverse, an online school for remote software developers that doesn’t charge you anything until you get a job.
I'm currently working on something new as a part of On Deck Fellowship #3.
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Comment #21195569
Microverse | Remote only | Full time Microverse is a global, distributed school for software developers that doesn't charge students anything until they get hired. The company is b…
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Comment #18040978
I was going to provide feedback on your pricing, but it looks like you haven't published it to your site yet. If you're in the process of creating your launch price, I'd recommend …
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Comment #17682137
What type of features are you looking for? You might want to check out Cheddar's API. https://www.getcheddar.com
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Comment #17181263
To add to the list of another non-open source billing solution: Cheddar, https://getcheddar.com . I mentioned it earlier, but another disclaimer: I work there.
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Comment #17181250
Disclaimer: I work at Cheddar, a billing company. I think it's crazy that everyone writes and maintains their own billing solutions too. I think people build their own billing solu…
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Comment #17049097
Have you heard of Cheddar? It's a usage-based billing API that does almost everything you're talking about, minus the 2FA. That might have to be an external service, but if you're …
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Comment #16851900
Looks cool! What was the impetus for this?
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Comment #16768477
Recurring invoices aren't affected, so no $1 charge. I forget where that was mentioned.
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Comment #16388342
Rob and Mike of Startups For The Rest of Us recently published an awesome podcast on the topic of struggles and challenges of building a billing system. The good stuff is between 1…
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Comment #16388256
Usage-based and metered billing? Yep, that's what we do at Cheddar. https://gtchdr.com/2sEFDAf
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Comment #16388234
Cheddar's billing API has an open-source Ruby wrapper that might be helpful for integrating billing into your product. Cheddar: https://gtchdr.com/2BvZQuF Ruby wrapper: https://gtc…
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Comment #16388166
I haven't used it before, but it sounds like Gumroad is your best choice. Is there any reason you're hesitant to try it? If you decide to do a server implementation, you might be a…
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Comment #16388010
I'm curious--what is your main reason for not launching your plugin through a SaaS model?
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Comment #16377727
Tomasz Tunguz wrote a nice piece about the 2-part tariff: http://tomtunguz.com/three-part-tariffs/ Actually, he mentions that academics argue that 3-part tariffs may be the most op…