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Yeah that sounds like a lot of fun, but alas no time for that. I think I need to stick with Datadog logs and use Sentry for errors. I was excited to try to get everything into one …

So... I'm way behind. Just got into Claude this week... it's already doing most of my coding and bug fixes. Crazy stuff. Some background on my company: Mature (14 yrs) Ruby on Rail…

Funny timing, my app for Shopify is for merchants to sell tickets, and it's featured on the App Store home page right now.

I could discuss it with Andrew, but every case will be unique and necessitate its own approach. If I could make one suggestion for anyone dealing with a software patent issue, from…

I just spoke with Andrew and he was incredibly helpful and is going to help me out. Whew. Thank you Andrew and HN!!

Yes, my case is on Pacer.

Wow, thanks Andrew! I sent you an email with the lawsuit. I look forward to hearing from you. What an amazing community!!

Thank you. I have not personally been served, I found out about it via emails from two different patent attorney firms offering their services, with the lawsuit attached as a court…

The case details does not detail an asking amount. I could post the case details here if people think that's a good idea. I suppose it's public information anyway.

You are not alone!

I've never worked with a lawyer before. How do I pick one? Should I pick one in my state - Nevada? Should I post the case details here? I guess I was hoping someone on HN had a con…

This particular patent troll has filed lawsuits with at least a dozen of my competitors in the past year. Some were voluntarily dismissed, some ongoing, rest unknown (based on my l…

- Monitor (with Bugsnag) and fix all errors/exceptions like its your religion. No new feature dev if there's an open bug. Write tests. - Use Heroku. Monitor metrics to ensure you d…

I develop on a Macbook Pro and I want to get a Mac Mini to have as a backup machine. Ideally, whatever happens in certain directories on my laptop, and synced quickly to the Mac mi…

Thanks, I will email you. Not a bad idea on the accountant, but finding (a good) one is indeed the hard part. How do I even vet that? I hate "hiring" for something I don't know a l…

I moved to Nevada (from Cali) in August and opened a Nevada LLC in November. I'm all set up on Payroll (using Gusto) and believe I have that figured out. I just sent in Form 2553 t…

I'm so excited for Starlink! As a solo founder I do all of my support, but I like to frequently go off-roading and camping outside of cell service. I have a satellite messenger for…

I work remote now (well I run my own software co), and with nothing tying me down I settled on San Diego a few years ago. Love it here, but it's very expensive (looking to buy soon…

A few years ago I was using Beanstream and paying $0.25 per transaction, no percentage points.

I run a SaaS company for event organizers (sell tickets, etc)... it's a ghost town. It's kind of nice actually, I get to catch up on work in peace. I've been installing and customi…

I run a Saas business solo, for eight years now, netting six figures, and I've been on Heroku the entire time for just under $1,000 a month. Monolithic rails app on a single databa…

Agreed, I've been using Heroku about 8 years now for my solo SaaS business. The most I've ever done in dev-ops is restarting a server and upgrading postgres versions. However, payi…

Self employed in CA, single, $225 per month, no subsidies.

Heroku. Used to be paying around 1,500 month, but with some major surgery got it down to ~$750. You can't really go any lower without becoming a "hobby" app.

I'm pretty hopeless at graphic design, but I can manipulate stuff OK in photoshop or sketch. I want to create basic cover photos, heros, etc for use in Twitter, blog posts, Interco…