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lessallan
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About lessallan
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Comment #7150686
http://LessAccounting.com does this too.
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Comment #6999631
Great breakdown
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Comment #6688928
I don't even know what "investing in people" means. We're a small team, our newest employee has been with us for 3 years.
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Comment #6688923
It's very hard to generalize pricing, we're $36/mo which is the top of our market with pricing.
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Comment #6687092
Thanks Dan, GrooveHQ.com is sweet!
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Comment #6687086
You win.
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Comment #6687085
Again congrats on your successes, I don't think hackernews should be a marketing tactic for most businesses but it could probably work for a small select few. (Github, Sublime Text…
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Comment #6686729
I'm sure you have, congrats, but the vast majority of people aren't selling impulse buys targeting developers.
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Comment #6686725
Oh no!
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Comment #6685764
Getting Basecamp linked up with any mention of Ruby on Rails helps too. Outliners (like 37Signals) work hard and do great work but they're not the standard we should compare oursel…
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Comment #6685751
1) Creating any business is hard, unless you sell blue meth. 2) Creating two businesses is even harder (bootstrapping + consulting to make a living). 3) Technical hurdles are getti…
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Comment #6685745
You'll find that unless you sell an impulse purchase (sub $35 price) targeting developers HackerNews traffic doesn't equal sales. Being that we sell accounting software for small b…
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Comment #4631614
I'm going ape over this!
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Comment #4280599
DNSimple is the best, seriously, no really, seriously.
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Zendesk's design got ripped off.
I was checking out some property management software for a friend and noticed the buttons looked familiar. Oh yeah, I thought Zendesk. I inspected the element and found they stole …
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Comment #3807055
Anyone seen the spoof? http://youtu.be/5vrxfiXU5lo
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Comment #3585429
I am excited that Alex is curating coworking content for me. Alex/IndyHall is our inspiration for WorkHappy - http://weworkhappy.com
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Comment #3429162
Our community is the killerist! Big hat tip to LivingSocial.
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Comment #3416216
Thanks Richard, we're really good at being silly.
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Comment #3416212
FYI: http://LessFilms.com shot the video with a canon 7d, the location was inside the "pits" of a fast lube oil change.
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Comment #3352181
Those guys are the smartest people I know.
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