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Transparent in retrospect is not, in fact, transparent.

I'm shocked no one has mentioned Close.com I've been using it for close to ten years and can't imagine using another CRM. I believe they were an early YC company as well.

Yes.

What does Twenty do that Close doesn’t or can’t do? (I’m a huge Close fan.)

I've long wondered why there are no college courses on sales. Almost every company has a sales department and there are tons of careers in sales, yet there is no formal path to lea…

Does RDS require a lot of maintenance and management? No one on our team has DevOps or DBA experience -- we feel good about Heroku PG (even as inflated prices).

“Letting this narrative persist” As if it’s in their purview to control. Ask the poor PR folks at CFA (chicken QSR)

I wonder if the author’s primary gripe is with 1. VCs funding a so-called “servant economy” or… 2. The fact that there are these businesses that perpetuate some form of servanthood…

Mike Perham from Sidekiq (OSS Ruby background worker) has office hours every Friday for an hour. I've gone before and he was really helpful. https://sidekiq.org/support.html

I've thought about this, but I wonder what the UX is like. You always show success? What sort of confirmation does the user get? If the card is declined, how do you notify them lat…

You would have the same sort of downtime as Stripe today. But the tokenization wasn't failing for us in today's Stripe downtime -- just the API requests.

This is where solutions like Spreedly and TokenX make a lot of sense. Once the payment method is stored in their vault, you can try (and retry!) payments on multiple gateways.

There also does not appear to be a front-facing camera on the display.

A lot of businesses don't have the luxury of positive cashflows that software businesses do. There are a lot of factors that would contribute to running a business without a month'…

https://www.interviewcake.com I met Parker at MicroConf a couple years ago and was really impressed with Interview Cake. I can't speak firsthand but it might be exactly what you're…

You've brought this up before. [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12013088

Different strokes for different folks. I hope to work at the same company for the rest of my life, raise my kids, vacation regularly with my wife, then die. I would be completely c…

Which part is terrifying? Working at the same company for a long duration? Or dying soon after retiring?

FE International is known to broker a lot of SaaS company sales. I haven't sold/bought a business with them, but I have friends that have. It's not a marketplace per se, but it mig…

CRM: Close.io Email: Gmail / Amazon SES Automation: DripEmails.com (I'm the founder)

Why host Jekyll on AWS Lightsail and not S3? It's simpler, faster, and cheaper. Plus you can use Cloudfront and use AWS Certificate Manager for SSL.

I feel the same way about Elixir here's why: - docs - testing - Slack chan, IRC, mailing list - package manager (Hex) - build tool (Mix) - web framework (plug & Phoenix) - db frame…

When I worked at a bureau, we had a running joke... When a meeting planner asked, "How much is so-and-so speaker?" We'd reply, "What's your budget?" Coincidentally, that was how mu…

sure. my email is my username at google's mail service.

No, none of the sites you mentioned solve the problem I posed. Bigspeak, Keppler, Eagles Talent, and Celebrity are bureaus and function in a traditional way. Espeakers and SpeakerM…