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Re: Ask HN: How to monetize my startup

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Post by saluki » Sat, Aug 23, 2014, 5:11 PM UTC

Sounds like you are in demand . . . I would stay away from hourly billing. (Google Patio11, read his articles, listen to his podcast and track down his microconf talks they all relate to your question and contain great advice.)

Sounds like you could use a standard website and offer a subscription offering . . . for ongoing consulting via email . . . or packages that provide a block of your expertise via email . . . again I wouldn't offer hourly services.

If you're in demand I expect your value/knowledge is way larger than any hourly rate would work out to.

So maybe a standard website . . . and integrate Stripe.com for subscriptions/recurring packages (first choice) and maybe some fixed fee packages.

I wouldn't spend too much time developing anything special beyond that . . . unless your clients are asking for more features . . .

Another channel to sell your knowledge would be ebooks/packages of instructions/code for example . . . maybe even videos . . . (Google Nathan Barry, he does a lot of this well).

Good luck sounds like you're on the right track.

Re: Ask HN: How to monetize my startup

#12

Post by zeynalov » Sat, Aug 23, 2014, 11:51 PM UTC

saluki wrote: post #11

Sounds like you are in demand . . . I would stay away from hourly billing. (Google Patio11, read his articles, listen to his podcast and track down his microconf talks they all relate to your question and contain great advice.) Sounds like you could use a standard website and offer a subscription offering . . . for ongoing consulting via email . . . or packages that provide a block of your expertise via email . . . a…

Thank you, great advices. I regularly read both Nathan and Patrick. I love tehm. I think I'm already ready for the launch. On thursday ( -/+ 1 day) I'm going to post a Show HN post. I'm excited :)

Re: Ask HN: How to monetize my startup

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Post by zeynalov » Sat, Aug 23, 2014, 11:52 PM UTC

thegrif wrote: post #10

Congratulations for being in such high demand :-) I don't think you're going to be able to charge an hourly rate if the bulk of your correspondence is via email. It's going to cause more problems then it's worth. Airpair.com provides 24 hour access to an expert, priced based upon the complexity of the problem (a proxy to how much work is actually required on your part). They also calibrate the expert assignments, mak…

Thank you for your great write-up