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Ask HN: What problem in your business is worth paying 10k/y for?

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Re: Ask HN: What problem in your business is worth paying 10k/y for?

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Post by thepredestrian »

jbob2000 wrote: post #91

I need an easier way to send my clients quotes, invoices, and reminders. Quickbooks is nice if you're an accountant who likes entering stuff into tables. But I am not an accountant and I'm bad about keeping on top of my accounts. It takes too many clicks to send a stupid little invoice once in a while. This is a space that could really use chat bot support. I want to quickly type something or go through a wizard to d…

What industry do you work in? I'm surprised there isn't a lightweight accounting software for freelancers / consultants

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Post by featherverse »

thinkingemote wrote: post #90
featherverse wrote: post #63

Curious. About 1 week ago I saw a post on reddit that asked "What product would you pay $20,000 for?" I thought that was odd, typically that's not how you plan a business, you find something or create something of value and then you sell it. You don't start from how much you want to earn and then look for ways to earn that much. Now here's a similar post, what would you pay "$10,000/yr" for. You can label me a skepti…

It's a standard way of finding business ideas. look for where there is a need. hackernews has these every week, I actually think they provide interest, even if the intention is business rather than discussion.

Fair enough, I just think that people should look for their career by either finding ways to monetize activities which they already enjoy, or by looking for ways to create new kinds of value for the world. If you do those things, revenue often comes.

By contrast, every disgusting corrupt snake who has ruined the world for everyone else has started out with the goal of making X dollars in Y timeframe. So while I'm not saying they're all going to be evil, all of the evil ones share that trait.

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your business is worth paying 10k/y for?

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Post by tixocloud »

jbob2000 wrote: post #91

I need an easier way to send my clients quotes, invoices, and reminders. Quickbooks is nice if you're an accountant who likes entering stuff into tables. But I am not an accountant and I'm bad about keeping on top of my accounts. It takes too many clicks to send a stupid little invoice once in a while. This is a space that could really use chat bot support. I want to quickly type something or go through a wizard to d…

Have you tried Freshbooks before? I reckon they are one of the easier tools out there.

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your business is worth paying 10k/y for?

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Post by tixocloud »

ellius wrote: post #66

I do fraud investigations for a bank. We spend an insane amount on labor costs because all of our transactional data resides in different systems. Want to review credit card data? Go pull system X. Want to review wire transfers? Go pull system Y. Etc etc. some of these things have to be separated out of necessity (e.g. card data is stored in a particular way due to regulations), but I would easily pay 10k / y to be a…

I'm in a bank as well but I reckon 10k won't be enough to solve the issue. We've built an enterprise data warehouse that pulls everything together and it still hasn't been perfect. What we do well though was extract the data at a higher level of abstraction - we came across a tool called Thoughtspot that also helped us join things together and drill down but from what I heard, it's pricey.

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Post by tixocloud »

tunetine wrote: post #15

Tableau. We pay far more than $10k/year even after the pricing model change.

What do you use Tableau for? I'm curious we also pay quite a bit but it's a less than ideal solution for us.

[Update: just saw your response to another comment]

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Post by tommynicholas »

thisisit wrote: post #99
tommynicholas wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's great and IMO pretty damn mature. They use it widely in prod at Airbnb so the only ways in which it's not "mature" are in customizability.

What kind of customization?

I think there are just certain scenarios it may not support, like at one point writing queries in the editor for JSONB fields in Postgres was either hard or impossible, things like that. But generally it's pretty great and ready to be used IMO.
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