Correctly identifying if the customers are going to pay their bills or run after two months without paying, leaving a bill of ~1000 (consider that the State justice system doesn't work and the customers are individuals).
Ask HN: What problem in your business is worth paying 10k/y for?
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#42On the fly image processing & optimization.
What context and what does that mean exactly? Image processing is not usually a difficult hurdle.
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#43Extracting data from PDF in a reliable way.
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#44This is good thread for anyone wanting to figure out what B2B SaaS business to build.
I presumed that's why the question was asked; someone is looking for opportunities.
Problem is that pretty much everyone in here is already a software engineer so their problems might be quite hard to solve.
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#45maybe CI
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#46Correctly identifying if the customers are going to pay their bills or run after two months without paying, leaving a bill of ~1000 (consider that the State justice system doesn't work and the customers are individuals).
Do you report them to any credit agencies?
Re: Ask HN: What problem in your business is worth paying 10k/y for?
#47Anything that increases team productivity significantly. If my team of developers is > 10 then I'm probably spending about 100k per year in supporting tools:
- source code management - server monitoring and metrics - payment processing - testing tools - continuous integration tools
Any of those could easily cost 10K/year, or more, depending on what the team is doing and how fast they are growing.
Beyond that, anything that ties back to revenue. Email marketing, PPC, SEO. Also possibly things that optimize finances, analytics or anti-fraud.
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#48Anything that any salesman or customer service employee mentions that plugs into salesforce. A mail button for sales force ? A print button for salesforce ? A make my phone call customer button inside salesforce button? Oh sweet only $20 per month per salesman....so we have 50 people on salesforce so only 1,000 a month, only $12,000 a year? This should help get us out of dept so fast !!! FML.
I'm guessing you weren't pushing for Salesforce, but out of interest, did your company evaluate any other CRM platforms? If so, do you know why they chose Salesforce?
You would incur the same type of thing in Dynamics. It's a hit or miss trying to figure out if a feature is even possible and how to implement on your own. There really isn't an open-source collection like you would hope. Subscription or dev. consultant?
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#49databases, migration tools
I've written a sql to elasticsearch mapping tool I feel I should of released. Eleasticsearch is in desperate need of many tools we take for granted in sql land, like a command line client you can easily punch in queries on the fly because trying to write multi line json into the commandline curl is death so I'm forced to install kibana.
Can you give a few more examples ?
I am interested because writing these support tools IS effort+time+focus but not usually a technical problem.