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

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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).

Do you report them to any credit agencies?

No, because they can sue me if I do and even if I'm right I don't want the risk of having to pay an indemnification, Brazilian judges are crazy.

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

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Better EDA tools. Oh my god, i would pay so much for that...

I'm interested in this field. What are the current pain points with EDA tools? And are we talking device level, process level, circuit level or all levels?

Pretty much everything.

There's a landmine of bugs in even the best EDA software. I'd just like for the software to run nicely once, like TensorFlow... sigh.

If you're thinking getting into this field, I might suggest a modular software architecture where the non-proprietary parts are open source and everything NDA-sensitive is kept closed source (pretty much anything the foundry touches/provides).

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm interested in this field. What are the current pain points with EDA tools? And are we talking device level, process level, circuit level or all levels?

Pretty much everything. There's a landmine of bugs in even the best EDA software. I'd just like for the software to run nicely once, like TensorFlow... sigh. If you're thinking getting into this field, I might suggest a modular software architecture where the non-proprietary parts are open source and everything NDA-sensitive is kept closed source (pretty much anything the foundry touches/provides).

Super super interesting. So this is the case for the big expensive commercial products like those that come out of shops like Synopsys? It strikes me that helping to improve (device side) EDA is probably a pretty sound investment of my time, since I've got some phys chops and it's pretty important to the global economy.

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

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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).

I maybe wrong but some people in my team were building a Customer HUB at a point. My understanding from the project was you could buy third party data to help you out with this.

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

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

Think about running your own Superset instance. Could be the solution and IMO it's much better than Tableau.

Is Superset mature enough? We have been exploring a lot of BI tools so much so that we near scraping the bottom of the barrel. But Caravel/Superset never came up because it is still under incubation and that doesn't go well with the enterprise managers. It doesn't help that there have been constant name changes.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

There's not an open-source CRM I'm aware of that's a strong enough competitor to Salesforce, however there are much cheaper options available. Are you in the market for one?

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

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Acquisition of high-quality clients for my software agency is a problem for which solution I'd be willing to pay 100k/year.

those are some pretty high quality clients then. What type of projects do you do. We've implemented a pretty good model for our agency to attract quality clients without networking and doing all sorts of stuff that we don't like. Happy to help.
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