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Re: Reaching $10k monthly revenue with WakaTime, my SaaS side project

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Post by dvt » Tue, Oct 31, 2017, 7:46 PM UTC

smt88 wrote: post #114

ztratar wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Disagree. As a user, I want file-level or directory-level analytics. I want to know how much time I'm coding in the backend services vs the front-end react client. If you have concerns about this, do you also have problems with Github literally having access to all of your code? Or Google having access to your search history? I'd be more concerned if it wasn't using SSL. That would make sense, but it seems secure on…

Github and Google have security teams and aren't side projects.

So did Equifax. All this outrage is completely unfounded.

Re: Reaching $10k monthly revenue with WakaTime, my SaaS side project

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Post by learc83 » Tue, Oct 31, 2017, 7:49 PM UTC

AznHisoka wrote: post #84

learc83 wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The risk part is the small margin that means you can't survive small bumps that lead to a drop in conversion.

as the person who responded above me noted, that's not a small margin at all. That's a huge relative change.

I'm not talking about the previous posters 30% drop being a small margin. I'm saying that 1% paying customers is a risk and it's likely to get lower than that, the more exposure it gets.

Re: Reaching $10k monthly revenue with WakaTime, my SaaS side project

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Post by azemetre » Tue, Oct 31, 2017, 7:50 PM UTC

myth_drannon wrote: post #67

As a webdev, a significant portion of my time is spent in the browser's devtools - debugging or styling components. That would be a great addition to the product.

There are extensions for chrome and I'm pretty sure you can whitelist sites, is that sufficient enough?

Re: Reaching $10k monthly revenue with WakaTime, my SaaS side project

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Post by welder » Tue, Oct 31, 2017, 7:52 PM UTC

tobltobs wrote: post #68

Does anybody has any experience with the mentioned nephoscale.com?

It's great if you want a lot of VMs or a lot of network io. It's basically a cheaper ec2.

Re: Reaching $10k monthly revenue with WakaTime, my SaaS side project

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Post by welder » Tue, Oct 31, 2017, 7:54 PM UTC

nathan_f77 wrote: post #113

One thing missing from the post was when the founder quit their job to work on this full-time (or if they've even done that yet?) Also they didn't mention if they were still a solo founder and developer.

Sorry, forgot to mention that. Im the sole founder and I didn't quit my job for it... So it's been a side project alongside my day job.

Re: Reaching $10k monthly revenue with WakaTime, my SaaS side project

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Post by welder » Tue, Oct 31, 2017, 7:58 PM UTC

kirykl wrote: post #105

What would be your conversion (for the 100k users) at $1 a month ?

Probably the same conversation rate because I increased the price from $5 to $9 and there was no change in conversion rate. So just less revenue.

Re: Reaching $10k monthly revenue with WakaTime, my SaaS side project

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Post by welder » Tue, Oct 31, 2017, 7:59 PM UTC

amelius wrote: post #4

Does this tool upload my code to a server to analyze?

Nope, here's the list of data collected: https://wakatime.com/faq#data-collected

Re: Reaching $10k monthly revenue with WakaTime, my SaaS side project

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Post by welder » Tue, Oct 31, 2017, 8:05 PM UTC

SadWebDeveloper wrote: post #115

Infrastructure cost is quite high, almost on the same level as Pied-Piper wonder how much time before something better or even free appears. Also if any dev is reading, a good addition will be able to run this on my own premises, this is some information valuable for project leads but its hard to justify monthly cost for something you usually take for granted.

> its hard to justify monthly cost for something you usually take for granted

That's the hardest part about products for devs, we understand how things work and therefore obviously we shouldn't pay for something we could build ourselves.

Re: Reaching $10k monthly revenue with WakaTime, my SaaS side project

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Post by welder » Tue, Oct 31, 2017, 8:06 PM UTC

_nothing wrote: post #118

Huh. I remember a couple years ago I was at a hackathon when some guy just came up to me and some friends, handed us stickers with this logo while mumbling a few words, and walked away. I don't remember that person actually pitching anything and I'm not sure if it was Alan or someone he hired to give out stickers.

That was me o_O

Re: Reaching $10k monthly revenue with WakaTime, my SaaS side project

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Post by welder » Tue, Oct 31, 2017, 8:09 PM UTC

mivanchev wrote: post #66

I must voice concerns regarding this product. Just took a look at the Notepad++ plugin ( https://github.com/wakatime/notepadpp-wakatime ), because this is something I know a lot about. To begin with, it sends filenames to the mother ship instead of just the programming language. I would consider filenames to be sensitive information giving a very good idea of the project you are working on... Also problematic is the…

This was requested a lot before, so you can now hide file names. This means only project names and timestamps are sent to our servers:

https://wakatime.com/faq#exclude-paths