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

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Post by welder » Sat, Nov 04, 2017, 1:34 AM UTC

kasbah wrote: post #36

Is it me or is it nuts to be paying $1,600 a month on servers when you have just over 1000 users? Seems like something that could be run on a $50-$100 VPS.

The $1,600/mo on servers is mainly because:

* high volume of incoming requests from plugins sending heartbeats (https://wakatime.com/blog/23-how-to-scale-ssl-with-haproxy-a...)

* keeping all the metrics cached in real-time, many background machines dedicated to only this

* data storage & reads - if you change your Timeout Preference need to re-cache your coding activity quickly (https://wakatime.com/blog/27-fill-the-gaps-in-your-coding-ac...)

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

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Post by bkanber » Sat, Nov 04, 2017, 3:33 PM UTC

brianwawok wrote: post #150

bkanber wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Adding a data point: we're at 1.5% for 6 figure monthly revenue.

That seems very good. Are you on a popular cloud (AWS/GCE/Azure), colocated, or running your own servers?

AWS

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

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Post by vanesa- » Sun, Nov 05, 2017, 8:57 PM UTC

hobaak wrote: post #81

Trufa wrote: post #3

Congrats on this, loved the quote. >> The best startup book is one you never open because you're too busy marketing and building your product

Interesting, No mention about the cofounder, Pyanka Sen Sharma. I saw her at the YC female founder conference on 2015(?) She seemed to be doing business development of the company.

Because she wasn't really a co-founder and it only seemed like she was doing anything for WakaTime. She´s very good at making people believe that when she´s only really self-promoting herself. It does not surprise me at all that she was at the female founder conference. Read this: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=15617309&goto=item%3Fi...

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

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Post by vanesa- » Sun, Nov 05, 2017, 8:58 PM UTC

beaugunderson wrote: post #153

welder wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've emailed about this, but can respond here too. I'm the sole-founder of WakaTime and there is no ongoing legal dispute. Priyanka Sharma and I worked on a massage on-demand startup which didn't take off. We decided to see if investors would be interested in my WakaTime project, and Priyanka asked to be listed on the WakaTime "About" page to build her confidence when talking to potential investors. I also agreed to…

This response is fishy as hell. I don't know what Priyanka's title was at WakaTime but I viewed her as the public face of the company, as judged by the dozens of emails I have from WakaTime that all came from her, her activity in the Slack, her blog posts which were removed from the WakaTime blog, etc. Here's one example of an email from Priyanka on behalf of WakaTime: https://i.imgur.com/PYHuc8s.png And the removal…

Then maybe you should investigate more, for example using the waybackmachine and finding out that Alan founded WakaTime almost 2 years before she ever appeared on the website. He didn't even know her when he started WakaTime.

Also read: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=15617309&goto=item%3Fi...

She's very good at making people believe her lies.