I stopped setting a financial goal for my SaaS • Hacker News Board

Re: I stopped setting a financial goal for my SaaS

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Post by jmduke » Wed, Oct 16, 2019, 6:30 PM UTC

elliekelly wrote: post #46

jmduke wrote: post #14

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I think this is one of things where my Business Brain 100% agrees with you (the majority of my customer support burden comes from free plans, though it's worth pointing out something like two-thirds of my paid cohort converted from free) but my Hacker Brain things this project _should_ have a free plan, because free plans are nice and good and neat.

A little second-hand anecdata: my sister works for one of the big email marketing companies and from what I've heard from her the tagging features are a _big_ thing for customers. You could perhaps try shifting "tagging" to the paid subscription or somehow constrain the tagging on free plans?

Oooh, interesting. That's good to keep in mind — thanks.

Re: I stopped setting a financial goal for my SaaS

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Post by jmduke » Wed, Oct 16, 2019, 6:30 PM UTC

toomuchtodo wrote: post #94

katzgrau wrote: post #89

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Consider hiring a virtual personal assistant and delegating the low impact, high (time) cost tasks. There will be an inherent limit to how much money you can make if you try to do it alone. If you truly want to learn to build a business, realize that you aren't a software developer anymore. You're a businessperson and thats completely different. It's a different field and you can have a lot of fun learning it. It's a…

Something I've found helpful is to make a list every day of the tasks you completed, and circle anything you could've delegated. This is then an iterative process to help you improve your delegation skills, which should allow you to focus specifically on business tasks that provide the most leverage.

This is a really good idea, and I'm going to start doing it; thanks.

Re: I stopped setting a financial goal for my SaaS

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Post by jmduke » Wed, Oct 16, 2019, 6:30 PM UTC

zrail wrote: post #91

navs wrote: post #66

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A combination of? Aren't they largely the same product? I'm just curious why you'd be using both.

Not the OP but I wouldn't be surprised if they use both for different purposes. Postmark has extremely high delivery rates but is very particular about primarily sending transactional email like account updates, receipts, etc. They did recently add bulk API messages but it seems like a higher tier feature. Mailgun is much more flexible about what they allow to go through their servers, but they have correspondingly l…

Yup, precisely. I use Postmark for transactional emails and a very small subset of bulk emails; Mailgun handles everything else.