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This looks really cool, I was disappointed when Kimono was shut down. Please reach out to me (email in profile), I would like to learn more about your product.
Thanks. I will for sure - although unless I'm doing something silly, don't see your email when I click through.
I built an escape room! Startup Escape ( https://startupescape.com ), a parody of startups where you have "$1M to launch your startup" (1 hour to escape). It's a physical game in San Francisco, but it's run day-to-day by a manager. Overall it makes about $15k/mo, and after rent/labor/etc I just make a few thousand dollars a month.
Looks fun. Might have to recommend it for a team offsite. But, um... > Startup Escape is in the Tenderloin North SOMA! The address is 447 O'Farrell St, San Francisco CA That's... literally the Tenderloin. Or is this (and the oxymoron that is "North SOMA") a joke that just went over my head? Haha.
(For those not as familiar with San Francisco - SOMA is a neighborhood south of Market St. where a lot of tech companies in SF are found. Tenderloin is another neighborhood that has a reputation as the most dangerous in SF and is nearby but north of Market St.
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About 30% for yearly and 70% for monthly. I'm still experimenting with the pricing plans. I only started the monthly plan recently. I had a quarterly plan in its place before which don't seem that common with other SaaS products. I found quarterly appealing in that it probably reduces billing related support requests, the higher price tends to attract customer that are less demanding in terms of product support, and…
Very interesting. It some kind of sense to me that the noisiest customers are those paying less, even if they're only making up something like 20% of actual MRR. Are a lot of the support requests related to yearly billing or do you mean a quarterly option would theoretically preempt those kinds of requests? Really great extension, site and all-around product, by the way.
Yep. Another factor is Checkbot covers a big range of website problems where the fixes for each vary a lot (where it's not possible to determine the source via web crawling) so noisy customers can have complex requests.
For example, a bad redirect could be coming from Apache, Nginx, WordPress or cPanel settings. I get a lot of messages where someone is convinced Checkbot is wrong when it's actually correct too (e.g. people convinced their HTML is valid when it's not) which can generate bad reviews if you're not careful.
> Are a lot of the support requests related to yearly billing or do you mean a quarterly option would theoretically preempt those kinds of requests?
I mean each payment can prompt a support request so the more spread out the payments the less support requests. They're not super common, but they build up the more customers you get and I feel a sense of urgency to handle requests to do with payments.
I think the longer billing periods let people relax more with evaluating the product too e.g. you're not thinking "I need to use this a lot right now because I've only got 30 days to decide if I use it enough to keep paying or not".
> Really great extension, site and all-around product, by the way.
Thanks, appreciated. :)
We sell it mainly in B2B to companies who sell team building events and that need a touch of digital... We have other customer segments coming (zoos, theme parks, tourism offices...)
We also use the platform for individuals,like for birthdays (http://birthdays.geogaming.io) or hens/bucks parties etc.
This platform brings us ~15k a month but it's growing very very fast.
Our architecture is based on AWS lambdas so our infrastructure costs are very limited and the product is highly scalable (games have been played with thousands of players)...
We are based in Sydney.
I built an escape room! Startup Escape ( https://startupescape.com ), a parody of startups where you have "$1M to launch your startup" (1 hour to escape). It's a physical game in San Francisco, but it's run day-to-day by a manager. Overall it makes about $15k/mo, and after rent/labor/etc I just make a few thousand dollars a month.
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That is amazing, I have gifted your first book, "Experimenting With Babies" to almost all of my friends who had babies. Going to buy "Experimenting With Kids" now.
I feel like I heard about this book somewhere. Big Bang Theory?
https://bugfender.com/blog/bugfender-growth-from-side-projec...
I have a full-time job and I'm working on this project only in my spare time.
My primary frontend blog/website ( https://www.impressivewebs.com/ ) is mostly passive, I post maybe one article per month, usually not even that much. The blog has been active for about 10 years, so I get lots of SEO traffic, which brings in about $400-500 per month. I also sell ebooks that are compilations of articles and tips from my newsletter (see below) on Leanpub and Amazon. ( https://leanpub.com/b/javascriptd…