I use CashNotify.app it seems similar
Show HN: Cashbar app – your SaaS revenue in your menu bar
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#32My first thought was "oh, this will contribute to already high anxiety levels", mostly because I remember how I reacted to MRR changes: - MRR went up a bit: "Great, we're on track" - MRR went down a bit: "THE END IS NEAR!!!!" At some point, I understood that it was Loss Aversion Bias [1] at play. Once I reframed MRR movements as something fluctuating and neutral, it lost all anxiety-inducing powers. So this might act…
Solo founder with a SaaS, can confirm. These reactions are REAL. This is why I first thought this app was cool, and later thought that I'm fighting myself every day not to look at my MRR too often.
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#33I use CashNotify.app it seems similar
Hey @agustif, (one of) CashNotify maker here. Thanks for the mention!
This indeed looks similar to what we do since 2016 (https://cashnotify.com/). However, $2 for that app is unbeatable. I hope it'll be sustainable.
CashNotify is more pricey, but you can add multiple Stripe and PayPal accounts. It's also a bit more "visual", supports both macOS and Windows, and it's notarized ;)
Anyway, best of luck to Stas!
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#34I use CashNotify.app it seems similar
Hey @agustif, (one of) CashNotify maker here. Thanks for the mention! This indeed looks similar to what we do since 2016 ( https://cashnotify.com/ ). However, $2 for that app is unbeatable. I hope it'll be sustainable. CashNotify is more pricey, but you can add multiple Stripe and PayPal accounts. It's also a bit more "visual", supports both macOS and Windows, and it's notarized ;) Anyway, best of luck to Stas!
Hey no problem, I think it may help some of the other HN fellow users which weren't so trusty about CashBalance.
If I remember correctly you're on the official App Stores, and also are a stripe verified partner which is a great point to be confident about the proper use of API_KEYs
And sometimes being pricey in software inspires more trust to the buyer, this is also true in any product or service you might need tough
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#35Any particular reason why this isn't notarised? I realise it's another hoop to jump through (and an annual fee for Apple's developer program), but given that I'm going to connect this thing to my Stripe account it would be nice if it didn't feel like it was avoiding (minimal! easy!) security checks. For that matter, it's also slightly misleading that you don't call it out as Catalina-only. I'd love to use it (to wit,…
Came here to say the same thing. The installation b/s gives me the impression this developer doesn’t take releasing MacOS software serious enough to trust them with running code on my machine, let alone having access to highly secure things like payment gateway auth tokens.
Hey now, the notarisation priority bit has only been set for a little while, if you wanna release early/often, you can't wait around for Apple to approve your submission...
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Came here to say the same thing. The installation b/s gives me the impression this developer doesn’t take releasing MacOS software serious enough to trust them with running code on my machine, let alone having access to highly secure things like payment gateway auth tokens.
Hey now, the notarisation priority bit has only been set for a little while, if you wanna release early/often, you can't wait around for Apple to approve your submission...
I honestly can't tell if this is sarcasm or not, but I notarise builds on commit as part of CI and it took...all of about five minutes to set up. Three of those minutes were me hunting around my desk for my 2FA phone. The whole thing is _trivial_ to automate, and I normally see notarisation times around 2-3 minutes.
Is it more tedious than just flinging something up on the web? Sure. Is it so much of an obstacle that we should give up on shipping vaguely secure software for Macs? Obviously not.
(I do have time for the argument that the $non-zero/year fee excludes a huge swath of indie/hobbyist/student developers, but that's not what we're talking about here.)
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey now, the notarisation priority bit has only been set for a little while, if you wanna release early/often, you can't wait around for Apple to approve your submission...
I honestly can't tell if this is sarcasm or not, but I notarise builds on commit as part of CI and it took...all of about five minutes to set up. Three of those minutes were me hunting around my desk for my 2FA phone. The whole thing is _trivial_ to automate, and I normally see notarisation times around 2-3 minutes. Is it more tedious than just flinging something up on the web? Sure. Is it so much of an obstacle that…
Thanks for saying this. I emphatically agree with all points but wanted to add, even if you don’t have a CI/CD pipeline already, doing notorization is trivial locally.
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#39I use CashNotify.app it seems similar
Hey @agustif, (one of) CashNotify maker here. Thanks for the mention! This indeed looks similar to what we do since 2016 ( https://cashnotify.com/ ). However, $2 for that app is unbeatable. I hope it'll be sustainable. CashNotify is more pricey, but you can add multiple Stripe and PayPal accounts. It's also a bit more "visual", supports both macOS and Windows, and it's notarized ;) Anyway, best of luck to Stas!
Thanks! CashNotify is a _great_ product, tons of features packed into one cross-platform solution. All I wanted to do is to have the _simplest possible_ implementation: no charts, no stats, no extras. Cashbar is a mobile phone (that can be used for making calls only), CashNotify is a smartphone. All good.