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Along these lines, can anyone recommend a framework for developing a SaaS prototype? Ideally, it would include things like payment processing, user auth, admin dashboards, etc. I've been looking at Laravel Spark, but I'm wondering if people have other suggestions.
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It costs zero if you're a student living with parents who feed you and provide for you. If you have to pay the bills while working on the project then it costs the money you'll need to survive those 6+ months, or it costs you your free time and social life and sleep if you're moonlighting. Depending on your gender, ethnicity or religious creed (and immigration and parental status) it might be significantly harder for…
> It costs zero if you're a student living with parents who feed you and provide for you. False. Hence me mentioning those other markets where the economic climate is must worse than the US - yet you have people making it work. Kenya/Nigeria fantastic examples.
Some surprises for me - 1. Why is VC funding so down the rank compared to self funding, friends and family, angels and even debt? Is it probably because VC funding expects a >100x exit and most SaaS probably can't deliver that? Or are SaaS founders turning away from VC for ideological reasons (like want to enjoy the process instead of rushing to justify a valuation?) 2. 50%+ people pursued ideas which were not their…
how would you go about validating an idea if you don't have at least a prototype to show potential customers ? This has been suggested to me on many occasions but I fail to understand how it works in practice. I'm not being sarcastic I'm genuinely interested because if this is possible it would save me a whole lot of time and headaches.
So you validate it based on adressing your own pain points. The worst case scenario is that you were wrong about the exoticness of your workflow, or the actual size of your community and culture, and keep being the only user. But it's still not a failure if it helps you with your main work.
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Racial statistics also only make sense in the US where skin color is associated with usually only one culture/origin, and while it's understandable in this specific context be aware than in other countries this is plain racism (and also illegal in some like France) because of the complexity and multi culturally and background that exist between a similar skin color. Now sure there are socio-economics realities correl…
You have many countries with racial stats. I also referred to the gender "issue" - not only race.
Edit: to clarify, I am not debating wether or not the gender and racial "issue" should be highlighted in the survey, just that the racial stats as they are are not statistically relevant to draw conclusions (at least in non US countries).
Some surprises for me - 1. Why is VC funding so down the rank compared to self funding, friends and family, angels and even debt? Is it probably because VC funding expects a >100x exit and most SaaS probably can't deliver that? Or are SaaS founders turning away from VC for ideological reasons (like want to enjoy the process instead of rushing to justify a valuation?) 2. 50%+ people pursued ideas which were not their…
#1 VC is very expensive. If you need it, you need it, but debt and customers are non-diluting.
#4 #7 #5 Are all a pain and extra work.
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Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar. It just makes the thread even worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Dear dang, please could you unflag my comment? I am up for a debate, and I am happy to be shown other perspectives. Yet flagging my comment seems to be the easiest way to scrub something you don't like, while avoiding constructive debate. It seems to me that you are labeling my writing as starting an 'ideological flamewar', when I would argue I back up my arguments with leading research/references. I just replied to…
If you're sincerely worried about the moderation favoring one ideology over another, you're welcome to look through the many past occasions where I've posted moderation comments about this: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... We don't keep any counts, but you'll find plenty of examples of every side getting the same sort of moderation reply when commenters take a thread in this sort of direction.
Some surprises for me - 1. Why is VC funding so down the rank compared to self funding, friends and family, angels and even debt? Is it probably because VC funding expects a >100x exit and most SaaS probably can't deliver that? Or are SaaS founders turning away from VC for ideological reasons (like want to enjoy the process instead of rushing to justify a valuation?) 2. 50%+ people pursued ideas which were not their…
> 6. Most founders don't know their website visitor to trial conversion rates This is surprisingly difficult to solve in 2020. The biggest issue is (in Google Analytics) how to separate traffic that could potentially sign up for a trial vs. traffic from people who’ve already signed up. Here’s one way to do it: 1. When someone logs in set a cookie 2. If they visit your homepage later check for cookie 3. If cookie exis…
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Can't you restrict feature voting (or whatever kind of request prioritization) to paying users? > "your goal is probably to get to ramen-profitability as soon as possible... You're not gonna get there fast enough by making free users happy" But I already have! Making my free users happy has lead to a portion converting to premium and many more sharing my offerings :D
That's awesome! There's no one way to do this so if it's working for you, then keep doing what you're doing. Are you running a B2C startup by any chance?