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Interestingly you're paying people to do on Upwork about what I priced out for the absolute cheapest ERP/CRM software to run my own business.
Also, I wrote a little bit about my approach to freelancers, may give you some more context on that $1k/month: https://www.starterstory.com/hire-freelancers
Find someone with a college email address and sign up for Github Student Developer Pack. SendGrid for free (15k/month sends) as well as 150/year in AWS credit for 4 years if you continue to have access to the student email.
I think Mailbrew is overrated if you have a good twitter feed.
- send me X top tweets from X user in last month
- send me all tweets with the words "XYZ"
And for the obvious reasons it keeps me off twitter and less subject to their addictive design/UI.
@patwalls a note regarding Sendgrid. As a user of their free tier (for a freelance job) I was recently bitten by a shared IP that was put on a block list, probably due to abuse by another Sendgrid user. Support does not migrate accounts on the shared IP pool to another IP, basically leaving me unable to send email for days. Might be worth upgrading to their Pro plan ($90/mo). This gets you your own dedicated IP so th…
Dedicated IPs can be worse for low senders, as there's no other legitimate volume coming through outside of your own, so you need to build and maintain your own reputation entirely. Ideal solution would be a provider that only allows trusted people on shared IPs. Generally a non-free provider will be best for that.
Side note, but why on earth is the body text set to 35 px?! I need to zoom my browser down to 50% (a quarter of the pixel area) just to make it readable. This trend of gargantuan body text in blogs has been going on for a while, but this is the worst I've ever seen. When the size of each letter is something like six times the area of letters in my computer's menu bar, something is seriously wrong. Is it unreasonable…
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A producthunt simile it seems.
WIP came out long before Product Hunt started doing something similar.
Can you clarify on your point, though? PH has been around since at least 2013. The .chat TLD didn't go live until 2015, and that specific domain was registered is late 2017. Do you mean a specific features like todo or something?
Both sites are ostensibly primarily motivated by self-promotion, usually under the guise of some sort of public productivity tools.
If you feel trapped in Heroku or Netlify and you have a somewhat technical background I wrote an article recently on how to escape them using a DO droplet and Nginx. $200 a month seems high to me for what it is. https://medium.com/@reid.sherman/deploying-and-configuring-a...
Change costs for me might be high. I'd rather spend time on marketing / features that could get me 3 more customers/month to make up for it...
I learned Heroku at my coding boot camp and they have made thousands of $$ off of me since...
Interestingly you're paying people to do on Upwork about what I priced out for the absolute cheapest ERP/CRM software to run my own business.
Haha! What ERP are you using, if you don't mind me asking? Also, I wrote a little bit about my approach to freelancers, may give you some more context on that $1k/month: https://www.starterstory.com/hire-freelancers
Side note, but why on earth is the body text set to 35 px?! I need to zoom my browser down to 50% (a quarter of the pixel area) just to make it readable. This trend of gargantuan body text in blogs has been going on for a while, but this is the worst I've ever seen. When the size of each letter is something like six times the area of letters in my computer's menu bar, something is seriously wrong. Is it unreasonable…
I have the mentality of self hosting and diy, cheap, better understanding, and imo more reliable.
Most these services have a learning curve anyway. Are the services really worth it?