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Love to see brain genius programmers charging money for a Fourier transform of some audio.
That is insane revenue <3
Semi-rhetorical question: why do customers accept something like this delivered in SaaS form? It seems so antithetical to customer obsession when this is the exact type of problem that lends itself well to a locally running application. Why not deliver this as a desktop application that users download and pay for one-time? There’s absolutely no need for an ongoing subscription to a backend service here. Outside of re…
That's the opposite of rent-seeking, that's .. charging money for a service.
Just watching the marketing materials and presentation once again highlights just how important marketing is. Well done on that front.
Having been in a few failing businesses I can tell you that marketing and sales are _the_ core reason tech (maybe also non-tech) businesses fail. Fundamentally you can do without code, but you can't do without sales. I have a lot of respect for sales people and people who can market themselves. One of my favorite videos about this is by a bodybuilder/powerlifter Stan Efferding [1] - he is some sort of marketing savan…
Why do people reveal this stuff? Seriously there’s lots of people happy to clone it and get a bite.
There's probably more people who see a successful product in a space (thus social proofing the brand) and want to pay to use it than those who will actually pull their finger out and build a competitor.
Of course there are, in fact I drove a few customers to them based on this post! Never heard of the service before and it looks interesting in the right setting.
However, it only takes 1 or 2 determined competitive efforts to start taxing your saas business even in small ways that only make life harder. Is showing your hand worth the trade-offs? That's up to each individual to answer. I know entrepreneurs / developers sitting on both sides of this table - doing the copying and being copied. Way of the road.
Just watching the marketing materials and presentation once again highlights just how important marketing is. Well done on that front.
Having been in a few failing businesses I can tell you that marketing and sales are _the_ core reason tech (maybe also non-tech) businesses fail. Fundamentally you can do without code, but you can't do without sales. I have a lot of respect for sales people and people who can market themselves. One of my favorite videos about this is by a bodybuilder/powerlifter Stan Efferding [1] - he is some sort of marketing savan…
Could not agree more, especially underestimated by the vast majority of devs turned entrepreneur. But you don't have to be that statistic - get a complimentary cofounder/partner/outsource if it's not your passion.
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Huh? There are no sorts of leading/praising questions like that in the article. If anything, I found the questions to be very generic and templatized - which again isn't a bad thing and seems to fit the profile of the overall site (a resource for young startups/curious entrepreneurs) The questions (for those who won't click through): "What's your background, and what are you currently working on?" "What's your backst…
The questions were soft even for little league. most interviews are marketing pieces, but this might as well been an infomercial. But at the end of day there is no innovation.
Or are we to assume you commercial efforts are well exceeding $76k mrr?
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I built and sold an installable application in the past, and #5 was brutal. For some reason it's rarely discussed.
If your app was a SaaS those people wouldn’t have paid for it anyway, they’d have signed up for the free trial then quit and signed up with a fresh email over and over. The best thing you can do is identify them and segment them into beta / test updates for experimental features which you wouldn’t test on paying users.
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Oh, doesn't seem like very much.
It really doesn't. An experienced dev could recreate the core features in a web app within two weeks or less. The more difficult part: - Understanding the work that goes into making and releasing a podcast - Figuring out that a step in the process is not being done efficiently - Determining a balanced set of features whose delivery and maintenance cost is low enough that people in industry will benefit from paying fo…
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There's probably more people who see a successful product in a space (thus social proofing the brand) and want to pay to use it than those who will actually pull their finger out and build a competitor.
"There's probably more people who see a successful product in a space (thus social proofing the brand) and want to pay to use it than those who will actually pull their finger out and build a competitor." Of course there are, in fact I drove a few customers to them based on this post! Never heard of the service before and it looks interesting in the right setting. However, it only takes 1 or 2 determined competitive…
One caveat is if your target market is entrepreneurs then being open about it might help differentiate yourself from competitors.