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Pinegrow Year in Review 2014 – From 0 to $100K
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#12Congratulations! You story is an inspiration.
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#13Very cool! I particularly love your attitude to piracy. Do you have any data suggesting that's resulting in positive effects for Pinegrow? It's good to do either way, but data there would be particularly interesting.
I've been meaning to do a review of Pinegrow for one website I write for - will definitely get on that now.
Incidentally, if you come up with a simple Wordpress theme solution, as you're suggesting, then you move Pinegrow from "Hmm, interesting" to "OH MY GOD TAKE MY MONEY" in my book :)
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#14Awesome! Love your take on piracy. Maybe put off potential pirates by stating that customers that have purchased get put on a mailing list with regular software updates and pinegrow ready templates. A user submitted portfolio of templates for sale/free could be a nice addition as well.
Re: Pinegrow Year in Review 2014 – From 0 to $100K
#15Very cool! I particularly love your attitude to piracy. Do you have any data suggesting that's resulting in positive effects for Pinegrow? It's good to do either way, but data there would be particularly interesting. I've been meaning to do a review of Pinegrow for one website I write for - will definitely get on that now. Incidentally, if you come up with a simple Wordpress theme solution, as you're suggesting, then…
I don't have any hard data about the effect on piracy. But a couple of users wrote to us that Pinegrow was the first software they actually bought. It is hard to steal from people you know, especially if you think they are nice.
Thanks for the review!
WordPress support will be ready soon. In the first step we'll have a solution for converting statis HTML page to a WP theme. A bit later we'll add support for visually editing WP theme PHP files.
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#16Hi Matt,
Great job you're doing. Would be really interested in seeing the Wordpress product when it's out. Haven't found anything for perfect conversions as of yet.
You're currently using Paddle that takes 5%, in my opinion this is far too much, you could save 2.5% a year by going to Stripe or even more by going to GoCardless. Besides the clump sum you get at the end of each month, what is your motivation behind using Paddle compared to other, cheaper services?
Thanks
Re: Pinegrow Year in Review 2014 – From 0 to $100K
#17Hi Matt, Great job you're doing. Would be really interested in seeing the Wordpress product when it's out. Haven't found anything for perfect conversions as of yet. You're currently using Paddle that takes 5%, in my opinion this is far too much, you could save 2.5% a year by going to Stripe or even more by going to GoCardless. Besides the clump sum you get at the end of each month, what is your motivation behind usin…
He referred to #VATMESS - the new VAT rules across the EU that place a large administrative burden on smaller businesses like his (and mine) - more info here: http://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2014/11/25/how-small-comp... . Paddle seem to take care of this burden for him. I've looked into it and Stripe does not do this.
Re: Pinegrow Year in Review 2014 – From 0 to $100K
#18Hi Matt, Great job you're doing. Would be really interested in seeing the Wordpress product when it's out. Haven't found anything for perfect conversions as of yet. You're currently using Paddle that takes 5%, in my opinion this is far too much, you could save 2.5% a year by going to Stripe or even more by going to GoCardless. Besides the clump sum you get at the end of each month, what is your motivation behind usin…
As John said, having Paddle deal with VAT saves us lots of time and boring administrative work.
In EU accounting rules are quite strict, so you have to enter every single transaction into your accounting books. A lot of this work is still done manually. Having one lump sum frees us from that as well.
The last time I checked Stripe is not available to merchants in Slovenia.
And Paddle works with PayPal also. Many people prefer to use PayPal instead of credit cards.
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#19I'd be very interested in a writeup on how you got to grips with node-webkit, if you were so inclined?
This looks like a very polished application - well done!
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#20I'd be very interested in a writeup on how you got to grips with node-webkit, if you were so inclined? This looks like a very polished application - well done!
Originally I planned to publish PG packaged as a Chrome app. I spent a lot of time working around Chrome App API security limitations and complicated way of accessing the file system.
Then I found node-webkit. I had PG working in a couple of hours. Using Node.js fs module for file access is almost trivial. In general I try to keep core JS code not tied to Node.js or anything else. PG uses Node.js part of node-webkit only for file access, menus and clipboard. Everything else happens in a browser (embedded Chromium in this case). It would be easy to port PG to another JS-based platform, like atom shell.
Hope this helps.