Matt, Thanks for writing this. I’ve also had a long, slow ramp up with my saas (8 years) and it’s great to read stories/experiences like this.
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#12Awesome!! Good luck. I hope this makes you even happier and have a higher quality of life!
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#13That's absolutely amazing to see you stick with it for such a long time to get to the point of being self supporting. Very nice, and heartfelt congratulations.
It would be great to see a write-up of the lessons learned over the years, especially those early ones that limited your growth and also of interest would be your views around the long term effect of eco-system and language choices.
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#14Great to see success stories from SaaS. Can you just share how did you attract first visitors, and subscribers when you first launched the web?
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#15Hey Matt, This is awesome. Congratulations and best of luck. I remember using it and we communicated (email), about your time in Iraq and how your built[1] Preceden. You upgraded my account while I was toying with few ideas and using it to plan timelines. Nice stumbling on it again there. 1. https://mattmazur.com/2016/01/04/building-a-startup-in-45-mi...
I still have our email exchange from back in 2016 - I hope you were able to successfully leverage the eCommerce boom in India that you mentioned. Thanks for saying hey!
now that's how community engagement is done. bloody good marketing.
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#16Matt, Thanks for writing this. I’ve also had a long, slow ramp up with my saas (8 years) and it’s great to read stories/experiences like this.
You should consider doing a 'Show HN', it would be very nice to read how you got to where you are today.
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#17>As the sole breadwinner in our household with 4 young kids, I was not comfortable going full time and merely being ramen profitable or anything close to it.
It takes a lot of balls and willpower to take this plunge. I wish you a lot of success and hope you make it. I'm also the sole breadwinner of my home and it's a lot of responsibility.
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#18Congratulations!
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#19Hey Matt, Your product fits perfectly a feature we're building and we'd love to use it. But it needs to be programmatically accessible in react (js lib) and of course it needs to function very smoothly with large number of events. Good luck going full time I see a need in this exact space !
There's no API at the moment to programmatically build your timeline, but that might be something I add down the road. Here's the relevant post on Preceden's public roadmap if you care to give it an upvote: https://roadmap.preceden.com/b/y0ge5xve/feature-ideas/api Hope it winds up being a good fit even without an API.
already upvoted it.
unfortunately it won't work without the APIs because it needs to be part of our product and there the data is constantly being updated dynamically by different actors / processes .
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#20That's absolutely amazing to see you stick with it for such a long time to get to the point of being self supporting. Very nice, and heartfelt congratulations. It would be great to see a write-up of the lessons learned over the years, especially those early ones that limited your growth and also of interest would be your views around the long term effect of eco-system and language choices.
> see a write-up of the lessons learned over the years
It would make for a long blog post and no doubt one I'd have to continue updating, hah. I will write it at some point though, thanks for suggesting it.
And thank you for all your thoughtful comments on HackerNews over its history as well as the posts on your blog. You're brilliant and this community is a better place because of your participation in it.