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I'm confused. The article's author name is Pēteris Caune while the account you link is of one Dave Anderson. What is the connection between the two?
The blog post by Peteris Caune includes a link to the Mastodon thread by Dave Anderson. The post you're replying to reposts the same Mastodon link, although it kind of implies that it was written by the same person who wrote the blog post, which isn't true.
I wouldn't be surprised if he 2x his price and wouldn’t have much churn. Increasing your pricing is the #1 way to grow revenue and weed out customers who abuse customer support. https://healthchecks.io/pricing/ With that being said, he clearly knows what he’s doing - don’t take advice from strangers :)
> Increasing your pricing is the #1 way to grow revenue and weed out customers who abuse customer support. Unlikely with businesses like this. This business model is to offer a budget alternative to the big name services that doesn’t have the same level of support and reliability (it admits not having failover, for example) to customers who are okay with that in exchange for the lower price. Once you start raising pr…
Who’s the “big name service” in this space?
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> 7 days a week IMHO you're risking a burnout and working on your company 0 day a week. It would be better to be reasonable now than to kill your company in a few years because you can't stand it anymore. Take this next week-end off and go do something totally "useless" like walking in nature ;) It will recharge you.
I'm absolutely convinced that burnout is a function of spending time on things you loathe to do. Not how much time you spend on something you love doing. Most people I know that actually work all-the-time, not self-proclaimed "I work X hour weeks people that say it to sound 'cool'" people. Never have a burnout. Most of those people also go on extended vacations of say 5-7 weeks. But still work 2-3 hours every day. Bu…
The guy is clearly passionate about his app, probably too passionate.
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I'm absolutely convinced that burnout is a function of spending time on things you loathe to do. Not how much time you spend on something you love doing. Most people I know that actually work all-the-time, not self-proclaimed "I work X hour weeks people that say it to sound 'cool'" people. Never have a burnout. Most of those people also go on extended vacations of say 5-7 weeks. But still work 2-3 hours every day. Bu…
Counter point: https://www.devas.life/burned-out/ The guy is clearly passionate about his app, probably too passionate.
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He found the right niche, a passive product-led no-stress B2B low-maintenance & non-critical tool (because it is monitoring). It is so difficult to find such niches, so congrats for the success!
Isn't it somehow critical as it is monitoring? Thinking of monitoring critical prod interfaces
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To me, burnout is putting large amounts of mental and emotional energy into an activity where you don't have much agency on how it is done, or the outcome. That can happen in entrepreneurship, but much more common in corporate life. The actual amount of work leading to burnout is only a small component IMO.
Spot on. You don’t get burnout from boring tedious work. That’s a completely different form of exhaustion. > That can happen in entrepreneurship, but much more common in corporate life. Yeah but it’s not at all limited to traditional work. A common source of burnout is family issues. People burn out taking care of others, especially someone with psychological or substance abuse problems. Or co-dependence, terminal il…
Yep, that's a different thing called bore-out.
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> Increasing your pricing is the #1 way to grow revenue and weed out customers who abuse customer support. Unlikely with businesses like this. This business model is to offer a budget alternative to the big name services that doesn’t have the same level of support and reliability (it admits not having failover, for example) to customers who are okay with that in exchange for the lower price. Once you start raising pr…
> This business model is to offer a budget alternative to the big name services Who’s the “big name service” in this space?
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> This business model is to offer a budget alternative to the big name services Who’s the “big name service” in this space?
Pingdom?
https://www.pingdom.com/pricing/
https://healthchecks.io/pricing/
The primary difference is that HealthCheck caps their pricing at $80/mo whereas Pingdom let's it still linearly scale upwards.
And that's kind of my point. Why artificially cap their "Enterprise" plan at so cheap, when Pingdom let's it scale to $10s of thousands per month.