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Re: Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars

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Tangent: > I’d much prefer to keep those minutes for things like blowing off work for the day to go rock climbing because it’s sunny and I can do that because I run my own company. The less time I have to spend dealing with these customers, the better. This doesn't really instill confidence in the level of post-purchase support I'd get if I were to buy in. I can easily empathize with the mentality and can even apprec…

I just read it as setting expectations, which is good.

Re: Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars

#92

Isn't a similar thing possible through ELK stack for those who are already maintaining one, the logs should be sent to Elastic Search for indexing. It might not be as customisable as this product.

Definitely possible but as is the case with most Saas products, It's much easier and convenient to just pay someone $10 a month to do it for you rather than hosting an entire ELK stack somewhere (And having to upskill to get it all working efficiently).

Re: Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars

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@jasonkester Aren't you worried about attracting unwanted attention from Amazon's lawyers for using their trademark in the name of your business? https://aws.amazon.com/trademark-guidelines/

Why should he be? Where in the document does it say Amazon has "S3" as a trademark? His service isn't called "Amazon S3stat"

Re: Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars

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Try to remember to be more pleasant as well.

You're right, i could have been more pleasant, sorry. I am personally offended that someone is using "We had hoped to provide this for free but need to make expenses" as a marketing strategy to make more than expenses. When others really are asking for money just to cover expenses. It may not matter to some people. There's nothing wrong with charging money for providing a service in order to make a good profit. But t…

Just to confirm, do you, yourself, charge an hourly rate for your time? If you do, it is natural to expect that he can ask for both time and materials.

Re: Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars

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I would like to encourage you to rename it the "Cheap Fucking Bastard Plan" because discomfort amongst the corporate set is good for America.

The "I Embezzled the Entire Department Budget and Spent It On Hookers and Cocaine" plan

Don't forget Friday beers with PFY.
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