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I was really happy that you were so open about the revenue you got from bingocardcreator, and while I totally respect your decision to not do so this time, can I ask why?

Rereading your old blog posts proved to me that a lonely programmer could build a business as a side project which was incredibly motivating at the time.

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I am a very chatty person by nature, but people can pay me to shut up. Hypothetically imagine that white label deal had gone through. It would have been NDAed as regards number of accounts, because that is reasonably competitively sensitive for them. How useful is it, to anyone, for me to say "AR just hit $1k. Whee!" when there is, in fact, an off-books client paying a sizable multiple of that that I couldn't tell you about?

It is highly likely I will be unable to offer BCC-level transparency for AR, for reasons like this. I'll try to say what I can, but you can totally buy my weak attachment to transparency with a five figure check.

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