I’m not sure how anyone can say in good faith that Ghost is “just a Wordpress clone”. Even a cursory walkthrough if the dashboard shows this to absolutely not be the case.
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In particular, I find it much more relaxing that Desert Golf, which I think comes down to a couple of factors. The design is one – the cute graphics and colours really help. Music is another – you've done a great job there.
I think the most important bit is the gameplay though – with not showing the score constantly, I'm not as worried about trying to keep my stroke count as close as possible to the hole number constantly. The gravity dynamic also adds enough whimsy that I don't feel like I "absolutely should have got a hole in one" like I did on some holes in Desert Golf.
All in all, great job! Instant purchase from me and I think I'll be spending a lot of time with it.
Your point stands that Shopify's largest merchants make up a huge proportion of GMV, but it's not because of big ticket items like cars.
> Both partners have equal access to it, and both partners will continue to receive the same monthly allocation for fun money no matter how much each person makes.
+1 to the sibling comment. I downloaded the app because I happen to be in a great mood, but if I wasn’t I probably would have left without signing up if there wasn’t an audio sample.
I started Juul in late 2017, was off smoking completely by April 2018 (3 pods a day) and quit Juul cold turkey January 1st, 2019. I’d tried to quit millions of times over 10 years, but Juul made it easy.
The end provides a decent summary of the article, and how I've tried to think about things since I first read it:
"It's sad, but it's also ... great, really. Imagine if you'd seen everything good, or if you knew about everything good. Imagine if you really got to all the recordings and books and movies you're "supposed to see." Imagine you got through everybody's list, until everything you hadn't read didn't really need reading. That would imply that all the cultural value the world has managed to produce since a glob of primordial ooze first picked up a violin is so tiny and insignificant that a single human being can gobble all of it in one lifetime. That would make us failures, I think.
If "well-read" means "not missing anything," then nobody has a chance. If "well-read" means "making a genuine effort to explore thoughtfully," then yes, we can all be well-read. But what we've seen is always going to be a very small cup dipped out of a very big ocean, and turning your back on the ocean to stare into the cup can't change that."
It might be true, but there exists not a single person on this site who hasn't heard it, and it provides absolutely zero value.
It was never even true to start with. The act of paying for something in no way has ever made you ineligible as a source of other revenue.
I like that they at least seem smakk, their panel is great, I can buy a new domain in well under a minute, and their branding is a little funny.
1) Who do you expect to be your affiliates? Is this more of a refer-a-friend program a la Dropbox, or are you looking to have businesses refer you traffic en masse?
2) If the former, I believe it's going to be easier. You can offer non-cash rewards, like free months of service. If the latter, really think about what type of affiliate you want and how to properly incentivize them.
3) re: incentization above: let's assume you go for a 20% revenge share model (fairly standard). Consider how many referrals someone needs to make the payout worthwhile. My current affiliate program is for a SaaS that costs $19/month – affiliates have the refer 260 customers before they hit $100/month in payouts, which is a lot.
4) Buckets: I broadly lump my affiliates in to two buckets: "value added" traffic and "dumb traffic". Value added traffic are affiliates who have an existing relationship with their referrals – think a web design agency who refers their customers to a web design tool. "Dumb traffic" is my slightly pejorative term for bloggers, etc. who just send leads my way with no expectation of helping them set up the tool, etc. Dumb traffic can drive a lot more leads, but Value Added traffic has higher LTV.
5) Finding affiliates: think of who is blogging in your space, or who else might be interested in your tool. If you can't think of this, don't start an affiliate program.
6) Don't make your affiliate program super visible and easy to join. One or the other. Otherwise, you're going to spend a lot of time chasing down shitty affiliates who spam your links across dummy pages and coupon sharing sites, and it will never amount to anything and will make your app look bad.
I was like, 7, so my math skills didn’t really allow me to understand the scope of the number of pages that would be required.
But god damn if I didn’t have a blast trying.
As for the requirement piece, it definitely sucks if it's not an expense you can take on without debt and there's no other options in the area. If there are other options, though, then people who can't or won't pay that can just go somewhere else. School's have worse requirements (BYU comes to mind) that people can opt out of by choosing to go somewhere else.
Add on administration overhead for dorms, etc.
Proximity to classes, extra-curricular access, living with your peers... If you're going to move out of your parents' house, $15k per year doesn't sound that bad.
My apartment a few years ago (wasn't a luxury place) came with a Nest thermostat. My parents have a Nest thermostat as well as a smart lock. My sister has a smart toothbrush. My friend uses Tile to keep track of a couple of her grandmother's important things. I went all in on Phillips Hue across my house, as well as a bunch of other things. It's not all sunshine and rainbows, but it's been a net positive.
HomeKit (and any Android equivalents) have brought this stuff pretty mainstream, and in a mostly-just-works way.
This stuff is everywhere.