commodorepet

Very vocal, we do have a very solid TODO list for another 12 months. They are also quite loyal and number of them are with us for 3+ years and they use software daily (its just a very small customer list overall). I do wonder sometimes why they stay with us given other competitors are much better. We mostly grew through word of mouth and cold emails. I believe we are already solving a fairly niche use case (TAM is few thousand customers in USA) and my idea is to grow revenue enough to go after larger TAM (several milion).

How do you differentiate between persistence or stuborness. I have been developing a SaaS product since 2020 which currently is at 3K ARR with a very slow growth (20% YoY). It's a B2B and are we are still missing a bunch of features to make us on par with competitors. We did survive a couple of competitors that came and go as we still have our day jobs and running it costs peanuts ($$$).

It often feels I should give up but having had customers who used us for years makes me think we have something that one day will make serious money.

How do you differentiate between persistence or stuborness. I have been developing a SaaS product since 2020 which currently is at 3K ARR with a very slow growth (20%). It's a B2B and are we are still missing a bunch of features to make us on par with competitors. We did survive a couple of competitors that came and go as we still have our day jobs and running it costs peanuts ($$$).

It often feels I should give up but having had customers who used us for years makes me think we have something that one day will make serious money.

I completed PhD in the top 5 CS programs in the world.

One of my first meetings to present my topic to my thesis committee had a leader in my field (a world-wide expert in the field and one of the founding fathers that particular area) say: "This idea is bullshit and I can't even bother to tell you why" That was the only thing he said.

Of course, I defended PhD on the same subject 4 years later and other leading scientist and his competitor said the idea was brilliant :D

Would this not make a total sense if you assumed that Ukrainians wanted to get Russians out of Chernobyl and what not better way than having Russian soldiers read news that radioactivity in the area is at all time high? Secondly, a news in the West that Russians are possibly messing up with nuclear infrastructure would only encourage support for Ukraine.

In this context seems like a win/win situation for Ukraine. The might loose some credibility but if a true disaster happens independent inspectors can be flew in on day's notice and take measurements.

A number of surveys has been done over the last few years and Polish people have a quite strong views on Russia, opposite to what you think.

In fact, we have the most unfavourable view on Russia in the world... 97% of Poles view Russia unfavourably [1]. There is a reason why Poland took on 1M+ Ukrainian refugees and continues to supply weapons and being major hub for American/European operations.

[1] https://notesfrompoland.com/2022/06/22/only-2-of-poles-view-...

I took part in GSoC in 2007, it change my whole life. Coming from Eastern Europe and with very little English it exposed me to experienced engineers from Silicon Valley that I would never think to contact. That lead to an internship at NASA a year after, and those references lead to a Ph.D. from Ivy League and a career in AI. That short acceptance letter turned to my life upside down and I can't be more grateful that Google is still doing it for another generation of engineers.

There is a Polish saying that great Polish literature requires three people to suffer: the main character, the writer and the reader. If all three are suffering book becomes part of the school curriculum.