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darrenwestall

127 karma · joined February 4, 2018

CEO of www.paiger.co, previously CTO at www.broadbean.com

Email me: Darren _at_ Paiger _ dot _ co

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darrenwestall··on Show HN: Openinary – Self-hosted image processing like Cloudinary
(I pay $2k a month to Cloudinary!)
darrenwestall··on Show HN: Openinary – Self-hosted image processing like Cloudinary
Any plans to support text overlays? :)
darrenwestall··on Show HN: I built Cursor for B2B Research that builds lists of leads by prompting
Aurelien - can we jump on a call? I'd like to discuss integration / white labelling your solution.
darrenwestall··on We sold our first AI agent to a legacy industry–now we're stuck. Help us Advice?
Ask your first customer for referrals.
darrenwestall··on Show HN: I built a credit-based system API
We've been using this for the last 6 or so months. Saved us days, if not weeks, of dev time. Great product & support.
darrenwestall··on Show HN: OnePageGA – Simple dashboard for GA4 like Plausible
Alternatively - can you "embed" dashboards you create on the agency package?
darrenwestall··on Show HN: OnePageGA – Simple dashboard for GA4 like Plausible
I need this for my own product (www.paiger.co) to showcase the traffic we deliver in an easy way. Would you be willing to sell me the code but with a license that limits it's use to our reporting only and a non-compete with what you're doing? Would save me the development work and I'd happily pay for it.
darrenwestall··on Show HN: I made a credit system API
I do. I mean providing a JavaScript widget that lets people see their credits, renewal dates and buy more. Then it would be an end to end credit solution.
darrenwestall··on Show HN: I made a credit system API
Having to pay to try is a little disappointing, but I’ve done it.

Sent you a chat with some queries - we need to use cycles and payg in combination, and the api call to get remaining credits should include the cycle start and renewal date, with the different credit types remaining too.

The option to choose which credit type subtract should come from by default would be good too - to allow users to use their cycle credits first and then eat into their payg back up credits.

darrenwestall··on Show HN: I made a credit system API
We’re about to implement a credit system for a new product, I’ll try this instead and feedback to you.

Would be amazing if you handled the buying of additional pay as you go credits for us too - that’s the next thing we’d need to build.

darrenwestall··on Show HN: I built an alternative to product tours
Just what I need for my SaaS. I've filled in the form - only thing I'd love is a way to display a message to a user about what's been unlocked.

Like "Congratulations, you've added your first page. Now you can filter"

darrenwestall··on My Story: Tech-obsessed gamer who swapped his CTO career to start own business
Hope it resonates with some of you, and I wanted to say thank you to this community for always driving my personal growth forward.

It's a corner of the internet I hope never changes :)

darrenwestall··on Show HN: Storybooks – AI-generated bedtime stories for kids
It would be cool to get a different story emailed to me each night just before the kids bed time (7pm).
darrenwestall··on Ask HN: Is it possible to get a conversation with a CEO from here?
Happy to chat.
darrenwestall··on Show HN: Gather Prospect Intel with GPT-4
It seems to be mildly accurate and makes a lot of stuff up - I guess that’s a limitation of the model right now. I like the idea though.
darrenwestall··on Bing Search API Pricing Update
As a customer, please give enough notice and some initial feedback, if you 3x our costing(or even 2x), we’ll be forced to find an alternative or shut down the feature that relies on your API.
darrenwestall··on Ask HN: How do you backup your production databases?
Snapshooter.
darrenwestall··on The Perl Foundation will now be known as The Perl and Raku Foundation
I’m hiring, email in my profile :)
darrenwestall··on The Perl Foundation will now be known as The Perl and Raku Foundation
I’m hiring - email in my profile if you were serious :)
darrenwestall··on Ask HN: How to market my API SaaS?
But who are they? Map out a persona, look for similar traits, what problem were they looking to solve? What did they try before? Where do they hang out?
darrenwestall··on Ask HN: How to market my API SaaS?
Who are your current paying (and only paying) customers and how did they find you?
darrenwestall··on Ask HN: Simple video editor for instructional videos
veed.io - happy customer here.
darrenwestall··on Why do you need LinkedIn? (non-recruiters)
Sales. It’s a must-have for b2b founders.
darrenwestall··on Show HN: Alternative Google Analytics Dashboard
It isn’t my data I want to view, it’s my clients viewing their own data inside my SaaS alongside our other reports.
darrenwestall··on Show HN: Alternative Google Analytics Dashboard
I need to build this for my company for our reporting - not as a standalone product but just to show in our own reports how Paiger has delivered traffic.

If you’re open to selling the source code to save me a job, ping me a note. Happy to include a caveat that it can never be sold as a standalone product by ourselves so it doesn’t compete.

darrenwestall··on Show HN: Advanced News Searching API
I’m 100% your target market, I’ll take it for a test drive - your pricing is not unrealistic at all. I’m a current Aylien customer.

Congrats on launching.

darrenwestall··on Ask HN: Would recruiters be interested in detecting devs who are likely to quit?
My SaaS is used by 4000 recruiters every day and I’ve worked in the industry for 15 years so I feel I can chime in here :)

What you’re proposing has been done before, but it’s never been done well. For example, Chosen AI set out to solve this but ended up pivoting.

It’s still a problem that is interesting and I’d be keen to chat with you more on it if you’re open to it - if we can nail the tech, I know the route to market and can help kickstart it.

Recruitment/staffing agencies don’t tend to buy tech the way others do - direct sales is best, at least, at the beginning to get feedback.

TLDR. Recruiters will absolutely want this, but the execution is key.

darrenwestall··on Show HN: VideoTTS – Add Speech and Subtitles and Music to Videos
Can you share API docs and pricing? :)
darrenwestall··on Ask HN: Career change for elderly UK ex-convict?
I’d hire you - we all make mistakes.

Contact info in my profile if you fancy chatting more.

darrenwestall··on Ask HN: How to give product demos that don't suck?
Happy to jump on a call to give some advice - without seeing you, the product and your approach it’s practically impossible.

I was in your position and decided to make my first employee a salesperson - I learned a bunch from them and now handle enterprise sales while leading a business of 20 people (7 in Sales).

I owe a lot to HN so would love to give back if I can.

Contact info is in my profile.

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