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You guys should try Fibery.io

2. faster as speed or development? Gem ecosystem in Ruby makes it super fast to develop stuff, I'm not sure is there any ecosystem that rich with up to date libraries.

How this gem compares to other similar gems? just because it doesn't use threads?

Mate, that's how most best-seller non-fictional books work

that's exactly what we did and doing very well. After trying lots of stuff in the last 12 years and actively participating in the indie communities, that's the easiest way to make it work.

Find a popular product, pick a growing niche that product serves not so well (you can see that in reviews, twitter, etc) and build a specialized version of that product with a friendly and modern UI. When serving different niches, usually products require different configurations for each and get quite heavy and confusing. You can fix that by specializing on one niche.

You can try building similar sites as much as you want, you won't get to that level. It's about timing, marketing, etc not just building something and done.

I fit very well in the article description. It's not only about finding the right niche and riding the wave, is also about execution, otherwise competitors will eat you.

There's luck involved of course, but after 10 failed tries you'll get an eye for it. Just an example: there are sub-markets that don't have specialized products, they all use products built for everyone instead that specific niche, like instead of a CRM for everyone niche it down as CRM for mechanics (i'm sure there are many of them, but you get the idea).

What awful comments here, you're all criticizing something really exciting. Of course AI can't beat real humans, what do you expect? But it's closer we've ever been, especially since is available to consumers. People in sales and marketing know how valuable is this on improving conversion rates... if you're not in those fields, that's not for you, saying something it useless just because you have no knowledge in other domains, it's highly ignorant.

Not really. I can give countless examples of mediocre products with no marketing doing super well because the market really needed that product.

Some wales know about this and ejected? That's why the drop today?

more countries will follow.

I'm in this place of hiring myself out. It's extremely hard to find someone you trust and capable of doing at least good on something you did great yourself. Since they are not involved personally in the business (% stake) how do you find such employees? Should i always give a % otherwise i won't be able to find someone involved enough to manage critical stuff? It's like nobody cares enough... or at least what I found so far.

Exactly. Like in 2017, it's mostly fueled by hype. All big companies that invest in BTC are NOT "hodlers", after a threshold they sell everything or a majority. I don't believe tesla will keep bitcoin if goes below 30%-50% of what they bought at.

When the panic selling starts is game over.

The limited supply logic has meaning if people hold, if they don't, nobody will care it's limited in supply because there's no demand for it.

Guys, this page is for indie hackers, mostly with B2B apps. You all give examples supporting free plans B2C products from well funded companies.

Free plans are usually bad if you're a small B2B startup trying your way...even more so if you're bootstrapped.

I also see that people disagreeing with this tactic are talking more about how they like it to be, not how it's best for the business.

What an ignorant comment! Life is not only business struggle. Growing a company as a founder means you need to sacrifice some part of your personal life for the company, either stress, free time or money. There are people happy with their lives that don't want more stress or to lose more free time... and for what? a bit bigger bank account? i'm sure the founder is doing just fine financially already

Stripe is a payment processor, you have a direct relationship with the customer, on the invoice is written your company details. With Paddle, on the invoice you'll see Paddle company details, all your customers pay Paddle, not your company. You won't have any legal or fiscal relationship with the customer.

asking users to re-subscribe will lose from 20% to 40% of your customers (my estimation). Unless your SaaS is business critical, a good percentage of customers pay without using or really needing the app so much to re-subscribe.

The only problem with services like Paddle is that your customers are not your own anymore technically. The customer will belong now to Paddle and if something happens with Paddle or your account, you'll lose all of them.

PS: We're using Paddle for a few years and we're a bit concerned by this.

Stackpath dissapointed us heavily. We thought this as well, bought a subscription to test it and talked with their support telling 500 websites cost $500/month. We spent time setting this up and when we asked a second support person, they said for over 100 websites we need to buy their $2000/month package.

Nowhere in their pricing page shows this and support reps don't even know their pricing clearly. We ended up wasting time with them.

nothing, accounts are free. We use caddy server that generates the SSL certs automatically, but we want a WAF on top of that

There are jobs where it takes 6 - 12 months until an employee becomes efficient enough to worth the money spent on salary and recruiting.

as a business owner I wouldn't want a job switcher or how it's this called in English. When we hire we want something long term, not someone who is prepared to leave next year. You don't get the 20% rise, but you get stability, comfort, possibility to advance to a better role (maybe leadership position), better CV, etc

Complaining to Stripe is the best option. Most of their business is based on Stripe Connect. If they ban Baremetrics from the Stripe it will lose their business.

Just another critical article without substance to steer up rails community and get some readers.

That API part in particular is dead wrong. Gives the feeling Rails is not good for anything.

Love this! I'm really REALLY interested in this post because I'm facing the same issue and TBH I'm not that great with servers myself.

Looking for same thing

I really hope one day you start your own online business and see how it's actually run.

It's one thing you imagine a business should be run in an utopian world where people respond to surveys and know exactly what they need to solve their issues (Henry Ford said it perfectly "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses") and another thing how it works in real world.

> Yes exactly - companies were in business just fine for over a century and they didn't have analytics, why should it suddenly be required?

This is a very ignorant response so I assume all your answers are the same.

> As far as I'm concerned online marketing is cancer.

I think you meant "advertising"... if yes, in some cases you're right.

Unfortunately it's just a matter of time. I have no doubt they will get added to uBlock pretty soon. Most people don't make a difference between tracking anonymously for data aggregation and tracking individual users. Many are paranoid and think that any type of tracking is bad.

Hackers News doesn't need GA. A product that relies on data to make decisions does. People here are delusional, sorry. I don't care I get downvoted, but that's the reality.

I'm totally against ad tracking where a company can identify what I do on multiple websites and link my browsing behavior. But I have no problem to let a company track my clicks and what I do on their website if it's used to improve their product and ultimately to benefit from it.

Google Analytics spies you? Lol. Those tools that you use daily on the browser that saves you time and makes your life easier got to that point because they had a way to learn how they were used. Seems that you don't make a difference between ad related tracking and product based tracking.