OK, that makes sense. I'm sure you've thought of this, but you are inline with your lead generators terms of service by charging for your product? I'd hate to see you get in trouble since you are getting some social traction here.
To add onto this, how much manual intervention is required in creating the list and contacting them? I feel like there's a reason the competition costs so much more. Seems like, even with "AI" involved, there would be quite a bit of leg work.
Not sure why someone would do this, but even without a plugin you can go to General Settings and set New User Default Role to Author. This would give any new accounts the ability to exploit this.
I've always thought Crock Pot was a brand. It's the Kleenex of slow cookers. I call my slow cooker a crock pot even though it's made by some Target brand.
You pay per second of usage and the ACU starts and shuts down automatically. If your DB is only actually accessed a occasionally then you are not paying for 24hrs of usage. I think the auto-scaling is the draw though, not necessarily the price. So you are only getting charged the the database is being accessed. I think the examples on the pricing page make it a little more clear.
I think a change to the license model to make it subscription based and then the subsequent changes to the software along with a license server would have been just as effective. No need to rewrite everything and figure out the cloud related stuff. Worked for Adobe and Microsoft.
This is going to be dependent on a few factors (market, product, etc.) but I'd rather be an affiliate for a product with a proven track record of conversions unless I really love a product and just want to promote it. If I know a product already has a high conversion rate and $20k+ MRR then I feel better about the prospects of sending 20k people there and getting a hefty percentage than I would about a new product bringing in $50. Maybe my thinking is wrong though.
You're on HN though. When I used to do websites I would give options with tiered prices. Something on SquareSpace (or similar) would be a cheaper option but I would let them know why. A custom, scratch built site would be 3-4x more money so they would usually go with the cheaper option. Very few clients truly cared about the website. They just knew they needed one and didn't really care about the method used to achieve it.
At the bottom there is a link to the inspiration for this project. It has a much better format. "You can already do this:" "Now you can do this:" which actually shows the differences. Really a simple explanation of what's happening and why it's useful and why it's better than py2 would be nice. Especially for newer programmers who are trying to figure out which version to start with.
We've been through most of them. I liked Hello Fresh but that wasn't amazing either. Even though ingredients are mostly prepped the preparation and cooking can be pretty time consuming. Lately we've been working on recipes with small ingredient lists that share ingredients. It's cheaper, easier and bigger portions. I like having leftovers to take to work the next day. We don't like grocery shopping but most of the stores near us are doing either at the door pickup or even delivery.
I had pretty much the same experience. I programmed an API to talk to a payment gateway connected to a chase merchant account some years ago. It was not fun. When I setup Stripe I was confused when it was done and there weren't 25 more steps before it works.
It'll be interesting to see how they can sell this as anything other than a kit car. Kit cars do not get held to the same standards as a manufactured vehicle, but you have to put it together or pay a shop to do it. Plus, you know, they are pretty deadly in accidents.
DO has bot-checking software too. They just (legitimately) caught some traffic on one of my VPSs and shut off networking, but that was due to having outgoing traffic exceeding 1000 Mb/s.
Typically all that is in those boxes is a coupler. A guy I used to know still had service running to his line. He was actually stealing it though. He just kept hooking it back up after they would come remove it.
Any mention of PHP's merits at this point is going to start a flame war. It's pretty easy to be a terrible developer with it. JS/Node can allow you to be just as bad of a developer. The key to being good and getting a good start is to learn the fundamentals of whatever language you choose. Don't pick a framework and definitely don't rely on one without knowing a language. Frameworks come and go. I personally like Python but mostly use PHP in my day job due to it being the company standard for web apps. It works just fine for the company's needs. Most people can learn the basics of a language in a day so it may be worth running through a few tutorials in a few different languages to see if there is something that suits you. In my opinion it's good to have a toolbox of languages because sometimes a certain language is just better than others at different things.