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What is a typical or good (active users)/(total signups) rate for a SaaS company?
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What is a typical or good (active users)/(total signups) rate for a SaaS company?
Consumer apps tend to care about raw user counts (as a sign of engagement) and B2B software companies focus on paying users.
http://www.graalians.com/forums/showthread.php?p=456435#post...
https://www.google.com/?q=Mark+Karpeles+graal+online
The game is still online: http://graalonline.com/
It's very anti-user, I use it to listen to longer podcasts in the background.
Worth rooting for: http://repo.xposed.info/module/com.pyler.youtubebackgroundpl...
Check out the top Zap listed here: http://mikeknoop.com/my-zaps/
(it uses the Algolia search engine as a feed of posts to trigger on)
(works for comment mentions, too)
I've never been able to replicate that experience in another game.
Someone tried to clone it but never took off: http://www.projectstealthgame.com/
Best wishes to OP for the game and (at least) giving me fond memories.
Perhaps things like:
- Trigger when a message is opened
- Trigger when a message is sent
- Trigger when a new contact is added (if you have lists)
etc. Happy to answer any questions, you can also shoot me an email. https://zapier.com/developer
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The short version is that over time, Martin slowly regained some control of his body. By the time he was in his mid-20s, he could squeeze your hand on occasion. And he was getting better and better at holding himself upright in his chair. Now, the doctors told his parents that he still had the intelligence level of a 3-month-old baby.
But one nurse, one nurse named Verna, was convinced that there was something there. And so she eventually convinced his parents to get Martin reassessed at another medical center, where he was given a test where he had to identify different objects by pointing at them with his eyes. And he passed, not with flying colors, but he passed.
Joan, Martin's mom, who came home to care for Martin, helped him with his physical therapy and most important, purchase this kind of joystick for the computer. A proximity switch, which is just something that you knocked. And though it took him about a year to get the hang of it...
Martin had like school - if you want to call it - four hours in the morning every single day. Once he did, everything changed because suddenly he had a way to select the words he wanted to say. "I am cold. I am hungry. I want toast." And as words came back, gradually, so did other things.
Martin started moving his eyes and moving his head and almost nodding, asking for coffee by stirring his hands around and things like that. Noone couldn't really explain it, but... when Martin gets the tools to communicate, he forges ahead.
So wherever you are standing in your life, prepare to be lapped. Within two years of passing that assessment test, Martin gets a job filing papers at a local government office. "I wanted to prove that I could do more than just speak words via a laptop."
Around this time, his nurse savior Verna mentioned she's having trouble with her computer. And Martin, who has not tinkered with electronics since he was 12 years old fixes it. Repairing a computer is a bit like going into a maze. You might go down dead ends. But eventually, you find your way through. It was absolutely flabbergasting.
After that he scraps the government job...
...Starts a web design company...
...Gets into college.
In computer science.
He writes a book.
He's learning to drive. He always wanted to drive.
Martin achieves everything he wants to do.
So how is it that Martin has been able to achieve all this? Now, I don't want it oversimplify it because it was many things - Martin's naturally strong will, flukes of electricity in the brain, a really dedicated family. But I do think that his decision to lean back into those thoughts way back when, instead of just spending his life detaching, in some way helped him, in part because it probably kept his mind occupied and allowed him to emerge this kind of well-oiled machine of mental ability, but also because I think his leaning into those dark thoughts in particular gave him a kind of self-understanding and humor about the human condition that allowed him to snag the very best thing in his life.
"My wife, Joanna." -Martin
"When Martin talks about me or types about me, he always starts smiling."
Joanna was a friend of Martin's sister. And the two of them first met over Skype. She was a manager for the social work team for a hospital social work team. She says the thing that drew her to Martin... "I turned around, and it was just this guy with this big smile. And it's such a warm personality." ... that was the way he began to interact with her.
"Unfortunately, I'm one of those people, I say something and then I, more often, need to say sorry I said it."
But not with Martin. When she asked him how things work in the bathroom or what people do around you when they think you are not there...
"If I ask Margin anything, he'll give me an honest answer." And that perked her ears. There's no pretend. That first night, they talked for hours.
She would speak, and Martgin would type my response. The sister and the other friends drifted away, and Joanna just stayed there in front of the screen. "I just really liked him." After that, she just kept wanting to Skype with him.
"Yeah. OK, well, he's in a wheelchair, and he doesn't speak. But I love this guy. He's amazing. It just so quickly turned into love."
As for Martin - after over a decade convinced that he would be alone forever, he was pretty happy. "My face would hurt from smiling so much." They were married in 2009. Martin was 33 years old.
Basically, get notified whenever your company is mentioned in RSS feeds, Reddit, Hacker News (ahem), etc...
We actually did a pretty long write up on this exact use case here: https://zapier.com/blog/monitor-brand-mentions/
Updating the post, thank you!
Even so, we as a team of 8 didn't catch the problem for some time because we weren't aware of it. That's part of my rational for giving an easy-to-test-yourself POC.
Basically, it's really easy to leave default XML parsing settings (for things like consuming RSS feeds) and accidentally open yourself up to reading files off the filesystem.
I did a full write-up and POC here: http://mikeknoop.com/lxml-xxe-exploit
Launching 4 divergent products a year means you're 4x as likely to find a hit in that time frame.
1. JSON.stringify()
2. Diff-match-patch: https://code.google.com/p/google-diff-match-patch/
3. JSON.parse()
There are several short-comings to the above approach though, specifically, you have to explicitly trade off performance vs. efficiency depending on the JSON you're dealing with.
JSON Patch is going to give you a consistent performance vs. efficiency curve which is desirable in a lot of circumstances.
https://www.planet.com/pulse/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/dove...
https://www.planet.com/pulse/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/img_...
The size of their satellites just makes this feel so tangible. Kudos to their team.
Windows has ports here and there, and there's always Cygwin, but it's going to feel like a compatibility layer the whole time you're using it (especially if you're following guides/stack overflow help).
I've used all three stacks for years and couldn't happier with my latest MBPr (hardware or software wise).
Ubuntu/linux: bad window manager, good stack
OSX: good window manager, good stack
Window manager: how much time you spend fussing with UI settings and how reliable it is day-to-day
Stack: how much time you spend installing, maintaining packages necessary for what you want to do (apps, libs, envs, etc.)
It's a complaint about the Caltrain's infrequency rather than existence.
1. This is great for before 7AM flights out of SFO / SJC, where public transit is not an option.
2. I showed this to my fiancée (who does the south bay / city commute every day). She said: "This would be a lot more useful to me if they came in between Caltrains, which can be an hour apart."
There's a ton of long-tail to SaaS these days. I've heard a lot of people use our app directory to discover some of them: https://zapier.com/zapbook