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neerajdotname2on Cal.diy: open-source community edition of cal.com

If you are looking for an alternative then please take a look at NeetoCal https://neeto.com/cal . It's closed source though.

Disclosure: I'm the CEO of NeetoCal.

neerajdotname2on An Introduction to Solid Queue for Ruby on Rails

We didn't know how "UPDATE SKIP LOCKED" worked. We lookoed into and wrote a blog on it. https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/solid-queue

neerajdotname2on Email Forwarding for Your Domain

The blog still has the name Hanami https://mailwip.com/blog/

https://mailwip.com/blog/posts/welcome-to-hanami/

neerajdotname2on Show HN: Badgeify – Add Any App to Your Mac Menu Bar

I've been using hidden bar for over a year and it's working beautifully.

neerajdotname2on Ask HN: How to learn marketing and sales as a solo entrepreneur?

Thank you.

neerajdotname2on Ask HN: How to learn marketing and sales as a solo entrepreneur?

True. For some companies that price is not enough to move the needle. For some companies it will be. Calendly is worth 4B at this time. If I could move 1% of their customers then that's worth it for me. Executing this won't be easy by there are way more than 1% of the people who will move to save cost.

neerajdotname2on Ask HN: How to learn marketing and sales as a solo entrepreneur?

Excellent point. That's exactly what I'm betting on with https://neeto.com products.

neerajdotname2on Ask HN: How to learn marketing and sales as a solo entrepreneur?

Good one. I love this approach. Work somewhere. Find which part of the big software is most valuable and you can make a business out of it and run a small business.

neerajdotname2on Ask HN: How to learn marketing and sales as a solo entrepreneur?

100% agree. That's why I'm building tools in crowded space. I'm building NeetoCal which is a calendly alternative and NeetoRecord which is a loom alternative. https://neeto.com/cal and https://neeto.com/record.

neerajdotname2on Ask HN: How to learn marketing and sales as a solo entrepreneur?

I'm not sure about them being garbage but I do believe very strongly that existing SaaS software is way way wayyyy overpriced. So there is an opportunity to build a simple, low price software that does less but just works.

neerajdotname2on Ask HN: How to learn marketing and sales as a solo entrepreneur?

I'm finding customers by existing customers recommending space. I'm going hard an competing on price. It's not easy but I don't see any other way.

The savings are enormous for our customers. https://neeto.com/neetocal/pricing-comparison

Hence many folks are switching from Calendly to NeetoCal. And same with NeetoRecord. Lots of folks have switched from Loom.

neerajdotname2on Ask HN: How to learn marketing and sales as a solo entrepreneur?

Market is saturated and it's getting increasingly hard to build sustainable software. One good thing is that the price of SaaS has gone up. That creates an opening for the folks who are good at execution. I'm betting on that.

I'm out of new ideas so I'm competing on price and building tools in a crowded space like Calendly and Loom. https://neeto.com/cal and https://neeto.com/record.

neerajdotname2on Show HN: Someday, Open-Source Calendly Alternative for Gmail / Google App Script

What was so special about Sunset?

neerajdotname2on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

Looks amazing.

neerajdotname2on What is "founder mode"?

Fuck "founder mode". Work in "fuck off" mode.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41545495

https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1fgv248/fuck_founder_...

neerajdotname2on Kamal Proxy – A minimal HTTP proxy for zero-downtime deployments

We recently wrote about how we decided to handle deleting tables etc. https://bigbinary.com/blog/rails-8-deleting-tables-columns-u...

neerajdotname2on Gandi's .com renewal price is up 60%

Why not use Cloudflare. This blog has more details. https://neetohq.neetopublish.com/posts/best-place-to-buy-a-d...

neerajdotname2on Gandi's .com renewal price is up 60%

We looked at Cloudflare, porkbun, Namecheap and GoDaddy. Cloudflare is the best. Detailed write up at https://neeto.com/blog/best-place-to-buy-a-domain-without-ge....

Please post a comment incase you want something else to be added. We will update the blog.

neerajdotname2on Words on Founder Mode

fuck founder mode. Work in "fuck off" mode.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1fgv248/fuck_founder_...

neerajdotname2on Fuck founder mode. Work in "Fuck off mode"

Yes Zoho is like odoo. Neeto is trying to be like zoho.

neerajdotname2on Fuck founder mode. Work in "Fuck off mode"

Absofuckinglutely. That's the point. Build a good enough business that puts some money in your fucking pocket.

neerajdotname2on Fuck founder mode. Work in "Fuck off mode"

Great point. Spend time learning things that will put some fucking money in your pocket. Once you have financial independence then you can think about changing the fucking world.

neerajdotname2on Fuck founder mode. Work in "Fuck off mode"

Without filtration. That means the shit got to be real. Amazing.

neerajdotname2on Fuck founder mode. Work in "Fuck off mode"

Fucking golden. I had forgotten about all this fucked up shit.

neerajdotname2on Fuck founder mode. Work in "Fuck off mode"

Absofuckingltely.

Another way of looking at it is that the day you take funding from that day you are trying to sell that company. Realistically how many companies will have IPO. Not many. So your next best option is to get bought out.

How fucked up is that. Think about it. You are starting a startup and you know that your end goal is to sell it off. Fuck that shit. It's not for me.

neerajdotname2on Fuck founder mode. Work in "Fuck off mode"

Even if you do innovate, it's very hard to have a strong moat. Look at IFTTT and Myspace. Their successors ate their fucking lunch.

neerajdotname2on Fuck founder mode. Work in "Fuck off mode"

Absofuckingletly. That's what I'm fucking talking about.

neerajdotname2on Fuck founder mode. Work in "Fuck off mode"

I had missed Mataroa's post. This is fucking hilarious.