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revoradon Ask HN: Sell, open-source, or abandon a $10k/year Mac app?

You could hire someone. I know you might find it hard to let go of your codebase and feel it's too complex, but there are plenty of good programmers out there.

You said you're concerned about how much it might cost. Surely you can afford to try someone out for a short amount of time, given the app makes $10K a year. If you shut it down or open source it, that income's gone anyway. So why not try to keep a good product alive?

One good place to look for a programmer might be the monthly HN threads by whoishiring - https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring

revoradon Ask HN: Has anyone successfully moved to the UK on a Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) visa?

Which bit of the requirements do you think is impossible?

revoradon Ask HN: Feedback on SaaS marketing sites as a service

Thanks for reporting the typo. Fixed now.

This app is essentially a specialised version of Squarespace, designed only for SaaS products. I haven't seen any Squarespace templates for SaaS. Yes you could hack together one, but the whole point is to make it instant.

Once the basic site is there, I can add more SaaS-specific integrations like subscription billing, lifecycle marketing, metrics, etc.

revoradon Ask HN: Feedback on SaaS marketing sites as a service

Yes, I have another one here - http://gini.io/customerwall

revoradon Ask HN: Feedback on SaaS marketing sites as a service

The service is for hosting your marketing site, say like Weebly or Shopify but specifically tailored for SaaS businesses. So we'll have high-quality themes with your typical SaaS pages, like a landing page, customer testimonials, pricing matrix, ToS, Privacy policy, etc.

You can easily edit in a WYSIWYG interface, no need for code or Wordpress knowledge.

Then you can focus more on things like A/B testing.

Does that make it clearer?

revoradon Ask HN: Feedback on SaaS marketing sites as a service

Clickable link to the landing page - http://gini.io/saassites

revoradon Show HN: Artful for Mac

Nice. Have you considered making a version for the browser to show art in the new tab? I never see my desktop but do see new tabs all day long.

I currently use and love Momentum - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/momentum/laookkfkn...

revoradon [Ask HN]How to get started with contributing to bio/astronomy software?

For biology, have a look at contributing to http://www.bioconductor.org/

revoradon Paasifier – Find the best PaaS for your app

What are you ranking the results by?

revoradon Ask HN: Why there's no a quick guide for setting up a VPS?

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials

https://www.linode.com/docs/

http://articles.slicehost.com/

revoradon Ask HN: Feedback on my landing page? - http://gini.io

Thanks, fixed.

revoradon Ask HN: Feedback on my landing page? - http://gini.io

Hey Peter, just updated the design and copy - http://gini.io

revoradon Ask HN: Feedback on my landing page? - http://gini.io

Thanks for your suggestions. I've updated the homepage with a new design now - http://gini.io

revoradon Ask HN: Feedback on my landing page? - http://gini.io

Hey, thanks. I already had a theme, just hadn't got around to using it. But I've updated the homepage now - http://gini.io

revoradon Ask HN: Feedback on my landing page? - http://gini.io

Based on the awesome feedback I got yesterday, I've put up a brand new design. More comments welcome! - http://gini.io

revoradon Ask HN: Feedback on my landing page? - http://gini.io

Thanks Malcolm. A few people have mentioned it now. I will update the design to make it look a bit more respectable :)

revoradon Ask HN: Feedback on my landing page? - http://gini.io

Ok, now I see what you mean. I have a clean new design which looks very professional. Just need to fix a few things and I'll put it up shortly.

revoradon Ask HN: Feedback on my landing page? - http://gini.io

Thanks, will try to address those things.

Is there any specific element that makes it look spammy to you?

revoradon Ask HN: Feedback on my landing page? - http://gini.io

Thanks. I'm sorry about the crappy landing page. I'm going to put up my proper design tonight. I was tired of procrastinating on it and just posted it on the spur of the moment.

revoradon Ask HN: Feedback on my landing page? - http://gini.io

Yeah I should add a demo. Thanks for the idea!

revoradon Ask HN: Feedback on my landing page? - http://gini.io

Thanks, will fix!

revoradon Ask HN: Feedback on my landing page? - http://gini.io

Thanks Peter. I'm going to add screenshots and a video. Gini is mainly for SaaS businesses to have all information about every customer in one unified place, so that they don't have to look in 5 different places, when doing customer support or metrics analysis.

revoradon Ask HN: Feedback on my landing page? - http://gini.io

Clickable link - http://gini.io

revoradon Ask HN: Work from home Daddy

Have you looked at these remote job boards? -

http://nomadjobs.io/

https://weworkremotely.com/

revoradon Ask HN: What do you code when you're learning a new language?

Write a piece of software that you already use. For example, Hacker News.

revoradon Before the Startup

A list from 2006 - http://paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html

revoradon Lecture 2: How to Start a Startup

The mistake is to paint the situation as black and white, which it's clearly not. There are plenty of failures and successes across the spectrum.

revoradon Lecture 2: How to Start a Startup

That's overly cynical. There are different paths to building a business, and you can choose which one you want to take.

revoradon Lecture 1 – How to Start a Startup [video]

But then why would you do a course on how to start a startup?

revoradon Lecture 1 – How to Start a Startup [video]

It's easy to write grand vision statements in retrospect. At the time though, Page and Brin said looking at Sean Parker, "We'll never be as famous as him", as per a story Ron Conway once told at Startup school.