The Warren in downtown Pittsburgh. One side is a dive bar; the other side is a wine and beer shop that's staffed by sommeliers. They also have the largest supply of indie wines in the state.
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On the membership landing page is a free signup. You get access to a 12-lesson course with tutorials and tactics I’ve used to land three FT remote jobs in my career.
The upsell was group coaching. Some people got excited about this. Only a few people paid.
I learned that unemployed people are not usually willing to pay for a service (especially if there are no video testimonials).
I’m confident that if I persevered this could have become something but I lost interest. Many people are still registering for the membership. I may return to the project soon and find a way to turn the content into a paid, self-paced course—-without paying for SaaS.
- In the same way that the cloud democratized the purchase and deployment of software, no code will usher in the next wave of enterprise innovation by democratizing technical skill sets.
- No code is empowering business users to take over functionality previously owned by technical users by abstracting complexity and centering around a visual workflow.
It's a solid ride. It's so solid I can't imagine there being any scooter more solid.
I first rode a bird scooter while working for a tech startup in westwood, los angeles in 2019. We would go for scooter rides past UCLA. Great times...
Now I'm in Pittsburgh with my bird and I'm reminded of those times.
"One summer, she collected bits of moss each time we went out and built a bank of it under the window where she would sit in bed and write. She could lay for hours like that, typing surrounded by books and snacks and pillows with the lights off. I never understood how she could write that way until after she was gone, and I no longer had the will to sit up straight."
What you need is something called a headless, mircroservices-based, API-first e-commerce architecture. A mouthful, I know. Fortunately there is some OSS and SaaS that makes adopting it easy. For OSS check out https://www.vendure.io/; for SaaS check out https://www.fabric.inc
The reason Amazon is able to scale so quickly and add new channels and features so quickly is because of their innovative technology and approach to technology management (e.g. two pizza teams).
We don't surface pricing now. We need to keep our pricing flexible since we don't force businesses to purchase our entire platform like monoliths such as Salesforce and Oracle Commerce Cloud do.
Instead of purchasing Fabric's entire headless commerce platform/product package, many businesses purchase individual or a couple products to start. They integrate these into their existing systems, then purchase more products (SaaS) down the road and integrate those. This increases time to value and removes the need for a total replatform.
For instance, a multi-billion dollar company just purchased our PIM (https://fabric.inc/pim) to start. They also want us to help with system integration. The needs and use cases are just too varied to offer blanket pricing at this point.