sounds like a lot of people who have simple sites and don't want to pay for pingdom just for a simple check up, if it's something like that

Yup, it's a similar tool but for non technical, i made it very easy to understand.

so if your free version is giving them everything they want, understandable they don't want to pay for more

i give them 5 minutes monitoring interval, and if the user really want to make sure his website always up, then he needs to pay for a One minute monitoring interval.
The same logic on my competitors sites, and they pay there 😐

5 is still pretty generous. if you want people to pay (and probably lose a lot of free users) you should probably make it more like an hour

then they will use the competitor who provides 5 minutes 🤣

Helped a few co's over the years build different revenue streams, optimization and conversion methods. Upgrading from 5m unpaid to 1m paid seems to be not overly compelling. Do the free users at the 5m level get a daily report of some sort?

no they don't have a daily report, but if the website down will send them a notification via email

You probably already know who your successful competition is in this space. Perform what we refer to in the UX Research space as a “Competitor Analysis”. That’s essentially a fancy name for, create a spreadsheet, list the features and compare them to one another your your product.

Simply start with one product in column B and list all its features in column A with a tick next to each in column B. Then add the next product in column C and tick what they have in common. If there are any unique features, add them to column A. Then keep going through the major players and then add yours. There’s actually a lot more to it but that is a fair start.

This will give you a visual representation of what they’re doing vs what you’re doing. You want to try to determine how they use their freemium model. See what they have in common for free versus each paid level. Their pricing table will help with this.

Finally, search Reddit for their product’s and see what others are talking about. Pose as someone considering the service for you website to flesh-out why others are paying.

Maybe of interest, in the late 1990s there was a service called Red Alert that did website downtime alerts.

So, in your case if I sign up for either the free 5m version or paid 1m version and the web site does not go down in 18 months (in either case) there is no interaction with the users then?

Not sure exactly what you're looking for, but if it's just for the formation of the corporation, I used Stripe Atlas, works well

I'd design it so they just sign up for the paid 1m version that automatically converts to paid after 7-14 days free trial. I'd also send them a 3-7 email sequence the first 3-7 days after signing up, then a weekly email update about their account after that. When something operates in the background, kind of hard to remember it's even there...therefore, the weekly emails

other services charge about $5/month for something similar

jeibzoajrj you can check GrowthMentor platform, there might be folks who can help with your problem nomadlist.slack.com/archives/C02RVB0CK/p1699031625745099?thread_ts=1699030226.331139&cid=C02RVB0CK|https://nomadlist.slack.com/archives/C02RVB0CK/p1699031625745099?thread_ts=1699030226.331139&cid=C02RVB0CK

Who all here has launched on PH? Looking for tips & resources on how to do it well

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How did your launches go? Any advice or must-dos?

Hahah sorry i meant i have the same doubt as you do 🤣 !

following

Commission based is much more aligned, I don't like giving out shares. Keep in mind bigger influencers might ask for an upfront payment with/without commission. It is actually more economical to use multiple micro influencers than one big one, and more effective even, as they are often niche to your specific use case.

Celebrities and influencers might have less overall impact than you imagine. A healthy commission based on results much more inline, plus equity flummoxes most people anyway.

At least you’re looking for your customers first… Most founders do not.
Few things to consider:
1. Is the influencers followers in fact your products users? Maybe the influencer can tell you what the demographics on the platforms indicate.
2. Your expectations of how the influencer will be used, effort, time actually contributed, and how often.
3. Is their involvement going to be needed continuously or just initially to inform your decisions on what to build.
4. What the influencer expects in return for their investment.
Given most companies, not just startups, fail I would offer a partnership. No out of pocket for you and an incentive for them to keep pushing the product as they have skin in the game. However, you could end up with dead weight that just wants to stick around in case you are successful so you will need to protect yourself with some type of separation clause or buy-out in the contract… which you should definitely have!

But I’m not one to ask about the legal aspect…

How to launch traditionally:
1. talk to VCs
2. sell them on an idea and team
3. get money
4. build
5. sell profitless company to a bigger company
6. repeat

this is overthought and i don't personally believe that building product first is as crazy as people condemn it..

so long as you generally socialize with would-be customers and experiment with what works in business why not?

xqpxxgtmaqs He did that already… didn’t work. And in the process wasted a lot of resources e.g. Time, money, talent capacity

It is foolish to follow the mantra, “build it and they will come”. The only people who showed up in “Field of Dreams” were ghosts and ghosts don’t have any money.

One’s best change to maximise their ROI is to validate the proposed solution and build what people want a.k.a. What they will hand you money for in return.

Why is it only digital products follow the D&R model? I cannot think of another “thing” where D&R is used. Everything else using R&D. Can you imagine doing that when building a bridge? No plans, no engineering, no budgeting, feasibility, environmental, etc. etc. Just build it and send a car across to see if it makes it. Then it doesn’t make it so we send in research to put out the fire instead of preventing the fire. Of course there is always one person in the room who says, “one car isn’t statistically significant enough, send 99 more cars…”

i think of this as, "blue ocean" / "red tide"

if you're building a business everyone wants, you can just go ahead and build it

lean startup is for the blue ocean businesses IMHO

How will you know you are “building a business everyone wants” without the research? By the way, there are no businesses everyone wants.

Without the research, you’re making very expensive investment decisions on assumptions. Assumptions = risks. Those risks can be mitigated by making informed decisions.

But, I’ll leave it there. I guess I’ve said enough.

everyone needs to take a shit

Hi! I own my own company, been running for a year now and we're finally ready to start adveretising. I'd love some advice onn how to organically raise interest in my brand and what we offer, if anyone has any advice

Congratulations on hitting the one year milestone. One way to organically raise interest in your brand is PR, and more specifically being a guest on others podcasts. Advertising (paid) I would recommend starting out small on 1-2 platforms, see what delivers a 1-15x ROI and scale from there.

Anyone working on a software project like a SaaS or Mobile app? I’m curious to see how many people are in the software business or thinking of starting one.
I personally have a software development agency and I’m thinking of building a few apps in the following years as I believe it’s one of the best business models for scalability, margins and exit potential.. it is a bit expensive at first but it definitely pays off long term if done properly.

I’ve worked on several digital products as I’m a UX researcher.

Are you looking for advice, a partner, investor???

Anyone sell their startup through Acquire.com|Acquire.com or general asset sale + dissolution? Looking to sell my SaaS this week and would love to hear any tips on tax navigation (USA C-Corp)

I mean, probably almost everyone on this channel is working on a SaaS or app lol

I work for a family VC that invests in early tech saas, have a SaaS start-up with my brother and consult for others :slightly_smiling_face:. Happy to chat

I'm currently working at a fintech startup, worked on some SaaS startups previously.

I have one. I’m offering all my icons at www.pixelbazaar.com|Pixelbazaar for half the price. Code `STAYCREATIVE23`.

We run 1 month long retreat for remote workers! Its basically an 'intro to digital nomad', where we provide the community for you to travel with, high speed Wifi and weekend activities 🙂

I'm planning on selling a few templates, and I'm wondering what payment provider to use. Can anyone advise on which of Stripe, Gumroad or Lemonsqueezy would be the way to go if I'm based in Europe (Germany), and what the advantages/downsides are?

Lemonsqueezy is likely the best for tax benefits

Big fan of Sahil wt Gumroad and their ease of setup and UI/UX

Do they take care of taxes in different jurisdictions? I assume so because I think they're the MOR, right?

They take care of taxes in US, UK, EU, Australia, Singapore and India

Something that appeals to early career tech workers (pre-family) and via the online channels they frequent. High quality video content with nice visuals and a sense of humor.

Thats a great point! Need to work on creating content, but also figure out how to maximise engagement

If the content is sharable it will increase engagement. People usually share funny or controversial stuff. You probably don't want the latter so go for the former.

oneword.domains/br /> does anyone have an account for this and have feedback or an alternative to it?

i somewhat hate this idea lol

I want to see the list but $150 is a bit much

Not exactly what you’re asking for but I’ve used this service namelix.com/

Meh, probably crap anyways. All good one word domains are taken. These must be in some super niche extended TLDs.

`cat.work`

.coms are mostly taken i'm looking for a .app

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Stripe Atlas costs about $500. If where to host his SaaS app is the concern, he could just ship his product to a Hetzner VPS that cost about $6 per month with better performance. Better to get the product out for people to use than worrying about AWS credits.

YC for $5k credits

I had the same issue, DM mctkmaxtxn he will help you.

zsdqitvwrgfmgrxj go to nomadlist.com/telegram|nomadlist.com/telegram then continue, make sure you click the START button

New error within telegram after clicking on “join chat” - `username not found`

yesss it's not synced and won't be synced

Google "secret discounts", I can't send links yet lol

browser tries to auto open a telegram link, tell browser to suck it and click button instead, make sure logged in fixed it for me

kjxujzvwzev how long ago was this? fixed a few bugs in last few hrs

after 11am EST

kfvovdtluxm can you try now and screenshot what you see? can you post?

yes after each posting it resets to a 1h timer

screenshot?

#coding

ok works, no timer right?

all channels show timeout

oh wait

gone

Mercury bank has 5K for AWS

I think Deel did too.