2. faster as speed or development? Gem ecosystem in Ruby makes it super fast to develop stuff, I'm not sure is there any ecosystem that rich with up to date libraries.
that's exactly what we did and doing very well. After trying lots of stuff in the last 12 years and actively participating in the indie communities, that's the easiest way to make it work.
Find a popular product, pick a growing niche that product serves not so well (you can see that in reviews, twitter, etc) and build a specialized version of that product with a friendly and modern UI. When serving different niches, usually products require different configurations for each and get quite heavy and confusing. You can fix that by specializing on one niche.
You can try building similar sites as much as you want, you won't get to that level. It's about timing, marketing, etc not just building something and done.
I fit very well in the article description. It's not only about finding the right niche and riding the wave, is also about execution, otherwise competitors will eat you.
There's luck involved of course, but after 10 failed tries you'll get an eye for it. Just an example: there are sub-markets that don't have specialized products, they all use products built for everyone instead that specific niche, like instead of a CRM for everyone niche it down as CRM for mechanics (i'm sure there are many of them, but you get the idea).
What awful comments here, you're all criticizing something really exciting. Of course AI can't beat real humans, what do you expect? But it's closer we've ever been, especially since is available to consumers. People in sales and marketing know how valuable is this on improving conversion rates... if you're not in those fields, that's not for you, saying something it useless just because you have no knowledge in other domains, it's highly ignorant.
I'm in this place of hiring myself out. It's extremely hard to find someone you trust and capable of doing at least good on something you did great yourself. Since they are not involved personally in the business (% stake) how do you find such employees? Should i always give a % otherwise i won't be able to find someone involved enough to manage critical stuff? It's like nobody cares enough... or at least what I found so far.
Exactly. Like in 2017, it's mostly fueled by hype. All big companies that invest in BTC are NOT "hodlers", after a threshold they sell everything or a majority. I don't believe tesla will keep bitcoin if goes below 30%-50% of what they bought at.
When the panic selling starts is game over.
The limited supply logic has meaning if people hold, if they don't, nobody will care it's limited in supply because there's no demand for it.
What an ignorant comment! Life is not only business struggle. Growing a company as a founder means you need to sacrifice some part of your personal life for the company, either stress, free time or money. There are people happy with their lives that don't want more stress or to lose more free time... and for what? a bit bigger bank account? i'm sure the founder is doing just fine financially already
Stripe is a payment processor, you have a direct relationship with the customer, on the invoice is written your company details. With Paddle, on the invoice you'll see Paddle company details, all your customers pay Paddle, not your company. You won't have any legal or fiscal relationship with the customer.
asking users to re-subscribe will lose from 20% to 40% of your customers (my estimation). Unless your SaaS is business critical, a good percentage of customers pay without using or really needing the app so much to re-subscribe.
The only problem with services like Paddle is that your customers are not your own anymore technically. The customer will belong now to Paddle and if something happens with Paddle or your account, you'll lose all of them.
PS: We're using Paddle for a few years and we're a bit concerned by this.
Stackpath dissapointed us heavily. We thought this as well, bought a subscription to test it and talked with their support telling 500 websites cost $500/month. We spent time setting this up and when we asked a second support person, they said for over 100 websites we need to buy their $2000/month package.
Nowhere in their pricing page shows this and support reps don't even know their pricing clearly. We ended up wasting time with them.