I was able to bootstrap a SaaS business by working as a contract engineer half to three quarters time and building my company in the remaining time. I lowered expenses by moving in with family and eventually to SE Asia until profitability. This meant I had infinite runway but also it took longer . I prototyped for six months and then ran/tested the service for free for almost two years before it was ready for paid plans. Then it went from 0 to ~15k MRR in the first month. A couple of tricks like requiring Dropbox connection for users file storage and utilizing webrtc’s p2p capabilities helped keep running expenses manageable during the lead up to profitability.
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I'm really happy about the return of the SE sized phone. I had been planning buy used SE's if I needed a replacement of my current one. I've got an iPad Mini that I can take with me if I want a bigger screen. When I don't, it's really nice to have a compact and capable phone that you don't need two hands to use.
I’m a bit wary of this idea but I can’t say I haven’t wished for it many times when my wrists are in pain and a deadline is looming so I can’t take a recovery break.
I use a single speed bike at the moment. Not because I hate gears but because I’ve never had a geared bike that didn’t constantly click on the outside gears. It drove me crazy trying to tune them perfectly and never succeeding. Forget increased efficiency. If a new design emerges that accommodates gears and is simple to tune properly, then sign me up. No idea if the design being discussed could offer this.
I suppose it depends on what your theme and goals are for the podcast but it might be a good idea to keep a slot open for a different guest each episode instead of finding a permanent 4th member.
Having outside guests on your show who bring in fresh points of fiew is a great way to keep the content from degenerating into a series of inside jokes between you and your co-hosts.
I have found it generally isn't that hard to talk well known people to join you for a 45 minute recording since they are already usually working on finding ways to get their message out / build their brand, etc. already. Depending on the domain, a many of them actually pay people to help them get booked on podcasts for this very purpose.
Again, I have no idea what your ambitions are or if this would suit your theme. This is just what I have picked up from observing the more successful users of my podcast recording service. Shameless plug, sorry :/
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Good luck with it and let me know if I can help with anything other wise.
I'm disappointed that the timeframe is so short but I can't say that I am surprised. The writing has been on the wall for awhile now and I was already looking for alternatives.
The 'Standard' product was shut off abruptly and they tried to shove everyone onto their half-baked swarm mode platform. When users who were happy with the Standard platform (and confused by swarm) fought back, they re-enabled 'Standard' mode as opt-in. Unfortunately all development halted at that point and it has been more or less abandoned for over a year. They stopped providing updates on their managed nodes and stranded all of their users on outdated buggy versions with no way to update.
Also, there was quite literally 0 customer support for even for paying users unless you had contracts with them in the thousands per month.
Its unfortunate. As far as I was concerned, Docker Cloud (Standard, not Swarm) was very close to what I needed. As far as I can tell they got so caught up in battle for orchestration supremacy with Kubernetes that the left a good portion of their user base in the dust.
Perhaps this is a well calculated decision for them as a company, but from an end-users perspective, it feels like they lost their way and abandoned their users.
Anyone have suggestions for good hosted alternatives?
I'm looking for a service that offers:
1. Hosted node management with nice simple UI
2. A dashboard with visual health monitoring for nodes and containers
3. Configurable alerts via email/slack/sms
4. Github / auto-build / CI integration
I'm currently investigating https://nanobox.io but am interested in any other suggestions.