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The Pricing Model That Increased Our Free Trial Signups by 358%
Original EnglishSo we just started charging a flat $25/month (sales-leads fwiw).
My Amazon interview experience
Original EnglishI go to work every day, but my business, though profitable, isn't large enough yet to hire.
Nation-scale Matrix deployments will fail using the community version of Synapse
Original EnglishI have run a Synapse server for almost 8 years, by my reckoning.
Show HN: Tier.run – Terraform for Stripe
Original EnglishWhen we started Tier, we knew that there was something interesting in the SaaS pricing and packaging space.
Rent-a-coder hilarity (2008)
Original EnglishAnd we focus on sub-$500 tasks, because the margin for error is significantly smaller, so if a client comes in with a huge job, we …
Mozilla is building an operating system
Original Englishthe woodwork on any Mozilla or Firefox related post to give the story, "I used to love Firefox but it uses too much memory so …
Startup sales negotiations 101 – how to respond to discount inquiries
Original Englishthe Sales team, but I still regularly recommend both products to lots of other people, some of whom have gone on to become paying customers …
I quit my job to do a startup.
Original Englishthe kids and my wife, then put in a solid 8 hours on my own product trying to touch up the marketing site and get …
Ask HN: I built a Yubikey-based domain controller. Is it sellable?
Original EnglishI once worked in R&D where our competitive advantage was in keeping our customer relationships and intellectual property private, so we kept everything on-prem.