Nugget has a pretty vibrant community of SaaS-focused founders. As a modern community, most of that activity is via Slack and Discourse threads, not passive blog posts. The Nugget Slack channels are pretty active, and they include real-world mentoring by folks who have been there/done that.
Like any community, only a small handful of Nugget members are super active. Many people come to Nugget looking for self-implementing ideas, and they tend to wash out when they realize that hard work is involved to make ideas into businesses.
Several Nugget members have done the work to hit revenue, and there is a core group of us who are taking advantage of mentoring by Nugget's Justin and Brandon, who really know their stuff.
I belong to FounderCafe, Fizzle and Nugget; they all add value, but Nugget is laser-focused on actively helping people actually BUILD SOMETHING. If that's what you are seeking, you owe to yourself to check out Nugget.
This already exists, but I can't remember the name. In the last month or two there was a Show HN for matching small business and potential customers. The idea was that customers pledge what they're willing to pay (e.g. I will pay $X per month for Y service), and anyone looking to build a small business could find pre-validated markets to work on, lowering entry risk.
Yeah, I signed up for Fi prior to heading to France for a couple of months. Since the apartment I was renting didn't have internet access I figured I could get by with Fi by minimizing my internet usage (as I did successully in Mexico this past winter on a pay-as-you-go data plan).
Big mistake, $10/GB proved to be untenable. I hunted around a bit and found a service offered by Orange/Sosh: 25 euros per month got me 40GB of data and a pretty snappy 4G+ connection. Naturally I canceled my Fi plan immediately.
I have two legacy unlimited Verizon lines (no throttling but they kick you off permanently if you go over 200GB/month/line). It's more like $100 for the plan (I think this can be slightly cheaper) + another $65 each for the two lines.
If anyone is willing to pay a reasonable fee for transfer of liability I am looking to switch to Google Fi with two lines for about $35/month + pay-as-you-use data.
On eBay there are all kids of "unlimited data" hotspots for $50 to start + $100/month; I don't know how these people can afford to do it. (Also ones for $5/month somehow but that's even harder to understand.)
Am I the only one who's really bothered when telecoms claim unlimited data then intentionally implement artificial limits on every aspect of that data?
No, but the masses are not complaining. It is as it is most people think I guess. I find it false advertising but apparently not false enough to be illegal. What I find more annoying though that they don't have plans for people who actually want to pay. If I want a subscription for 5TB/month, why can't I pay (as in reasonable, so like it works for other things; if you buy a lot it gets cheaper, not crazy expensive flatrate per mb as it is now) for it even if I want to? I mean I get 25gb for E29/mo here; why can't I just pay E100 for 100gb?
(Also the companies are too big; with my local internet provider, a small company, I made a deal that if I pay 1 year in advance for the most expensive sub, they would ignore my usage. Fine with them.)
A service to code-review all the code I push to GitHub for my personal projects, by people who have more experience than me and could point out possible improvements and corner cases I missed.
Maybe get a job if you're looking for a guaranteed stream of work? Lol just an observation. If it's a big deal to you...maybe just try to find a remote friendly company to work for?
Portfolio so far is volunteer work on two large (thousands of players) Unity3D games over the years, various smaller side projects of my own, and one internship. Doesn't seem to be quite enough to get responses around here though. Going to have to move soon before it's too late for the employment gap to be explainable (graduated May)
I'd be glad to review your portfolio and resume if you're at all interested. I work mostly in web but might be able to give some pointers, I've done this for lots of people. My email should be in my profile.
A really good analytics service. Like really good - I get really confused by Google Analytics and don't have time to learn how to use all its capabilities. From my research, I haven't found the competitors to be a ton better. I would love something that basically collects all the data and gives me intelligent analysis. Probably would pay more than 100 though.
I am planning on making this for a few of my sites as I have this same problem with Google analytics. I would build it for free for you if you agreed to be a beta user and describe exactly what features you wanted.
Accounting system, Timesheets, payroll system, backup service, cell phone/internet plans, City Centre meeting rooms that can be booked online, HR services (measure employee satisfaction etc.), fruit delivery to the office, flower delivery to the office, excellent quality VOIP with screen sharing.
There are many more, but above are just a few that I'd consider worth it.
Gigabit internet access. Or anything better than this stupid 10 megabit Comcast uplink. Uplink matters, especially when you have a lot of data to upload to S3.
I already pay 3-4x that for a pay-as-you-go personal assistant, and hiring that agency was likely one of the best business decisions I ever made, as it freed up a ton of my time that I can use for more important things.
all admin after I agree on a client engagement (contract paperwork, logistics, sending and chasing invoices, ordering and sending stuff to clients before my visit...), sorting out receipts and coding against client projects, booking travel for associates, performing small research tasks, all sorts of small admin such as send 20 emails to certain people, chase them to answer, consolidate results...
I have often thought of getting a part-time or virtual assistant.
But my main concern is that to be effective, they would need full access to my email. GMail doesn't have any way to grant limited access (for example no permanent delete), and even if it did, just read access to email would grant access to all my online accounts via password reset or magic link emails.
How have you organised this? Or how did you find an assistant you can trust with that access? Do you review their work, or assume it is all above board?
I've not had to do this. I have a point person at the agency and opened an email address on our company domain for her, so when she contacts people for me, she uses her email, not mine.
Be careful with asking hypothetical questions like this. It would be better to phrase this question as 'which business services do you currently pay $100/mo (or more) for, and why?'
It's too easy for someone to say they would pay for something when they don't have to put in any real commitment...
As a potential customer though there are many things I actually would commit to that unfortunately just don't exist. I agree though it's a difficult survey to do.
An AI or concierge who reads all my emails, Slack, iMessage, WhatsApp messages, and alerts me when something is very important right now, and otherwise lets me fetch aggregated inquiries when I have time to. The data I get should all have a 2-3 sentence TLDR so I can quickly skip them, and provide some sensible replies I can choose to accept or decline inquiries. Long informative WhatsApp/Slack conversations should be greatly reduced in length to just tell the story without omitting vital details. Since many emails require some kind of action from me, the non-complex ones should be doable via the AI or concierge, e.g. schedule a call or put reminders in the calendar.
Example: A potential customer and I want to go to lunch. They write me an email asking for the exact place and time. The service recognizes that this is quite urgent, and presents me a digest of the message, plus a selection box for time slots (with my schedule overlaid for context), and 3 of my favorite places. I choose a slot and a restaurant, and the service writes the answer in a polite tone, matching my writing and verbosity style. The potential customer then writes back an email saying they are looking forward to the meeting. The service knows from previous incidents that I prefer a canned response in that case and auto-replies "Looking forward", and adds a suffix the calendar entry "- confirmed".
It would be worth it just for the feeling of not being alone with that amount of messages crashing in on me every day. A personal assistant for everyone.
I cannot fathom how many times things have fell through the cracks, despite Gmail's different inboxes, which do a great job at sifting out much of the low-priority/mailing list stuff. Would easily provide $3.33/day in increased productivity and reduced stresse
I would say cyber security is a need for every product or service that is in inception stage and their makers want to roll that service out. Making a cyber security product and serving them from their launch will make them pay you way more than 100$!! This will also help them significantly to get their product or service early right into the market...
I want something that can pull in documentation generated from code (from tools like godoc or javadoc), README files checked into code, plus other more wiki style documentation.
With all this documentation in one place, I want it to be smart about helping me deal with dead links and suggest pages that might need update when code updates. For example, say a wiki page references running a command with a certain flag. If I check in a change removing that flag from that command, the wiki should let me know that the page might need to be updated.
Ideally, this wiki would also have a stack-overflow -like Q&A feature to reduce the time spent helping other team members.
I have a few different types of outdoor flowers. I spend enough time on maintaining them and a lawn. I would pay 100 a month to have two 30 minute sessions with a really experienced gardener who would show up and help me with all of the different seasonal issues.
I have heard you could have roses blooming all summer if you care for them right. I have no clue on how to do this.
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Offer a $10 subscription plan and position it as being for lukewarm starters.
Ugh I'd love to see the stats on this as an experiment.
Has anyone tried the paid service -- 20% per month (or 19.99 to be precise) ?
Any experiences (positive or negative) to report?
I'm looking for something like this in the " Live Mentoring" and "Founder Community" areas...
[ EDIT: Not sure this site is seeing all that much activity. The blog posts don't have any dates on them,
but I figured from comments that the latest post is nearly 1/2 a year old. https://blog.nugget.one/ ]
Like any community, only a small handful of Nugget members are super active. Many people come to Nugget looking for self-implementing ideas, and they tend to wash out when they realize that hard work is involved to make ideas into businesses.
Several Nugget members have done the work to hit revenue, and there is a core group of us who are taking advantage of mentoring by Nugget's Justin and Brandon, who really know their stuff.
I belong to FounderCafe, Fizzle and Nugget; they all add value, but Nugget is laser-focused on actively helping people actually BUILD SOMETHING. If that's what you are seeking, you owe to yourself to check out Nugget.
It looks pretty neat actually. Has filters on $ /month people are willing to pay for the SaaS solutions.
https://www.demandrush.com
Three (in the UK) offer unlimited for £24/mo.
Big mistake, $10/GB proved to be untenable. I hunted around a bit and found a service offered by Orange/Sosh: 25 euros per month got me 40GB of data and a pretty snappy 4G+ connection. Naturally I canceled my Fi plan immediately.
If anyone is willing to pay a reasonable fee for transfer of liability I am looking to switch to Google Fi with two lines for about $35/month + pay-as-you-use data.
On eBay there are all kids of "unlimited data" hotspots for $50 to start + $100/month; I don't know how these people can afford to do it. (Also ones for $5/month somehow but that's even harder to understand.)
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=unlimited+data
Am I the only one who's really bothered when telecoms claim unlimited data then intentionally implement artificial limits on every aspect of that data?
(Also the companies are too big; with my local internet provider, a small company, I made a deal that if I pay 1 year in advance for the most expensive sub, they would ignore my usage. Fine with them.)
What simple service would you pay $10/month for? #JustCurious
And also all services that make me save at least 5 hours a week.
Some things come into mind:
-I pay $20/month for videos to learn 3D modeling and animation
-I payed for a while a subscription to treehouse, where I could learn mobile and web development
-$40 dollars for a book to learn OpenCV3
It would be an easier question to ask what would a business pay $100/month for.
Disclosure - I'm one of the founders :)
Accounting system, Timesheets, payroll system, backup service, cell phone/internet plans, City Centre meeting rooms that can be booked online, HR services (measure employee satisfaction etc.), fruit delivery to the office, flower delivery to the office, excellent quality VOIP with screen sharing.
There are many more, but above are just a few that I'd consider worth it.
But my main concern is that to be effective, they would need full access to my email. GMail doesn't have any way to grant limited access (for example no permanent delete), and even if it did, just read access to email would grant access to all my online accounts via password reset or magic link emails.
How have you organised this? Or how did you find an assistant you can trust with that access? Do you review their work, or assume it is all above board?
It's too easy for someone to say they would pay for something when they don't have to put in any real commitment...
Example: A potential customer and I want to go to lunch. They write me an email asking for the exact place and time. The service recognizes that this is quite urgent, and presents me a digest of the message, plus a selection box for time slots (with my schedule overlaid for context), and 3 of my favorite places. I choose a slot and a restaurant, and the service writes the answer in a polite tone, matching my writing and verbosity style. The potential customer then writes back an email saying they are looking forward to the meeting. The service knows from previous incidents that I prefer a canned response in that case and auto-replies "Looking forward", and adds a suffix the calendar entry "- confirmed".
It would be worth it just for the feeling of not being alone with that amount of messages crashing in on me every day. A personal assistant for everyone.
I want something that can pull in documentation generated from code (from tools like godoc or javadoc), README files checked into code, plus other more wiki style documentation.
With all this documentation in one place, I want it to be smart about helping me deal with dead links and suggest pages that might need update when code updates. For example, say a wiki page references running a command with a certain flag. If I check in a change removing that flag from that command, the wiki should let me know that the page might need to be updated.
Ideally, this wiki would also have a stack-overflow -like Q&A feature to reduce the time spent helping other team members.
I have heard you could have roses blooming all summer if you care for them right. I have no clue on how to do this.