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October 14, 2018 (7y ago)
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  1. Ask HN: Does Stripe ban accounts or people?

    If I have 2 Stripe accounts, and 1 gets banned for excessive chargebacks, does the other one also get banned, because it's also owned by me? Or does it remain untouched because it's a separate business that's still in…

    3 points 3
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  3. Show HN: Low-Cost Gumroad Alternative (zylvie.com)

    Decided to build a Gumroad alternative for creators who want to sell digital products but not give up ~14% of their margins. Gumroad's higher pricing is a result of its MoR responsibilities (e.g. helping creators with…

    4 points 0
  4. Ask HN: How do I prevent my users from uploading copyrighted material?

    I'm building a Gumroad-like platform for creators to sell their ebooks, and I've heard horror stories about how entire platforms get torpedoed because 1 bad actor user uploaded illegal/copyrighted material, so Stripe…

    4 points 9
  5. Ask HN: How do services like Substack and Beehiiv send email?

    I'm looking to start a similar service, can I just use a bulk mailing API like Mailgun? Is that how it works?

    2 points 13
  6. Ask HN: What is your repeatable marketing process?

    For those of you who're launched and growing, what have you discovered to have worked to acquire customers and decided to double-down on it? Is it cold email, social media outreach, content marketing, PR/publicity,…

    11 points 2
  7. Ask HN: Critique My SaaS Idea

    So elearning is huge. Everyone and their moms want to create and sell online courses. I'm aiming to build a white-label "Shopify for courses," with only the most basic features (i.e. online course store, members' area,…

    3 points 1
  8. Ask HN: Should I cut down my runway by 4 months by joining this accelerator?

    So I chanced upon these guys, SalesProcess.io, on Facebook, and they have had tremendous success helping SaaS go from $0-$1m ARR in 12 months. I got on a demo with them, I'm convinced by the…

    3 points 6
  9. Ask HN: Help. My startup is failing

    So long story short, I copied a SaaS that's doing well in a niche. I thought why not just copy their customer validation (the founder sounded really insightful and convincing in videos detailing how he interviewed…

    8 points 18
  10. Ask HN: Just quit my job, with zero traction on startup

    Today I officially quit my job. I was unhappy. I was told to "tough it out" by many, and I did, but it only became worse. So that's done, I left. My startup still makes $0.00 in revenue, but I've at least finished…

    10 points 13
  11. Ask HN: Is this sufficient customer validation to start coding my SaaS?

    I chanced upon the idea of providing a certain brick-and-mortar vertical with the ability to provide monthly memberships a la Amazon Prime. My target customers are independent service providers of some kind whose…

    1 points 0
  12. Ask HN: Need help narrowing down micro-SaaS idea

    I've narrowed down my micro-SaaS idea to the following: -B2B for non-technical customers -Something customers already pay for -Preferably something I have some domain knowledge in -Simplified/dumbed-down app for a niche…

    3 points 1