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Normally I never ever do this but this was a friend I knew and trusted so I agreed to help his business setup their commerce website. When I asked today when he would pay me he replied soon. When I pressed again he…

Software engineer. SaaS owner. john@scrape.it

So I find myself at a crossroad. I realize I can't be a developer forever. I am 28. It's getting more and more painful. Like I feel like I've been a pretend developer all this time. Have I built and shipped stuff? Yeah.…

so I'm looking at the nanodegrees, trying to determine if there's any legitimacy of having such online course degrees. wondering if anyone on HN have experience with it and if it has landed you gigs. I'm interested in…

so while I'm learning machine learning I want to pursue some problems that are in demand by the market. One example I can think of is a sentiment analysis on social media to measure some degree of product satisfaction.…

So I have the infrastructure built from my last SaaS project, job queue management, dashboard, payment, website etc. I want to now use the same infrastructure to build another SaaS. Want to get some ideas but I'm coming…

Say you are a SaaS, prospect says, we want to see a proof of concept before we become a customer but we are comparing with other vendors as well. How would you respond? What if the proof of concept takes labor and extra…

So I'm finally at this stage. The client would like the proposal to contain these sections. I just have never prepared any document like this so lost as to where I can start: introduction about the company. feasibility…

I wish things were always busy. By busy I mean, I'm getting inbound leads, I'm having conversations via email or phone, I'm selling, I'm quoting, I'm fixing stuff on the product. Then it goes from crazy busy to suddenly…

So I really enjoy explaining complicated technical products in terms a customer can understand, having done so through my own SaaS projects, I've also worked as a developer before. I'm very much attracted by technical…

I'm running a SaaS that mines data from video files. I spoke to a client who wants it. However, it requires some improvements to the product that will take development efforts about 3~4 weeks. I say, if you commit for a…

So I'm bootstrapping a SaaS that lets users upload videos and do data mining on it. I had a few customers so I know that it is working and providing value. But what's happening next is really stressful. It goes…

so I decided that self service type of customers are really bad for my product and that the high touch clients who I can have a phone chat with and demo them the product has worked the best for me. Currently I have a…

I find that 1/10 people are able to figure out how to successfully use the product and these are technical people. The other 9/10 have some success or none at all. This is because they miss steps or do not do things…

I've seen this template before wondering where I can buy it? It's beautifully written landing page I want to try to emulate.…

Take a look at https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials I want to build a similar community filled with tutorials and a forum. I'm not too happy with uservoice or groovehq, are there any other alternatives?

So I am running into a lot of similar situations where: Prospect loves my SaaS and the tool, sees a ton of value but says they won't pay more than low double digits per month for it. Common reasons include their…

I have a SaaS that lets people extract data from video files. It's simple enough to use for 1/5 users but the remaining 4/5 seems to never get it right (they are doing the wrong steps) Their mistakes are forming a…

I have a SaaS (let's people extract data from pdfs and video files) that offer a 14 day trial. The trial is severely limited, the amount of job one can complete in this period is slow on purpose. I have some customers…

I have a SaaS that let's people extract data from PDF and Video files. The reason I'm asking is I want to know on what side of the fence I am on in order to know how to price and market my SaaS better. Common theme…