bootstrpppin

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by bootstrpppin 2y ago
As with most things - it depends. Hard to give you a clear cut answer without knowing a lot more. For us, multi-country added a lot of complexities because we expanded from the UK to Australia. So we needed to staff and integrate different
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by bootstrpppin 2y ago
The main learning I took away from growing from 20 to 250ish employees, 1 product to multi-product and 1 geo to multi-country: As a startup, your speed of execution is a function of your simplicity. It's about your only advantage over
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by bootstrpppin 2y ago
Ahrefs is the winner for me - it's not cheap but it's very good. If you're budget friendly I'd look at With Telescope dot com. It's PAYG and very cheap, though not as good as Ahrefs
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by bootstrpppin 2y ago
ChatGPT but not for the good It's made me very lazy with my thinking and writing.
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by bootstrpppin 2y ago
We use Bright Data - so far we've found it to be pretty great, and very very cheap. Would highly recommend
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by bootstrpppin 2y ago
yeah potentially - I think you can potentially detect which email clients emails open in, so you may gain some interesting insight once you've sent some cold emails.
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by bootstrpppin 2y ago
I don't think it's possible, but a fun problem to solve... You could probably build something to ping their number an iMessage. If it sends as an SMS they probably don't have an iPhone, and therefore probably don't have
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by bootstrpppin 2y ago
I think it depends on the company you're applying for: Disclose it to companies who have programs to support people with disabilities Don't disclose it to companies who don't have a support program
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by bootstrpppin 2y ago
I've used a few: - Cognito: bad - Clerk: ok for small scale applications but they're a small company 'moving fast and breaking things'. It's not stable enough for a enterprise grade product that needs robustness. -
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by bootstrpppin 2y ago
There are so many better Auth providers out there now - and some of them are free for the first 10k or so users (workOs has the first 1M users free!)
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by bootstrpppin 2y ago
It's because doing two or three careers spreads your focus...you'll learn at fraction of the speed and progress slowly. Fine at the start of your career, but specialisation wins out ultimately
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by bootstrpppin 2y ago
Try and reframe those 8 hours of "wasted time investigating" as an opportunity to: - learn something - explore different parts of the codebase - think about new/different problems to solve ...and try and enjoy the ride. Small
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by bootstrpppin 2y ago
That's a pretty cynical view....besides, big companies would take months/years to to copy an idea - even if it's a good one - and by then the market has moved.
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by bootstrpppin 2y ago
Thank you for those kind words - I'm really glad it was helpful advice. > It's targeted towards lawyers, accountants, real estate agents, etc. Do you think LinkedIn is a good channel to reach them? For lawyers and accounts - y
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by bootstrpppin 2y ago
Are you going to launch it on PH? Joking aside, I really think you need a unique angle and a solid distribution strategy: there are 1,000 PH clones but they don't stick because they're the same as PH, just with less users/tra
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by bootstrpppin 2y ago
It sounds like you’re describing a Merchant of Record (MoR). This is where customers pay a third-party service, which then handles payments, compliance, and then pays you. Check out gumroad, lemon squeezy and maybe Paypal.
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by bootstrpppin 2y ago
If you have enough budget you could use a PPC Agency, who may run your Google ads through their ad account. PPC agencies often also have an Account Manager at Google (who will be able to unblock you, or at least give you more insight into w
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by bootstrpppin 2y ago
Feature request: bake in Google traffic volume data. Google traffic represents a much wider sample of the world/audience compared to Reddit which represents a very narrow audience in comparison.
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by bootstrpppin 2y ago
What kind of overhead are you referring to? I've not raised before - would be helpful to know much work that overhead is.
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Ask HN: Take a small seed round, or remain bootstrapped?
1 points by bootstrpppin 2y ago|3 comments
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by bootstrpppin 2y ago
We've been reaching potential customers on LinkedIn, asking them for 15 mins to give feedback on our 'product idea' (at this point is just a sales deck). Some tactical advice is to include in the connection request message: 1
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by bootstrpppin 2y ago
Damn, I missed the webinar! Any chance it was recorded? Thanks for the info above Anthony - it must have been an interesting project to work on. I'll reach out on email
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by bootstrpppin 2y ago
yeehhh thats a very good question - we've been asking ourselves the same thing. We've got one product in the market, but launching that product and talking to customers has given us insight into a potentially larger, more lucrativ
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by bootstrpppin 2y ago
true dat - but that'll wear off v.quickly, and then what.....they're stuck with it.
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Jaguar rebrand (and they got it v.wrong)(youtube.com)
2 points by bootstrpppin 2y ago|4 comments
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by bootstrpppin 2y ago
Jaguar known for their classic-style cars - I don't understand what they're going for in their rebrand? Their new brand may work for futuristic light-speed amphibious hover-cards....but not for Jag IMO
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by bootstrpppin 2y ago
I've come to love the old school UI - makes a refreshing change from the slick, clean designs we see elsewhere.
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by bootstrpppin 2y ago
ohh understood, thx
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by bootstrpppin 2y ago
Looks like it'll be incredibly fast if we stay within the bounds of the framework, but very hard if we want to do something unexpected?
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by bootstrpppin 2y ago
Can you share any specifics about the bugs/limitations you've hit?

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