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Re:Tell HN: Heroku disabling monthly plans? on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @10:50AM (#36863118)
Update - after more prodding both representative mentioned that you can actually move to monthly. It's just something that they can't (don't) want to enable. "Heroku online" exists but being aggressively hidden.
Re:Tell HN: Heroku disabling monthly plans? on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @08:23AM (#36771082)
Double checked with another one - same answer
Re:Tell HN: Heroku disabling monthly plans? on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @07:52AM (#36770826)
These is what I got sent:

From August 1, SF will change her price list so Heroku customers won't be able to work on a monthly payment.

Yes, all of the customers will be contract-based customers and will sign a yearly/multiyear contract.

Tell HN: Heroku disabling monthly plans?

Just had an email exchange with our Heroku (Salesforce) account admin - they claim that from August 1st, all Heroku accounts must be on a year or multi-year plans. No more monthly metered payments.Has anyone heard the same?

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Re:Happy 10th Birthday, Sidekiq on Sunday April 10, 2022 @04:15PM (#30981240)
We needed the unique jobs feature, which only part of the enterprise plan.

And since (at that stage) our budget was low, the enterprise plan was too expensive.

I reached out to ask if we can do any other payment scheme, or at least get startup discount to start using, but were declined.

We ended up using an OSS library for that part and even now what we grown, still don't pay for sidekiq. If it was part of Pro, or we had a 1 year discount for startups, we prob just kept on paying even now (that we can afford it).

Re:Happy 10th Birthday, Sidekiq on Sunday April 10, 2022 @04:12PM (#30981205)
There were 3 plans offered, community, pro and enterprise. We only needed one feature that was sadly in the "enterprise" bucket.

Sadly that plan was very expensive, so ended up not paying anything and just getting the feature from OSS.

No the pricing, but rather the feature coupling to plans and no willingness to do any dynamic pricing.

Re:Happy 10th Birthday, Sidekiq on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @01:07PM (#30921688)
Amazing project, only sad note is the monetization side is a bit neglected.

We were ready to pay for Sidekiq, but the pricing model was just off and we just used an OSS lib to patch the missing part.

Mike if you are here, might be worth to invest some time in pricing research, you could probably double your revenue.

Re:Goldman Sachs invests $250M in compressed air energy storage on Thursday January 13, 2022 @07:53AM (#29920232)
They have a large water reservour in their plan..
Re:Goldman Sachs invests $250M in compressed air energy storage on Thursday January 13, 2022 @07:53AM (#29920224)
From what I gather in their explanation, they use air pressure to push water out of an underground container.

The energy is reclaimed when the pressure is released (i.e. water can fall back and fill the container).

How is the energy density different that what is provided by the water's static energy due to gravity?

Re:Goldman Sachs invests $250M in compressed air energy storage on Thursday January 13, 2022 @07:51AM (#29920208)
But they already fill the underground containers with water when there is low air pressure. (thats what the reservoir on top is, no?)
Re:Goldman Sachs invests $250M in compressed air energy storage on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @11:10AM (#29908440)
Can someone explain why this is better than just using pumps to pump water up from the reservoir and extract the energy with when the water returned back?
Re:Why Robinhood disabled buys but not sells on Sunday January 31, 2021 @12:32PM (#25980584)
Was the buy limit only for GME or all stocks on RobinHood?

If it's the former, how does the article's explanation fits?

Re:Writing a book: is it worth it? on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @04:05PM (#24632301)
If we knew any good partner, would happily split revenue for their work.

Not sure what is the best place to find such companies/individuals

Re:Writing a book: is it worth it? on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @02:18PM (#24631174)
It's easy to use LP but getting into O'Reilly is not that simple.

If we could, we would of published with them instead

Re:Writing a book: is it worth it? on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @01:37PM (#24630676)
Very different experience for me.

Wrote a book about Redux (https://leanpub.com/redux-book) brought about $15K for 4 months of work. (Granted, did no marketing at all)

It always feels strange to say "I wrote a book" and it never seemed to really impress tech people or cause an inflow of consulting work.

But it is very fun and you get to really get into the tech (other projects, sources, blogs, testing ideas).

Prob would do again one day

Silliest paywall ever:

  1. Open dev tools
  2. Delete the overlay element (id = graphics-paywall-overlay)
  3. Disable 'overflow: hidden' on body
Or just run:

  document.getElementById("graphics-paywall-overlay").remove()
  document.body.style.overflow = 'inherit'
One of the most important points (from the acquirer's point of view) is retention.

Most aquihires I know lead to an increase in salary and a retention bonus (a pool was set as part of the aquihire negotiations).

Since payout is tied to % employees who stay on for X years, both sides care deeply to keep them on board

Re:The leading cause of death in the US on Apr 6 was Covid-19 on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @07:44AM (#22812012)
Since the other causes of death remain static in this chart, its hard to tell if Covid-19 are new cases or "take away from other causes" (and by what percentage).

Would be interesting to see daily chart of Covid-19 deaths as % of total deaths and daily total deaths.

PS. Extra points - number of deaths due to lockdowns (suicides, unaccessible healthcare, etc)

Re:How I make $400/month with my technical eBook on Sunday January 12, 2020 @01:55PM (#22028288)
Always wondered about the pricing, I wrote an eBook as well (https://redux-book.com/)

But our pricing is WAY lower ($0-$16).

Do people really pay $29-$69 for an ebook? Wonder if author tried other pricing to see if it can increase sales.

Our biggest jump was once we moved to "pay as you like".

PS. Made ~$20K over 3 years. PSS. If anyone has any suggestions on how to promote eBooks, would love to know

Re:USB4 Specification on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @01:03PM (#20879143)
I can tell you war stories of USB-IF, but only from back in 2006. Prob nothing changed.
Re:USB4 Specification on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @01:02PM (#20879131)
As someone who been to USB-IF committee back around 2006

There are some smart people there, unfortunately some are old-timer in large orgs - they were pushed there "to do least harm".

Didn't care less about how bad some of the proposals were, as long as they were according to the required format.

We tried to fight a bit, but it was a lost cause :\

Re:Mithril.js – A modern client-side Javascript framework on Saturday August 18, 2018 @06:26AM (#17787833)
I think they were the left bar on the original comparison post

https://500tech.com/blog/all/is-reactjs-fast/

Re:Publishing a free Redux book on Monday July 09, 2018 @09:34AM (#17490011)
PS. If anyone wonders why we went with self publishing - feel free to ping

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