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Re:Ask HN: Will my target audience reject a .net solution? on Friday August 21, 2009 @10:06AM (#777534)

I failed to mention that my application will also be delivered as a service, not installed on my customer's systems.

Re:Ask HN: Will my target audience reject a .net solution? on Friday August 21, 2009 @10:06AM (#777533)

I failed to mention that my application will also be delivered as a service, not installed on my customer's systems.

Ask HN: Will my target audience reject a .net solution?

Posted by jme on Thursday August 20, 2009 @04:53PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm building an application whose target audience will be small-to-medium web application companies (software-as-a-service companies).Because I am developing this solution myself, I'm planning to use something I know well, which in this case is ASP.NET (possibly ASP.NET MVC). I've tried numerous times to devote the time and energy required to learn RoR or Django, but I just don't have the time...

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Re:Yes, Rackspace Is Down And So Are Many Of Your Favorite Sites on Monday June 29, 2009 @09:38PM (#680060)

No, they set up the servers for us. Didn't think to ask, "please make sure the servers reboot without someone standing by to push 'enter' if needed". They told me that the server's BIOS was saying something about the RAID battery being charged and required someone to push 'enter' to continue. Thanks for the suggestion.

Re:Yes, Rackspace Is Down And So Are Many Of Your Favorite Sites on Monday June 29, 2009 @08:29PM (#679972)

We were down for over 2 HOURS! Not acceptable! Found out that one of our servers was stuck at a BIOS screen waiting for someone to hit "Enter". Not happy about it at all.

Re:15 Ways to Optimize your Subscription Model on Thursday November 20, 2008 @11:08AM (#370682)

#5 says that pricing specials for the first month have been shown to work better than free trial. Is that from personal experience or is the auther referring to some studies that have been conducted?

We're selling a SaaS solution to small businesses and our entire process is built around a free 15 day trial. I imagine that if we required payment info upfront, our sign ups would drop dramatically, our cancellation rates would go up and I'm not sure what would happen to the customer acquisition rate. If the net result is positive I wouldn't care about the change in our metrics.

Does anyone know of any articles written about that topic in particular?

Re:Ask HN: Please review my webapp (Streetread) on Tuesday June 24, 2008 @11:13AM (#226261)

I second the scrolling problem. Once I scrolled down, trying to scroll back to the top was ridiculously impossible. I think that I might have reached the top, but then the list changed directions (?) and started scrolling on it's own. It feels like overkill to me. Just give me a scroll bar and hard stops at the top and bottom of the list.