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A couple of hundred users(smaller number of accounts since each account may have more than 1 user)

Heroku ~ $200 Intercom: $150 Amazon Web Services (S3, Route 53) < $10 SendGrid < $50 MailGun $60 Slack < $50 GitHub $50 BareMetrics: $29 ChurnBuster: $59 DNSimple: < $50 Evernote < $10 Gauges $6 Olark $49 Pingdom $10 Stripe(if you call it SaaS) 2.9% plus 30cent per transaction

Some apps are like that.

There was this analytics tool called get.gaug.es that i really liked looking at for $6/month. In addition to my existing mission critical analytics apps like mixpanel and google analytics.

I would never have cancelled guag.es but since my credit card switched, i just didn't like it enough to be bothered to update it. A phone call is probably the only thing that would have gotten me to update it. Probably not, but it increases the odds from 0% to greater than 0%

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I love the UX for the stripe checkout. It seems like the integration script creates a full page iframe allowing the widget to have full control over the UX. Is there any guide to building a similar full page iframe widget for other applications?

I had the same reaction.. I always tend to use the word "affordable" since I personally interpret "cheap"as low quality.

However, I usually interpret "affordable" as a good value for whatever price (even if it is actually expensive)

Noticed some console.log statements in the .html source. Isn't this invalid for internet explorer? It would probably stop execution once the error is triggered

I have two rails SaaS apps that generate increasingly fulltime income on heroku.

combined costs currently at $140/month each app has 1 free web dyno, 1 worker, starter postgres DB, ssl, plus a few extras

Looking at the new offerings like digital ocean, i'm really tempted to switch over, but a voice in my head keeps telling me it makes no sense as I don't really have strong linux-sysadmin type skills. Even getting rails to work on new macs takes me 1-2 painful days.

Anyone have an eta of what it might take someone with limited sysadmin skills to cut over to something like digital ocean from heroku?

I read this to mean that he has taken steps to limit the specific data he knows. So even if he has or had access to documents, he hasnt tried to memorize anything that could be damaging. Meaning they cant force him to reveal information he "doesn't know"

I have been using Stripes and Braintree's "Store/Verify then Charge Later" model in SaaS apps I build for customers in the service(Reserving services in advance) industry.

I have found that better that the original Auth/Capture flow since the final amount to be charged can be highly variable. Can anyone shed some light on when/if this auth/capture approach might make more sense in this type of use case?

2 apps, same profile SSL $20 postgres basic $9 1 free web dyno $0 1 additional worker $36 Scheduler addon usage: $5

$70 for each app(Its actually ~$140.00) (approximately 100-200 business customers might use the apps daily)

And of course, bad billing practices where they dont stop charging you for addons you have stopped/remove and send invoices 1 month late so by the time you notice, another round of billing as occurred incorrectly. Have resulted in me paying $350 and $251) in the past 2 months.

Exact quote from Heroku customer support email, after overcharge of ~$300 in past 2 months

"I'm sorry that the delay in receiving your invoices caused the charges to continue for longer than you would have liked, however please keep in mind that we offer your Current Usage details[ on your account page]"

Yeah, not happy with heroku at all. Even though i can better use my time generating additional sales for the apps, Im so pissed, I plan to burn time move and cancel ASAP...

Can you share approximately how long the process took you? Thinking of going down that road with 2 small basic heroku rails apps 1 web, 1 worker, 1 small postgres DB. very little traffic. Both apps already at ~$170/month on Heroku. These are paid SaaS B2B apps, but they generate so little traffic but the way heroku partitions their services or addons, this really should cost like $30-40/month on a regular "hosting environment"

I know almost nothing from a unix sysadmin perspective, but would invest the time if it is feasible.

And once a recruiter gets a hold of those buzzwords, it becomes a fixed requirement

Does anyone know of a tutorial or some skeleton code samples that allows you to build an embeddable website widget like this?

From what I can see, there are 2 iframes for the button and the hidden overlay. Clicking on the iframe button enables the overlay via some sort of iframe to iframe communication on the parent(host) page

same here, nothing yet, over 10 hours ago

Stripe is awesome, I build a SaaS service where Stripe is the only payment gateway I support. When convincing my customers(who are all non-tech savvy) to use Stripe. The biggest push back they bring up is the 7 day wait period for transfers.

Does anyone know if there is a plan for this 7 day transfer wait period to be reduced just a bit?

This is the sole reason, why I am eventually planning to integrate with another option like Braintree even though Stripe has all my use cases well covered.