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Re:SEO case study: 8k to 200k monthly organic traffic on Thursday February 06, 2020 @10:21AM (#22256599)
Would be great to see how this translates into actual $ for the business. Is this mentioned somewhere else? The high CPCs indicate that there IS some value. But in general some people/businesses can make a living with an audience of 100 and others not with an audience of 100k.
Re:Sourcehut Q3 2019 Financial Report on Monday October 28, 2019 @05:45PM (#21382055)
What I find interesting is the breakdown of monthly vs yearly subscriptions.

223 $2 (paid monthly)

104 $5 (paid monthly)

26 $10 (paid monthly)

582 $2 (paid yearly)

174 $5 (paid yearly)

62 $10 (paid yearly)

I would have never guessed that more people pay yearly than monthly for a 20% discount. Has anyone else seen something similar for their own SAAS?

Re:Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on? on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @03:53PM (#21327866)
Can you give an example of an untested tool you have in mind?
Re:I stopped setting a financial goal for my SaaS on Monday October 14, 2019 @12:09PM (#21249789)
Have you experimented with removing your free plan? Curious to know what your support-time is in relation free:paid plans. Just from my anecdotal experience free-plans attracted the wrong type of customer for me, switching to paid with a free trial worked much better. When you have a large team and can built fancy funnels to make freemium work it seems like a great idea from a marketing perspective but for small(ish) companies I really doubt the numbers (% of upgrades from free to paid after a certain period of time) make sense in a lot of cases.
Re:Dark Patterns on Monday September 02, 2019 @10:02AM (#20859151)
The king of dark patterns: https://www.viagogo.com (try with any listed event)

(edit: they recently got banned from AdWords IIRC)

Looks cool! Reminds me of (YCs) Station with a focus on online communities. Hint: Says "0 beta users signed up since August 1st 2019" in the bottom left corner. Maybe refresh the cache?
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2019) on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @11:17AM (#19797812)
ZipKey | Software Engineer - C# with WPF / UWP | Berlin - Germany | Full-Time | (preferred) ONSITE (possible) REMOTE | https://zipkey.de

ZipKey develops modern visitor management solutions for high-security environments (e.g. data centers). Our current offering is centered around an iPad version with deep integrations into the customers IT and building infrastructure. We just launched our ZipKey Kiosk, which is a self-check-in terminal placed on premise at our customers with facial recognition and ID checks.

We’re looking for a great engineer to help us in pushing forward our kiosk project, the base version is already done and running (using React Native Windows with WPF & UWP) with all native bridges in place for a C# / WPF / UWP implementation.

Email us at [email protected] and I (Phil @ product) or Chris (CTO) will respond to you promptly. Please tell us a bit about yourself and your knowledge regarding Windows application development.

Re:Commission to revoke British .eu domains after Brexit on Thursday January 24, 2019 @04:43AM (#18987263)
Just one example: GoDaddy bought the HostEurope group for €1.6B [1]. They own one of the largest domain-registers (and cloud providers) in the DACH region called Domainfactory. They reside on df.eu

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host_Europe_Group

Re:How Sketch Took on Adobe on Friday December 14, 2018 @04:52AM (#18679680)
Wasn't there OmniGraffle on the Mac even before Sketch? Seemed to me in the beginning that Sketch was an exact clone of OmniGraffle with a little nicer interface. Sketch evolved a lot from that point on.

Edit: OmniGraffle 1.0 launched 2001 [1], Sketch started 2008

[1] https://www.macworld.com/article/1002530/omnigraffe.html

Re:Robinhood launches 3% checking account on Thursday December 13, 2018 @10:44AM (#18673094)
Anyone know of similar (short term) rates over here in Europe? Gotta be lucky to snatch up 1% for the first 6 months after signing up...
Re:Fintech startup Plaid raises $250M at a $2.65B valuation on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @11:09AM (#18656258)
It does, but it still allows large businesses to be built on this rather fragile approach, see for example (european) SOFORT that got sold to Klarna. The only thing they did was allow you to pay directly with your bank account in online-stores that used them although banks (mostly) didn't cooperate with SOFORT (they also conveniently checked you account balance and any prior failed transactions).
Re:Crypto Market Crash Leaving Bankrupt Startups in Its Wake on Sunday December 09, 2018 @10:25AM (#18641230)
TenX converted a large portion of their ICO proceedings into USD, see under "Finance" https://blog.tenx.tech/tenx-transparency-report-q2-2018-98bb...
Re:Googlers Write to CEO Demanding Equal Treatment for Contractors on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @03:41PM (#18612304)
Would you mind sharing your opinion/learnings on your time contracting? My wife (molecular biologist) is currently interviewing for a similiar position through one of these middleman companies (Agap2).

Edit: (bit of background) from what I see (through her) really hard to get directly into Pharma here in Germany/EU even with a PhD and decent CV.

Re:The YouTube Premium Concept Is All but Done on Saturday December 01, 2018 @06:17PM (#18579630)
peanuts compared to revenue from product placements
Re:Namecheap announces support for TOTP-based 2FA on Friday November 30, 2018 @12:45AM (#18567023)
Any idea why companies would choose a proprietary 2FA solution? I see this with European banks all the time.
Would love an early access code, too. [email protected]
Would be very helpful if it does also save links x levels down, e.g. for reading documentation.
Re:The Complicated Financial Lives of Freelancers on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @06:27AM (#18128981)
"it's unlikely you can convince them to pay" why not simply use some factoring service that charges you some minor % for never caring about missed payments again? There are multiple out there (I am EU based) that have APIs, a decent interface, etc.
11 cookies for me
"Cash has no payment fees" This is simply not true. Take a business for example:

1.) have a cashbox (or multiple)

2.) guard cashbox

3.) every evening count money in cashbox

4.) hope the cash you took in is still in the cashbox

5.) if not 4) --> accounting nightmare + fire employee

6.) bring cash to bank

Re:Cool Backgrounds on Friday May 25, 2018 @05:53AM (#17151977)
same here, a lot more if you choose brighter colors: https://imgur.com/a/H5OIH4j
There is an intermediary in 0x called a relayer (receiving relayer fees) that brings together both buyer and seller through e.g. an exchange UI. Just the transaction itself does not require an intermediary and is therefore not prone to counter party risk (of course if buyer and seller knew each other before they could just skip the relayer).
Re:My First Year of Freelancing on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @12:21PM (#17135376)
Hint: it's not easy to do
Re:JavaScript is Good, Actually on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @06:28AM (#17081282)
calculatePaycheck("i am a world class programmer") > calculatePaycheck("i am a programmer")
Re:$1M to build decentralized social networks on Friday May 11, 2018 @01:37PM (#17049296)
Try the Path app, exact use case
Buy a used iPhone? I am on a 6 and it works just fine. Goes for around 150$ to 200$ non negotiated.
Re:Fake it till you make it: the wolves of Instagram on Thursday May 03, 2018 @11:56AM (#16987085)
Guy they chose seems like a bad example.

- 30k on insta (since 2014): instagram.com/elijah_oezz

- 3k on YouTube youtube.com/channel/UCk4fZzhD8fStRHITL4sP_LA

- 0 comments on any of his pics

Forex trading is certainly big on SM but this guy does not convert a single visitor.

Re:Health dangers of sleep deprivation on Monday April 30, 2018 @08:17AM (#16957901)
"...I will pay later..." this is so damn hard to grasp when you are young and pulling all nighters every day.

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