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Thank you. The advice about explaining your need to scale is great. I've made them aware that we currently don't service accounts of their scale but we can scale up. If talks proceed I'll be sure to expand on this.
Thanks very much for the email offer, I will take you up on that (putting out a fire right now though).
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throes_death on Thursday July 30, 2020 @10:18PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I run a small SaaS and am the only employee (I have plenty of industry advisors though).We currently operate with less than 50 accounts in total. Word of mouth has led to discussions with a very large enterprise and the numbers being thrown around are staggering (for me anyway).How would you tackle suddenly scaling from 50 to thousands of accounts? Would you even consider such an account given...
Thanks for your advice. Your suggestion re: success businesses with manual, redundant workflows is great food for thought!
Thank you. I felt a little dark when I knew things were going to end badly, but surprisingly I don't feel bad now that things are over. I feel slightly excited and interested in what the next opportunity might be, but as I said originally, I feel creatively burnt out and don't seem to have the critical analysis needed right now to figure out what to do next.
I hope things are working out for you now (mental health wise).
Thanks!
Thanks. I do need to forget about things but I also feel I need to feel as if I've earnt a paycheck. Does that make sense? I have not "won any bread" for the last 4 years and even some casual hours doing unskilled labor, I think, might make me feel energized.
Thank you. I think just spending a few weeks doing some maintenance jobs around the house and yard is what I need.
Thanks! I might take this advice. I can certainly spend a week or two doing general maintenance in the yard and around the house.
Thanks, but not really practical for us (2 kids in school and partner with great career and tenure).
We do live frugally however which is how I was able to start the business in the first place. We traveled a lot when we were younger but now we live what many would probably call a "boring" life. We're anti-consumerist, minimalists I suppose and we're happy with that ;-)
Wow, I've just woken up to a bunch of new comments. Thanks everyone!
Thanks. TBH I think the niche was to small, the problem was too hard, the solution was too complex, the audience was too hard to connect with.
The niche can be served but I'm not sure it can be served and make a living from it. There are other competitors (without our USPs) but they're backed by universities so it's not clear if they're "stand alone" viable either. Thanks for your advice!
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throes_death on Monday March 16, 2020 @01:28AM
from the ask-hn dept.
I'm a little burnt out after my business failed after 4 years of hard graft. I'm looking for a new online opportunity but feel as if I've run out of ideas, problems and general creativity.I'm not sure how to start again. Any advice?
If be interested to know a bit more about how you are overcoming the field of dreams problem.
I think Kent Beck said it best: Make it work. Make it right. Make it fast.
It seems very common, and I see it with businesses whose customers would be unlikely to care about such musings.
Why do saas owners, startups etc. talk about their own "entrepreneurial journeys" and entrepreneurship in general rather than talk and blog about things their customers are interested in?
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throes_death on Thursday November 14, 2019 @07:56PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I've had a simple tool (or set of tools) for decades that've made a habit of exercising. Mountain bikes. They truly are the killer app.
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throes_death on Sunday July 21, 2019 @12:59AM
from the ask-hn dept.
The internet is an SEO landfill (to quote a recent HN article) due to ever-growing meaningless content.What alternative methods can we use for SEO without creating even more throwaway content?
Devils advocate here. Hi!
Is it necessary to excel to be successful and/or happy?
But why do you stress the "public" bit?
Thank goodness I just use skype and email to communicate with my dealer. Oh, hang on, they're applications too :S
I think you're getting "office" confused with "warehouse" and "laboratory".
If anything greater than 2-3 months is long term and challenging your motivation and discipline then programming might not be the right path for you.
No. Not everyone eats three times a day.
The only thing more dangerous than a Cassowary are the tourists that stop in the middle of the highway to photograph them. They're pretty elusive in the wild and spotting them on the edge of the bush as you drive by is the most likely scenario, so likely in fact there are signs in FNQ warning people not to stop on the road when they spot one!
Every minute I spent thinking about insightful quotes from modern day gurus was a minute wasted
Slightly OT, but I think it's time to move on from using "retard" as a derogatory term, in the same way we've all moved on from "gay" and "spastic". It's just offensive.
Or if you end up with them as your brain surgeon.
How many other degrees do you have?
> his inability for empathy and emotional understanding was the crux of the problem
oh the irony!