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Comment · 3 years ago
A friend of mine dropped out of university and went to live the "ski-bum" lifestyle in France. His mum wasn't happy with this and eventually took to writing letters to him addressed "Joe and his stupid friends, Chamonix". They all arrived without issues.

This was in the early 90's. I wonder how effective this would be now with more automated systems in use.

Comment · 5 years ago
Sold a small SaaS product 2 years ago, which was marketed as an "AI" product.

Extract from the "model":

                $yearsBetween = $comparisonItems->created_at->diffInYears(Carbon::now());
                if ($yearsBetween <=1) {
                    $multiplier = 1.08;
                } else if ($yearsBetween <= 2) {
                    $multiplier = 1.12;
                } else if ($yearsBetween <= 3) {
                    $multiplier = 1.15;
                } else if ($yearsBetween <= 4) {
                    $multiplier = 1.22;
                } else if ($yearsBetween <= 5) {
                    $multiplier = 1.37;
                } else {
                    $multiplier = 1.41;
                }

Those multipliers were just from a bit of human-playing-around-with-the-data.

The thing is, customers were happy with the result and, as far as I know, still are. Internally it was always called the random number generator.

Comment · 6 years ago
Fun fact, I only recently discovered that "renumeration" is an incorrect spelling used by many. It is actually "remuneration". I'd been spelling this incorrectly for decades
Comment · 6 years ago
Apparently not. Crazy right
Comment · 7 years ago
Not heard of airtable before, thanks!
Comment · 10 years ago
Drop me an email with some details - lets chat!

I've been in this industry (SaaS for agents) for 6+ years. I may even have customer #1 for you (was asked only last week).

Comment · 12 years ago
I worked on the licensing and IAP SDK's so not 100% about these features. It's a holiday in the UK today so I'm guessing it won't be an instant answer as usual.

I'll ask the question also, if those portions aren't ready yet I'm sure they'll be in the works though.

Comment · 12 years ago
For selling outside of the MAS, Paddle is pretty good: https://www.paddle.com/developers

They have a quick to implement SDK that will take care of licensing, payments, etc. Depending on how you want to price your app the 5% + 50c deal could also work out well.

Comment · 12 years ago
https://www.lettingcheck.com - This started life as a 'profit share arrangement'. I know, you always hear this is a bad idea but it actually turned out quite well for us.

We were approached to provide a quote, which turned out to be too expensive for them. We liked the idea so offered to do this for a 3 way split (two developers) with the understanding he would take care of sales (his background was sales and marketing). The situation changed after this but that's another story.

He originally came up with the idea from his parents who owned a couple of franchise letting agents and used to do this process with paper, pen and a digital camera.

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