colinloretz
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Comment · 4 years ago
not likely, subscriptions are very mature on YouTube and still only make up a tiny percentage of revenue. MKBHD did a good video breaking this down across other social networks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1qsF0WQy8c
Comment · 4 years ago
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Comment · 4 years ago
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Comment · 5 years ago
If you're not already in the Shopify ecosystem, I'd look at Stripe Subscriptions with Checkout which requires a small amount of development that lives in something like a lambda or netlify function.
- https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/checkout
- https://www.netlify.com/blog/2020/07/13/manage-subscriptions...
If you want something out of the box, there are tools like Memberful, Gumroad, etc that take quite a vig on top of the payment processing.
Comment · 5 years ago
Are you thinking for digital products like a PDF or purely for membership access?
When you create a billing attempt against a subscription, it creates a Shopify order that is tied to that subscription. You could definitely have the order be tied to a digital product.
While you could definitely make it work for a membership system, I think I'd recommend literally anything else. Happy to elaborate or answer any specific questions you might have.
Comment · 5 years ago
We just built our own subscriptions on the Subscription API and it is extremely thin. Just a few gripes that I had to build around:
1. The "SubscriptionContract" isn't much of a contract at all. You can set a subscription to cancelled but still bill against it for example.
2. It keeps track of a "next billing date" but it does not bill the customer for you like Stripe does, you have to keep track of the next billing date and attempt to bill against the contract yourself.
Comment · 6 years ago
Read his comment again. They are supporting the free plans with Github Enterprise.
> We've wanted to make this change for the last 18 months, but needed our Enterprise business to be big enough to enable the free use of GitHub by the rest of the world. I'm happy to say that it's grown dramatically in the last year, and so we're able to make GitHub free for teams that don't need Enterprise features.
Comment · 6 years ago
Definitely. With such an economic contraction, you're going to see companies hiring contractors for a while because they don't have to commit to the full overhead of an employee. We saw a huge influx of freelancers in 2008-2009 and as the economy grew pre-covid19, more and more freelancers took jobs at companies because of salaries, benefits, etc. We will very likely see a repeat of that.
Things to make sure of: make sure your rates take into account your overhead. You're going to have to pay for your own insurance, pay withholding taxes, business licenses, account for some time off/sick days, etc.
After years of freelancing, attempting to set aside money for taxes and never paying into retirement, I started using an app called https://www.catch.co/ to track all of this and it allowed me to focus more on freelancing and less on the overhead.
Comment · 6 years ago
I've tried YNAB and use Mint alongside Lunch Money and I'm super sold. I started using it when she first launched on HN and have been in love with it so far because it's super speedy and not as manual as YNAB. The way she handles recurring expenses is what made it for me. I set a task in my todo app to reconcile my transactions every day (usually only happens every week).
Comment · 6 years ago
LunchMoney has been amazing and the quality & speed of new features has been impressive considering it's being built by one developer!
Comment · 7 years ago
WeWork has a "Powered by We" service that companies like Amazon use so they don't have to manage a new building. They allow WeWork to deal with everything from top to bottom. https://www.poweredbywe.com/
Comment · 7 years ago
https://Catch.co
For tracking and putting aside money for freelance withholding, retirement and planned time-off.
Comment · 8 years ago
That was the goal but they were acquihired by Silicon Valley Bank. https://www.svb.com/news/company-news/api-banking-startup-st...
Comment · 9 years ago
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