philfrasty
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Comment · 6 years ago
Is this US only? Didn't find any mention on this in the FAQ or signup page.
Comment · 6 years ago
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.
Comment · 7 years ago
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?
Comment · 7 years ago
Can you give an example of an untested tool you have in mind?
Comment · 7 years ago
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.
Comment · 7 years ago
The king of dark patterns: https://www.viagogo.com (try with any listed event)
(edit: they recently got banned from AdWords IIRC)
Comment · 7 years ago
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?
Comment · 7 years ago
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.
Comment · 7 years ago
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
Comment · 8 years ago
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
Comment · 8 years ago
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...