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lessallan | 12 years ago | on: Do you use any service to invoice customers after getting paid with Stripe?

http://LessAccounting.com does this too.

lessallan | 12 years ago | on: How Trello Onboards New Users

Great breakdown

lessallan | 12 years ago | on: There's No Myth, Only Years Of Hard Work

I don't even know what "investing in people" means. We're a small team, our newest employee has been with us for 3 years.

lessallan | 12 years ago | on: There's No Myth, Only Years Of Hard Work

It's very hard to generalize pricing, we're $36/mo which is the top of our market with pricing.

lessallan | 12 years ago | on: There's No Myth, Only Years Of Hard Work

Thanks Dan, GrooveHQ.com is sweet!

lessallan | 12 years ago | on: There's No Myth, Only Years Of Hard Work

You win.

lessallan | 12 years ago | on: There's No Myth, Only Years Of Hard Work

Again congrats on your successes, I don't think hackernews should be a marketing tactic for most businesses but it could probably work for a small select few. (Github, Sublime Text, Twilio, SendGrid etc.)

lessallan | 12 years ago | on: There's No Myth, Only Years Of Hard Work

I'm sure you have, congrats, but the vast majority of people aren't selling impulse buys targeting developers.

lessallan | 12 years ago | on: There's No Myth, Only Years Of Hard Work

Oh no! <puts gun to head>

lessallan | 12 years ago | on: There's No Myth, Only Years Of Hard Work

Getting Basecamp linked up with any mention of Ruby on Rails helps too. Outliners (like 37Signals) work hard and do great work but they're not the standard we should compare ourselves to. Well unless you always want to fall short and feel like shit.

lessallan | 12 years ago | on: There's No Myth, Only Years Of Hard Work

1) Creating any business is hard, unless you sell blue meth. 2) Creating two businesses is even harder (bootstrapping + consulting to make a living). 3) Technical hurdles are getting easier but rarely does the best product win. Marketing is hugely more important that product, although I wish that wasn't true.

lessallan | 12 years ago | on: There's No Myth, Only Years Of Hard Work

You'll find that unless you sell an impulse purchase (sub $35 price) targeting developers HackerNews traffic doesn't equal sales. Being that we sell accounting software for small business the traffic really doesn't affect our revenue. Overall programmers are highly critical of software applications, giving the most judgement support requests and demanding features deeming them "easy to build".

lessallan | 13 years ago | on: SurveyMonkey lawyers ask PopSurvey to stop using monkeys in ads. Yes, really.

I'm going ape over this! <bad pun>

lessallan | 13 years ago | on: Zerigo DNS services down for 6+ hours due to massive DDoS

DNSimple is the best, seriously, no really, seriously.

lessallan | 14 years ago | on: Google co-founder Sergey Brin spotted wearing Project Glass prototype IRL

Anyone seen the spoof? http://youtu.be/5vrxfiXU5lo

lessallan | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: Coworking Weekly, the first newsletter for the coworking industry

I am excited that Alex is curating coworking content for me. Alex/IndyHall is our inspiration for WorkHappy - http://weworkhappy.com

lessallan | 14 years ago | on: Hungry Academy is open education

Our community is the killerist! Big hat tip to LivingSocial.

lessallan | 14 years ago | on: RELEASED: LessConf Promo Video

Thanks Richard, we're really good at being silly.

lessallan | 14 years ago | on: RELEASED: LessConf Promo Video

FYI: http://LessFilms.com shot the video with a canon 7d, the location was inside the "pits" of a fast lube oil change.

lessallan | 14 years ago | on: Focus on the Job, Not the Customer. A different way to look at your app

Those guys are the smartest people I know.