David Furlong
@david
Can offer help with: Coding/JS/CSS.
Could use with help with: finding customers, building an audience 😅
In order to add badges for social proof, do you reach out to these companies and ask for permission or did you say fuck it and added them once they used your app?
I think it depends if your company sales/signup is B2B or B2C (or low touch B2B). I think the prior you always make sure your contract with the company allows for it or you ask them. For low touch B2B/B2C I don't know but I would expect you can probably get away with adding them for social proof without asking and then removing them if that company requests it
I think looking at the affiliate systems of those two providers and my guess at the volume of demand for self hosting a scrimba alternative its unlikely to make a substantial amount of money. In my readings open source business models are usually around either providing enterprise support or enterprise closed source infrastructure/extensions to the open source package. I can imagine affiliate links working well if the volume of users is high, such as a popular library such as next.js - but that requires lots of developers to have a use case for the library/service
Hey Jack!
Thanks for taking the time to check out codebird and give me feedback!
I can definitely see the value add of working locally and it might be something to add in the future. While developers are a target customer I think a bigger painpoint can be solved is to enable non technical team members being able to make product changes. I need to connect to github to allow the previous to happen without a local dev environment.
Also does it work with modern front-end frameworks? Such as Vue and with static framework like Gridsome or Gatsby.
Yes it should work with any website stored in github without any codebase changes
Hey Nikolai!
Is the idea clear? If not, what confused you?
- probably not best to give people other context here if you want to know whether the idea is clear. I think it was clear.
Does it invite you to join the journey?
- yes its welcoming. Although as an engineer who has been building saas for a couple years now it didn't interest me enough to signup. Although I have lots to learn and have and do struggle with some difficult decision. I think addressing a difficult choice an engineer can relate to or has had would help make it have a stronger value proposition, for example difficulty of doing custom single sign on integrations for customers or which login methods to support.
Currently, I only focus on tech. Are there other topics you think this should cover?
- maybe product, and pragmatic decisions around tech in order to ship faster at the start before scaling/perf/etc are a concern. How can I get 80% of the way there with 20% of the effort? Maybe devtooling?
Its a bit of a blocker so I decided to pick postmark for now. Thanks for the suggestions! It might even have a free tier for low volume where im at now. mailchimp was starting at 20$ per month, postmark 10$ for transactional emails
my 2 cents: Or Die is better than Or Pay. Nobody likes paying
That's what I thought! But then I asked bloggers in a few forums and almost everyone disliked any "-or Die" ending. They found it too aggressive.
Post or Pay turned out to be the most popular name. That said, that they like a name doesn't mean that it would be the most effective one, especially when it comes to catching their attention.
And now I'm wondering: True that nobody likes paying. But when paying is part of the value you offer (they pay if they fail, and that's the point of using the product), do you think it's still ineffective to have it in the name?
Interesting! I think or Die is a bit extreme but it also draws attention.
Post or Pay has that wonderful alliteration P-P. Maybe theres a third option & words that come to mind: 'Wager', 'Stake', 'Lose' but these probably don't fit your 'Or' format well. I feel like Im not helping so I'll stop. Maybe 'Publish or Pay'?
You're helping!
I've asked in various forums and it seems like most bloggers do like a lot the P-P alliteration of Post or Pay. I will go on with this name for now, I hope to have a bit of press attention by the time New Year resolutions hit :) (which is often the best time of the year for products like this).
Thanks for the input!
Ah yes that makes sense. Good luck with it Aleix :)