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Michael Sumner
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supabase, cloudflare, deno, resend. Trying to keep it as simple as possible. Open-source the better.
Nextjs has been solid for several years and has seen significant improvements each year. It stays modern, and is easy to use. Learning ReactJS/NextJS has made dev so much easier that it must be a requirement.
It's great to hear that Next.js has significantly improved your frontend development experience. To better understand your web stack, could you share what technologies you currently use on the backend?
supabase, cloudflare, deno, resend. Trying to keep it as simple as possible. Open-source the better.
Use supabase to do this. Login with Google first. Login by email second
If it significantly cuts costs and helps scale, then do so. Or else, it is a distraction. Can it 2x your productivity, reduce shipping time, or more?
Have there been any recent web technologies that you evaluated and found could potentially double your productivity or substantially reduce your time to ship new features? If so, what were the key benefits that caught your attention?
Nextjs has been solid for several years and has seen significant improvements each year. It stays modern, and is easy to use. Learning ReactJS/NextJS has made dev so much easier that it must be a requirement.
It's great to hear that Next.js has significantly improved your frontend development experience. To better understand your web stack, could you share what technologies you currently use on the backend?
supabase, cloudflare, deno, resend. Trying to keep it as simple as possible. Open-source the better.
I bake the "tons of ideas" all into 1 thing, for example: scoredetect.com
Because it is chock full of features, there is no need to juggle another "big idea". Instead, I set a goal 1-year from now and build it. Based on customer feedback, I reiterate the product/s and make it work. By focusing on "1 big thing" you train yourself to avoid the "shiny object syndrome" and instead use that shiny object into your product. This is 1 tactic amongst the others in the comments here.
This is really cool. BTW I love your landing page
Does it work in TEST mode? Have you tried taking a LIVE payment yourself (wait 7 days and see what happens).
Sometimes I find it is that people have cards such as Revolut that they have little balance and will only add credit to the card as and when. Which means they may forget to add sufficient balance for when the trial ends.
I know I purposefully do what Michael said so I get a reminder when something doesn't go through so I can re-evaluate if I want to continue paying the subscription.
I'm sure I'm not alone in this.
Also, you said "most" don't go through, which mean some are? If so, it's probably not your back-end setup. If you have a 0% conversion rate from trial to paid, I'd look into that ASAP.
I checked people are using different cards from different banks, except for 3 accounts that use the same cc of Adam Bino which is not their name. Mostly these are debit cards, but there are also CC that fail. Stripe reports normal risk and no theft for these cards.
I guess for debit/prepaid cards I can turn off accepting payments in stripe? For credit cards maybe I can start charging $1 at the start of the free trial to filter fake/stolen cards.
It's surprising to me that Stripe still has loopholes.
Simple and gets you going and totally free and has no streaming issues
I contacted journalists who display their "portfolio" on this site: muckrack.com/beat/tech
You can find that they regularly feature in magazine, columns, etc. which can help if you want to find tech writers of that caliber.
@jamesbrooksco 🇬🇧 here - I was going for the Royal Marines. And so I checked for the best socks in the Royal Navy forums for gruelling exercises, marching, the 30-miler, etc. Since then, I used Danish Endurance socks (also tested in Mt Everest). They're super comfy, fitted, durable, affordable. I got "soft-top crew socks" all in black. 4 years so far and no signs of breaking! And after a wash, it's pretty much dry (I still bother to hang it up to dry lol)
No to Darn-Tough socks;
I previously had Darn-Tough socks but it lasted 5 years (3-years it started losing its material, but you need to ship it back to US which costs as much as the socks themselves! - not worth it).
Forgot about Danish Endurance, good ones!