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Actually this is a position my friend is exactly in and I'm helping him navigate .. my thought was go big .. but curios to see other thoughts

If I understood correctly, you're saying starting small is best because things that may seem small may actually be a thread to something big .. even if it isn't obvious .. but the habit of starting things will be the truest test .. this is a good one.

Agreed on the first point, but I'm once walked with a VC who told me the the owner of this restaurant (him pointing at a restaurant) works harder than Mark Zuckerberg .. I found to be likely true.

So the concern here is that it may be as hard (or very similar) to start something small vs trying for something big .. I will note that going for something big also likely means starting small (so again same effort)

But if you're already there tho :), I don't know if retirement is the right path ... I would think it's aiming for something big ... I cannot imagine a life of relaxation .. especially if you're young and healthy .. also building big gives you the power to do more good in the world .. no?

So build small things to get to big things? (I guess you can decide at that point)? This maybe successful as a strategy to find "big" ideas ...

Well if i want to know what the journey of a specific user is. How they progressed over time. Or an aggregate of that. pretty tedious to do that now in GA

Pretty cool. That's a challenge many developers face btw. Good luck with that. Moreover, this market is crowded, so your messaging and positioning will require a lot of marketing money to be effective.

Cool! How's it been going (business wise)?

I've heard Posthog a few times now ... definitely considering using it. Thanks!

Thanks. Seems still not easy to get the kind of abstract reports I'm looking for.

Did you steer away from GA for the same reasons?

Thanks!

- Both libraries are not quite stand-alone a true stand-alone would be API-based (maybe include SDKs). My search comes up empty.

- How'd you determine the $10 USD / month number?

This is kind of driving me crazy. I really cannot find anything out there and I cannot understand why.

- I'm either not able to search well enough to find a tool - It's just not valuable enough for anyone to create - Schelp blindness

How's that?

Interesting. Thanks for recommending it.

- Long threads become slow to open. - The email's subject is sometimes awkward after a few weeks of working together. - Awkward silences because there's no emoji reaction to close the loop

Thank you!!!

I'm growing more frustrated every time I have to do this. So I'm really thinking about building a premium starter kit and pricing it for anyone else like me as well.

Too expensive, too limited in stack :/

Definitely valueable but I feel it's not been cracked quite yet.

Great. Maybe the term "SaaS starter kit" is what I should be searching for. That's helpful. Thank you.

That's very interesting. It's a fair argument, but sometimes, instructors for example want to protect their content and only share it with a person and they allow account sharing but limit it to one person.

but if gets out of control (as one company had 47 people sharing one account), that's plain rip-off and costs companies a lot of money. So it's a good idea to limit the number of devices. Many companies do that, for example Evernote limits how many devices you can use to access your own notes.

On top of that, you pay for 24 access to a device but companies would totally change the structure if they knew everyone would be streaming 24/7 it's a stats and chance game.

Also, not saying everyone has good intetions nor is everyone a bad actor. Manytimes it's just easier to share than add a paid user. Other comapnies allow you to share account for a discounted price. It's not a black and white situation :), but for anyone who wants to control or just monitor that, this library helps them.

It appears account sharing prevention is paying off for Netflix. Do you think this will be the model for SaaS to follow now? Not banning account sharing but charging a fee per extra device? Seems like a good model. Anything I'm missing about it?

[Full disclosure, I'm the founder of https://sabil.io, which offers SaaS companies easy and accurate account-sharing detection and control]

done.

That's very interesting. Thank you for sharing this feedback. This could be the thinking of many companies as well.

Regarding the product solving a real pain, I agree. Aesthetics are overlooked if the need is there.

On the other hand, wouldn't you want to optimize this part of your funnel? Maybe even see if there's a problem between signups and conversions? You'd want your users to get value from your product as soon as possible, and a good onboarding truly helps (see courier.com, for example).

I'm pretty surprised that your aversion to another dependency outweighs the possible benefits of having a good onboarding flow.

Your landing page looks very promising. I joined the beta list. Any idea when I can play around with it? I could be one of your first beta users (given the product is stable enough). I'm so surprised no one has built a viable solution here.

That's a great point. Any integrative solution worth its salt offers some level of customization. But you're right; maybe because everyone's needs are a little different, it might not be viable. Any idea how to validate this part?

BTW, I was actually thinking of redirecting users after signup to a beautifully designed (customizable) onboarding flow that includes an A/B test as part of it so that product managers can play with it as much as they want without devoting engineering resources.

Thoughts?

Thanks for sharing.

That's one of the reasons entering this market is challenging. 1. So many existing solutions are bad, so people will assume you're also bad. 2. You will be lost in all voices and blogs and ads for these bad products.

But for the point about making it too easy hurts PMF, I think it's not going to have that much of an impact and it's never a bad thing to have your product perform well.

I'm more worried about companies opting to build their own flow because it matches their brand and design. Any thoughts about this?

I've come to the conclusion that it's mostly a waste of time to be honest. I'll refrain for a while. But when I do post, I'll be helpful and interactive. Like replying to these comments Iguess. Good insight tho.

Awesome. Thanks for sharing. I'll explore these.

very interesting. I usually just google things when i need them.

What do you mean when you say "user group events"? is this like in-person meetups or is it something else?

Yeah, same for me. but there's gotta be a better way I think.