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anthonys··on Why doesn't Stripe use Stripe Billing?
Fairly sure Xero use NetSuite (or did- maybe they've since moved) and apparently went to great lengths at the time to make the invoice look like it was generated from Xero.

At least they aren't hiding that anymore.

anthonys··on SaaS tools that get things done for tech startups
Skip Mailgun and go straight to Postmark. Phenomenal delivery rates.

They were recently acquired by ActiveCampaign though so hopefully things don't change.

anthonys··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2022)
How do we get in touch with you?
anthonys··on Ask HN: How are you performing email flows on your early stage product?
We looked at this exact setup recently but realised you can't suppress the unsubscribe link from any email customer.io sends.

You can set a flag so the user can't unsubscribe if you have a legitimate reason (e.g. transactional email) but I'm not a fan of the customer experience here as unsubscribe should mean that, unsubscribe.

anthonys··on We Love Tailwind
What are you using to add interactions to it? I find that's the only thing it's missing in terms of getting started quickly.
anthonys··on Ask HN: I need advice on my first B2B SaaS startup
One thought I have on your model is make your entry price some sort of bundle. Your product is designed for workflows and you can't really have a workflow with 1 user so already you are at 2 users to start.

I am sure you can play around with this but it feels like this product would benefit from getting into as many users hands as possible when you are establishing yourself in a client business. Atlassian is an example of this where all of their products (or almost all of them) are $10/10 users and once you hit 11 users, it goes up quite a bit. That might seem like quite a jump but imagine what you are paying in salaries at 11 people vs. what your JIRA subscription now costs?

anthonys··on Misconfigured Jira instances exposed data of hundreds of Fortune 500 companies
If you can use it, Cloudflare Access is great for these types of situations.

Maybe not perfect with hosted cloud servers (as opposed to your own origins), but a good start!

anthonys··on Open source collaborative text editors
Explains why we're never getting Confluence offline editing.
anthonys··on How did Apple’s AirPods go from mockery to millennial status symbol?
Because they work pretty well?
anthonys··on Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada
No they aren't above the law.

But to clarify, they gave a service to people/teams who maybe they shouldn't have. Did the people signing up/using Slack know that? Maybe. Who's responsible to ensure it's enforced?

Slack.

anthonys··on PlanetScale makes it easy to build multi-cloud databases
What's wrong with it being another WordPress site if it does the job?
anthonys··on Robinhood launches 3% checking account
Margin lending?
anthonys··on Robinhood launches 3% checking account
Things might be very different in the US, but interchange is nowhere near 2.5% for a debit card in Australia. Maybe that's what is levied to the merchant (or more) but by the time it gets back to the issuer, after merchant service fees and on-charged scheme fees it's more like 0.5% for a debit card.

I could be mistaken but business models built on interchange (I think) have been the downfall of a number of 'neo-banks' from the last 5-10 years. More recently I've seen people adopting a commercial-classified card (or other) for these types of plays for the sole reason of it attracting a higher rate of interchange vs a typical consumer debit card.

anthonys··on Ask HN: Whats the best alternative to Inbox?
I think so.
anthonys··on Ask HN: Whats the best alternative to Inbox?
I've been using https://superhuman.com/ for a while. It really is as fast as they say and with their focus on keyboard shortcuts, you can fly through your inbox(s).

It's not free but then again, that's a good thing I hope. Implies they plan to be around for a while!

anthonys··on Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted
Agree- it's up to us to make the most of this opportunity now. I hope YCom get some good data and learning for next years course off the back of it too.
anthonys··on Show HN: Termly – Free Policy Generators for Websites and Mobile Apps
I was quite impressed with the service until I found out the only way of using it is via an embed. For documents that (can) be as key as these, I am not 100% comfortable relying on Termly to always work as it should.

I contacted support and they advised them embed is the only option which makes it a non starter for me now, otherwise I would have happily paid the subscription as I do think the documents could be quite useful as a starting point.

anthonys··on Ask HN: My team mate took credit for my work. What do I do
This happens almost everywhere unfortunately.

If you want to 'compete', the way to play the game is to promote yourself as most of the time, no one else is going to. This is obviously what your colleague is up to.

I used to get mad about the same thing happening to me and it happened a lot. After talking to different people about ways to manage it, I decided to come to terms with it because I wasn't that interested in the alternative (self-promotion). Now I take comfort from the fact if they have to take credit for it, they are obviously worried about something that I am not.

anthonys··on Ask HN: What is your experience with Stripe Atlas?
There are many paths you can take if it's a human touch that you are after but none of those will get you there for $500. If you think Atlas could better explain that then I agree with your comment but I never once got the impression that there'd be any hand-holding along the way.
anthonys··on Air France A380 over Greenland on Sep 30th: Fan and engine inlet separated
I am fairly sure this was a contained failure. The reports I saw (unofficial) said no blades detached or hit the aircraft.
anthonys··on Google finance upcoming revamp – Deprecating portfolio feature
I hope they fix their charts!
anthonys··on Alternatives to Tableau?
Off the top of my head, I couldn't tell you. I am sure there's a reason the data guys stuck with it but Metabase did absolutely everything I needed and a little more.
anthonys··on Alternatives to Tableau?
Another vote for Metabase. I used it every day in my last role and would do so again although I don't think it's quite Tableau-level in terms of its analysis and reporting capabilities.
anthonys··on Startup School 2017 First Lecture
That's what I am working on this very minute!
anthonys··on Ask HN: Is there a tool to find domain names that form words with the tld
I'm not associated with it but that's a good point- It might be able to find more combinations if it could interpret what's being entered a little more.
anthonys··on Ask HN: Is there a tool to find domain names that form words with the tld
Give domai.nr a try
anthonys··on Ask HN: User friendly Captcha systems for mobile apps?
Validation text messages can be useful and as long as you think about the message (Ie. I can pull the notification banner down and see the numbers rather than have to exit the application I am in), it shouldn't impact the process too much.

On Android you can even read the message yourself. It seems iOS can do this too but for now it seems on Apple can read verification messages.

anthonys··on Apple Pay on the Web
I'd say this is now less likely. Much more natural to pick up and confirm on your iPhone or Apple Watch.
anthonys··on Stripe now supports ACH payments
Any plans to come to the UK?
anthonys··on Why Fogbugz lost to Jira
Atlassian make a big point of saying they don't have a sales team[1] so I am not sure where this is coming from?

[1] https://www.atlassian.com/licensing/purchase-licensing

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