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ashitvora

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Co-Founder at RaftLabs | Building Raftwise | USC Alumni | Empowering Startups & Agencies with Scalable AI-Powered Applications

Twitter: @ashitvora LinkedIn: @ashitvora

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ashitvora··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024)
I'm looking for a CMO/CEO to lead draftly.so, a platform designed to help users grow their LinkedIn presence with content creation, ideation, engagement, and scheduling.

It's a REMOTE position though we are based out of India and would prefer someone in a timezone with 3-4 hrs of overlap with IST (UTC +5.5) Timezone.

A few details:

- SaaS product focused on LinkedIn growth - Built for creators, businesses, and professionals who want consistent, high-quality content - Already gaining traction with a growing user base - Opportunity to shape the product and drive its future growth

You:

- Early to mid-stage in your career, but have led marketing, growth, or product teams before - Ready to take ownership and drive Draftly's success - Experienced in content marketing, SaaS growth strategies, and user acquisition - Passionate about social media, especially LinkedIn, and understand its potential for business growth - Willing to work for a performance-based salary (bonus and equity included)

If you want to join a fast-growing SaaS project and lead it to the next level, reach out to me.

ashitvora··on Ask HN: AWS CloudWatch Fraud?
Not sure about the fraud but recently we had a very heavy bill from AWS (6x of our usual AWS bill).

After much investigation I realised that one of my dev has setup complicated stuff using some Terraform config he found on Github.

I feel that AWS has very bad UX.

ashitvora··on Ask HN: What is your experience with Cursor?
It's ok. Not that great.
ashitvora··on Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs?
I built two products out of which one is live - Draftly[1]

We tried different LLM models but always returned back to Open AI.

[1] https://draftly.so

ashitvora··on Help Needed in Pricing My SaaS Product
Hi all,

I've been brainstorming on having a simple pricing for my product, Draftly. And thought of picking your brain.

What I have: Draftly is a tool that help users create content for LinkedIn with the help of AI. Because I use AI, I have fixed cost of creating content using the AI model.

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There are three plans that I currently offer.

Plan 1 - this is for people who only post on their individual account. We give 20 credits to create 20 posts / month. This is right fir for someone who publishes one post every weekday.

Plan 2 - this is for someone who posts on their individual account as well as business page. We give 50 credits to create 50 posts/month shared between their individual account and the business page.

Plan 3 - this is for someone who manages their client's business pages. Here we give 100 credits to create upto 100 posts/month across all the pages they manage.

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Problems/Issues raised by customers:

- They run out of credits but dont have business page. - 100 credits are not enough since they manage 20+ pages - They want to manage more than 1 page but unable to use 100 credits.

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What I was thinking:

- Have the first Plan only. - Charge $x for every page they add. Its a small fee. - Allow them to top-up the credits whenever they run out of it. - I'm still brainstorming and need some help/suggestion in coming up with a pricing plan that simple, easy to understand, and win-win for both them and us.

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Any help is very much appreciated. You can check out more details about it on draftly . so

ashitvora··on Show HN: IntroJoy (Introduce two people via email without the hassle)
Hey everyone,

We're launching IntroJoy (https://introjoy.com), an​​ easier way to make double opt-in intros.

We decided to build this after learning how there were people out there making hundreds to thousands of intros every year, but without an efficient tool.

IntroJoy is a simple app that uses your Gmail account to minimize the hassle of making double opt-in intros.

It's mobile-friendly, has no dependencies, supports forwardable intros, and open/click tracking.

Would love your thoughts!

ashitvora··on Ask HN: Do coding coaches exist?
Did you try oDesk?
ashitvora··on Show HN: We got tired of asking 'What browser are you using?' and created this
I guess what he is trying to do is, ask user's OS, Browser, whether Flash or any other plugin is installed or not when you are talking to customer for support. Not to gather stats.
ashitvora··on Show HN: We got tired of asking 'What browser are you using?' and created this
nice one. simple but very useful when you are dealing with non-tech users.
ashitvora··on Ask HN: Best book you read in 2011
- Don't make me think. - Delivering Happiness.
ashitvora··on Stanford Computer Science '10-'11 Salary Survey Results
It would be interesting to see how many started their own startup.
ashitvora··on Ask HN: Do Americans stand a chance on freelance sites?
If you are very new to the industry, you might face some difficulty initially since people are not sure if its worth paying you more when there are others who are ready to do same work at cheaper rate.

But if you have good portfolio, audience, contacts, you won't face much problem.

If somebody is cheaper, there's a reason why they are cheaper. If you are good at what you are doing, people will be happy to pay you what you are worth.

Good Luck :)

ashitvora··on Anyone Know a Good SMS Payment Gateway?
Twilio, Msgme.com
ashitvora··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancers? (April 2011)
SEEKING WORK. Remote.

Recently moved back to India from Bay Area.

HTML, CSS, Javascript Developer.

http://github.com/ashitvora http://ashitvora.com

ashitvora··on Ask HN: Should we agree that this account will submit all Who is Hiring posts?
You can subscribe to RSS feed also

http://rss.searchyc.com/Who+is+hiring

ashitvora··on Ask HN: Help me, I fuck around on the Internet too much
- Unsubscribe from all the feeds except that are very very important for you. So you have at the max 20-25 feeds to read.

- Follow only those people who's tweets are very important. Don't follow people who have a habit of tweeting very 15 mins.

- Deactivate your facebook account.

- Go to any social site only when you are going to bed. Don't spend more than 30 mins there.

I have actually deactivated my facebook account.

There's too much info on the web, there's no point in reading / listening to all that if you can't apply or digest. If something is very important, you will eventually get to know about it from somewhere.

You don't always have to be the first one to know about it.

When tired, don't try to relax by visiting blogs, twitter, facebook, youtube. Instead go out for 10 - 15 mins and get fresh air, make coffee.

It helps me alot. Might work for you. I have been thru the same phase your are going thru :)

ashitvora··on Ask HN: Startup Advice for College Students
Just do it.
ashitvora··on Formula for love: X^2+(y-sqrt(x^2))^2=1
One more http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=(x^2+%2B+y^2+-+1)^3+-+x...
ashitvora··on Ask HN: Best book you read in 2010 and briefly why
"Delivering Happiness" and "Getting Real".
ashitvora··on Assange arrested in London (BBC)
There are many rape cases in the world. You don't put a person on interpol's list of this. He should be put on trial but putting him Interpol's wanted list. Not fair.
ashitvora··on Ask HN: How does Basecamp accept CCs without billing address?
They use http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/.

Not sure how Brain Tree handles that thing.

ashitvora··on What do you do when you get bored?
check this out http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1753825
ashitvora··on Ask HN: Inspirational movies
Pursuit of Happiness

If you like Bollywood, I would highly recommend 3 Idiots.

ashitvora··on Meet The Team
I guess, its a suspense ;)
ashitvora··on Ask HN: Why did Youtube became so popular?
But right now also there are many other platforms like Vimeo, Blip.tv, Daily Motion, etc. but still nobody is even close to Youtube's popularity.
ashitvora··on Ask HN: Which blogs do you always want to visit?
Yea Signal vs Noise is also on my must-read list.

forgot to mention :)

ashitvora··on Ask HN: Do you know someone whose passionate about cooking?
Me.
ashitvora··on Ask HN: Interested in learning Graphics Design.
sure, this will help me learn how to design but I want to learn how to implement that design.

what to use to implement that design.

ashitvora··on Ask HN: Designing Architecture for Large Javascript Application
Thanks Kenton :)
ashitvora··on Ask HN: How do you balance between gaining knowledge and applying knowledge?
Yes. I am now in lockdown mode. No Twitter, Facebook, Quora till Monday.

Checking HN only once in 2 hrs. Google Reader only once a day.

Let's see how this experiment goes. :)

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