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What about when you try to have a social network without bots?

Amazing. Another thing - make it si that we can give you our emails and you can send us updates there so we can track the progress of the app and come back to it when needed.

Great service, Bea! Would it support Databases as a source in the future?

I was going to say the same thing as you. The article has a good title but besides that it completely missed the point. And the sentence you quoted was only the cherry on top.

Yeah I guess that there’s multiple factors here. We’re a very flat company and we also have an amazing culture honestly. And another thing is that we are remote first.

I feel like I live on a totally different planet. I’m working for a European open source product company. I have tasks probably for 1 year ahead. I always have something to work on. While I suspect there is some people who I think don’t work at all most of us work fully. I feel like Europe is a lot more balanced in this regard.

The bubble didn’t pop. I would call the situation as a post-covid work force correction.

That’s pretty good advice honestly. Most people make the mistake of jumping straight to code without having the full picture in their heads.

Maybe the guy has a different approach to marketing. I get your point but I always try to see from the other’s person perspective.

30k for a SaaS business which has one person behind sounds pretty good and normal. If you consider it self funded and/or bootstrapped then you’re pretty much at the limit of what you can do alone. But in any case if you say you’ve read everything under the sun and it still doesn’t work the most basic conclusion I could come up with is that you don’t have your analytics set up right. If you have the time and budget try experimenting with different approaches of marketing then just sit back and draw conclusions from the analytics. A very scientific approach can be applied to marketing nowadays.

Will you ever get back to these? I don’t use

If this is sarcastic and you wrote it after reading the full article I get it. If not no offence but maybe you should read it.

For the businesses who might want to switch to an alternative.

A great one is Cryptpad: https://github.com/xwiki-labs/cryptpad

There are hosted instances also if you're not interested in self hosting.

P.S. I'm not affiliated in any way with the project.

I'm actually surprised of this since I've always though of Sweeden, Germany, Italy, Belgium as very good countries. I can only speak for bulgarians as I know how the mass thinks here.

I don't agree with everyone in Europe wanting to innovate more. I'm a Bulgarian citizen and from my PoV a small group of people only want to innovate. One good thing that I've noticed is that the snowball here is slowly spinning up - we have a good university trying to be on a IVY league level as much as it can (for Bulgarian levels it's good, for EU maybe just about average) which teaches people tech or whatever they want to learn. Some part of them have really sharp skills. But a big portion of them don't really care about innovation, they still have the mindset of their parents/grandparents which is: I get my bachelors, I maybe get a masters, I work one job for the rest of my life and that's it.

I'm more a fan of the EU because I think these sorts of regulations are good. The thing they do wrong here is that they do it slow. E.g. they introduce the universal USB-C port, companies won't be motivated to innovate on that tech since they know it'll take ages for the EU to update the law. So after all yeah finding a sweet spot of course is the best, the thing is that we don't know how to find it.

I'm skeptical about that since EU has activated itself in recent years. The universal USB-C is one example.

@tomrod is completely right. Here in Bulgaria people have this exact mindset. Some also might just never return.

I totally agree with you. I think the EU should innovate more, than just relying on the usual tech giants.

Great! Will do.

Nice article, I haven't heard before of this concept. Only one thing is that for some reason I expected a guid on how to get into the process of active dreaming.

The essay is just amazing.

I second this but at the same time the founder has a point. Since the average user can't create a blog with GH Pages or whatever else for free, he'll be willing to pay $8 for this product. The average customer won't be from the tech space and $8 would seem like "oh just $8 and I can have a personal website? easy!" so I'd say keep the price as is.

That's hilarious :)

I see what this app is about but at the same time it enforces information overload which is an instant turn off for me. What'll happen if I were to use it: I'll pile up more and more stuff I'm interested into, I'll receive news about all things I've subscribed to and eventually I'll get annoyed from the "spam". Then I'll unsubscribe realizing that information overload can't be handled with apps, I have to solve that problem in my head. In the mean time Obsidian does the job for me if I'm really really interested in something - I write it down and it's still not 100% that I'll come back to it later. That's a no go for me with all the apps that are used to create a "personal encyclopedia". Engineering wise I can't say anything but good about the app. Keep it up someone might see things in a completly different way that me, there still might be a big market for this.

They're not big enough, that's why. They probably use a ton of third party services also.

I read that they calculate the subscription price based on average searches per user and something else. I see the main problem which occurs here is that they're not large scale enough hence the unoptimized subscription cost.

> They are expecting suepr heavy users. They probably should be as most of thier users would be tech savy which by itself means a lot of searching so probably pricing is right according to the maintenance costs.

Yeah doesn't look sustainable

Used it but as a student paying $10 for a search engine isn't possible.

Yes, by Don't try he means don't try, but if you do give it absolutely everything you have.

Difference here is that we live in the digital world where location isn't a constraint to providing services.