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I'm actually in the same boat. I've been paranoid of using ynab online because of giving a company all of my financial data. I don't know if it is unfounded, but I do have to admit using ynab on the desktop is kind of inconvenient.

Isn't one of the problems though that people in the younger age brackets don't tend to listen to older people? I remember in University I was a mentor, and my mentees would usually be blaise about most things. Only when they were seniors would they panic about job prospects.

Wouldn't you say though if that push notifications were allowed PWAs would cannibalize the revenue of the ios app store? It doesn't seem like apple would have much incentive to do this as PWAs would eventually compete with their own platform.

If you are a saas product, the thing that really matter is your conversion ratio. If after 4 months you can convert any inbound traffic, then by saas definitions, probably has failed.

But if that is the case, use it as an opportunity to tweak and reiterate your idea until you get a paying customer. Until then, you are working on assumptions on what the market wants.

As a Seventh-day Adventist (we observe the Sabbath by going to church on Saturday -- but that can lead to an entirely another discussion), I personally view it as a time to disconnect from work, and focus on God, relationships, and the nature around us.

In terms of hobbies, this is interesting a point of debate with many Adventists. Some are more 'conservative' where they won't do anything close to resembling work or hobbies (similar to some Orthodox Jews), and you have the other spectrum of people who more liberal in a sense where they will still do their hobbies (like going to movies, playing sports etc).

I think it is a personal thing to each person, but the overarching themes is really taking a day out of the week to disconnect from the trials of the world and spend a day for a mental reset however you choose to accomplish this.

Shameless plug, but I run https://www.menutail.com which creates nutrition facts labels when you are ready at that stage of your business.

I second the comments about charging money ASAP. Really the success of your SAAS is going to be managing your recurring revenue (and once you get subscriptions, managing your churn).

A second thing I would encourage is never to be pricing information in marketing e-mails, and instead link back to your website. On the start of my SAAS I thought how much I would pay for the service as baseline pricing.

Really that type of thinking is incorrect as you want to price relative to your market, meaning how much your customers are willing to pay.

Use a backlink checker

https://ahrefs.com/

And find where your competitors are being linked from. If possible message the people who own those pages to get your link besides your competitors.

Bring a portable sinus rinse bottle (like a neti pot) and rinse after flying. It usually helps with the air from being in a plane for a while.

I've been thinking about this quite a bit, but do you think anyone would actually pay for social media where they actually can own the data? I think the use case might be difficult given the convenience and 'free' aspect of Facebook, Twitter, etc.

What was version 1.0 of the product?

I used braintree and rolled up a monthly subscription and the ability for customer's to buy digital products

Do you have a link to your templates?

What did your ecommerce recipe app do in particular?

Do you run Candyjapan.com? If so, how'd you get into this?

As a LA/OC local, we have tons of farmer's markets near us. The two powerhouses are the Wed Santa Monica Market and Sunday Hollywood market, but there are several others depending on the city you live in.

As someone who frequents farmer's markets often, my suggestion would to visit one close to you. I often ask the local farmers for planting advice especially since it seems our temperatures are getting wackier each season.

It kind of sounds like you need to normalize the data? What I would do is

1) Create a new schema reflecting the data normalization you want. Meaning creating all the tables foreign key relationships, etc.

2) Use programming language of your choice (my quiver would be rails), just for the ORM to read in the csvs then write the data out to the tables.

I created an app in ionic, and I find it good for pretty simple app workflows (standard tabs, traversal, etc). You can check out the app here (download links in the middle of the page).

sdabulletin.com

If you have any questions about the dev experience, or otherwise, feel free to let me know.

For the scenario about things that meet on a weekly basis, in your opinion would you download an app per business or prefer to have one app power it all? For example, a farmer's market app, a trivia nights app, a board game app, etc.

Pretty regular reader from Serious Eats here. Kenji (the guy who is the culinary director), puts tons of scientific rigor into all of his recipes. What sets Serious Eats aparts from everyone else is they like to answer the 'why' of food. For example here is a super detailed story:

http://www.seriouseats.com/2009/10/the-food-lab-science-of-h...

For software projects with new clients, I use cacoo.com and create simple domain and sequence diagrams to capture more complex workflows. I usually don't tell them it is UML and say these diagrams help better express workflows.

I upload my photos periodically to Amazon Glacier. I use the Windows Fast Glacier app as the interface to it. Glacier penalizes you heavily financially for retrieving the data, so it is more for the worst case scenario of losing all of my photos in my local harddrive.

Costs are about $2/month for about 100 gigs so far.

For a great podcast leading up to this, you should listen to

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/05/10/527803742/episo...

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/05/12/528181998/episo...

It also is the double scrollbar. Pm me and i'll send you more browser details

Just an fyi for my browser it looks kind of weird

http://imgur.com/a/XQ7TO

Here is a link I created (independently of this discussion) with vegetables with the highest amount of protein.

https://www.menutail.com/blog/51/Top_10_Vegetarian_Foods_Hig...

I upload all my images to Amazon Glacier and use the fastglacier client for Windows.

I had inaccurate billing charges in Jan after opening a support ticket for investigation. I'd suggest to open a ticket if you can point to a service which seems higher than usual.

I think there are a lot of grants start-ups could take advantage of. In particular there is one about promoting farmer's markets (note you basically have to be a non-profit entity to apply)

https://www.ams.usda.gov/services/grants/fmpp

And I noticed all of the previous winners were other farmer's markets managers expanded their current market. It would be nice to see some new way of helping the underserved community get food.

So examples I've seen are ideas are mini markets at bus stops.