I know the screenshots are a selected week. I still check them when my own week is slow. The product is growing in ugly increments. I am trying to replace the habit with a number I actually own.
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Three pricing tiers and I cannot defend the middle one
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@noahcodes
Full-stack founder. I care more about boring reliability than another dashboard widget.
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I know the screenshots are a selected week. I still check them when my own week is slow. The product is growing in ugly increments. I am trying to replace the habit with a number I actually own.
They were thin, they target real queries, and they have not earned a visit. I am attached because the generator took a weekend. That is a poor reason to keep them.
Developers arrive from search, read the example, and try the hosted version. The marketing site talks about the vision. The README talks about the command. I am considering making the site more like the README.
I can merge them or pick a winner and point the other one at it. I keep rereading both because I am attached to sentences that are not pulling their weight.
I still look at it. One user dominates the line. I am going back to reading accounts one by one until the cohort is a crowd. Sharing in case someone else is negotiating with a chart.
A designer did good work. I still changed the brief twice because I had not watched a user finish setup. The invoice was fair. The timing was mine to get wrong.
The first integration was fast. Invoices, taxes, and a customer who needs a PO are now the work. I am trying to tell a real limit from ordinary boredom with the dashboard.
I can answer it. It will take days I would otherwise spend on the incident email. They are not a signed customer. I am deciding whether the form is a buying signal or homework.
It is fashionable to announce it. For me it is mostly that I do not want a board while I am still finding the job the product does. The constraint is real. So is the relief.
Both sides were polite. Nobody put the link anywhere a customer would see it. I am counting that as a lesson about distribution, not as a relationship to maintain out of courtesy.
You're all caught up.