## business model - freemium and subscription [When "free forever" means "free for the next 4 months" | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35836541) [When "free forever" means "free for the next 4 months"](https://blog.zulip.com/2023/05/04/when-free-forever-is-4-months/) [It looks like a product but is secretly a subscription | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28033274) [It looks like a product but is secretly a subscription](https://calpaterson.com/printers.html) [How our free plan stays free | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30701451) [How our free plan stays free](https://tailscale.com/blog/free-plan) [Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now? | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34041962) [Handbook Freemium · Jacques Mattheij](https://jacquesmattheij.com/handbook-freemium/) [Don't Offer a Free Plan | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26059517) [A fourteen-day free trial ain't gonna cut it | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40274662) [Your 14-Day Free Trial Ain't Gonna Cut It](https://keygen.sh/blog/your-14-day-free-trial-aint-gonna-cut-it/) ## business model [GitHub - hng/tech-coops: A list of tech coops and resources concerning tech coops and worker owned cooperatives in general.](https://github.com/hng/tech-coops) ## business plan [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/news) [Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/) [Y Combinator YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/c/ycombinator) [Sam Altman](https://www.atrium.co/blog/sam-altman-start-the-right-company/?hn) (2018) How to Avoid Distractions and Start the Right Company: Startup Tips from Sam Altman ## floss and saas [Ask HN: Founders who offer free/OS and paid SaaS, how do you manage your code? | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40341037) [GitHub - PayDevs/awesome-oss-monetization: A curated list of monetization approaches for open-source software. Feedback welcome!](https://github.com/PayDevs/awesome-oss-monetization) [LATKA SaaS Database](https://getlatka.com/) [Founder Stories | Ecommerce tips & how tos - Shopify](https://www.shopify.com/blog/topics/founder-stories) [One-man SaaS, 9 Years In | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41104293) [Running One-man SaaS, 9 Years In – Healthchecks.io](https://blog.healthchecks.io/2024/07/running-one-man-saas-9-years-in/) ## pricing model [Why is Snowflake so expensive | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32551212) [Why is Snowflake so expensive?. Snowflake has an unsustainable pricing… | by Stas Sajin | Dev Genius](https://blog.devgenius.io/why-is-snowflake-so-expensive-92b67203945) ## tech laws [18 U.S. Code § 2258A - Reporting requirements of providers | U.S. Code | US Law | LII/Legal Information Institute](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2258A) [18 U.S. Code Chapter 121 - STORED WIRE AND ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS AND TRANSACTIONAL RECORDS ACCESS | U.S. Code | US Law | LII/Legal Information Institute](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/part-I/chapter-121) ## business model [About weho.st | wehost](https://weho.st/) - THIS MAY BE GREAT FOR ME AS A BUSINESS MODEL ## MVP (Dropbox:) To avoid the risk of waking up after years of development with a product nobody wanted, Drew did something unexpectedly easy: he made a video. The video is banal, a simple three-minute demonstration of the technology as it is meant to work. - TECH WORK IS OFTEN VERY HEAVY ON R&D Only at the point where the founders were too busy to bring on additional customers did Manuel and his team start to invest in automation "We continued to run with humans replicating pieces of the backend for nine months. We hired eight people to manage queries, classify conversations, etc. We actually raised our seed and series A rounds before the system was automated. As we refined the product, we would bring in six to twelve people weekly to react to mockups, prototypes, or simulations that we were working on. It was a mix of existing users and people who never saw the product before. We had our engineers join for many of these sessions, both so that they could make modifications in real time, but also so we could all experience the pain of a user not knowing what to do." ## SaaS [The satellite imagery industry still has no idea what customers want | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31074177) [Nobody wants your fancy algorithm](https://joemorrison.substack.com/p/nobody-wants-your-fancy-algorithm) - SaaS is a MAJOR non-thing for many people, but it sounds cool - it feeds the business owner's ego, but isn't often a great business model because it collapses as soon as someone (open-sources) it. - "market insights" is business jargon bullshit - machine learning algos don't help: they're inherently (biased) by their creator, and are so niche that 99.999999% of the population won't ever WANT it - further, if you make something generally useful, someone else can make a more specifically useful product on your generally useful platform, rendering you irrelevant, extra points if it was (FLOSS) because you lose ANY market edge ## taking risks (About the techies who said they could do what he does:) The bet was that I could configure a web server before any of them could raise $1 million.