biermic

The coding part of building a SaaS is the easier one. Get a job and build on the side

Nope, we just decided to migrate to S3

I've integrated it into two projects. Users loved it.

Back in 2006 my blog got me a girlfriend. I think exposure in any way is beneficial.

I don't, they'd probably rather sell what is left.

2 things to add:

- I'd decouple the database writes with a message queue.

- Make sure that table is partitioned if you haven't. TimescaleDB's hyper tables are a good compromise here if you are already using Postgres..

A lot of things but not really much at the same time

AWS thought us that one cannot trust status pages

And Iphones are allergic to Helium https://www.ifixit.com/News/11986/iphones-are-allergic-to-he...

Could you reduce to 24 hrs per week? That would be 3 full days out of 7.

That sounds like a wonderful lifestyle!

Maybe something more basic. Like GOTO's

Maybe a proper debugger?

Redshift COPY from s3 is also affected.

  -----------------------------------------------
  error:  No response body.
  code:      30000
  context:   
  query:     1154965
  location:  xen_aws_credentials_mgr.cpp:403
  process:   padbmaster [pid=15893]
  -----------------------------------------------

I have one running with a ~5TB big unpartitioned table. Adding ~9M rows per day, with significant read load via 2 replicas. Works just fine on a 32 GB memory RDS instance. There is another table half the amount of rows and I join the two 1000s of times a day.

Took a bit of fiddling around to have things run stable. Currently migrating to Redshift, which has stellar performance but comes with its own problems.

Had this happen to me as a client on Upwork.

Interviewed some Italian guy, but when the job started a Russian guy with Asian roots was on the cam.

Somehow I understand his situation, but nevertheless ended the call after one minute.

Some CTO guy who I work with does this with the password for internal docs. He thinks he is 1337.

How long will it take, until someone gains access? I consider this an intentional security leak.

I also have heard of such a story. A friend of mine did something similar a long time ago.

Someone posted malicious stuff on his website, which showed up when googling my friends name. This costed him quite some business.

He knew the email address of the website owner, and the provider where the website was hosted. So he registered the same email address under a different free email hosting provider. Then he sent the website hoster an e-mail where he told them about a new email address and if they could change it. With that he could reset the password and delete the website.

Seems Github is imitating Bitbucket :)

I haven't but will do. Thanks for the links!

Curious, what are you working on?

It's hard to figure out what it can do. Everywhere is their branding. As I understand they just send payment receipts, but no invoices.

I'd like to offer a free trial. While they have support for this, a user needs to enter his credit card right at sign up for trials to work.

So in the end I have to build a hybrid solution where my system gets tied to theirs. Still I don't have full control over all e-mails that are sent to the user. I'm not 100% happy, but better than not charging money.

Exactly that. While stripe would tick my needs, it's gonna cause some headaches on the long run. They can calculate the taxes meanwhile, but you have to still take care of e.g. MOSS yourself.

Absolutely agree with the poster. This is my life at the moment. Just to take money for a small piece of software I built.

Multiple currencies, trial periods, when in the process do you ask for the creditcard, country specific taxes,... And the worst: invoices.

While paddle.com takes care of many of those things - I was shocked after realizing how much work this is going to be.

Please think carefully about those things before you quit your job to work on your "Micro SaaS" or "unicorn startup".

Have you tried headhunters? Other than that: web portals like freelancermap, gulp, ...

Appreciate your answer.

I built a very niche monitoring product for sysadmins. Actually I built it for myself three years ago, but I want to explore if others would pay for it.

If you are in the space, or anyone else who reads this I'd be grateful to receive some feedback on a 10 minute video call.

What are some possible ways to invest a few hundred bucks, for getting interviews with intended customers? I'm truly curious.

Or do you mean he should have invested into a designer to create mockups?

Social interactions.

You might be onto something.

So that guy downloaded some random "hacking tool" a friend of his found, and no shit it had a backdoor. He was never directly targeted by the North Koreans.