Would be great to see how this translates into actual $ for the business. Is this mentioned somewhere else? The high CPCs indicate that there IS some value. But in general some people/businesses can make a living with an audience of 100 and others not with an audience of 100k.
Have you experimented with removing your free plan? Curious to know what your support-time is in relation free:paid plans. Just from my anecdotal experience free-plans attracted the wrong type of customer for me, switching to paid with a free trial worked much better. When you have a large team and can built fancy funnels to make freemium work it seems like a great idea from a marketing perspective but for small(ish) companies I really doubt the numbers (% of upgrades from free to paid after a certain period of time) make sense in a lot of cases.
Looks cool! Reminds me of (YCs) Station with a focus on online communities. Hint: Says "0 beta users signed up since August 1st 2019" in the bottom left corner. Maybe refresh the cache?
ZipKey develops modern visitor management solutions for high-security environments (e.g. data centers). Our current offering is centered around an iPad version with deep integrations into the customers IT and building infrastructure. We just launched our ZipKey Kiosk, which is a self-check-in terminal placed on premise at our customers with facial recognition and ID checks.
We’re looking for a great engineer to help us in pushing forward our kiosk project, the base version is already done and running (using React Native Windows with WPF & UWP) with all native bridges in place for a C# / WPF / UWP implementation.
Email us at phil@zipkey.de and I (Phil @ product) or Chris (CTO) will respond to you promptly. Please tell us a bit about yourself and your knowledge regarding Windows application development.
Just one example: GoDaddy bought the HostEurope group for €1.6B [1]. They own one of the largest domain-registers (and cloud providers) in the DACH region called Domainfactory. They reside on df.eu
Wasn't there OmniGraffle on the Mac even before Sketch? Seemed to me in the beginning that Sketch was an exact clone of OmniGraffle with a little nicer interface. Sketch evolved a lot from that point on.
Edit: OmniGraffle 1.0 launched 2001 [1], Sketch started 2008
It does, but it still allows large businesses to be built on this rather fragile approach, see for example (european) SOFORT that got sold to Klarna. The only thing they did was allow you to pay directly with your bank account in online-stores that used them although banks (mostly) didn't cooperate with SOFORT (they also conveniently checked you account balance and any prior failed transactions).
Would you mind sharing your opinion/learnings on your time contracting? My wife (molecular biologist) is currently interviewing for a similiar position through one of these middleman companies (Agap2).
Edit: (bit of background) from what I see (through her) really hard to get directly into Pharma here in Germany/EU even with a PhD and decent CV.
"it's unlikely you can convince them to pay" why not simply use some factoring service that charges you some minor % for never caring about missed payments again? There are multiple out there (I am EU based) that have APIs, a decent interface, etc.
There is an intermediary in 0x called a relayer (receiving relayer fees) that brings together both buyer and seller through e.g. an exchange UI. Just the transaction itself does not require an intermediary and is therefore not prone to counter party risk (of course if buyer and seller knew each other before they could just skip the relayer).