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yes, it’s enterprise plan…

i’ll create a ticket to ask for account manager .

maybe there’s also a hierarchy of enterprise customers.

small-ish enterprise customers are not that valuable to them …

where to find account manager?

i don’t think we have one …

this might be a mistake from them or us that we didn’t get one account manager at the beginning …

is the phone number you use on the cloudflare website? or is it from some private conversation in email threads with your account manager?

we might do the enterprise plan wrong …

Essentially we just need 1) edge cache to cache response from our website / api 2) and firewall rules

Paying a few thousand bucks annually is not enough to get no-bs customer support :)

Opportunity:

Build a cloudflare alternative (some core products), and provide exceptional customer support - maybe at AWS level is acceptable.

Thanks!

This reminds me of an article that I'm going to curate today: "Being Different Beats Being Better" http://dariusforoux.com/being-different-beats-being-better/

https://wanqu.co - A San Francisco engineer (me) curates 5 English articles on tech & startup for Chinese makers everyday.

Started on August 6, 2014. It's a side project of mine. I built a website (Django), a native iOS app (Swift), a native Android app (React Native), and some automation tools. It brings around $1200/month via iOS in-app-purchase, sponsorship, affiliate links etc. I keep a full time job while doing this content curation thing at night (2~3 hours per day). So far, I've curated 5000+ articles and I've written over 1 million Chinese characters for comments -- The Chinese translation of all Harry Potter books consist of 2 million Chinese characters :)

Over 3 years, it accumulates over 140,000 followers across 10 content distribution channels as of today (Sep 1, 2017), including iOS push notifications, android push notifications, Weibo, Twitter, chrome push notifications ...

It's in Chinese, so it's pretty much unknown to the English-speaking world. Hacker News and Product Hunt are English only. Non-English projects are not allowed :( I hope my side project can fill the gap between Chinese-speaking makers and the English-dominant tech world. I believe doing good is the best business model.

Checkout my Indie Hackers interview (in English, of course): https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/wanqu

Congrats to Courtland!

Happy to be one of your interviewees!

You can start with Weibo. You can get a Weibo account with a phone number or email address. Many famous US brands or celebrities have a Weibo account nowadays. Some of them have more followers on Weibo than on Twitter :)

Some may argue that Wechat's official account is better than Weibo in terms of reaching users & engagement, as every Chinese internet user is on Wechat now. But it's tedious to get an Wechat official account: https://admin.wechat.com/

Old school email newsletter may work for reaching well-educated Chinese internet users. However, Chinese people don't use email much. Again, everyone's on Wechat.

I did some automation for my blog: https://medium.com/@wanquribao/wanqu-5-english-tech-startup-...

Auto publishing to ~10 different channels, including weibo, twitter, fb, iOS push notification, chrome push notif. ...

It works.

I got the same email. Without Stripe + Alipay, it's tricky receive payment from Chinese users and deposit into US banks :(