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dishes and costs in asia and different venues would be solid here

highly recommend focusing on just tiktoks/reels rather than stories that expire every 24 hours. They will pick up more views beyond your audience, especially if you "warm up" your account by engaging with content just on your niche. Look forward to the next experiment!

He breaks it down in this interview, I believe in this section https://youtu.be/KSeraZxSAbQ?t=1350

Ultimately he mentions that being CEO is a rare opportunity to play a more infinite game and practice the craft of getting really good at something that doesn't have an end

Love this. A big miss teams have are with affiliate/refer a friend urls. Like if you think of your Uber referral code being 5 characters instead of a general 16 character hash. Shorter makes it easier for people to remember and share their code.

e.g. RJF01 vs ab0fhct99fh2h4fqi2fj9

Really good article! I like how it framed simplicity and complexity of apps, and how users want to stay in a certain zone.

I know the example was trite but future UIs will just allow the user to type or speak what they're trying to do. For example coloring in the circle/triangle will literally require you to say just that.

Whenever I see how people are cropping, masking, and adjusting an image, it already feels so outdated with what AI feels like it will be able to do based on text/voice input.

Some combination of users interactions with the endless output might create a decent enough opportunity. For example, Spotify discover combined with auto generated music (of a certain level) maybe is a possibility for this in that genre?

There's no UI, I think humans need a bit of affordance and are bad at keeping things in memory. So while it may be good in answers/understanding, the applications where it can be leveraged are more limited

Awesome, appreciate these tips, will be checking those out as I visit those areas :). I learned how to make flour tortillas from scratch since I missed it so much, corn is def harder to come across. Wrote about it here with full recipe and all https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22786287#22792647

Mostly trouble sourcing the corn from Mexico I believe. https://taiyari.nl/ serves most Mexican places in The Netherlands. It's still not as soft as you'd get from a really freshly made one, although they sell the raw masa as well. The best hack I've found is actually cooking the corn tortillas in a bit of oil to soften them up quite a bit. Works great even with older/frozen tortillas.

I haven't found good flour tortillas, curious what your source is here!

Mexican food! I've spent the past 3 years learning to recreate good tortillas. I live abroad in Amsterdam and miss it so much after living in California for decades. I even worked in the best Mexican restaurant in Amsterdam for a month just to learn some of the subtle techniques.

I'm finally at a place where I can make tacos much better than what I would get here and even back in California. I'm currently working on burritos as the next project.

The most helpful things I've seen in quick summary are journaling around work: 1. What gives you energy 2. What feels like work/takes away energy

Use that list to double check against any opportunity you're deciding to pursue, aiming for things that primarily give you energy.

To figure out what you may want to pursue, another helpful exercise is listing 3 people you'd like to be like, and 3 companies/roles you'd like to do for work.

Lastly the Ikigai framework can be used as well to double check your decision.

With the combination of these, I think that's one of the fastest ways to discovery (for your current abilities), since it will help you find what you like and what is sustainable which usually leads to inevitable mastery

Highly recommend checking out the Wheel of Life[1], to help you understand the different areas that contribute to happiness, it's never just one thing. Writing down what you think will get an area to a 10, envisioning it, then seeing if you feel that would feel like a 10 is a great way to uncover where you may be overthinking what gets you there before doing all that work.

Gratitude should also help with each area that you feel is fulfilled, otherwise you just never have enough

[1] https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newHTE_93.htm

And that last statement is where all the magic is happening. Currently your statement is true, but in the future that's what changes.

My money that is stored in some bank's DB is not on my local computer, but I sure hope it's mine. In some countries they aren't so lucky and it's exactly as you say, the money doesn't belong to them.

I personally felt this experience recently with it's revival. I have a group that was quite active 10 years ago and we got back together for a few weeks once the platform revived. Unfortunately the room died out soon after. For me personally it was just easier to use Spotify due to built up playlists, mobile app, discovery weekly etc. I also felt a lot of pressure needing to be the DJ, rebuilding my playlist (some songs not available in certain countries) and always upvoting songs to not get kicked off stage. I hope they can continue to innovate in the space and carve out more sticky use cases.

The landscape/competition is vastly different today

Would love analytics, ultimately I'd want to better understand where customers are spending the most time (which case studies/parts of a case study) or a slide, I imagine that will come in the future and be in some premium version but well worth the cost!

Yes it's just the tops of honey bottles

headless instantly made sense to me, I was thinking of it like contentful/headless shopify even if there is a little bit of a gui. I interpreted it as something I'd have maximum control over in just one word.

This is a really good post, how long have you been doing this for Dan? Look forward to seeing what you make next

This talk is the holy grail on this topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otbnC2zE2rw niche b2b, w/ natural recurring cycles, $99 price point at a minimum, and not needing to be on call is most ideal

As a customer that definitely makes a lot of sense from a pure cost POV, but as a business (depending on the SaaS) they technically are unlocking a ton more value for you as you scale. To not price accordingly feels like it would be bad overall for both businesses. CAC is only increasing as competition grows, the SaaS needs to devote revenue to both marketing and product, successful customers can help fund the SaaS so they can continue to build more value for your business, unlocking again more potential revenue for both sides.

If you pay a flat fee, it's possible that your business eventually outgrows the SaaS in some shape/form leading you to switch to a more mature product that charges more. I think this balance is why well aligned value based pricing keeps everyone aligned for the long term.

Agreed with this, would not recommend trying to do metered/per unit pricing (that developers may be used to) if your customers aren't familiar with that. We've found that customers readily accept/understand tier based pricing. We literally just changed higher plans from usage based to blocks/tiers of usage based e.g. up to X units per plan

We used to do free trials but I think early on as a bootstrapper/indiehacker not having a free plan helps you get from 0 to 1 faster, which should be your goal. Understanding what set of features results in someone not only paying for the product but sticking each month as well. Offering a money back guarantee has been a good in between for us, this way users still have some sort of recourse if things don't work and it helps alleviate their purchasing decision. We also capture a bit of that revenue if they decide to continue to use the service (since they pay the whole time rather than a free 2-week/30 day trial). Lastly it helps get more serious buyers in the door and reduces support w/ free users early on.

Free trials don't create this dynamic of having skin in the game, most of the time people will forget they're on a free trial and aren't incentivized to give any feedback as to why they didn't convert. By them needing to reach out to get a refund things are much more aligned with your goal of understanding if you are delivering enough value or why not.

I think as you grow larger (or are VC backed/trying to capture market share), exploring a free plan is pretty important to help with that. But if you've grown to that point, having a free plan or not is likely the least of your worries.

Any additional reading on this that you can link/refer to that gave you that realization?

Honestly I think if the "robot" food is truly incredible and delicious, I don't buy that the story will matter much at all. That paired with high value relative to cost, likely leads to a world where only the edges survive, "fine dining" like experiences and cheap but good options. Agreed with the power of ghost kitchens leveraging brand, this is what sweetgreen does to help with their distribution

Grats on shipping! Highly recommend testing positioning this as a B2B product for monitoring companies that I could use as sales leads. For example it would be great to get alerted from all the diff job boards when different companies are trying to hire for what our product solves, similar to how Reilly is using your product.

Pretty cool concept you should write more about this. Do you have any other examples of companies that give away their IP but still thrive in the physical or digital world? Will definitely check out Prusa Research. I've always wondered if a restaurant could be built upon a similar concept, teaching people how to recreate it's foods but being so cheap and accessible that the cost of creating it yourself outweighs just buying it.

Assuming I'm paying that accountant less than 20k for those 30 days, it doesn't make much business sense to switch when presented that way. Businesses don't always optimized for saved time even if it's obvious, it has to make business sense on an ROI level aka that solution only costs me 2k rather than the $20K I spent on the accountant. Also like you said they just may have bigger fish to fry since 20k is nothing compared to their other issues

I'm still trying to figure it out as well. I think for flour, experimenting with any artisan bread type flours would be good. The wheat flour at your supermarket may work though, you'll likely need to try it out and compare. The differences can start to become subtle. Vegetable shortening is also a decent replacement for lard, the ones like Crisco that come in a can and look like lard/non liquid oil. Some of my favorite taco places like https://www.instagram.com/elrusola/ use exclusively that.

I would also avoid things like Maseca if you have the time to try to figure things out, since they are a pre mix just add water type thing for corn tortillas specifically.

Thanks for the suggestions, I'm planning on Mexico City and some other small towns like you mentioned. Will definitely add to the list!

agreed with this, hot liquids def made things much easier