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“It's around two thirds comes from that flat SaaS revenue. The flat revenue is sort of the paywall for some of the premium features like custom domains, advanced analytics, that sort of thing. Whereas metered is purely based on volume. So only a third of button…”

“And especially for some of the very marketing-heavy tools like ActiveCampaign, like MailChimp, these are designed for folks who are sending out, you know, e-commerce blasts to potentially tens of thousands of users, and that's a very important vertical to hand…”

“I think it's more lightning in a bottle. It's, there's been a plethora of people writing about, like, how to launch on all of these news platforms, and I do think a lot of it is very hit or miss. Like, sometimes you win the lottery.”

“Around 20 to 25 bucks a month.”

“And I still see a large proportion of my traffic coming from, you know, comments that I've made months ago on Hacker News, as long as the content is relevant and the tool itself is put into the discussion.”

“So right now around 252 160 paying customers.”

“Product hunt is much more friendly in terms of letting people kind of glom on and being very sort of positive, like the community there in general is nicer, but it's the opposite of a long tail, right? Like you're not going to be able to bring it up in a lot o…”

“One of the worst things an engineer can say to themselves is I bet I could build a better version of this in a weekend.”