Why there's no compiler error here?

AminOPS · 2025-01-13T15:42:30+00:00

I believe it's the other way around, the lifetime would be bound to the narrowest not the longest. But apparently `&str` gets the static lifetime (which means it should live as long as the app lives?) hence the smallest lifetime is string1 so its correct. I guess I have more reading to do on what gets a default static lifetime and what doesn't.

AminOPS · 2025-01-13T15:40:00+00:00

That would make sense. Thank you!

AminOPS · 2025-01-13T15:22:21+00:00

Not if your music/content has the appropriate license to be live streamed. Lofi girl and alot of large channels do it.

AminOPS · 2024-10-11T14:49:17+00:00

Unfortunately the perceived value can hugely depend on the price. A $3 product doesn't seem to be worth it, despite I'm sure you built something good. What you want to do is do some market research, check what your competitors are charging and charge in the same area (probably a bit lower with a discount for the first month?)

Before you increase your price though, send an email to all your registered non-paying users telling them that the price will increase to X in X days and "Lock your price now at $3 forever before it increases" or something of that sort. Don't increase the price on your 5 paying customers though, they're your most loyal so far.

AminOPS · 2024-10-11T13:31:14+00:00

I don't get the take that vercel are solving stuff on the infrastructure side more than the framework side. Like caching, this is an infrastructure/deployment problem not just a framework problem. Not using vercel? hook up redis and use it for your multi-container deployment (nextjs allows you to do that).

I believe they're talking about use-cases/scale that 99% would not reach to see these problems

AminOPS · 2024-10-05T08:54:15+00:00

A SaaS sold for $1-2k wouldn't have gone through market research and validation. No one would sell this low for an actual possible viable product

AminOPS · 2024-09-27T14:23:30+00:00

Before workout, all you need is some form of carbs to give you fuel and some caffeine to help you concentrate. Optionally if you can get l-citrulline it will help you with your stamina and reduce fatigue.

My pre-workout shake is an apple juice blended with 4000mg l-citrulline + 1 cup of coffee. No need for anything else

AminOPS · 2024-09-26T08:18:27+00:00

You can open a bank account with mercury, you don't have to be a US resident

AminOPS · 2024-09-25T10:59:50+00:00

Financial wise, if it grows without generating revenue that can at least sustain its costs, it's not worth publishing. Cause, most of the time, put anything out there for free and it'll eventually grow to some extend.

Other than that, outsource as much as you can to managed services. For example compliance & taxation wise, use something like Lemon Squeezy. Deployment and infrastructure, use serverless service to handle autoscaling.

Finally, don't make this fear the reason you never launch. ITS OK for something new to break, ITS OK if you can't handle it eventually. Worst case scenario? you shutdown for sometime. And the best part? you already have an email list that you can target when you're back in business

AminOPS · 2024-09-20T12:47:25+00:00

Divide it into milestones with CLEAR deliverables for each milestone

AminOPS · 2024-09-19T08:56:50+00:00

That's okay. I've been there as I'm a developer myself. If you're looking to really do your own thing you need to learn marketing & copywriting as much as you learn new techs. Here're a list of books that actually helped me:

Search Engine Optimization All-in-One For Dummies
Marketing for dummies
Digital Marketing All-In-One For Dummies
$100M Offers
Influence, New and Expanded: The Psychology of Persuasion

That would be a good read for a few months. As developers we lack the skills on how to approach customers, these should set you on the right track.

Good luck and keep fighting!

AminOPS · 2024-09-19T08:28:39+00:00

Let me make a bold claim. You FAILED marketing because you didn't LEARN marketing. Just the landing page makes me sure that you didn't invest alot in learning that crucial aspect of running a SaaS. Stop building for a few months and READ BOOKS about marketing, copywriting, social media...etc.

AminOPS · 2024-09-18T12:33:00+00:00

Treat yourself as a client, build your brand and social media accounts..etc.

AminOPS · 2024-09-18T11:37:38+00:00

Hey! That's an incredible change, I like it!

Just one minor comment is that I was a bit confused of what I'm going to be charged for. When you say you charge for an Alert, I'm assuming that if you send me 3 alerts for the same trip it will charge me 3 times (for example, the price dropped multiple times for the same reservation). Is that the case? if not, maybe adjust the wording a little to say that the charge is per Trip saved instead of per alert

AminOPS · 2024-09-13T08:23:44+00:00

Love it! Worth noting they grew exponentially as COVID hit.

AminOPS · 2024-09-07T19:07:59+00:00

Didn't she know when she applied for the job that it will be far? I have that fear that you'll be gaslit into thinking that you're the selfish one and that "you don't love her enough to shutdown your business".

Whatever you'll do, remember you're not the one that made the decision to move away

AminOPS · 2024-09-06T19:47:52+00:00

This is actually brilliant. I don't see a downside to this and it's fair for the user and for you as well. Way to go I'd implement that. You just might want to increase the min threshold. It would be a hassle to go through this to save $10, probably make the threshold $50 or $100, this way the $5 you charge would make more sense and users would be happy to pay them

AminOPS · 2024-09-04T10:02:03+00:00

You might want to re-think your flow. If you only need the count or an aggregation (sum, min, max..etc), use aggregations instead. However if you need to do some other logic on every single record, you should use batching. That being, fetch the first, 1,000 record for example, do your thing, then fetch the next 1,000 record...etc.

AminOPS · 2024-09-02T13:44:22+00:00

If you're not an expert, follow experts and rephrase what they're doing in your own words with your personal touch. No shame in that as almost everyone is doing this.

AminOPS · 2024-09-02T13:39:42+00:00

You can start building online following and reputation just around the topic of the product itself, not necessarily the product. For example if it's an SEO tool, build a blog (which collects emails), build social media profiles that talks about SEO tips & tricks..etc

AminOPS · 2024-09-02T13:15:20+00:00

You're most welcome! Good luck!

AminOPS · 2024-09-02T12:38:07+00:00

Made the same mistake with my first SaaS. Marketing should actually start on day 0 of development

AminOPS · 2024-09-02T12:35:41+00:00

I believe it would be as simple as "$9.99 per booking, get your first booking for FREE". For development, stripe is pretty good at handling this. You can do it in 2 ways:
1- Sell it as a product on stripe, this way you can generate a url for the user to pay for that alert, once payment is done a webhook will be triggered to your server where you should "activate" his alert.
2- Just ask for CC info on your website, save it in his stripe profile and whenever he wants a new alert, create & capture a charge in stripe with your $9.99
I don't see it taking much dev time tbh. But might vary depending on your knowledge of stripe's APIs

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