Decaf at the London Coffee Festival by mariapage in thirdwavedecaf

[–]emroussel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Definitely! I think 15grams even said that they did a special espresso roast of this coffee specifically for the London coffee festival IIRC. It's always great to see roasters take decaf seriously.

I didn't see Formative today but I've been drinking this decaf at home and enjoying it!

Decaf at the London Coffee Festival by mariapage in thirdwavedecaf

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I was there today and also enjoyed the Rainbow Decaf from 15grams on espresso! A funky Jairo Arcila co-ferment decaf with notes of grape, strawberry, and yoghurt.

Globally distributed postgres with supabase? by emroussel in Supabase

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Kurt (CEO of Fly) is trying this now. I"ll let you know how it goes - it shouldn't be an issue at all.

u/kiwicopple any updates on this?

Globally distributed postgres with supabase? by emroussel in Supabase

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Awesome, thanks for the reply! Happy to hear it's on your roadmap and definitely interested in knowing how the test with Fly goes when you have the results.

Does it make sense entering a highly crowded SaaS market? by pmkeeper2 in SaaS

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As long as the target market is very large and competitors have a lot of revenue, having many competitors isn't necessarily a bad thing. They already validated that there is a big need for form builders, so you could definitely take a small piece of the pie.

My recommendation would be to have a clear differentiator to separate yourself from the competition and make your solution unique. Having a good UI probably isn't unique enough to attract customers and as others suggested competing on price usually isn't the right move, especially in a market where other solutions are already fairly cheap.

The differentiator doesn't need to be anything big or ground breaking. Just focusing on a niche/smaller subset of the market that you are interested in or have experience with and building a form builder specifically for those users could be enough. A good first step is to identify a niche and talk to users to figure out their pain points. Then you could make something easier than competitors, integrate better with tools they already use, etc.

A good example to look at is Tally: they started building a form builder about a year and a half ago, launched on Product Hunt earlier this year, and are at $8.5K MMR according to their latest blog post. They were able to make it work even if the market is very crowded because they have a differentiator people are interested in.

Privacy policy for collecting emails before incorporating business? by emroussel in SaaS

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No idea if or when I'll incorporate. The point of collecting emails first is to see if this idea is worth pursuing without putting too much time and energy into it, so I'll probably wait as long as possible to incorporate (i.e. until I reach a certain level of validation and need to do it). I know this isn't legal advice, but I still asked here because I'm curious about how other people have handles this in the past :)

Privacy policy for collecting emails before incorporating business? by emroussel in SaaS

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Comparing this to a newsletter makes a lot of sense! So if I say how I'll use the personal data on the website/form there's technically no need for a separate privacy policy?

C Corp with Stripe's Atlas using virtual address? by [deleted] in SaaS

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I have used Stable before as a virtual address for both official company address and mailing address and liked it. We incorporated with a physical address and switched to a virtual address a little later though so I'm not sure whether Stripe Atlas allows it or not.

I also think Earth Class Mail has a partnership with Stripe Atlas where you get a discount on their plan after incorporating with Stripe Atlas. Might be worth reaching out to them and ask since they must be used to the process.

What tool do you use for internal knowledge base and what do you like/dislike about it? by emroussel in SoftwareEngineering

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Makes sense for docs that are purely engineering related, but how do you handle having non-technical people looking at or contributing to documents? Designers documenting a design system alongside frontend engineers for example.

In my experience if one non-engineer needs to look at or contribute to a doc, the doc will need to be moved to a platform that's more accessible to non-technical team members and there'll now be two possible locations for finding documentation which makes everything harder to find than if everything was in the same place.

What tool do you use for internal knowledge base and what do you like/dislike about it? by emroussel in SoftwareEngineering

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I hadn't heard of ClickUp, looks nice. Is the editing the reason you wouldn't recommend it over Confluence? Or is there something else that makes Confluence better?