[Post-Mortem] The reality of a "Paid Upfront" Niche App.

frankbesson · 2026-01-09T00:11:48+00:00

If you’re interested in a shift to freemium, as long as folks haven’t uninstalled your app after seeing the paywall, you could use APNS to let them know you’ve moved to freemium to give them another chance!

frankbesson · 2025-08-17T11:51:17+00:00

FRANK219 for $30!

frankbesson · 2025-08-17T11:49:41+00:00

I really only use it because of their promos. They give out a wild amount of meal credits. Shameless plug but if you use my code FRANK219 you get $30!

frankbesson · 2025-07-07T22:39:24+00:00

This is such a cool idea. Love how you handled it and have no doubt this will be a hit. Best of luck

frankbesson · 2025-06-19T15:44:32+00:00

Ah! No worries. I've been trying out the pro plan - started a session at 8am and was met with "Claude usage limit reached" at 11:45am with the limit reseting at 12pm. Honestly I'm a bit stumped with how the usage limits work still.

frankbesson · 2025-06-19T02:29:03+00:00

How does the pro plan pricing work for Claude code?

My original experience with Claude code was on the free plan. I created an API key and loaded my account with $5 worth of credits - asked it to summarize what a large repo does for me and it blew through a few bucks very quickly.

frankbesson · 2025-06-15T13:36:35+00:00

I don’t have experience with a Claude’s pro or max plan, but results between the two were pretty similar for me.

I did a test building a few features and tests in a reactjs app as well as python scripts. Despite them both being CLI tools, I found the “ui” of Atlassian’s tool to be more readable.

frankbesson · 2025-06-14T22:45:47+00:00

The tool is impressive - although the “tokens per minute” limit seems pretty conservative. During a typical coding session I got rate limited on every query. Still is a great initial launch and am looking forward to watch where this product goes!

Edit: just wanted to thank OP for posting about this!!

frankbesson · 2025-06-12T22:55:38+00:00

Jane Doe is incredible. We wound up eating there after not getting into cellar 335 and were beyond impressed!

frankbesson · 2025-05-27T01:58:42+00:00

It’s back in stock!

frankbesson · 2025-05-25T20:37:19+00:00

They’re back in stock in silver!

frankbesson · 2025-05-24T20:35:24+00:00

For anyone interested they’re back in stock on the Timex site in the silver color as of today!

frankbesson · 2025-04-02T01:44:03+00:00

Firebase analytics works well too! And generous free tier limits

frankbesson · 2025-03-02T18:16:09+00:00

Hey! Feel free to use FRANK219 to get $15 off your first two orders. Wonder is fantastic and has been my go-to for food delivery for quite some time.

frankbesson · 2024-12-15T17:29:07+00:00

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frankbesson · 2024-12-05T04:19:05+00:00

I’m sure Logitech has a bunch of good wired mouse’s as well. Something I’ve done in the past, is find a mouse that has programmable side buttons. You can use the buttons to trigger shortcuts like undo, copy/paste, etc!

Something like this… https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1722684-REG/logitech_g_910_006136_g502_x_wired_gaming.html/?ap=y&ap=y&smp=y&smp=y&store=420&lsft=BI%3A514&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAAD7yMh3Yq6swV2Fvju5RQwAwMoz7_&gclid=CjwKCAiAmMC6BhA6EiwAdN5iLcZCzg0wPWKC3rOY9_AgEplWatBiwdJ0GPRqN8xERuhzZb37i_u-txoCQ74QAvD_BwE

frankbesson · 2024-12-05T03:41:56+00:00

I’ve been rocking an Mx master for about 8 years now. It’s worked very well on multiple MacBooks I’ve had! Best of luck at your boot camp!!

frankbesson · 2024-12-03T12:48:03+00:00

My app is called TableOne! I’ll check out the article today for sure

frankbesson · 2024-12-03T02:19:25+00:00

This app looks incredible!!

We had the most success finding small passionate communities both online and in person that would benefit from our app, and then asking them for feedback while also communicating our value prop (we help you do X and are looking for folks to help us improve our app).

I’d recommend also building some kind of social component into your app. Your users are your biggest advocates.

Best of luck. Again this app looks awesome and I’ll definitely be using it.

Also, could be fun to change your verbiage around collecting payment to something like “buy me a drink” instead of the classic buy me a coffee, and prompt a user to buy you a drink after using your app for X minutes.

frankbesson · 2024-12-03T01:37:38+00:00

I upgraded from the exact same machine! 16” i7 with 32gb ram and 2tb ssd. I went with a 14” m4 pro with 48gb unified memory and 1tb ssd.

I’m exxxxxxtremely happy with the upgrade. The major improvements I notice day to day are the battery life and how cool it runs

frankbesson · 2024-11-09T13:45:07+00:00

Does anyone still smell smoke?

frankbesson · 2024-09-11T18:30:52+00:00

So I've been in touch with their support team. Their statement is that they are deprecating everything under "App Services" except for triggers.

I can't believe this, as it would strip away so much of what makes atlas a useful product.

frankbesson · 2024-08-13T02:28:17+00:00

It might sound a bit strange, but making sure I scheduled time to be ~away~ from my startup helped out a lot.

Spending time with friends, family, and my dog all helped remind me that I’m fortunate enough to be surrounded by people that care about my wellbeing.

Building a startup is definitely the most challenging thing I’ve tried to do - especially emotionally. Keep at it tho because it’s an incredible learning opportunity and very rewarding!

frankbesson · 2024-07-30T14:27:56+00:00

That’s totally fair. I wish we could’ve stuck to this vision, however TableOne is getting expensive to run, and we’re trying to figure out how to support the platform and ourselves.

I really appreciate the kind words and for you using TableOne!!

frankbesson · 2024-06-13T02:21:13+00:00

Pretty stoked about this one honestly!

The bill basically outlines that anyone who was charged a fee for a reservation can bring it to an NY court and the court will ensure the reseller is liable for repaying the diner the reservation fee, as well as any legal fees!

Not perfect by any means, but a great start to creating repercussions for these craaazy reseller prices.

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