Dude, remember when you made that Basecamp project 5 or 6 times?
Richie:
Hilarious.
Dan:
Yeah.
Richie:
What was it called?
Dan:
I'm looking up the support request for you.
Dan:
"So, I was showing off the Basecamp feature of importing external Writeboards, but it looked like the Ajax response wasn't being handled correctly, and I was able to import the Writeboard six times.
Dan:
Upon seeing this mistake, I deleted the Writeboard from Basecamp. Now, I can not delete the rest of the links. Thus, I have five Writeboards that are attached that I can't delete, and the worst part is... I named them 'Poop'."
Richie:
Nice.
Dan:
And then Michael from 37signals said,
Dan:
"Hey Daniel, sorry for the trouble. This should now be corrected. Please try restarting your browser and let me know if you're still experiencing issues."
Richie:
They could have been much more clever with their response.
“Is your theme installable (if that's a word) I love it in Lovebug's tumblr, and I really want a theme just like that, hint hint, preferable yours? Is it available to us amateur tumblrs?”
“Instead, they worry about things they should be so lucky to encounter. Will my software platform scale if I get 10,000 customers per day? Do we have the right strategic plan for the next three years? What should our stock option plan look like so it’ll cope with 100+ people?”
House of the Devil was a great flick. It somehow managed to pull off its blatant homage to 70s and 80s style horror films without being gimmicky. It was clear that the style was used out of reverence moreso than as a crutch.
My friend Jason recently shared an interesting read. In Why Free Plans Don’t Work, Ruben Gamez identifies the pitfalls of offering free plans for web-based software.
For the next month only 1% of users would choose the paid option. My user base was growing fast but the money was barely trickling in. Also, support was starting to get tricky, which left me uncomfortable at the thought of what things would look like six months down the line.
Ruben uses some great analytics to outline his decision to move away from the free plan initially offered for his application, Bidsketch.
If I stayed on this path, I’d soon have thousands of free users to support.
In the end, Ruben decided to quietly discontinue the free plan offered by Bidsketch. Like many others who’ve since moved away from the Freemium model, he now offers free trials of all of his paid plans.
Ruben’s story was incredibly interesting, but I took it with a grain of salt.
First of all, the article would have been more appropriately named Why Maintaining Free Plans Doesn’t Work. It’s clear that Ruben’s success in generating interest with his free plan served its purpose. People obviously found his service useful. He validated that there was a market for what he was providing.
This put Ruben in a position to react to his success. He was able to make a rational decision about pricing his software. He wouldn’t have been able to support thousands of free users, but he knew that some of those thousands would still be willing to pay a fair price.
It’s easy to write off the free plan after getting rid of it, but it may have been just the thing that helped Ruben bring Bidsketch to the next level.
Providing a free plan can be a good way to gauge interest, reach an audience and make the correct decision when the time is right. It just may be unsustainable.
“hi! sorry, this wont be the best question but i could really use some help:
which code do you have to use in your theme to put a permalink next to a post? please help me, i've been experimenting everything and nothing seems to work :)”
Inside a Post block, there’s a tag called ‘Permalink’ that generates the permalink for the post.
So, if you’d like to have a link that says ‘Permalink’ for a Text post, you can do the following.
Well first - I was in a terrible situation. I accidentally sat down at this very scary man's table. He was was so shitfaced it wast funny and he threw up in a cup at his table.
Tully:
It was awk. Anyway, then I kinda went and sat down and was drinking by myself for a bit.
It's alright, I walked about 1.5 miles to Duk's in the rain, got a chicken burger, caught a cab, got rear-ended by an Asian with a ponytail and fell asleep watching a Robin Williams movie... so I don't really need friends.
Andy:
hahahaha. I want that last statement tattooed on my chest
