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But a key problem Travis encountered with Saasify is that most customers were indie hackers, open-source developers, folks who are really good at creating that unique value, but who are not well-suited for marketing and growth and sales and support. These are all things you need to build a successful SaaS business.

We don't necessarily need to constantly interact with people “around” us on the web. The sensation of being in the quiet companionship of someone else, like reading next to them in a cafe, is what we're missing. The sense of ambiently sharing space – of being co-present – while engaged in other activities is a staple of shared public spaces that

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Customer tool kits and context orchestration: Forget about static, immovable products. If your customers are going to treat products as platforms anyway, then you may as well get ahead of the game. Make your products modular, reconfigurable, and editable. Set the context for customer innovation and collaboration. Provide venues. Build user-friendly... See more

Maybe what we need is a new wave of collaborative commerce.

Specialization makes it easy to forget about the filth of the coal-fired power plant that is lighting this pristine computer screen, or the backbreaking labor it took to pick the strawberries for my cereal, or the misery of the hog that lived and died so I could enjoy my bacon. Specialization neatly hides our implication in all that is done on our

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Bounded notifications: BeReal does this well—users know to expect just one notification per day that prompts them to share. More broadly, “once daily” or weekly apps such as Lobby reliably limit the number of notifications sent per time period. Contrast this with habitual social apps that send seemingly unlimited notifications based on a complex,... See more

According to US census data, eCommerce grew 44% in Q2 2020, achieving three years of growth in just three months.