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by matt1 1269 days ago
Wow, you got on one of those $19 for life plans that I initially offered, that's wild!

It's great to hear you got some use out of the tool and hopefully continue to do so. I look forward to your next life update in 13 years when Preceden makes the HackerNews homepage again :).

PS for any aspiring entrepreneurs: don't offer lifetime plans, and definitely not for $19, lol.
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hermitcrab 1269 days ago
Congrats on 13 years. I started selling my (desktop) software in 2005 and am still going.

>don't offer lifetime plans

Yep! https://successfulsoftware.net/2008/09/08/should-i-give-free...

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778hbff 1268 days ago
Could tie them to the life of your dog or so. Be upfront about age and health of it and perhaps your creativity scores a few customers on that plan.
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vram22 1268 days ago
Congrats, Andy.

I have been reading Andy's blog for some years now. Though the main focus is on his own products and his product development experiments and experiences, many of the posts have good advice for those wanting to create their own products for sale. There are also some interesting interviews with other product creators.

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OJFord 1268 days ago
> PS for any aspiring entrepreneurs: don't offer lifetime plans, and definitely not for $19, lol.

To be fair though, the chances of your service still being around and GP still getting value from it 13y later were pretty slim weren't they? After all, you listed some other SaaS products shutdown in the interim in OP, did any of those have lifetime [of the product] plans?

Of course, I do realise non-recurring sales (coupled with the non-recurring sales not continuing, growth in users slowing) hurts those chances itself.

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fencepost 1268 days ago
PS for any aspiring entrepreneurs: don't offer lifetime plans, and definitely not for $19, lol.

And for those aspiring to find the lifetime plans by startups, go look through offers on AppSumo.

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