That's ridiculous. Collaborating with clients should almost always be free.

Just out of curiosity, what kind of collaboration are you doing with clients? I'm the CEO of a platform specifically for businesses and their clients, and we loosely compete with Airtable.

Whoa, this is great. Thanks for putting this together!

Could you do something similar to PG's and Sam Altmans essays?

Thanks!

Paul Graham essays are included and can be found at: https://ycadvice.com/?category=Paul%20Graham%20Essays

If you click on sub-topics after that, you can see all the sub-categories for his essays :)

For Sam Altman, we have all his startup resources at: https://ycadvice.com/?people=Sam%20Altman

Any tips on replicating the same results? Would love to hear more

This is the exact advice I was going to give.

- Take the job in SF, you'll be a couple hour drive from LA

- Start working on a lifestyle business immediately

- Once you reach some initial traction (whenever that is) move to LA

Hang on a sec, it's more like a 4-5 hour drive. (I live in LA.)

- Strip away 80% of the B2C website and launch an MVP in 2 months (if you can't, maybe create a B2B solution instead?)

- Try lining up contract work before taking the plunge. It's a new skillset and you may find that you can't sell yourself (or, don't like selling)

- You can always find more time. Spend family time and then code into the late hours?

- Honestly, you sound like you're just making a lot of excuses. Either do or don't. It's up to you.

SEEKING FREELANCER | New York, NYC | Remote or onsite okay

Looking for an somewhat-experienced freelancer to make constant updates to SaaS wweb app built in Elixir/Phoenix, Postgres, and React (built using brunch).

Work will include integrations (Zapier, Filestack, Google drive, etc) , implementing product features, and overall product improvements (UX, UI, etc).

Bootstrapped business with high recent growth, so won't be able to afford high-priced consultants, but open to creative solutions.

Also, potentially interested in bringing on a CTO through equity (until revenue/seed raise can support in 1-3 months). Would have to be NYC.

Inquire within - mark@recapped.io

Most successful SaaS companies operate on a payback period of less than 1 year. Aka spend $100 today, and you'll get $100 from the customer within 10-12 months. After that, it's all profit, which works out really well if your churn is low and users stick around for 48 months.

As someone that's very familiar with App Academy - this is incredible.

That's such a minute chance of happening, it shouldn't be a concern in the slightest

The chance may be a minute, but this can have great reputational consequences. And, to begin with, I consider such practice immoral, even if it is a difference of 0.01.

In a goods shop you may fit such an experiment, maybe, with marginally different items, but not with your main product for sure.

- Recapped.io (https://www.recapped.io)

- Go from Sales Proposal to Project Management in one dynamic page

- Launched and post-revenue (just applied to YC)

- AppSumo featured us yesterday as the next deal (https://appsumo.com/recapped/), and it's been crazy hectic. Amazing feedback and revenue so far though.