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bkfh commented on Review of Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World nybooks.com/articles/2024... · Posted by u/mitchbob
Vienna is fascinating! I wrote a bit about my love hate relationship with Vienna over the years here : https://indiantinker.bearblog.dev/love-letter-to-vienna/
Really nice read
Who is the customer for this? Sub $30k appeals to regular people. But why would regular people want to own a robotaxi? I want robotaxis to exist so I don't have to own a car. I want someone else to own it, and I pay to use it once in a while.
If this works, wouldn't just Tesla operate as a taxi company?
I don‘t want a car, I want mobility
bkfh commented on Bootstrap Your SaaS (The Fast Way) bernhard.hauser.io/bootst... · Posted by u/bkfh
As a bootstrapped founder of a number of companies this financial model hurts my brain. This approach is still a venture type fast growth model with low margins since you're giving away much of the money to the channels and customers. Is there even much left for development?
70-80% commission to AppSumo and up to 40% to affiliates sounds crazy if you want to fund growth from customer revenues. Sure it works if you have venture backing but totally self funded?
I agree with you on the numbers game here, but what it provides quickly is validation.
Many founders build products and features in vacuum, not knowing whether they are relevant to any kind of customers.
This growth model is not a long-term strategy, but a form of letting people vote with their wallets to build a foundation to further improve from.
bkfh commented on Bootstrap Your SaaS (The Fast Way) bernhard.hauser.io/bootst... · Posted by u/bkfh
This might work for a (small?) subset of bootstrapped SaaS.
The LTD idea misses one point that could apply to a larger (most?) subset:
Let initial LTD customers be patrons that have insider view and an active role in the product development and roadmap.
Early adopters would love this opportunity, if they buy into your vision. Some might even perceive more value in the product influencer / insider role than the MVP itself, at first.
Love this. I agree, the more you can get evangelists to root for you and your product, the more valuable each LTD customer becomes.
bkfh commented on Bootstrap Your SaaS (The Fast Way) bernhard.hauser.io/bootst... · Posted by u/bkfh
This strategy makes sense for a large TAM. But if you are attacking quite a small niche. You don’t want half your market on some grandfathered deal that doesn’t make any money. Maybe the niches I think about are too small.
Yep, good point. A considerably large TAM is definintely an important factor of this strategy.
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