I don't handle the fulfilment myself. I wrote a software integration that connects NewBusinessMonitor with a direct mail company in the UK. They have special machines that can print, envelope, and send all the letters automatically, at large scale. The letters are printed in colour (on rather nice quality paper), trimmed by guillotine (for full-bleed printing), folded in half and inserted into a windowed envelope, before being dispatched 2nd class, usually the following business day.
I typically don't need to manually intervene in any part of the process; I just try and do hand-holding with people when I onboard them, because I think good business is about building relationships with people, and many (most?) of my users specialise in areas outside of computing.
I love to travel, and I spent the last couple of years permanently on the road in Europe and Asia, so it was a personal goal for me to design the business in such a way that I'm not physically tied to any particular location.
Incidentally, NBM does pretty close to $500 MRR baseline with spikes appearing when a client decides to go on a sending spree. Payments are handled by a combination of Stripe and GoCardless. I initially added the GoCardless integration because some businesses in the UK really prefer Direct Debit payments. It looks to me like the Direct Debit accounts pay their subscription fees much more reliably than those paying by credit card. At some point, I might consolidate on just Stripe because they also support Direct Debit now.
always find this argument so weird - The amount of people who can create music and find an audience now vs a decade ago is exponentially higher; subsequently, the market price of a song has fallen and Spotify pays accordingly.
Except now, as an independent artist I can get easier exposure on Spotify and build up more income from live shows, merch and whatever else as a result. My closest fans will still often buy from band camp, or buy a vinyl or whatever. Except now I have a ton more fans than I could have reasonably achieved in the iTunes era
And the distribution of wealth has stayed relatively similar - huge artists (The Taylor swift’s of the world) continue to be minted, small unknown artists continue to make a comparatively tiny living - except now many, many more people can make that living and stream music
I’m in my 20s and have been through the 3 day hospitalisation process NINE times so far - I cannot stress how huge a deal what you’ve built is for me
The amount of hassle and anxiety this will save me is impressive on its own, but so to is the ability to have a normal lifestyle (such as going out for a drink) without having to worry about whether or not I’m always in range of a hospital that I want to spend 3 days in if I’m unlucky
Super interesting thread, I've always heard lots of doom and gloom about this on Hn threads but seems that there's been a pivotal step forward in the field with these new superconductors
Can only imagine what the world would look like with a limitless energy source like this.
Anyone see any reason not to be highly optimistic about this development?
Not to be cynical, but because people who run things make a lot of money from smartphones, the internet, antibiotics, vaccines, and paid energy.
We could have had free energy a long time ago (Tesla, the guy, not the company) but the wealthy men of that time (also energy guys, BTW), didn't want a free competitor. And still don't.
Love the fact you can click Zoom etc links straight from the bar, thats super handy
Would pay maybe $2-3/month, $10 just seems way too heavy right now. Maybe in future for your whole SaaS notifications piece and I can see the value if it essentially shows me all of the valuable things going on in my business and nothing superfulous , but sadly $10 I can't justify for just the calendar
Hey, I run Nocode.tech and can probably give some advice here - No perfect answer sadly but a few to try
First, Worth noting you can export Webflow as code and rehost it wherever you like if that’s helpful. BusyWorkHQ hasn’t launched yet I don’t believe, but it’s a backend builder for Webflow and may help you solve your problem by letting you connect a database/api thru to Webflow. @PatrickStolc on Twitter is building it
Have a look at Adalo - They have the ability to replace their backend with an external database (it’s a little bit tucked away but it’s there). The downside is that the front end parts aren’t as freeform as Webflow. They’re more focused on mobile but support web apps too
You may also be interested in React Studio, Wappler or UIBakery
> you can export Webflow as code and rehost it wherever you like if that’s helpful.
this sounds good starting point for me, I am guessing in this case I need to render HTML on server side or add some additional code to exported source code to be able to render data front end on browser side.
Yeah, you would need to use something like Pug.js to render the data.
As an alternative (and possibly easier imo), you could add custom JS code on Webflow (it has an embed function) to hook onto its dynamic list functionality and add your own data inside.
In other words, create a list on Webflow with one item in it designed the way you want the final data to look. Then use JS code to override the data on that page with your own data source and to duplicate the list item as many times as you need for your data source
Would love to hear more about the mind of brands/foods you ate with no sugar. I’ve attempted this before and it’s extremely hard to find products with 0 sugar! Guessing you avoided the local Tesco?
Most food either comes canned or in plastic containers. Even the "fresh" foods will likely have pesticide residue so I guess grow our own garden? Of course that's probably out of the question in urban environments due to many toxic chemicals in the soil so ugh, we're truly excrementing where we sleep aren't we?
This is the kind of thing I was getting at about everything about modern life being bad. It's like someone declared war on sperm a few decades ago and is just slowly modifying everything they can think of to kill them all off.
Yeah it's crazy how so much stuff in a supermarket is then totally off limits to you.
I just ate a lot of vegetables and meat. Old school diet!
Plus like the comment below, just making things from scratch. Often they taste just as good - the sugar was just in there because they used cheap / unripe ingredients that don't taste of anything.
