We've been building an airline strategy game here in Alberta: Aero Venture. It's pixel art, you run an airline from the dawn of the jet age, and it's coming soon to Steam. https://t.co/poCW5tDSL4
@cityofcoquitlam GeoJSON Cloud has a free 30 min GIS Day session Wed Nov 18 noon MT on converting KML, Shapefile and CSV in the browser: https://t.co/KkmuJmB2L1
GeoJSON Cloud is running a free GIS Day session on Wed Nov 18, noon MT. Thirty minutes on Google Meet: turn KML, Shapefile and CSV into GeoJSON in your browser. https://t.co/KkmuJmB2L1
We're opening Attractionator to five founding member attractions. You get a free 90-day pilot of your own branded iOS and Android app with the setup fee waived, and we get your honest feedback while we build. Details and pricing: https://t.co/l48SjQJt16
Cadet group websites usually land on busy volunteers. YourCadets gives a squadron or corps a ready-made site with a calendar parents can subscribe to, staff listings and sponsor pages. 14-day free trial, from $15 a month. https://t.co/Mx74wJggfj
Heading out this Halloween weekend? https://t.co/PHVYRk43d1 is our free live front page for the province. Pick your city and check weather, alerts, air quality and roads in one spot, plus the day's news. It covers 24 communities 🍁 https://t.co/ymjCbezm8i
It's been a while, so here's what we've been building in Alberta: https://t.co/PHVYRk43d1, Attractionator, YourCadets and https://t.co/VIOjpduzJh, with an airline game called Aero Venture on the way. Each one started with a real problem. https://t.co/obkGvcZzPw
The most annoying things on the landing pages:
😐 no pricing
😐 popup after 3 seconds
😐 a wall of text
😐 no visuals
😐 the last chance offer "only for you"
😐 too many animations
What else?
Most people's new year's resolutions end in failure and disappointment. I avoid this by being realistic with my goals. Next year my aim is to be daft for money, eat and drink too much, stay fat, help animals and annoy my critics. Only focus and discipline will lead to success.
1/ A common dilemma for SaaS founders is whether to focus on individual users or teams as the primary customer. This has important implications for pricing & packaging as well as product design.
TLDR: Team plans are where the money is & where founders should focus. Here's why:
No marketing budget? Start writing.
- If you write 250 words/day
- Every year you’ll publish 50 posts
- If each post brings you 10 visits/day
- Every year you’ll have 200k traffic
- If your traffic converts 1%/day
- Every year you’ll get 2k customers