5 billing mistakes that quietly kill your MRR:
https://t.co/pVlwaG6mgr yearly plan (you lose easy upfront cash)
2.Charging per-seat when you should charge by usage
3.Upgrading is hard (people give up instead)
https://t.co/1zU6xCLSTz emails when a payment fails (you just lose that customer)
5.Same price for everyone (your best customers would pay more)
Fixing #4 alone can bring back 5-10% of βlostβ revenue.
Unpopular opinion: most small SaaS teams donβt need microservices.
Iβve watched 3-person teams spend 6 months building complex infrastructure for traffic they might not see for years β if ever.
One simple codebase you understand beats a complicated system youβre stuck debugging at 2am
"This makes no sense." Reads the error again.
The error message wasnβt confusing.
You just didnβt want it to be right.
Sometimes the answer has been on your screen the whole time.
Keep building.
Great engineer 10 years ago: Knowing 1 programming language and framework.
Great engineer today: A tech-agnostic tech lead with good problem-solving abilities and people skills.