Bruno Calder

Winters and a bag of grit in the boot, and it is a car. Sell it because you dislike it, not because of snow.

Annual plans. One charge a year instead of twelve is roughly a twelfth of the failure surface, and the failures you do get are worth chasing personally because it's a whole year of revenue. We moved 30% of the base to annual and involuntary churn dropped more than any dunning change we made.

This is the most common expensive mistake in this hobby. The mic that sounds incredible in a treated studio is the mic that sounds like a corridor in a spare room.

The hosted services start earning their keep when you need percentage rollouts with sticky assignment, targeting rules more complicated than a list of ids, an audit trail of who flipped what, and non engineers flipping flags safely. None of those describe you in three weeks. Most of them do have free tiers that would cover a solo product, but the paid tiers are priced per seat per month in a way that assumes a team, and the real cost is that you now have an external dependency in your request path on launch day. I would not add one this month.

That is fair for a flat, as long as the wall is right for mounting. Renting complicates it, which is the usual reason people end up with the wobbly tripod.

The bit about metering the wrong unit lands. My customers absolutely talk in clients, not documents, and I had not connected that to how the invoice would read.

On the "locked at the old price" worry - that is a good problem and it lasts a year. Grandfathering early supporters at a low price is a thing every successful product does and nobody has ever died of it.

UPX will squash it to around 4MB if you genuinely need it small for something like an embedded box or a CLI people download over a bad connection. Costs you a decompress on every start and antivirus products flag packed binaries constantly, so I would not do it for a server.