... Apple's own support pages. Apple In-App Purchase: 26%, or 15% if you're in the Small Business Program, the Mini Apps or Video Partner Programs, or on an auto-renewable subscription after the subscriber's first year. Alternative payment processing inside your app: 20%, or 10% for those same groups. Out-of-app offers with an actionable link: a 15% store services commission, or 10% for those groups, on anything bought within 7 days of the tap. Apps ... ... distributed outside the App Store entirely - an alternative

... pages, most of them a template matrix built for search traffic. Those were cached properly. The pages the whole matrix funnels into, the homepage and pricing and the free generators and the legal pages, were answered no-store, every one of them. The pages we care most about were the only ones

... even when "it's okay" is the whole sentence. That's not thin feedback. It just needs a different way to draw it out. Iterative testing is a usual answer for that: a few short rounds instead of one long study. Findings get specific by the second or third round. Template here if you want to try it: https://medium.com/swlh/preparin... If budget allows, add a UX/UI audit on top. An audit checks the interface against known patterns ... ... rabnoor_s): The number is the wrong axis, and I say that as someone who got it wrong expensively. You can talk to a hundred people and validate nothing, because everybody is polite to a founder on a call. One

... legacy "Block AI bots" switch is deprecated on 15 September, and mixed-purpose crawlers get folded into it. Googlebot, Applebot and BingBot are in scope. Opting out is one click and the window is 25 days. Sometime in the last two years a lot of us flipped a switch in Cloudflare called "Block AI bots." It was one

... inference eats about 23% of revenue. Every growth instinct you inherited was formed in a world where your best user cost you nothing. There's a rule most of us absorbed without ever being taught it: engagement is free. One more session, one

... owner and an escalation and they do not know about each other. Naming the field was not the hard part. Escalation is the only one of your four that requires a second person to exist, which is why it is the one

... site, measured rather than guessed. In 24 hours, AI crawlers requested our pages 479 times. Applebot 179, meta-externalagent 180, ChatGPT-User 74, ClaudeBot 26, GPTBot 20. Over seven days, assistants sent us real people: three visits from chatgpt.com , one from perplexity.ai , two from Bing, arriving from Turkey, Greece, Hong Kong, Korea, the US and China. Small numbers. Real ones

... fully aligned then. Appreciate the checklist, one of the more practical ones

... coding agent gives you a working version of a feature in minutes. Ask again and you get another one, also working, slightly different. Working stopped being the filter. My rule is simple: I ship the version with the fewest moving parts, because I'm the one

... when marketing is literally how you make a living. :D I never had a problem promoting other people's products. Just my own. Now I'm in the same situation again. I'm building a LinkedIn plugin , and one of the main ways to get it in front of people is by talking about it on LinkedIn. The problem is, I don't want people to see me as someone who's constantly selling. What would you recommend doing ... ... tried so far: On X, I'm taking a build-in-public approach and sharing my coding journey and I leave the link in the comments. I've added the waitlist link to my social media profiles. When one

... everyone, solving all the problems. Neither one is sustainable, practical, or profitable. Solve the ONE

... realise. The better move, ease back a bit, delegate, be happy with enough and adopt a slower pace, share your success more with the people around you and they will repay it by sharing the load ( the good ones will anyway, and you filter for them over time) Comment from Ghost Kitty(@ghost-kitty-9963156): Comment Deleted Comment from Aggie Ho(@aggie_ho): Being a bootstrapped founder with a decade of experience in managing global tech teams, the programming part ... ... have you approached marketing for your business? Comment from Adrian Witaszak(@adrian_witaszak): For me it's been scope discipline. I'm building something deliberately broad (DukieX, a creator platform that pulls content, community, memberships, products, and livestreams into one

... pretty fast and versatile (but they probably delegate some things to other freelancers - that's my guess). How many projects can you handle at once? Either solo or together? For example, I was handling 5 or 6 at one time, but it soon took its toll on my health. When it struck, I didn't care about project anymore. Comment from Alexis Mermet(@alexis_mermet): Interesting question, and honestly one

... think about invoices A plain text context file per project that I keep current That last one sounds like nothing and it's the one

... islands and no answer to "who needs me right now." A feed inside one IDE is a nicer sidebar. One

... will go first. The meeting where everyone nods and no one disagrees. Not because they agree. Because they have checked out. They do not think their opinion matters. They have stopped investing. That silence is louder than any argument. Here are other non obvious signs I have learned to watch for. 1. The roadmap keeps growing but nothing ships. You have a list of features. It gets longer every week. Nothing gets checked off. The team is busy. Meetings happen ... ... Decisions are made. But the code does not move. That is not a roadmap. That is a wishlist. 2. The founder is the only one

... thought we were ready. Bigger deals. Fewer customers. Better margins. That was the dream. So we built enterprise features. SSO. Advanced permissions. Audit logs. A whole new pricing tier starting at $2,000/month. We spent 6 months. Three engineers. One dedicated product manager. Endless meetings about "enterprise readiness." We launched the tier. Sent emails to our biggest users. Ran LinkedIn ads targeting "Head of IT" and "VP of Infrastructure." Zero. Not one

... free tier. Feature-gating feels cleaner, but usage limits let people try everything before they commit. Anyone here tried both and found one converts better? Comment from Takahito Yoneda(@y_taka): Your general versus