Love love love Cushion. I don't really freelance anymore but Jonnie and team are an amazing crew who care deeply about improving the working lives of their customers. If you are a freelancer, use and pay for Cushion. Do it. Seriously.
I wish Cushion was around back when I was a freelancer. While I haven't used the product myself, several members of the Domino community (www.wearedomino.com) do and swear by it.
I highly recommend the Journal (http://cushionapp.com/journal) for anyone who is interested in the craft of building software, or who is embarking on a similar endeavor themselves. When I first came across it, I read it top to bottom.
I've been following the CushionApp updates for quite a while now, and it's awesome to see how it's changing and becoming a real player in the freelancing space. Well done!
Nice product, i've actually been looking at this myself and had settled with Harvest as we're a 2 man consultancy and i'd want to make sure we're all in sync. I am going to try the trial and do a comparison. What was most interesting here was your cost of business - https://cushionapp.com/running-c...
I found this so intriguing to see just how much you're spending on various costs. I must admit your SSL costs to me looked extremely high, have you considered using letsencrypt.com which is free and looks reaasonably easy to manage, although im not sure it's right for you guys? The other large cost was intercom that seems quite high, but again it does a lot for you. How often do you try to remove or consolidate these costs for all of these services? Do you find them all reasonable?
@kinnth Hi Tom! Good questions. We could *definitely* cut down on costs if we wanted to focus time on doing that, but lately, we've been in the mindset of paying for the convenience of not having to deal with it (right now).
Regarding SSL, our cert was set to expire somewhat recently and it was easier for us to simply renew it with what we had in place rather than spend the time on a different cert. We actually *just* used Lets Encrypt for our marketing site, which ended up being *much* easier than we thought it would be, so we'll definitely use that once our app's cert expires.
Intercom is definitely up there, but we use them for *everything*—probably more than we should. We love their email editor so much that we moved all of our newsletter emails to them, which certainly isn't cost effective as we grow, so we'll probably move that back to a newsletter-specific service.
All-in-all, we could spend a day or two cutting down the costs, but we've been 100% focused on building Cushion itself, so we've procrastinated a bit. It's definitely something I think about often, but I'm not really in a rush to consolidate—I'm much more excited about working on our next features. :)
Hey! Just FYI the 'C' logo used above looks A LOT like Canary's (camera company) iOS app icon. Not necessarily a problem, but I just thought it would be important to know from a branding perspective.
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Congrats on the redesign Jonnie!!! ❤️️ Bret and the rest of the Asbury Agile crew!!
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