Marat Chukmarov

Hey Makers! As Discussions is still in a beta phase we want to hear from you. What ideas do you have for Discussions? What feedback can you share? Thanks!

Hi, everyone! As a tester(on my main job), I push quality against deadlines, cause in indeterminant future developing with fear of risky changes quickly becomes unmaintainable. However, I(as most of us, I believe) need to reach the point, where the product can bring some value, point, where validation of the idea starts, before losing interest/resources/hope. (I noticed, that in most places, a month is a magical deadline). After quick scaffolding, now I need to slow down a bit, to clean the kitchen, so I won't have to clean the garage, so to speak. (consider switching to TDD approach, where it's possible) (like the definition of legacy: 'when the system makes more design decisions than you') How do you, guys, do that? Budgeting on testing completely or, vice versa, going TDD? Or struggling in between? What tools do you use? Do you need any help with struggles? (Solo, making the smallest single page application, basically, one-page dashboard/entry point to clarify team-work - scaling is dangerous when people start looking/working in all different directions instead of a single vision. And, yet, will go for test-first)

Hey Makers! A friend of mine runs a small SAAS product with ~1000 users and is currently using per-user pricing, at a low price of $1 per user, no minimums or maximums, no tiers and has found great success with it. This had me interested to find out which pricing models you've tried and found the most success with? As a Maker, I've made products that use a free (ad supported) model, which worked really well but is becoming less trusted with the increase in privacy first products and can be hard to get advertisers that align with your vision/ethics (especially when you just need that $$$). I have also worked on products that use a tiered pricing model but we had a hard time getting our initial users until we released a free tier. From a consumer point of view, I personally find flat rate pricing/subscription to be ideal for me, because I know how much it's going to cost each month, regardless of the number of users. I also use a lot of products that adopt the freemium model, which works great if you're able to offer me basic (but useful) functionality, and then upgrade to unlock premium features for a fee. What is your favorite pricing model(s)? What has worked / not worked for you? And what do you like as a consumer? Excited to hear your responses!