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Coder & founder - ❤️ to code, build products and businesses. As founder I’ve done bootstrapped, I’ve done VC-funded - now indie hacking for fun & profit, in addition to doing some advisory board work and mentoring. Way back, as a teenager and early on in my career I did some indie hacking without knowing of it - developing shareware and selling online. Work took over, and not so much indie hacking. Did mobile games before the first iPhone, worked in the video games industry (even as CEO), built an agency, founded a B2B marketing tech company that was acquired, founded a VC-funded fintech company. Now back to the roots coding and building products! Based in Sthlm 🇸🇪
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I'm Alex MacCaw, founder of Clearbit and Reflect, ask me anything. 🔥
Hey, I'm Alex and I like writing English and TypeScript. I have founded a few companies (most recently Clearbit and Reflect), was an early engineer at Stripe, and I've also written a few O'Reilly books. I'll be answering questions on November 9th
Success with pay-what-you-want model?
What experience do you have with a "pay what you want" model (that is - when the user can choose how much to pay for your product) or revenue through "tipping services" like BuyMeACoffee? - What has your approach been? Is it more of a "maybe not worth charging for this, but making it open for donations anyway - because who knows!?" - or a deliberate strategy? - Was it completely voluntarily or did the user have to make a choice to e.g. access certain features or download something? - Any examples of when it did generate more revenue than expected? - Examples of when it completely failed? Would love to hear!
If you could change one thing about the current startup ecosystem, what would it be?
Hey Product Hunters, happy Monday! Share what would you change about the current startup ecosystem?