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Bidsketch
Company blog · bidsketch.com/blog · on HN as rubengbusinesscareer
Bidsketch is the company blog at bidsketch.com, writing about business and career. Since 2010, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Bidsketch as an example of a one-person SaaS and as a reference for pricing pages. Commenters cite its posts on raising prices and why free plans don't work.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Bidsketch proposal software lets you create, electronically sign, and track professional looking client proposals in 50% less time.
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What Hacker News says?
Bidsketch | https://bidsketch.com | Portland, OR | REMOTE Bidsketch is a profitable bootstrapped SaaS (subscription web app) that customers use to create client proposals. I launched Bidsketch working nights and weekends, and eventually grew it to a small team of four. Now we're looking for someone with Rails experience to join the team. Some of the benefits: - Work remotely - Flexible schedule - No layers of manage…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2015)”Submitted Self-Employed? Use Science to be more productive as a story · 4 points
HN discussionclickable : http://www.bidsketch.com
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on “What I Learned From Increasing My Prices”Submitted How to Land More Clients With Your Proposals as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMaybe he should also consider changing the text on the register button? http://www.bidsketch.com/
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on “Why Free Plans Don’t Work”Submitted How to write a great email to a cold lead as a story · 2 points
HN discussionDefinitely more than 50k/year net and growing at a nice pace. I'm a single founder, worked on my SaaS product nights and weekends, and been live almost a year and a half. Also, just quit my day job a couple of weeks ago so I can do what I love full time. My product: http://www.bidsketch.com
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on “Ask HN: Anyone on HN running a web startup with 50K+ a year net profit?”Submitted How To Be Productive: 7 Ways To Get More Done as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHave you looked at Bidsketch? http://www.bidsketch.com/
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on “Show HN: Resumonk – a year after it was launched here”Submitted Freelance Marketing 101: Creating a “Magnetic” Freelance Business as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'm a big fan of outsourcing development as that was the route I chose to launch my product ( http://www.bidsketch.com ) in a much shorter time than it took when I was doing everything myself. I outsourced the early code and design. Quality of both was shaky, but I only had $3,000 to put into it so I wasn't working with much. I later picked up on the last 25% of the development to get into a beta (since my cash ran…
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on “Nathan Barry’s $5k App Challenge: My Seasoned Bootstrappy Advice”Submitted Networking skills every professional needs to have as a story · 1 points
HN discussionGet a nice logo maybe including a scissor illustration. Create a favicon from the logo Hire a designer or buy a website templates/theme as a starting point for your design. Themeforest.net has lots of options for a starting point. They have some good admin themes that might improve the app interface. Setup a pricing table/page. Something like http://www.bidsketch.com/pricing/ Consider using Stripe.com for payments s…
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on “Rate My Startup: Snip”Submitted Hiring Through Twitter vs. Joel on Software as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHere are all the ones that have been mentioned so far. I'm sure there are a lot more! - http://www.improvely.com - http://www.appointmentreminder.org - http://www.briefmetrics.com - https://pinboard.in - http://www.appointmind.com - https://www.hittail.com - https://www.getdrip.com - http://www.bidsketch.com - https://getmysky.com - http://www.snapinspect.com - https://www.everytimehq.com - https://www.menutail.com…
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on “Ask HN: One man SaaS apps that are profitable?”Submitted Don't Be Afraid to Ask as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttp://hittail.com - Rob Walling http://getdrip.com - also Rob Walling http://bidsketch.com - Ruben Gamez http://getmysky.com - Josh Isaak http://snapinspect.com - Sam Ovens All of them have interviews online for you to learn about their process.
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on “Ask HN: One man SaaS apps that are profitable?”Good going; taking action while working a day job is extremely hard, so nice job doing what most people only talk about. My product: Bidsketch http://www.bidsketch.com
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on “Ask HN: How to hand out free hacker tickets for the BoS conference?”
