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cranberry blog
Personal blog · cranberryblog.substack.combusinessstartups
cranberry blog is a personal blog at cranberryblog.substack.com about business and startups. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “A simple argument for investing in your pricing”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link its post arguing that companies should charge money for products, citing it in SaaS and launch threads and listing it among pricing resources.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
business and technology stuff. Launched 5 years ago.
Most-linked posts?
- A simple argument for investing in your pricing3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-01-10
- Net Retention Convexity in SaaS2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-26
What Hacker News says?
In nearly all cases, I think companies should charge money for products. I even wrote a blog post about this years ago that was popular on Hacker News: https://cranberryblog.substack.com/p/a-simple-argument-for-i... Sometimes you have to defy best practices :)
Comment linking /p/a-simple-argument-for-investing-in
on “Launch HN: SSOReady (YC W24) – Making SAML SSO painless and open source”Submitted NPS doesn’t say anything particularly useful as a story · 109 points
HN discussionSome resources I've collected about pricing: https://cranberryblog.substack.com/p/a-simple-argument-for-i... https://zimtik.com/en/posts/lessons-learned-on-saas-pricing https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/payback-period https://www.derrickreimer.com/essays/2019/07/01/dont-insult-... https://restaurant-ingthroughhistory.com/restaurant-prices/ http://justinmares.com/why-real-businesses-dont-charge-5mont... https://adil…
Comment linking /p/a-simple-argument-for-investing-in
on “Ask HN: Recommended resources for pricing digital products/services?”Submitted A simple argument for investing in your pricing as a story · 61 points
HN discussionSubmitted Net Retention Convexity in SaaS as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Net Retention Convexity in SaaS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scraping the barrel: when bad customers improve SaaS economics as a story · 1 points
HN discussion