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wisecashhq.com
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wisecashhq.com is the company blog at wisecashhq.com, writing about business and startups. Since 2011, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 78 times, most often “How to Have Clients Find You (Rather Than You Chasing Them)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked by HN commenters for a personal finance tool that projects how much money you will have in two weeks, and for advice on getting clients as a remote worker.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- How to Have Clients Find You (Rather Than You Chasing Them)3 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2015-09-23
- Show HN: WiseCash, cash flow forecasting for small businesses and freelancers2 people · 24 mentions · first linked 2011-10-11
- Show HN: cash flow for freelancers and small businesses [retry]2 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2012-04-01
- Show HN: Daily Rate Calculator to check how many days you need to work2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-11-04
- Lessons Learned Building a Git-Based Knowledge Base for My SaaS Product2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-07-30
- Why Knowing your Cash Runway is a Killer Tool2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-05-15
- Track your Income, Exceed your Yearly Goal2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-01-20
- Reasons to offer yearly billing to SaaS customers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-01-13
What Hacker News says?
I did a git branch for my app ( https://www.wisecashhq.com/ ) - in 3 hours or so I was able to pass the tests and run the app properly. For larger apps (which I maintain as a freelance) I would wait a bit more though, since some gems will still have little bugfixes related to Rails 4 compatibility, most likely.
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on “Rails 4.0: Final version released”Submitted The 2 Biggest Mistakes I Made (Before Reaching $500 MRR) as a story · 95 points
HN discussionFor higher end market (north of $900 for 7 hours of work), 100% remote, no agencies/only direct, no fixed price projects, I apply the advice I outlined here: https://www.wisecashhq.com/blog/how-to-have-clients-find-you... . EDIT: I've been freelancing since 2005, and 100% remote since 2010. Happy to answer questions!
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on “The Remote Freelancer: A list of remote work alternatives to Upwork”Submitted Show HN: cash flow for freelancers and small businesses [retry] as a story · 49 points
HN discussionI just crossed 500$/mo with https://www.wisecashhq.com (cash flow forecasting for freelancers and small businesses, launched officially 2.5 months ago). This is far away from passive income since I'm actively working on it (I'm bootstrapping it + consulting/freelancing the other days).
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on “Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?”Submitted CashFlow forecasting for small businesses and freelancers as a story · 49 points
HN discussionMix above coupled with the info here: https://www.wisecashhq.com/blog/how-to-have-clients-find-you...
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on “Ask HN: How to make a career working remotely?”Submitted Show HN: WiseCash, cash flow forecasting for small businesses and freelancers as a story · 25 points
HN discussionI don't know about Braintree, but I can report that for my SaaS app ( https://www.wisecashhq.com , currently priced in $ but France-based), I used Recurly ( https://www.recurly.com ) which handles EU VAT very nicely (including VAT changes happening in 2015). I use them together with Stripe as my gateway, it generates proper invoices and applies the rate of the buyer's country unless a valid VAT number has been provi…
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on “The toxic side of free – how I lost the love for my side project (part 4)”Submitted The Right Time to Safely Increase Your Billable Rate as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSharing a bit of my own experience: I used to do a lot of demos for my SaaS (usually 1 to 2 hour long, because it ended up in some form of coaching session on cash-flow forecasting habits), but after a while I realised that I got more churn from such users ultimately. I later replaced those demos (which I still do occasionally) by 2 things : - An in-app onboarding tour (fully self-service), implemented with mock dat…
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on “Everything I Wish I’d Known Before I Started Demoing SaaS”Submitted Writing Reliable Cron Jobs as a story · 12 points
HN discussionThis will not help the OP immediately, but for anyone to avoid this situation in the first place, there are a number of techniques (some quite easy) that can help, described in this article I wrote: https://www.wisecashhq.com/blog/how-to-have-clients-find-you... More short term, I would definitely try to find a single gig, maybe via some subcontracting or via sites like toptal, just to build some runway and to make…
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on “Ask HN: How do you find clients when you have no network and can only do remote?”Submitted Show HN: Daily Rate Calculator to check how many days you need to work as a story · 9 points
HN discussionHighCharts [1] and HighStock [2] (which I use extensively on my SaaS app [3] - the home page shows a real screenshot) definitely allow gaps in the data. I can only warmly recommend both! (not affiliated with them in any way, they just do a great job). [1] http://www.highcharts.com/demo/spline-irregular-time [2] http://www.highcharts.com/products/highstock [3] https://www.wisecashhq.com/
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on “Epoch – A real-time charting library”Submitted Freelance Cash Flow: Tips for a Happier Freelancing, Part 1 as a story · 9 points
HN discussionI've been contracting, consulting & freelancing for the last 10 years (5 years completely remote). My advice is to avoid "searching contract work", but reverse the situation completely: make your new clients find you instead. I wrote about this in depth here: https://www.wisecashhq.com/blog/how-to-have-clients-find-you... . Sites /can/ work (I know people who make a good living off certain sites), but nothing will b…
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on “Ask HN: What sites do you use to find contract work?”Submitted Freelance Cash Flow: Tips for a Happier Freelancing as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHere is exactly what I do to get quality remote work: https://www.wisecashhq.com/blog/how-to-have-clients-find-you...
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on “Ask HN: How to become a remote contractor?”Submitted Reasons to offer yearly billing to SaaS customers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionCheck out https://www.wisecashhq.com . It's basically a burn down for personal finance, and it answers the question of "How much money will I have in two weeks?"
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on “The Bicycle Barometer”Submitted How to have clients find you (rather than you chasing them) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionStart freelancing, then raise your rates and use my little calculator [1] to "make time", then work on side projects. Also: as someone who did a lot of side-projects over the last few years, my advice is "start a side product" instead (if you want to end up living out of it, that is). [1] https://www.wisecashhq.com/goodies/bootstrapper-calculator
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on “Where do you find the time for side projects?”Submitted How to Have Clients Find You (Rather Than You Chasing Them) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt's useful feedback, thanks! There is actually a lot more detail right under each of those sections (see the "learn more" link). For some reason it's not underlined, so I guess I have to fix this! Example link: https://www.wisecashhq.com/help/setting-up-a-recurring-trans... This is, by the way, and git-backed knowledge based & source is available here: https://github.com/wisecash/wisecash-support
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on “Ask HN: As a freelancer, what's the best app to track finances?”Submitted Lessons Learned Building a Git-Based Knowledge Base for My SaaS Product as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'm a freelance myself (since 2005). I ultimately scratched my own itch and created an app specifically for this: https://www.wisecashhq.com I built it pretty much for what you describe: to plan my future (it computes your runway & "time wealth"), adjust working hours as needed, "make time" for other topics, negotiate based on data etc. The goal is not to "track all expenses", but rather to make a reasonable forecas…
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on “Ask HN: As a freelancer, what's the best app to track finances?”Submitted 8 reasons to offer yearly billing to your SaaS customers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI launched my first SaaS ( https://www.wisecashhq.com - cash flow forecasting for freelancers and SBOs) in private beta one year ago. I enabled the (upfront) paywall a couple of weeks ago and have currently 15 or so paying customers (the early adopters got a 20% lifetime discount). For marketing, I'm going to use twitter, useful blog posts (educational, howtos) related to cashflow AND how to start your own SaaS succ…
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on “Ask HN: When did people start paying for your SaaS and why?”Submitted How to Transition From Services Business To Product Business as a story · 2 points
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