Very cool, congrats. You may want to read this post-mortem of a company that did the same thing, but then shut down after 50 paying customers. (I used to be a customer, and we re-built it ourselves once the service went offline)
Is this wants wrong with the startup culture? They create a great product, have 50 paying monthly customers, and because it is not a million dollar idea they shut it down.
Why not keep it running and collect the cash as a side project, I can't imagine this needed much maintenance, its just printing money, maybe not millions, but still real money, and I bet it would grow organically slowly over the years.
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Very cool, congrats. You may want to read this post-mortem of a company that did the same thing, but then shut down after 50 paying customers. (I used to be a customer, and we re-built it ourselves once the service went offline)
http://buzzer-o-matic.tumblr.com/
Is this wants wrong with the startup culture? They create a great product, have 50 paying monthly customers, and because it is not a million dollar idea they shut it down.
Why not keep it running and collect the cash as a side project, I can't imagine this needed much maintenance, its just printing money, maybe not millions, but still real money, and I bet it would grow organically slowly over the years.