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Simple but possibly lucrative WordPress related business idea

If you are a web development company specialized in WordPress development and can’t find leads for development here is a business idea I will call ‘WordPress for Startups’. Subscribe to updates from sites that promote new startups. Since WordPress is the most widely spread web publishing platform on the earth, chance is that they will need a WordPress plugin that will bring their application closer to WordPress users. Continue reading →

Startups and web services we use at ManageWP

During the development of our startup, ManageWP, I started using a lot of tools made by other startups. Thought I’d share some of them. Newrelic is absolutely brilliant piece of software which tells you what is happening with your application. You can use it for profiling, diagnostics and statistics for your web app. We started using Sendgrid to send our emails. The service appears to be useful but there is one problem. Absolutely dreadful support. Continue reading →

How to get the best possible feedback from your customers

Thought I’d share the user feedback story we had with our startup. ManageWP allows users to manage WordPress blogs.  It is still free and one of the things we were always wondering is how much to price the product once we launch it. There are no similar serious products on the market to compare the prices with. The closest match is Auttomatic owned VaultPress which offers only the backups and starts at $15/month per website. Continue reading →

On spending money and the Luxury rule

It might appear as easy (“If I have money I’d know how to spend it!”) but in reality spending money is all but. In fact it is also a skill that needs to be learned, if one was not lucky enough to live in a surrounding where money spending skills were taught. I have learned the first step the tough way and I’d like to pass my experience on. Greatest challenge with spending money is understanding what money really is. It is not the ticket to your dreams, but a tool for changing the world. Continue reading →