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You are saying that income tax in discouraging people to work, do you have any evidence of this?


From the US Congressional Budget Office[1]:

"When workers’ earnings rise but their after-tax income rises less—because of increases in their income and payroll taxes or declines in their benefits from government programs—their incentive to work typically declines"

[1] https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52472


That's only really relevant when people cross some thresholds at the very bottom of the income scale that cause them to lose benefits, though.

Otherwise, it's just trivially true for any taxation regime: a flat 1% tax means your after-tax income rises less than your pre-tax income.


Really cool!!


Neat thing. Question: Why not have it publically open and free, but pay to post? Or at least have some of it open, like a limit number of post visible or something like that - for free. Because right now, as a visitor, I'm far from sure I want to use this at all, I know too little about what it's like to actually use it.


You can view their discover timeline (as well as some others) at https://micro.blog/discover to get an idea of the posts and community.


Off topic, but how does this work? How can the crawlers bypass the paywall?


They explicitly allow eg the Google crawler. Not sure about others.


Oh ok! Thx for explanation


Yep, absolutely. It's a very productive environment to build in. If you want to get something infront of a user quickly and not get stuck in configurations, webpack scripts and so on, go with rails.


Same here. I just spend 3 minutes trying to figure out how to opt out, but couldn't find it in the walls of texts and links down the rabbit hole. Closed the tab.


Here's a product idea: a screen recorder that understands password inputs and things like "API key" or "API secret" and blurs it automatically.


Hi! Very interesting read and congratulations on the success. How you every had a higher price tag, or have you thought about raising it? It feels like a very low price, but I don't know what the average your customers are ending up paying - I guess they most often have several users per account?


Our ARPU is about $50.

Most of our clients are fairly small or just at an early stage. And this is natural. Bigger companies mostly have time tracking process in some form, and they do not want to change the tool (something that already works).

For small teams our pricing is ok, although we've being often told that this is too much. People want everything free today.

When we thought about our pricing, we looked at competitors, but also considered how much we ourselves would be willing to pay for such a tool.


Ah I see, interesting!


Seriously, who wants to listen to a Buzzfeed podcast? Podcasts are _amazing_ channels for independent makers, comedians, etc.


I think some of the Slate stuff, like Slow Burn, has been pretty popular (IMO it was OK to listen to but by no means must-hear, but hey)


Novice question from someone from ruby land: would this work similar to bundler and Gemfile?


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