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I am looking for a provider, where I can prototype simple webapps. My workflow should be super simple and something like this:

- I have a predefined MVC framework like Python Django or PHP Laravel

- I can add code (PHP or Python) in an online IDE. This code is automatically saved online.

- I can just define some tables and columns in my database - similar (or exactly) like in phpmyadmin.

- I can manually add entries to the database or my webapp can do it.

- I can access the user facing side of the webapp via an URL.

- I dont have to do any server side configuration with Apache or Nginx. It just works out of the box.

I am willing to pay XXX Dollars per month for this. There does not need to be any other feature. I just want to use it for prototyping and thats it.

Is there any provider that offers something like this?

My co-founder and me founded a company about 9 years ago. Originally we had a 5-year vesting schedule, so now the vesting period is long over. Two years ago I started to only work half-time. The main reason for working less is a burnout-episode I experience about two years ago. We ensured that he gets double the pay. But we agreed, that we would also talk about our shares again and find a fair solution to rearrange or shares.

Does anyboy here have experience with this? I think it is fair to honor the fact that he works more, but I am not sure how.

Let me give as much data as possible:

- We started the company 9 years ago.

- We originally had a 5 year vesting schedule, that is now done.

- One of our investors owns a single digit percentage of the company, the rest is evenly divided between us two.

- The company has revenues in the (low) double digit millions and profits in the (low) single digit millions.

- Our company has been profitable for the last 8 years.

- It is very hard to estimate the current risk of the company. Corona was tough for us, but we came back stronger than ever. At the same time we sill have a lot of risk because of regulatory environments.

- My co-founders works more than 60 hours per week for the company and earns a low six digit yearly wage.

- I work about 20 to 30 hours per week for the company and earn half of this.

- My co-founder has a lot more responsibilities and a lot more stress than me. He basically runs the whole company, while I help out with special projects.

- Last two years were especially stressful and my co-founder did an outstanding job.

- I think if would have devastating effects on the success of our company, if my co-founder would stop working full-time.

We thought about three possible ways: - Give my co-founder about 10 % of the yearly profit in addition to his wage. - Give my co-founder additional bonus depending on yearly revenue growth - Transfer some shares of mine to my co-founder on a yearly basis

I would love to hear examples on what people think is "fair".

My webapp is sending several thousands SMS via Twilio per month and we ran into huge problems with Twilio a couple of weeks ago. Bascially many SMS where marked as "sent" but have not been "delivered" to our users, because one of their upstream providers started to have issues with non-GSM encoded SMS.

Twilio did not proactively inform us about this issue, but instead we found out about it after several users told us that they do not receive SMS from us anymore. Twilio also keeps charging us for these "sent" but not "delivered" SMS, even though we got into contact with their customer service.

I like Twilio but this is unacceptable to me. I actually do not need any phone API but just need to reliably send SMS. So we are looking for a new provider. It is important that this provider can send SMS to the US but also all European countries.

Has anybody else good alternatives to Twilio?

Hello Community, we are four guys building a SaaS-Plattform that makes customer feedback for small companies (hotels, gastronomy, catering, etc.) really easy. Its somewhat similiar to talkbin and Skweal. My question is: which online payment solution would you recommend for a startup that is selling an SaaS solution?

A lot of startups could benefit from a discussion on this top. I read some articles and found some nice links, for example http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2556/whats-the-best-online-payment-processing-solution. But I guess in the end it comes down to low monthly costs, easy to integrate and easy process for our customers. It would be really nice if someone could give me some insights oder point to a good blogpost about it.

Here are some additional information: As of now every potential customer (a hotel manager for example) has to talk to us, and if he es interested we send him his account and a bill. But we obviously like to implement an online payment process, so that customers can pay for our product on our website. Our product is kinda high volume, low value, so we dont expect payments above 1.000 Euros per transaction. (As of now it is more like low volume, low value...) This is our current website (in german): www.honestly.de but we are working on a relaunch right now.

I am a solid Programmer and I know pretty much all I need to know about Backend- and Frondend-Developing. But I would like to get deeper into the Design-Aspect. I am not talking about HTML, CSS, etc.. More about what makes a good Design actually a good Design. I already read "Don't make me think" and "The Design of everyday things", but they were more about usability then actually what makes a design beautiful. Any recommendation what (online-)sources I should try to teach myself?

We are a team of four founders and are currently working on a project somewhat similar to talkbin. We are in contact with a Business Angel who would like to see our business plan. The thing is, that we currently only launched our prototype and will launch with our first customer (a small restaurant) probably next week. So we have no data whatsoever to make any valid assumptions. I couldn't really find any good articles on the internet about the financials of a business plan. Is there anybody who can share some links to some good posts?