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Will Thomson

@willthomson__

Independent design engineer at over-stimulated.com. I write about freelancing, building products, and surfing.

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WIP: a week since I launched my SaaS, Ballpark. Here's how its going New things I built: 1. Email notifications - Get pinged when you get a new lead. 2. Remove "Powered By" for pro users. 3. Using ShadowDOM for the widget instead of an Iframe. Iframes are great, but I

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It’s starting to be clear that qualifying leads is a big time suck for other freelancers as well. Everyone wins when pricing is transparent.

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feels like I'm shipping 3 features a day at the moment.. New updates for my friends using Ballpark: 1. Answers in your emails - It's important to show a summary of what the client requested. This also allows you to personalise the email. Thank you Carl Beaverson &

feels like I'm shipping 3 features a day at the moment..

New updates for my friends using Ballpark:

1. Answers in your emails - It's important to show a summary of what the client requested. This also allows you to personalise the email. 

Thank you <a href="/CarlBeaverson/">Carl Beaverson</a> &amp;
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Ok last feature for the day: WHEN conditions in pricing rules. Some times you only want to add to the price WHEN a certain condition is met. For example: You might offer a base website for 5K that includes 5 pages. Every page after that you want to change $650 per page.

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My first site build vs a recent one. I used to think scaling text on hover was cool... I get so lost in the sauce throughout the year. Forget how much better I've gotten. This comparison snapped me out of it. It's a nice time of year to look back to where you started pals.

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Little brain dump from the past month I pushed my product Ballpark live a month ago. Stats so far: - 9 paying customers - 121 trial sign ups - 3 customers renewed their subs (stoooked). - 1 new team member (my partner Erin is helping me now) What I'm struggling with rn:

Little brain dump from the past month

I pushed my product Ballpark live a month ago. Stats so far:

- 9 paying customers
- 121 trial sign ups
- 3 customers renewed their subs (stoooked).
- 1 new team member (my partner Erin is helping me now)

What I'm struggling with rn: