Hard Work Doesn't Mean More Money

This shit is what killed indiehacking - brags about MRR - turns out the huge boost is because it's deliberately hard to cancel the free trial - trial is 79p and auto-upgrades to £500 after 7 days - has a no-refund and no-dispute policy These people have lost their minds Lesson I learnt recently: you don’t make more money from working harder. .... Today Gross Volume £8,293 Payments 16 Customers 4 Reports overview Edit 1W 4W 1Y MTD QTD YTD ALL Gross volume £60.3K £23.0K 1 Oct - Today 1 Jul - 1 Aug +162.8% £9,013 £194.79

A social media post criticizes an indie-hacking business that boasts about recurring revenue, while the displayed dashboard shows a large gross volume from very few customers. The punchline is that the impressive numbers come from making a free trial difficult to cancel and automatically charging £500, so the “lesson” about not earning more by working harder is sarcastic commentary on exploitative subscription tactics. EN: A social media post criticizes an indie-hacking business that boasts about recurring revenue, while the displayed dashboard shows a large gross volume from very few customers. The punchline is that the impressive numbers come from making a free trial difficult to cancel and automatically charging £500, so the “lesson” about not earning more by working harder is sarcastic commentary on exploitative subscription tactics.

• @gentoomemes / 14441 2024-11-02