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At #bclxiii one person asked me what tech events are still going on in #London?
The combination of the COVID pandemic and WFH has kinda done a number on tech meetups/user groups/etc. Plus RIP Skills Matter, and Meetup and Eventbrite are, well, not exactly optimal for finding things.
Off the top of my head, the London Ruby User Group is pretty active, as are Python London, Rust London, the London Java Community, Codebar etc. What else?
I decided that not every blog post has to be a ground-breaking masterpiece so I quickly wrote up the tale of how we (Podia) have gradually reduced our dependancy on Heroku.
We’re not off it yet, and we won’t be, but we _can_ be and you can too: https://jamie.ideasasylum.com/2024/10/30/moving-off-heroku-slowly
Is it normal for a profitable SaaS that's more than 10 years old to achieve:
📈 20% YoY active customer growth
📈 50% YoY revenue growth
📈 30% YoY MRR growth
...while keeping annual revenue per person above $250K?
Asking for a friend who I think is doing rather well.
I’m finding more indiehacker and Ruby folk over on Bluesky recently.
Two Starter Packs you might want to check out:
You know what’s cooler than only paying 10% tax (entrepreneurs relief) when you sell your business?
Building a business that lasts.
Helping your customers long term.
More profit than you need every year.
Maybe a tiny tax break if you decide to go employee owned when you retire.
For the next few days I'm hanging out with people from these ~100 SaaS-related businesses.
It's MicroConf Europe, a two-day conference focused on self-funded & indie-funded startups that have launched and are growing to 7-figure revenues & beyond.
Any you know or use?
For Christmas I would like The Skiff to hit £10K MRR again.
It'll be 10 years on from the first time we did. Thankfully we don't need to hit it again. Lower costs & lower stress these days.
Long-term businesses have their ups, downs and pleasantly financially boring phases.
Today I am running over one million jobs with Solid Queue using SQLite.
Loving Ruby on Rails on a Hetzner EX44.
Both Automattic and WP Engine are PaaS.
I think I’m finally brought into the idea that the future is #nopaas
Tom Morris
Jamie Lawrence