Will have to try it, thanks! I haven't baked with Medalgia d'Oro before.

Thanks! Yeah I mean I made it and copyrighted it, but outside of that want people to download it for free and feel free to share. It's just what I do for fun, so I'm not really worried about monetization or anything...

Yeah I know. I'm a little more flexible with what I'm willing to pay, but I know there will be a lot of management on my part, so some margin has to be there to make it worthwhile.

I agree on all points. My issue is that I can get basically unlimited work at $60/hr and my schedule is completely full. In order to accept all the work, I'll need to have other people helping and I can't pay the full hourly rate or there's no point in accepting it at all....

If you are getting unlimited work at $60, I suggest that you up your rates.

I would, but its for a single client who isn't willing to pay more. I'm not really trying to go out and find more clients right now, but would like a way to maximize what I'm able to do for this one in particular. They are fine with me finding people to work with, but don't want to do it themselves.

I certainly don't fully understand your relationship with your customer(s). However, in the recent past I have raised my rates with existing clients by 50% with zero complaints. And if they expect you to find other programmers to accomplish additional work, your increase rate can be attributed to "management" fees.

No not a lot of traffic right now. I figure the higher i can get the conversion rate with low traffic, that should only save me money ramping up the traffic. It is for startup founders - more precisely B2B startup founders. I think a lot of B2B startups could stand to benefit from using each others products. But you're right - that traffic would not apply to most companies outside of that niche. Thanks for the input. :)

If a handful of registrations is enough to skew your results you won't be able to accurately conclude anything from your experiments.

This is a good read, the stuff about "busy work" - even a bad conversion rate will outperform your best effort at scale, it's very easy to distract yourself with the wrong work when the hard stuff is so much harder.

http://blog.samaltman.com/the-post-yc-slump

I agree with you on most of your points, but don't know an alternative. I actually accept all requests from recruiters and will hit them up if i ever need extra work, so the spam I get ends up paying off in the end. I've gotten a few gigs from recruiters on linkedin.

Do you not find that the recruiter noise gets in the way of keeping in touch with people you know though?

People actually use LinkedIn to keep in touch? I thought everyone used it as a static resume holder.

I do for some former coworkers. I don't use Facebook and have moved around a lot, so LinkedIn is actually an easy way to keep up with people I used to work with.

I meant as an easy way to check in on previous coworkers for things like referrals. People you aren't on a facebook or phone number level with, but don't want to forget about.

yes

Thanks for the feedback! My main goal here is to recreate the workflow I'm used to with Zend (with a bunch of customized stuff I've added over the years) without all the bloat of Zend. Its more of an experiment than a finished product (started it wednesday of last week). I plan to add more tools and composer is definitely on the list. :) I guess this really stems from me not liking how ZF2 works, but not wanting to give up a workflow that works really well for me (from ZF1). I think that there are a lot of developers in the same boat as me, and I really just want to build on it and make it better.

I definitely see the ZF1 influence here. Disappointed to see that application.ini made the jump--ini's are a really annoying format to work with.

I don't mind ini's. What format do you prefer? I thought about going with YAML for the configs instead since I'm already using it for the database schema...

I have never used Zend (except for the JSON parser once I think). What do you like about about ZF1 that you don't find in ZF2 ?

Its more what I don't like about ZF2. Just going through tutorials it seems like everything takes twice as long as it did in ZF1. I like where their heads are at making it modular, but it seems to come at a cost when development time is concerned (ie do a whole lot more now so you can reuse your code later)

CSS frameworks like Zurb Foundation's and Twitter Bootstrap are pretty popular now and make it tougher to make your site look ugly. I bet that has some influence.

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Great idea, but seems like there's a bug on your demo page - if I click "Add Extras" before selecting a plan, I can't go back to "Select Your Plan" (clicking it doesn't work)

Thanks for spotting that! Its fixed now!

From what I understand X-cart and Magento already address this with PayPal and quite possibly Stripe. And if you're coding your own website you might as well use Stripe's API.