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GalleryDock adds one password door for separate client galleries
The Hannover platform now lets photographers embed a single access page on their own site. Free accounts get three galleries and 1 GB of storage.
Base44: $10,000 side project to $80m Wix sale in six months
Maor Shlomo built an AI app builder alone, kept all of it, and sold to Wix for $80m in cash six months after launch. SaaStr reports the product now runs at $200m ARR inside Wix.
Five questions a former processing executive says to ask before signing
US merchants paid $198.25bn to accept cards last year. The networks' headline rates barely moved. Robert L. Day, who spent a decade selling processing, says the gap is markup you can negotiate.
Denver café keeps drip at $3.50 while launching tenth city menu
Hot Shot Coffee opens its Hokkaido menu on 18 October, inside a York Street dry cleaner that stood empty for 14 years.
Sixteen freight firms filed for bankruptcy as diesel hit records
Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 filings piled up across the United States at the end of summer, from one-truck owner-operators to fleets with dozens of rigs. Fuel is the line item that moves fastest in a thin-margin business.
Annual trials of 30 days converted 44.6%, four-day trials 24%
RevenueCat's trial data covers more than 17,000 mobile apps. It suggests the 14-day trial most software firms copied is the wrong length for an annual plan.
Feather sells a $30,000 humanoid and invites developers to build on it
The startup is not chasing a general-purpose robot brain. It is selling modular hardware at half the price of its nearest Chinese rival and leaving the applications to other people.
MarinaControl splits into two apps and drops in-app upgrades
Sami Bessadi built one platform for marinas and yacht owners. He has now separated it into two products and stopped selling the marina version like a consumer subscription.
Newsletter warns of CPU shortage after GPU and memory squeezes
Gergely Orosz told readers of The Pragmatic Engineer that CPU capacity is the next thing to run short, and that teams needing more compute should secure it now. The public part of his 10 September post carries no pricing and no lead times.
Set the evidence threshold before you make the call
An Inc. column argues that leaders should decide in advance how much proof is enough, then structure the bet so it can be undone. The four questions behind it were not published in the summary available.
Goodles bet adults buy mac and cheese. Annie's bet kids
Two boxed pasta brands made opposite calls about who eats the stuff. Inc. reports Goodles is heading for $1bn in revenue and says Annie's may never close the gap.
Pocket Prep's $20 price was laughed at. Nine years on it holds
Peter Murphy started Pocket Prep with $1,800 and priced exam practice at $20 a month. A prospective partner found that funny; on Inc.'s account, the cheap price became the hard part to copy.
Two brothers, a four-foot pile of broken coolers, and YETI
Roy and Ryan Seiders built a cooler they could stand on, charged hundreds of dollars for it, and refused to make it cheaper. Twelve years later it priced at $18 a share on the New York Stock Exchange.
Mailchimp added everything, then Intuit stopped counting it
A product that won by doing one job now has its numbers stripped out of its parent's growth rate. The roadmap decision that got it there was made in 2019.
CMA opens drip-pricing cases over fees as small as £1.50
Trainline, Virgin Atlantic and RED Driving School are under investigation for leaving mandatory fees out of headline prices. The regulator no longer needs a court to decide they broke the law.
Filmmaker refused a $100,000 deal over AI-generated faces
Trevor Rappleye told a franchise brand his studio would not fake testimonials. He spent three hours certain he had ruined his company, then the board signed anyway.
Quote double your biggest deal ever, and watch where it breaks
Jason Lemkin's exercise for founders going upmarket: take the next prospect that looks like your largest customer, ask for twice your highest price, and pay attention to what the deal demands of you.
A two-year waitlist, 2,000 names, and a decision not to grow
Decware builds low-power valve amplifiers slowly enough that buyers queue for two years. The waiting is the strategy, not the symptom.
Sutherland's Buc-ee's lesson: fix the pain nobody else fixes
Ogilvy's vice chairman argues that repairing a neglected customer annoyance beats adding features or cutting price. The example he reaches for is a chain of American petrol stations known for its lavatories.
Atlassian starts billing Loom's watchers, and deletes the growth loop
Loom's free viewer seats inside paying accounts are being converted to full paid seats automatically. Four acquirers have run the same free-tier cut inside two years, and the defaults tell you who understood their funnel.
Subscription-trap rules moved forward to January 2027
Anyone selling on auto-renew in the UK has lost three months of preparation time. Clearer up-front terms, regular reminders and an easy exit are the requirements; the detail is still out for consultation this autumn.