Ben Orenstein

@r00k

Co-founder and CEO of . Host of .

Boston, Massachusetts
Joined December 2007

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jan 25

    Pretty psyched about the testimonial I just added to the landing page. Thanks !

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  2. Feb 1
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  3. Feb 1

    Think tools that a marketing person wouldn't also use.

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  4. Feb 1

    I'm particularly interested in dev-focused apps that help you write code faster/be more productive.

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  5. Feb 1

    Developer friends: what are your favorite paid macOS apps?

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  6. Feb 1

    Our best effort: Canadian churn.

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  7. Feb 1

    At a retreat, we realized we need a term for when a customer cancels their subscription in the first month or two. It's not real churn, it's ______________.

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  8. Jan 31

    This post makes me want to hire a designer asap.

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  9. Jan 31

    I'm looking for someone with hard-won wisdom to say "look, just make it so that Users can be on many Teams, and the Organization owns the Subscription–you'll thank me later", and other such nuggets.

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  10. Jan 31

    Are you happy with Execute Program's modeling of this?

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  11. Jan 31

    Has anyone written something great about how to model your Rails-based SaaS app with Users, Teams, Organizations, and Subscriptions so that you don't regret it later?

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  12. Jan 31

    Are there questions you'd likely have that I didn't cover? Are any parts unconvincing and need reworking? Am I missing out on a great opportunity to X?

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  13. Jan 31

    Hi there! I'm working on a page for developers to send to their managers to help make the case for purchasing a subscription. If you manage devs and control purchasing decisions, I'd love to hear what you think about it.

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  14. Jan 31

    Been running JetBrains Mono in my terminal for a few days and it is sweeeeet. Recommended.

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  15. Jan 31

    SaaS Clippy: "Uh oh! It looks like you're rolling your own version of something that is easily purchased!"

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  16. Jan 31

    But now we're faced with a classic engineering problem: do we keep pushing down the nearly-done but not-ideal path, or back all the way up for a path that's probably better?

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  17. Jan 31

    Even using devise and omniauth, we're still writing and maintaining a fair amount of code to do SAML SSO, social sign-on, email confirmations, 2FA, etc. Would have been nice to just integrate with something like Auth0 once and let them handle those things.

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  18. Jan 31

    Kinda wishing we'd just used something like Auth0 from the start.

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  19. Retweeted
    Jan 30

    If your friend makes something you're legitimately excited about or interested in, buy it. Don't ask for it for free. They'll give it to you, but resent you. And even if they offer to give it to you for free, insist on paying. That's how you show true support.

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  20. Jan 30

    It's super common for developers to try out Tuple, decide they like it, and then pitch their boss on purchasing it. Rather than forcing them to make the case themselves, I'm hoping to give them some ammunition.

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  21. Retweeted
    Jan 28

    This episode talks about: - Why great coworkers are priority #1 for new developers - The trade-offs of remote work - His favorite smash bros character

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