It’s amazing how affordable it can be to develop and support your new application in a world class way. Here’s how our brand-spakin’ new company Dasheroo (affordable, scalable and powerful business dashboards no matter your business size) is starting out!
We just completed the pro-forma budget for Dasheroo, and compared to what it would have cost even a few years ago, it’s amazing! A big shout-out to you, Cloud and SaaS! Buying and scaling your own servers & hardware? Nope, at least not in the foreseeable future, thanks to Amazon EC2. Time-consuming programming to develop web apps and make them mobile-friendly? Not with Bootstrap (yes, it’ll be free). And then all the affordable business apps we’re using, or planning to when the time is right:
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Agile product development tracking – Pivotal Tracker, $18/month
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Front-end mobile friendly web development – Bootstrap, Free
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Code hosting & collaboration – Github, $25/month
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Product wireframes – Balsamiq, $12/month
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Team Collaboration – Basecamp, $8/month
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Billing – PaySimple or Braintree, no minimums! From 2.3% + $0.29 per transaction to 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction. (Note: make sure you really dig into revenue recognition capabilities before deciding!)
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Google Apps – $5/month per user
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Accounting – Kashoo, $20 per month
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Payroll – ZenPayroll, $65/mo for less than 10 employees
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Blog – WordPress, $10/month
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Social – Twitter, Facebook, and well, you know use the ones most pertinent to your biz., Free + advertising costs
That’s less than a couple hundy per month. Plus, all of the above business apps have a free trial option, and many also have a free ‘starter’ plan for limited usage, so you can scale them as your business grows.
So at least big up-front costs don’t stand between you and your dream. There’ll plenty of other challenges for you to slay! That’ll be the model for Dasheroo too – affordable, scalable and powerful business dashboards no matter your business size!
