autopsy-of-a-slow-train-wreck-the-life-and-death-of-a-django-startup/
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Case study of TradesCloud: a Django SaaS for plumbers and electricians that survives six years but never scales, peaks at $2,000 a month per early customer, misestimates market size and burn (about $22,000/month), takes a $250,000 investment, and finally shuts January 2017. Concrete failures include no sales channel, poor pricing math, painful onboarding, and dependence on accidental champions — distilled into 13 reasons and lessons that feed later work on BeeWare.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:32Russells background
- 3:58Success
- 25:55Personal failure
- 27:12Last Hail
- 27:33The Trades Cloud Story
- 28:26The Good News
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