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May · 202623 entries

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2026.05.19Latest
Usage-Based Pricing for SaaS in 2026: How to Implement It Without Rebuilding Your Billing
61% of SaaS companies now include some form of usage-based pricing in their billing stack. That number was 45% in 2021. Something shifted — and it wasn’t just a trend. The shift happened because flat-rate subscriptions stopped making sense for infrastructure-heavy, API-driven products. When your cost structure is variable — compute, tokens, API calls —
2026.05.19·10 min·Guides
2026.05.19Duke Vu · 10 minGuides
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2026.05.15
How to Monetize a Chrome Extension in 2026: The Developer’s Complete Guide
There are 3.5 billion Chrome users worldwide, and the Chrome Web Store gets roughly 180 million active extension users per month. You’ve built something useful. Now you want to charge for it — and you’re realizing the Chrome Web Store gives you exactly zero payment infrastructure to do that. Google deprecated its own in-app payments
2026.05.15·10 min·Guides
2026.05.15Duke Vu · 10 minGuides
№ 076
2026.05.15
How to Sell Ebooks Online: The Complete 2026 Guide for Authors
Learn how to sell ebooks online in 2026 with this complete guide. Covers best platforms, pricing strategies, tax compliance, and the 5-step process to publish and sell your first ebook.
2026.05.15·7 min·FEATURES
2026.05.15Adrian Schenberg · 7 minFEATURES
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2026.05.15
10 Proven SaaS Retention Strategies That Cut Churn by 40% in 2026
Discover 10 proven SaaS retention strategies that cut churn by 40% in 2026. Learn how top companies achieve 120%+ NRR through onboarding optimization, health scoring, and community building.
2026.05.15·9 min·Knowledge
2026.05.15Duke Vu · 9 minKnowledge
№ 078
2026.05.14
Digital Product Pricing Strategies: The Complete 2026 Guide for Creators
Learn the 5 proven digital product pricing strategies that top creators use in 2026. From cost-plus to value-based pricing, discover how to price your templates, courses, and downloads for maximum profit.
2026.05.14·9 min·FEATURES
2026.05.14Adrian Schenberg · 9 minFEATURES
№ 079
2026.05.14
SaaS Customer Success Metrics: The Complete 2026 Guide to Tracking What Actually Matters
Discover the 7 essential SaaS customer success metrics that drive retention and growth in 2026. Learn how to calculate NRR, health scores, GRR, and build a metrics framework that actually works.
2026.05.14·9 min·Knowledge
2026.05.14Adrian Schenberg · 9 minKnowledge
№ 080
2026.05.14
Teachable Alternatives in 2026: Best Platforms to Sell Online Courses (Lower Fees)
Teachable killed its free plan in mid-2025. Then it raised prices — the Builder plan jumped 77%, from $39 to $69/month. And the Starter plan? It still charges a 7.5% transaction fee on every single sale. At $1,000/month in course revenue, that’s $75 going straight to Teachable on top of your $29 plan fee. At
2026.05.14·11 min·Guides
2026.05.14Duke Vu · 11 minGuides
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2026.05.13
How to Set Up an Affiliate Program for Your Digital Products in 2026
Affiliate programs drive 16% of all e-commerce revenue globally — yet most digital product creators either ignore the channel entirely or set it up wrong and wonder why nothing happens. If you’re selling SaaS, digital downloads, online courses, or templates, an affiliate program is one of the few growth levers that compounds over time without
2026.05.13·12 min·Guides
2026.05.13Duke Vu · 12 minGuides
№ 082
2026.05.12
SaaS Viral Growth Strategies: The Complete 2026 Guide to Exponential User Acquisition
Discover proven SaaS viral growth strategies that drove Dropbox to 3900% growth and Slack to $27B. Learn how to build referral programs, viral loops, and product-led growth engines that acquire users at zero CAC.
2026.05.12·13 min·Guides
2026.05.12Adrian Schenberg · 13 minGuides
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2026.05.12
Paddle Review 2026: Honest Look at Fees, Pros, Cons, and Who It’s Actually For
Paddle took 5% of your revenue before you made your first sale. That’s the trade-off. In return, you never file a VAT return, never argue with the Irish Revenue Commissioners, and never explain to a customer in Tokyo why their card failed. In 2026, Paddle is used by 6,000+ software companies and has processed billions
2026.05.12·8 min·Knowledge
2026.05.12Duke Vu · 8 minKnowledge
№ 084
2026.05.11
How Non-US Founders Can Sell SaaS Globally in 2026 (No US LLC Required)
You’ve shipped your product. You’ve got users. And now you need to charge them — from Poland, India, Brazil, or wherever home is. Then you open a browser tab and discover that Stripe requires a local business entity, PayPal is a compliance nightmare, and every payment guide on the internet assumes you already have a
2026.05.11·11 min·Guides
2026.05.11Duke Vu · 11 minGuides
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2026.05.10
10 Best Platforms to Sell PDFs Online in 2026: Complete Comparison
Compare the 10 best platforms to sell PDFs online in 2026. Real fee comparisons, tax compliance features, and honest recommendations for every creator stage.
2026.05.10·8 min·FEATURES
2026.05.10Duke Vu · 8 minFEATURES
№ 086
2026.05.10
How to Set Up an Affiliate Program for Your Digital Product or SaaS (2026 Guide)
Here’s a stat most founders ignore until it’s too late: affiliate marketing now drives 16% of all ecommerce revenue globally, and the overall industry is projected to surpass $20 billion in 2026. If you’re selling a digital product or SaaS and you don’t have an affiliate program, you’re leaving a measurable chunk of revenue on
2026.05.10·10 min·Guides
2026.05.10Duke Vu · 10 minGuides
№ 087
2026.05.09
Creem vs Paddle vs Fungies: Which MoR Is Best for Indie Hackers in 2026?
Choosing the wrong Merchant of Record as an indie hacker can cost you over $1,100 per year at $100K revenue — and that’s before you factor in the hours lost to tax audits, compliance headaches, and payment failures in markets you didn’t know you needed to support. In 2026, the MoR market got genuinely competitive….
2026.05.09·11 min·Knowledge
2026.05.09Duke Vu · 11 minKnowledge
№ 088
2026.05.08
Cross-Border Payments for SaaS: The Complete 2026 Guide
Cross-border payments for SaaS explained: payment methods, challenges, fees, and best practices for 2026. Learn how to accept global payments while minimizing costs and compliance risk.
2026.05.08·6 min·FEATURES
2026.05.08Adrian Schenberg · 6 minFEATURES
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2026.05.08
B2B vs B2C SaaS: 7 Key Differences, Metrics & Growth Strategies for 2026
Discover the 7 critical differences between B2B and B2C SaaS with 2026 benchmark data. Compare sales cycles, CAC, churn rates, LTV:CAC ratios, and learn which model fits your startup.
2026.05.08·8 min·Guides
2026.05.08Duke Vu · 8 minGuides
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2026.05.08
How to Monetize Your AI Tool or LLM Wrapper in 2026: A Founder’s Guide
Here’s the number that stops most indie developers cold: the top 10% of AI tools built in 2025 each crossed $10,000 MRR within 60 days of launch. The bottom 80%? Still figuring out how to charge their first dollar. It’s not the product that separates them. It’s how they handle monetization — the pricing model,
2026.05.08·10 min·Guides
2026.05.08Duke Vu · 10 minGuides
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2026.05.07
How to Sell Digital Downloads Online in 2026: Complete Guide for Creators
Learn how to sell digital downloads online in 2026. Complete guide covering best platforms, pricing strategies, and 5 steps to launch your digital product business.
2026.05.07·7 min·FEATURES
2026.05.07Duke Vu · 7 minFEATURES
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2026.05.07
How to Price Your SaaS Product: A First-Time Founder’s Framework (2026)
80% of SaaS startups underprice their product by 30–60%. Not because they don’t understand value — but because they set prices in the first week, never revisited them, and built their entire go-to-market around a number they pulled from fear rather than data. If you’re a first-time SaaS founder trying to figure out what to
2026.05.07·10 min·Knowledge
2026.05.07Duke Vu · 10 minKnowledge
№ 093
2026.05.05
Freemius Alternatives 2026: Best Platforms for WordPress Plugin & Theme Sellers
Freemius charges WordPress plugin developers 7% platform fee on top of gateway fees. That’s roughly 10.5% of every sale you make—$1,050 on every $10,000 in revenue. For context, most Stripe-based payment setups cost 2.9% + $0.30. The delta is significant, and in 2026, you have better options. This isn’t a knock on Freemius. It handles
2026.05.05·10 min·Guides
2026.05.05Duke Vu · 10 minGuides
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№ 094
2026.05.04
How to Reduce SaaS Churn: The Complete 2026 Guide to Retaining More Customers
Learn proven strategies to reduce SaaS churn in 2026. From fixing failed payments to optimizing onboarding, discover how top companies achieve <1% monthly churn and 120%+ NRR.
2026.05.04·8 min·Guides
2026.05.04Duke Vu · 8 minGuides
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2026.05.04
How to Sell Your AI-Built App: The Complete Monetization Setup Guide for Vibe Coders (2026)
Your Bolt.new project hit 100 signups overnight. Lovable generated the app in 3 hours. Cursor wrote the API. Now someone actually wants to pay for it — and you have no idea where to start. You’re not alone. 84% of developers now use AI coding tools, and 63% of vibe coders have no traditional programming
2026.05.04·12 min·Guides
2026.05.04Duke Vu · 12 minGuides
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2026.05.03
How to Sell Software Online: The Developer’s Complete Guide (2026)
The global software market is on track to hit $650 billion+ by 2028. If you’ve built a useful tool — a desktop app, a SaaS product, a browser extension, an API — there’s real money to be made. But “how do I sell software online?” turns out to be a surprisingly complicated question once you
2026.05.03·12 min·Knowledge
2026.05.03Duke Vu · 12 minKnowledge

April · 20261 entry

№ 097
2026.04.30Latest
10 SaaS Pricing Mistakes Costing You Revenue (and How to Fix Them) in 2026
Discover the 10 most common SaaS pricing mistakes costing companies 43% in potential revenue. Learn how underpricing, static pricing, and poor value metrics hurt growth—and get actionable fixes backed by data from 500+ SaaS companies.
2026.04.30·10 min·Guides
2026.04.30Duke Vu · 10 minGuides

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