Vladimir's Blog

Startups and web services we use at ManageWP

Nov 19th, 2011

During the development of our startup, ManageWP, I started using a lot of tools made by other startups. Thought I'd share some of them. Newrelic is absolutely brilliant piece of software which tells you what is happening with your application. You can use it for profiling, diagnostics and statistics for your web app. We started using Sendgrid to send our emails. The service appears to be useful but there is one problem. Absolutely dreadful support.

Startups

Smart Youtube hits 1,000,000 downloads

Oct 7th, 2011

I am very happy that one of my first WordPress plugins hit 1,000,000 downloads this week. Smart Youtube allows users to easily embed Youtube videos to WordPress blogs and is one of the most popular WordPress plugins of all time. It is followed by SEO Smart Links with nearly half a million of downloads and SEO Friendly Images with 368,000 downloads. The combined downloads of all my WordPress plugins are now at 2,500,000. And I am only getting warmed up with WordPress ;)

WordPress

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Dating is like job hunting

Oct 5th, 2011

It just struck me. I don't know if that was something obvious that everybody knew, but I need to make a note. Dating is exactly like job hunting. You end up browsing ads, going to blind dates, expecting the person across you will be suitable for you. But they rarely are. You get disappointed as everything looks great on the outside but once you meet them better you start to realize there is a lot to be desired. But then you stick around because you think you have no other options.

Debate

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How to get the best possible feedback from your customers

Sep 16th, 2011

Thought I'd share the user feedback story we had with our startup. ManageWP allows users to manage WordPress blogs. It is still free and one of the things we were always wondering is how much to price the product once we launch it. There are no similar serious products on the market to compare the prices with. The closest match is Auttomatic owned VaultPress which offers only the backups and starts at $15/month per website.