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Extra vote for this, my company prefers to keep the data inhouse whenever possible


I think an even nicer solution would be a custom tier generator that allows you to drag a slider with the planned quantity Then just a fixed over usage surcharge


It is but it's a lot more work since you need to change a lot of code, marketing, etc... adding a column is something you can fix in a day.


I would like to read a postmortem, should be no less exciting than a gitlab's one


Have you tried to check https://postmaster.google.com/? You _may_ get an insight on what went wrong those 3 months ago


That requires hundreds or thousands of emails from your domain per day to show anything - which is useful if you run a major service, but for the use case of "every person hosts their own email", it’s not exactly useful.


Well, you're right, though I've seen data in there for domains with about 10k emails per month.

Still, that's probably way over the home email setup threshold.


Dang, I should go try and reapply, also e-resident, also got rejected pretty quickly. Good to know the guys are open to re-evaluation.


I was a Braintree customer for more than three years in another company. My experience in my former company was very good, so I was a bit surprised when I was rejected.

I wrote to them and I asked them to explain to me why they have rejected me. I told them I was an ex-customer and I could prove it. So they came back and they asked for an insane amount of information and documentation. Something I learned is the 'no-paper' model of Estonia is something Braintree doesn't like at all.

I had a problem with a very specific request, and Leapin helped me to get it in less than 24 hours.

So yes, go and try again!


Works for me too, false alarm


I actually run a small QA-as-a-service company (for 3+ years) and I should say that we strive to distance ourselves from "freelance" word as much as possible.

As most other cheap labors in a remote freelance mode — it is discredited. I think it would be just hard to build a personal brand strong enough to compete with tons of people, who can look like a diamond on a pre-sale phase and then just disappear.


How has that worked out for you? Do you find it difficult to find clients? Much client turnover? Are you doing mostly manual or automated testing?


Finding customers is always a tough task. We started from μ-ISVs with simple Windows applications to probe the market and see whether people are ready to buy tests and QA as a service and then slowly expanded the offered services list.

We have great customer retention (excluding some specific one-time projects, like a penetration test), I hope due to our dedication :)

I would say manual tests are most popular, and then load tests, then automation. Often customers start from a tiny manual test and then use our services more and more, in other QA areas, being happy to receive all of those from one window in a unified manner.


Something similar was offered by connex.io but unfortunately they've closed recently.


Take a look at 2checkout, they have some recurrent billing functionality out-of-box.


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