And Metorik, my favorite SaaS period,…
Brian Krogsgard
And Metorik, my favorite SaaS period, is celebrating a year of existence. I'm majorly excited about Bryce's plans for the Engage features.
John Blackbourn has documented all the…
Brian Krogsgard
John Blackbourn has documented all the situations where WordPress sends an email, along with how to filter or disable each email. Bless him. I hate WordPress default emails. It's a SaaS opportunity if I ever saw one.
Josh PollockĀ has announcedĀ Caldera Forms now has…
Brian Krogsgard
Josh PollockĀ has announcedĀ Caldera Forms now has a SaaS version. It's designed to provide "more reliable emails, better looking emails, email stats, form to PDF," and more. Check out hisĀ comparisonĀ of the free and paid versions. Paid and free extensions are stillā¦
The future of the WordPress economy, and why I’m not worried
Joshua Strebel
Joshua Strebel -- the CEO of Pagely -- shares his view of the current state of the WordPress economy, and why he is confident in both its strength and future.
Rainmaker goes service only, sells partial stake to Nimble Worldwide
Brian Krogsgard
Rainmaker launched in April of 2014, and now it's moving from a SaaS product model to a service-only model, which includes a partial buyout to a new stakeholder -- Nimble Worldwide. I was excited about the launch of the hostedā¦
Clement Vouillon writes about the rise…
Brian Krogsgard
Clement Vouillon writes about the rise of bootstrapped SaaS companies, noting reasons why bootstrapping a SaaS company to several million dollars of annual recurring revenue, without raising VC money, is a viable path. Clement outlines the pros and cons ofā¦
Reliance on third party code
Brian Krogsgard
One of the most challenging components to making decisions in web development is determining when and how strongly to rely on code written by other people. Most of the code we rely on for a website was written by someoneā¦
CodePen Projects is the most interesting…
Brian Krogsgard
CodePen Projects is the most interesting web application I've seen in a long time. They've launched what is essentially a hosted IDE, but also includes domain mapping so you can create the whole site right there on CodePen. As someoneā¦
Scott Bolinger, co-founder of AppPresser, shares…
Dan Knauss
Scott Bolinger, co-founder of AppPresser, shares some thoughts on the WordPress product space in 2016 and what he thinks is in store for next year. He covers his thoughts on SaaS (AppPresser is moving to a SaaS model in 2017),ā¦
Another really neat project from 10up…
Brian Krogsgard
Another really neat project from 10up is the SaaS version of their ElasticPress product. The tagline for ElasticPress.io is, "WordPress Search, Solved." It's fully hosted, and geared specifically for WordPress. It's not cheap (starts at $299 per month), and youā¦
Modern Tribe has releasedĀ Event Aggregator, an…
Brian Krogsgard
Modern Tribe has releasedĀ Event Aggregator, an add-on to The Events CalendarĀ that imports events using feeds from Facebook, Meetup, Google Calendar, iCalendar, CSV, and ICS. I think this is a big release for that plugin. This new SaaS component of theirā¦
Publish presentation announcements
Brian Krogsgard
I'm really excited to finally announce the Post Status Publish presenters. There are twelve awesome folks (plus me) ready to share their knowledge with you. I have already said that I wanted to make Publish feel like the hallway track,ā¦
I’m going to have a much…
Brian Krogsgard
I'm going to have a much more complete review soon, but I've been testing Metorik -- a new and in beta WooCommerce analytics SaaS from Bryce Adams -- and it is absolutely amazing. It's the most promising WordPress tool I'veā¦
GoDaddy has acquired ManageWP
Brian Krogsgard
GoDaddy has acquired the WordPress website management service, ManageWP. ManageWP will remain a standalone app, and GoDaddy will integrate several features into their GoDaddy Pro and WordPress hosting plans.
Baremetrics lists various statistics from 600+…
Brian Krogsgard
Baremetrics lists various statistics from 600+ small and medium sized SaaS businesses.
Delicious Brains promises to solve one of WordPress’s most difficult problems, with Mergebot
Brian Krogsgard
Mergebot is finally out of the bag. Brad Touesnard has been talking about it for quite some time on his Apply Filters podcast, but they've now posted on the Delicious Brains blog more about the why and how of MergeBot.ā¦
