Label LIVE VS Milkman

$500/month (3 figures) is a great milestone. I remember talking to a mentor that said, “you have something people will buy, stop working on features and focus just a bit on marketing.” It was good advice because now I’m regularly generating revenue of 4 figures per day. Rewind 5 years… I was so frustrated I couldn’t easily design and print barcode labels on my Mac using a spreadsheet. I opened up vscode and wrote... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

I bought a hundred different label printers off eBay/amazon so I could reverse engineer and test all the different protocols. Now my app works with most label printers on the market and manufacturer’s send new models to me without even asking. I personally answer every support email. My wife once asked me how many customers I had. Then she asked how many email support emails I’ve handled over the same time period.... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

This app is adjacent to my indie electron app [1] for designing and printing labels, including barcodes. My app runs on Mac/windows and can be licensed offline. I love offering my users affordable one-time licenses that will work “forever.” I also offer a monthly subscription to satisfy the herd. 1) https://label.live/. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

What does “Zebra” mean in this context? > Native mobile components include a barcode scanner, camera, NFC reader, geolocation tracker, signature pad, and Zebra integration to allow you to fully enable your field teams to operate efficiently. The only mention of Zebra in the docs is for zebra striping table rows/lists. Or does it mean Zebra printer for label printing via ZPL? My wheelhouse is label printer... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

I deeply want to understand and solve this problem. I’m an indie dev that created a desktop app (electron) to design and print labels. I sell a one-time license for $147 but also a subscription for $14.99/month. About 20% of my revenue is MRR. It’s up to the user, and they seem to love it when they have this choice. Is it sustainable for me? I think so. I license per computer. My largest customers have 20+... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

There certainly are plenty of Postman alternatives out there, one that I've used before is Milkman: https://github.com/warmuuh/milkman It's built on a plugin architecture, does gRPC, GraphQL, JDBC, Ws, et.al. Other plugins allow sharing of workspaces to various services. Written in Java/JavaFX, brew or chocolatey install. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

[1] https://github.com/warmuuh/milkman Edit: I love these threads. You read so many things and Frameworks and random stuff that you really learn in what silo you are actually living. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

I built milkman[1], an alternative to postman because I wanted one tool to integrate with the whole web development stack. One tool that contains my SQL, rest and grpc calls to easily debug issues. Also nearly none of those kind of tools that existed supported SSE which I also use in my day to day work. [1] https://github.com/warmuuh/milkman. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

Background: I am the creator of Milkman (alternative to postman) and was wondering if an RSocket plugin would actually be useful... Source: almost 3 years ago