Since you mentioned maybe trying Sleuth. Dylan just posted a Show HN for our new Accelerate metrics tracker, you can read his comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=detkin
Our co-founder Dylan Etkin wrote this book from a practitioner's perspective. Dylan was one of the first 20 employees at Atlassian, and a founding engineer and the first Architect of Jira. He has also led engineering for Bitbucket at scale, and Statuspage, a startup that Atlassian acquired.
The book attempts to break down HOW elite software teams deploying to production many times a day get to where they are.
Their journey can be deconstructed into 3 phases:
Phase 1 : Deploy once a week
Phase 2 : Deploy once a day
Phase 3 : Deploy a hundred times a day
The book details the measurements, development practices, communications, and cultural milestones that mark each phase to show you how to replicate their journey toward Continuous Delivery - and reap the benefits that come with frequent deployments.
I'm planning to do this too, and did my own research.
I'm probably going to go with the Launch School (https://launchschool.com/) because of its focus on giving you the foundational skills to learn any language (after learning Ruby from them). I may or may not decide to do the Capstone project.
It seems you're only interested in front-end, not full-stack, so I'm not sure they'd be a fit. But I will say that as a software PM knowing about the back-end is probably useful.
A lot of the comments are focused on figuring out price points, i.e. how much.
You should also spend time figuring out the right pricing metric, to make sure that as your customer gets more value out of your product, you continue to get a fair share of that value.
By pricing metric I mean things like per user, per server, per API call, etc.
Take for example a SaaS app that helps you create project proposals.
If you charge per user at $10/month, and one user generates 1,000 proposal a month, effectively that user is paying 1 cent per proposal.
In this case the proxy for value for your product is number of proposals.
The user is getting a lot of value from your product, but you're getting a flat share of that value. Regardless of how many proposals the user create, you still only get $10.
So in this example, it makes more sense for you to charge by proposal first and foremost.
Gets more complex as you think about secondary metrics but that's the principle.
I recently set up a LLC in California using Nolo's $99 online service (could have figured it all out myself but didn't want to spend time):
- First get a federal EIN number online (free, self-service) for the LLC.
- When filing out the Nolo form, use your virtual mailing address as this will be public record. I signed up for Virtual Post Mail at $10/month.
- When filing out the Nolo form, answer "I already have a registered agent". If you use Virtual Post mail, your subscription includes free registered agent service. If you answer no and agree to use their service partner Incorporate.com, it'll cost you $235/year.
+1 Create a business checking account so your personal vs. business financial records are kept separate.
Since you mentioned maybe trying Sleuth. Dylan just posted a Show HN for our new Accelerate metrics tracker, you can read his comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=detkin