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by 255kb 4y ago
I've been working (mostly) solo on an open-source application for the last 5 years (3 years as a side-project, last 2 years full-time). It has been a lot of ups and downs with a burn out in the middle. Among the downs: having FOMO when
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This is something I thought about for a while. But isn't using MIT contributing to the project popularity? Also, my project is a desktop application, so I think people don't really care if it's MIT or GPL. Maybe it makes mor
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Some services already exist, like Bounty source ( https://app.bountysource.com/ ). But the volume of issues is very small despite it existing for years. Also, most tasks seem to require a lot of work, and who can you convinc
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When I was working as an in-house legal counsel at Yahoo! France (circa 2009), most of the revenues in Europe were from the advertising network activities. They had the biggest media brands in their inventory at that time. They also insiste
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by 255kb 4y ago
I think it never left. There are many occurences of corspes dissection for fun and profit: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/05/us/man-dissected-autopsy-...
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by 255kb 4y ago
Nice collection of things and well explained. But I wouldn't call all of them patterns, but rather "solutions to common problems". Like the https://www.patterns.dev/posts/virtual-lists/ it's a
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by 255kb 4y ago
I think the secret of Reddit is to interact in an authentic, humble way (Sorry I don't find other words to describe this) on targeted subs. For me, what worked, is to share the app on /r/electronjs because it was made with E
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I keep reading now that's it's a bit rigged and hard to be at the top. If I had a new project to promote I think I wouldn't spend to much time on Product Hunt. Also, again, it's one shot vs long-term SEO. Sure, it give
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You're welcome :) Always happy to learn about the positive impact of what I built. If you have any specific feedback or facing an issue, do not hesitate to join our Discord or GitHub Discussions. I will be glad to help!
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by 255kb 4y ago
From my own experience with building Mockoon: I submitted the project on various places: HN, Reddit, Product Hunt, and lots of directories like Beta Page. HN was the best, by far. Lots of interesting feedback. Reddit was okay, but you need
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1) yes, but only got the warning once. 2) I think you need to root and disable OTA updates, but never tried. 3) Hate it, but I think it's a drop in an ocean of control, and probably way more harmless than depending on Google for everyt
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I keep it simple and stay as much as possible in my comfort zone: Desktop app: Electron + Angular + Express + Firebase Remote Config CLI: Node.js app using Oclif and Express In a basic monorepo using Lerna Website: Next.js Website's ho
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I'm building https:/mockoon.com on Windows since 5 years, testing in a Mac VM. So far so good. Never encountered a bug report that wasn't detectable in the VM. Only caveat, testing their new architecture. For this, I kindly a
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Yes, good suggestion, I recently started with this. Hope some Enterprise users will be interested.
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by 255kb 4y ago
Thank you for the advice. I think this is mostly covered already with an explanation and call to action in each repo readme, release changelog, etc. I'm also using GitHub Sponsors, which should be simple enough, I guess.
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Ask HN: Open-source maintainers, how do you search for sponsors?
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by 255kb 4y ago
Definitely. I created a popular dev tool, and more than half of the users are using Windows. I'm also a front-end dev using Windows since decades, and I had like 0 problem using this OS.
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by 255kb 4y ago
Same happened to me some days ago. I set up a Google Ads account to test advertising for a small Angular course I am giving. A face-to-face traditional course, not an online one. I created a small website for my small company with some cour
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by 255kb 4y ago
Apart from getting tweets I really don't care about in my feed, I think the overall quality of tweets really decreased in the past months, especially in the dev/SaaS entrepreneurs/Indie hackers space. My feed is full of star
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by 255kb 4y ago
I'm all in for both. Having an extra day to spend with my family, or doing "other things" (gardening, sport, etc.) and working less everyday. I find myself being way more productive when I know my work day is short. Having
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by 255kb 4y ago
How is that different from the current art market where you can already buy some painting with a high degree of confidence that it's an original, numbered, signed by the artist, etc. Blockchain does not add more confidence to these ki
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by 255kb 5y ago
Wow, sounds from Mario paint!
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by 255kb 5y ago
For me no change nor prompt after the update. Nothing changed, I still have my settings.
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Not a hot dog
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by 255kb 5y ago
Several months ago I decided to split my time 50/50, spend mornings on dev, and afternoons on marketing. it worked quite well so far. At least way better than the 99% dev and 1% marketing I-will-start-just-after-this-last-bugfix. I tri
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I built an open-source desktop API mocking tool three years ago: https://mockoon.com I found the existing solution too cumbersome to setup, often requiring an account, online deployment, etc. And I wanted something really simple
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by 255kb 5y ago
Hi, I'm the creator of this repo :) Thank you for sharing it on HN! I am glad you people find it useful. Feel free to contribute if there is anything that needs to be updated, I will do my best to review and merge today. And also, tha
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by 255kb 5y ago
That was my goal when I created it. I wanted it to be an explanation on how and why a service is good or ready for free prod usage :)
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by 255kb 6y ago
1. Press F5 then quickly ctrl+a then ctrl+c 2. Open notepad or whatever, ctrl+v 3. profit :)
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by 255kb 6y ago
For me, it's a mix of passion, potential business, and call of duty (if I may say it like this). I started working on this open-source project three years ago. I needed a tool like this, but also, I wanted to learn aside from my day j

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