TamDenholm

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   by TamDenholm 9y ago

   Looks cool, one suggestion, in your homepage, change the screenshots to have actual text in them, it provides a lot more context to understand the app.
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   by TamDenholm 9y ago

   I suppose it all depends on your perspective, I've been a contractor for basically 12 years. I run my own business too and contracting just supplements the income. I had a permanent job once for 9 months and i bloody hated it. I get bo
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   by TamDenholm 9y ago

   I'm grumpy, i dont like christmas: http://whychristmasisbullshit.com/
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   by TamDenholm 9y ago

   Meetup.com works ok, but chamber of commerce i find is better because its generally better suited to businesses. Best thing though is to find trade events, whether its conferences or networking events, product launches, whatever. Pick an in
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   by TamDenholm 9y ago

   Honestly its about networking and i dont mean going to going to events and just handing out business cards. Its about what you do every day. I got the Kodak client from someone i already knew from a previous job. I got the Distillery client
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   by TamDenholm 9y ago

   I doubt i'm a candidate for indie hackers, i dont have a product, i offer a service. But i'm happy to answer questions.
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   by TamDenholm 9y ago

   Trouble is I can never write proactively, only retroactively to stuff like this on HN or Reddit.
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   by TamDenholm 9y ago

   Ok since in less than an hour i've had a few comments and 1 email asking about this, i'll reply here. So the headlines are: Be as boring as possible, Networking, Focusing on the outcome, rather than the product and start studying
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   by TamDenholm 9y ago

   Yes, granted its 3 times as much revenue and not 3 times profit, as i have employees and an office etc now, but yes, i'm earning a lot more.
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    by TamDenholm 9y ago

    I felt like that a few years ago. I didnt end up leaving my career, what i did instead was use my skills in a different way. Instead of being a web developer, i became a business consultant. Like you i didnt care about the latest fashion in
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    by TamDenholm 9y ago

    Depends how you define good. Some define good as getting the job done in a quick and efficient manner and making the client (or company) happy with the result, however code quality may suffer in this instance and it could be hard to maintai
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    by TamDenholm 9y ago

    Ah yeah, in that context it wouldnt be a digital agency.
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    by TamDenholm 9y ago

    Wouldn't that typically be a digital agency?
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    by TamDenholm 9y ago

    I get at least 5 phone calls from recruiters a week, being a contractor. The amount of times i get someone that asks me something like: Recruiter: "We're looking for someone with React experience, do you have that?" Me:
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    by TamDenholm 9y ago

    I personally have hired a young person on the apprenticeship scheme in the UK, hes great. Hes doing so well he is getting his qualification early and hes also doing very meaningful work for the company. I dont know if thats an option in you
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    by TamDenholm 9y ago

    I absolutely love Rory Sutherlands talks on Behavioral Economics, you can find excellent talks of his on youtube. Hes great at explaining on how to think in different ways. Excellent for people looking to learn about alternative viewpoints
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    by TamDenholm 9y ago

    You've not said what you do, how long your commute is, what mode of transport you can take or anything, so its difficult to offer specific suggestions. I'm assuming you're driving, but if you had the option of train you could
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    by TamDenholm 10y ago

    I'd love to hear about how you developed the connector.
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    by TamDenholm 10y ago

    Thanks for this, the yellow highlighting was extremely annoying, i didnt realise it wasnt even the original url until i started looking for a way to turn it off.
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    by TamDenholm 10y ago

    while i see your point, one important thing to note is that Marc's fee goes to charity.
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    by TamDenholm 10y ago

    i'm certainly not surprised, i dont have an issue with them putting soy in the chicken, the only issue i have is them advertising as just "chicken", if they instead advertised it as chicken + soy, then i'd be totally fin
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    by TamDenholm 10y ago

    I'd like to see the likes of Airport lounges that are not in the airport. Especially if it could use my priority pass to access them too.
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    by TamDenholm 10y ago

    Well given that the law specifically prohibits them from rescinding an offer if i dont want to opt out i gently remind them that if they try to pull any shit. Sometimes they'll just make the amend in the contract and that'll be th
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    by TamDenholm 10y ago

    I do contract work a lot in the UK through recruitment agencies. I very often provide feedback like this, especially when i'm asked to opt-out of the agency regulations. I never opt out, every single time i get the a response along the
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    by TamDenholm 10y ago

    One option is to create a business model, run it like a business, a way of running a non-profit is to just spend all the revenue on the business' goal, rather than to pay the shareholders of the business. I think thats the most robust
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    by TamDenholm 10y ago

    If anyone is interested, David Blaine has an interesting TED Talk on holding your breath. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFnGhrC_3Gs
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    by TamDenholm 10y ago

    I think the lack of entry level housing is a massive reason the tiny house movement has become so popular. I think people are willing to reevaluate the space they require to live in so as not to spend a life paying off debt.
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    by TamDenholm 10y ago

    Thanks for the video, looks really interesting. The one thing i noticed was that those bricks look suspiciously perfect. If it gets to a stage where it can handle non-perfect standard bricks, discarding broken ones etc, that would be intere
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    by TamDenholm 10y ago

    This is an excellent start to a game. I've been talking to the developer and asking how he did it. The game is created in Angular and uses all web technologies, he uses electron to package the app into a desktop application. I'm a
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    by TamDenholm 10y ago

    i looked into factoring companies myself. I got 3 quotes and they were all an absolutely terrible deal. This is a quote i got from one of the companies, copied verbatim from the email they sent me, they were all around the same terms: B