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by a13n 6y ago
It's pretty interesting that FAANG doing venture capital is basically like legal insider trading. They clearly have data on web traffic, consumer usage, advertising spend, etc. that other VC firms and investors generally don't hav
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by a13n 6y ago
Canny | Full-Stack Engineer | REMOTE | Full-time | https://canny.io Canny helps software companies keep track of feature requests to build better products. * Early-stage startup, 7 person team * Over 600 customers, including ind
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by a13n 6y ago
> JavaScript Bytes Served to Desktop Devices, by Percentile Is this gzipped or uncompressed bytes? Article doesn't specify, but based on the word "Served", I'd assume gzipped? As in bytes over the wire? Would love cla
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by a13n 6y ago
While drastically decreasing the amount of risk you take, you're also drastically decreasing the likelihood of success.
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by a13n 6y ago
This advice is correct. It took us 18 months to make our first dollar and then another 10 months to hit $2k MRR. Now we're north of $800k ARR. (bootstrapped, 2 first-time founders) Time frames of "three weeks" and "two m
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by a13n 7y ago
> Since I personally have no brand, and nobody knows who I am, they won't take a chance on me. Who is "they" in this case? Customers? Investors? Recruiting candidates? In any case, I don't think this is true. Customer
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by a13n 7y ago
Wishful thinking
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by a13n 7y ago
So? Guidelines don't explicitly say this behavior is unallowed. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Sometimes posts that deserve to be on the front page don't make it. Seems fine to repost periodicall
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by a13n 7y ago
Gotcha, honestly that feels pretty niche to me, which might be a good place for a startup to start. I can't think of many back-end applications between purely static content (just use a CDN) and needs a database connection. Probably vi
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by a13n 7y ago
If one API request makes on average 5-10 round trips to the database, and the database is in Virginia, this only makes the problem (much) worse. How do you solve this problem for this use case?
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by a13n 7y ago
I would guess that Bill Gates has been looking to do this for a while now, and this is just a good time PR-wise. It won't tank the stock anymore than it already has because the market's crashing, and people have other stuff to wor
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Year three in review: Lessons from growing our bootstrapped startup(canny.io)
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by a13n 7y ago
- When I created my Robinhood account, none of those brokerages had commission free trades. Also, what about commissions and exercise fees associated with stock options? Also free? I doubt it. - Still today, the UX of all of those other app
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by a13n 7y ago
That's per license, per employee? Or company-wide license fee? If the latter, you still need to divide by the total number of users of the product.
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by a13n 7y ago
I mean, FB is trying to stop phishing here, and it doesn't seem like your company is cooperating with FB's investigation. A lawsuit seems like what they had to do to get you to take action here. Why do you want to take money from
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by a13n 7y ago
The problem with the US is that healthcare is so broken that nobody will want to go to the doctor to get checked because it's too expensive.
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by a13n 7y ago
The thing about SaaS is once you've found those first ~100 customers to give you money, this is a big indicator that your product solves a real problem, has found a place in the market, and will continue to grow. It's really hard
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by a13n 7y ago
Canny | Full-Stack Engineer | REMOTE | Full-time | https://canny.io Canny helps software companies keep track of feature requests to build better products. * Early-stage startup, 5 person team * Over 500 customers, including ind
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by a13n 7y ago
Check out Pipefy instead https://www.pipefy.com/
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by a13n 7y ago
Honestly the game was not playable on macOS. If you wanted to play on your MacBook you had to run Windows with bootcamp, which you can still do. So I doubt this change will really impact anyone. Can anyone talk about how it plays on Linux?
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by a13n 7y ago
Yeah good point, if you're starting one of these today you might already be a bit late.
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by a13n 7y ago
To some extent it was both. The web made programming relevant to a much broader audience, and JS is much more approachable than other popular languages from that time (eg C++).
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by a13n 7y ago
More like "VC Compatible Startup Ideas 2020" It's totally feasible to start a successful company outside of these ideas. I think this list is helpful because they answer the "why now" question that VCs are looking f
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by a13n 7y ago
Canny | Full-Stack Engineer | REMOTE | Full-time | https://canny.io Canny helps software companies keep track of feature requests to build better products. * Early-stage startup, 5 person team, launched two years ago * Over 500
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by a13n 7y ago
This hasn't been my experience. How does SSR not work out of the box with NextJS?
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It isn't, but requirements rarely allow for static websites.
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by a13n 7y ago
The reason React was made is because it's an easier way to reason about apps at scale, with many components and people working on them. As a result, there will be less errors and your team can move faster. It has nothing to do with off
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by a13n 7y ago
This is probably the worst possible takeaway from this article. > not use javascript for everything Using JS for frontend + backend has significant advantages. Your developers only need to know one language/codebase. You don't
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by a13n 7y ago
The two main benefits of SSR are SEO and performance. SEO: If you don't server-side render your website, your SEO will certainly suffer. Google says they execute your JS, and to some extent they do, but your ranking will be worse and f
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by a13n 7y ago
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