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by ahoyhere 14y ago
"Most definitely"? Why?
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
I don't think we're disagreeing here about pricing at all! Lots of very good freelancers are undercharging and everybody should price on value delivered. (Especially those freelancers who disappear and only get work done when yelled at. If
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
As someone who has both been and hired a lot of freelancers/contractors, I would say that there is a genuine difference in game level between freelancers and consultants. It's a matter of professionalism and willingness (and ability) to s
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
It's sad that you think "writing stuff people want" is manipulative and faux.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
You could easily reach that definition of "retire" with a very part-time effort on a small biz product, instead of a huge liquidity event, too. Not a huge fan of Tim Ferris' whole schtick, but the idea of semi-retirement is a very good one.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
I absolutely agree with you -- the fact that he's a VC has a lot of bearing on what he writes. Ditto for many of the other people whose posts often end up on the front page of HN. Which goes largely without remark! And you summarized my app
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Yup, getting started with healthcare was stressful (so we used an agent) and hiring our first employees wasn't stressful but firing them both was. So was getting our (personal) mortgage — that tied my guts in knots for weeks. But then, like
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
You may be right… for a certain kind of person, dealing with other people's money increases the feel of personal responsibility (which is a good thing!) I don't believe that's what's at work most of the time, though. It seems like there is
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
This is ONE way to be an entrepreneur, certainly not the only one. I don't mean to brag, because I'm sure none of you care about my "little dipshit company," but there are people out there who deserve to know that this kind of adrenaline ju
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
The cow, pig, and sheep all have hooves (are ungulates). The hen is the only one without hooves. Surprised nobody mentioned that so far. That was my first go-to.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
I dropped out of HS, then dropped out of college. Ask me how my career has suffered!
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This is the most sincere and human thing you've ever written, Dustin. Bravo.
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I don't think it was aggressive, but if you did, I apologize. Some beliefs are so wrong that they need to be put down -- not violently, but with a wave of proof so it's clear that they are false. The belief, for example, that people don't n
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
patio11 could make $100k appear -- without strings -- by waving his Magic Product Wand, and producing 10x-20x value for his customers (at least!!), to boot. Why, then, do you think he should take investment?
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
I agree with you about the silent majority - that's the only reason I bother to show up here and argue. To represent. I surely don't believe I'll actually convince one of the aggressors that they're wrong. Ha! It's still kind of funny, thou
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
ryan_f, I agree, it's disheartening… and not by design. We've been trying to hire somebody to develop new features for Freckle for some time; we must have gone through 5 freelancers who became flaky or committed broken work. (Note: I don't
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Arguing semantics -- e.g. "you said 'testimonial' instead of 'quote'" -- is the last refuge of scoundrels. But that's okay. Just like you with your "BS" and "taking advantage of" and off-handed tales of deceit, I mean scoundrel in a nice
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Not sure what the original problem was because the OP's been edited but probably, that sounds like something I'd say… sorta ;) I rarely use the r-word ("rich") but there is definitely a list of problems I categorize as "Great Problems to Ha
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Where on any of our product pages is there a phrase like that? On the other hand, check out patio11's Lifecycle Emails page for frank honesty such as: "Do you not have a shipped product yet? Ship something. Do not buy this course. Well-impl
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
"Amy may be a great programmer with a great product, but her income was predicated from writing copy and marketing for that product " vs "Amy may be a great programmer with a great skillet, but her income was predicated on creating a resume
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
When a person argues from passion instead of reason, this is the kind of thing that results. A person who argues from passion isn't even fully aware of the words coming out of his mouth (keyboard), because it's a wave of sheer emotion. I'm
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
"You must also consider that most people do not have the kind of talent for writing that you and patio11 possess" I always find this kind of statement interesting. Where do you think we got our "talent"? Writing our butts off. It's true --
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Why go to a therapist, when you can talk to yourself? Why call a plumber when you can buy a wrench on Amazon? Why go to a doctor when you can look up symptoms on Medscape? Why pay for a gym membership, when you can do P90x at home… hell, wh
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
"Herd" "milk" "cow" --> classic poisoning the well, utterly (udderly?) without basis or merit. Factual arguments make us smarter. What you are writing makes the discourse dumber. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_the_well
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
I noticed. :) The arguments among the "green" accounts all have a similar incoherency. Looks like astroturfing to me. But I still can't bear to let them stand because if you aren't privy to underhanded "argument" techniques, they sound mild
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Revenue. We have one very very part-time developer (my husband Thomas) and the occasional freelancer.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
I think it's pretty hilarious that you think I've hustled like crazy, considering most months I don't spend more than 10 hours on Freckle… and that's being generous. In addition to it no longer being my main focus (for good or ill), I have
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
To a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
1. What consulting? I don't do consulting. 2. Are you privy to hard facts about my customer base like "it's all programmers with poor time management skills"? Or how big a global population that might be? If so, that's very valuable data fo
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Not a lot (maybe 15%?) and no. More than half of signups come from either untraceable referrers/direct or searching for Freckle specifically. We rely on content marketing + word of mouth.

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