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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Do you have proof? Because I have proof that you're wrong, and the proof itself lines my pockets every month :)
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Here are some of the companies making much than us: Harvest (look at the size of their team; and for web apps, they are old!) Mite (the last time they posted about revenue, it was more than double ours, presumably that trend has continued)
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
It's not. We got a first surge of signups from people who heard about it because they followed us, but the vast majority of our paying customers have no freaking clue "who we are."
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Seriously, OC probably means this: When you're having seemingly psychological affects/things that are just "part of who you are," it's almost impossible to begin to think that it might be some outside force. I used to take a medicine which
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
If one of the main risk factors for the parasite is exposure to cats, how exactly is that increased by "risk-taking behavior"? Are cats considered risky? You wrote a lot but none of it was persuasive. Other than random exaggerated "possibil
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Ha! Well, we are in hot demand ;) Actually, I have contributed essentially zero code to our SaaS products. We had partners on Freckle, but bought them out because they were not doing their work. Otherwise we hire freelancers. I am the biz "
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
You're welcome :) This exact thing here -- the idea that "no one will pay for it" or a question of whether there is "still opportunity" -- is why hanging around HN without the right mental filters is detrimental to your success. There is no
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Ah! Good question. So, previously, we'd do support ourselves. It doesn't take more than 45 min - hour a day total, most days less. Part of why it's fast is we use our own custom-rolled tool (coming soon to a public launch near you: http://
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
The stuff you describe seems to fall under the heading of "what they are eliminating." Did you read the article?
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
HNers believe Atwood leaving SO has more impact on HNers than HN projects and networking events. That is, in fact, why it has so many more votes. Where do you expect this argument to go?
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
What's to say he didn't learn from his mistakes? I think that was the point of the speech. Sounds like he spent wayyyy more time with his "second round" of kids.
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
The trick is not to go for success at all costs so you don't "have something to prove" which you force on your kids, it's to grow out of the need to "have something to prove." It's possible, and will result in less wasted time and fewer tea
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
That depends on what you qualify a "startup." My husband and I run a SaaS/infoproduct business which grossed right around $600k last year and we do not work long hours (or even 40 hours/wk). In 2011, we invested heavily in our next product,
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
He's being down voted because it's so easy to call something "ignorant" without backing it up. Just like it's easy to call something "one of the dumbest articles" without backing it up. No argument, no proof, no reasoning… down votes.
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Yes. And on top of that, another dirty little secret -- when a startup is the fly buzzing around the ear of the big, established company, and it keeps buzzing and buzzing, the big, established company finds it easier to swat than compete wi
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
And funding and startups become about the glory, the dream, and not the actual results (e.g. breathing good, solid life into a dream… and making good money). You might enjoy my essay since we're obviously in agreement: http://unicornfree.c
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
aridiculous, you're right that devs/tech people hold a lot of cards in the modern economy… they can do all you said and more. But they almost never do. Holding the cards is worthless when you don't know you're playing a game, much less that
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
I've found this true in most places in (continental) Europe. I spent 4 years living in Vienna, Austria and was initially shocked & then spoiled by how well-behaved the kids there are. It'd become simply the normal background for me, but
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Grey hairs don't correlate with wisdom. Most people don't actually grow and change all that much, they just get older.
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Part of it is the older workers in question have outdated skills and probably act like "fuddy-duddies." I've worked with great tech types in their 40s plus, who are smart and present and current as well as wise and experienced… and I've wor
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
DHH isn't an entertainer? He writes and speaks about his life and biz, and others' businesses/business in general, just like Mark Twain and George Carlin, and people pay money for his books and speaking engagements. Sounds like entertainmen
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Bob Saget does vulgar comedy?? There goes my childhood. No, I meant Dave whatshisface.
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Strong language and strong feelings over work is considered very unprofessional and therefore an "embarrassment" to workaday types with starched blue oxford shirts and khaki pants. It's their worldview, which is fine. Except the starched
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
There is no single definition of "professionalism," and the word is therefore totally meaningless the way you use it.
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
A 5-year-old who is probably actually in his 20s, just got $1.2 million in funding, and said "yeah I stole, but it was only up for a week, and only a test, lesson: if I steal, give credit"? Please. If we're going to hold an intelligent deba
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
It really reminded me of the homeschooling family in some small town who named their kid "Hitler" and then tried to sue the local bakery who refused to put his name on a cake. They really seemed to think the whole US would get behind them a
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
You've never seen a grown man use strong language or call somebody a fucking something-something? Guess you've never read Mark Twain, or watched George Carlin, or any comic, ever, except maybe that guy from Full House who specializes in "cl
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
For DHH to have "embarrassed himself," he would have to feel embarrassed. He clearly doesn't, since he uses this kind of straightforward, salty language all the time. It's only in your head that he is embarrassed.
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Good thing you're here to tell 37signals' owners how they have to behave to be taken seriously as a company. With that kind of personal language, they'd never get any serious customers! Oh wait. Here's the thing: this is how they've built t
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Integrity is personal -- and it means doing what you say, and vice versa. In other words, congruency. Which means that it's perfectly integral and congruent for DHH to call somebody a "fucking scumbag" when that person steals from DHH's com

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