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by akbar501 13y ago
Hi pg, thanks for the reply. I may have done a poor job of wording as I used the word stage which has a specific meaning. What I meant was the first investment (seed) has moved from idea stage to prototype. With the clarification, do you th
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There's a well known and clearly visible trend that more institutional (i.e. not friends and family) investment is moving later stage for "normal" software businesses. The reasons are well known: the cost of developing softwa
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Great persistence.
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This is really a case of picking the wrong tool for the job. __This is in no way a slight of the author__...b/c I have done worse on more than one occasion, so thanks for sharing. To anyone reading, you really should understand your wo
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Nice idea. I have a few questions. 1. Do you have plans to integrate other payment gateways so that a business can get a summary view? 2. What does this provide over and above what Stripe provides? I'm sure their is more, but a quick s
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> What I'd really like to see at this point is some smart packages built on top of Meteor that make building basic CRUD applications simple again. We built what you've described with Exponential.io. Essentially, we take a spec
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Ask HN: How much progress do YC companies make in 3 months?
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Exponential.io - Exponential is a code generator designed to help developers build apps faster with less effort. We use Node.js for our entire client-facing stack including an API server for code generation, a command line client for pullin
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There are people who aim high whether they are in the 20's, 30's, 40's ... and then there are those who aim low. Age is rarely a factor for those who are shooting for the moon, but it's a great excuse for those who don&#
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I guess it's a good time to be in Battery's portfolio. Adrian is absolutely brilliant. Also, that's a big loss for Netflix. I'm sure they have a lot of smart people, but losing someone of Andrian's caliber is not so
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What issues have you run into with Jenkins? Just curious.
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An alternative approach is to properly qualify prospects up front once you get them on the phone. This helps you identify a non-customer early in the conversation so that you can end it if there is no fit, or aggressively pursue if there is
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by akbar501 13y ago
1. Async JavaScript: Build More Responsive Apps with Less Code http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AKM4RVG/ref=kinw_myk_ro_... Any serious JS dev needs to master async. 2. Functional JavaScript: Introducing F
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I think the author oversimplified the choice of Browserify and RequireJS. They have some overlap, but are not 100% replacements. Both have the concept of modules, and they overlap in this area. Browserify allows you to use Node style module
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There have been numerous posts stating that Gulp is faster than Grunt. However, the "faster" argument needs to be qualified with "under these conditions ____". Even better, here's my configuration. Here's the p
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1.) I hope you are over playing the despair part, but if you really feel that every sucks then you should speak a professional to help give you perspective. Seriously, your mental health matters. 2.) Create a list of everything you need to
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What was the performance difference (in ms)? I double-checked the article and did not see the actual performance numbers.
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We use our product Exponential. Exponential.io is Tooling as a Service. Basically, it creates 3 things really well via automation: 1. API 2. Angular app (and connects to the API) 3. Express app (optional. used for SEO)
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Similar experience with http://www.exponential.io (Exponential.io). We needed to develop both prototypes and production apps faster, so we built tooling...which turned into Exponential.io (tooling as a service). > seeing the
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by akbar501 13y ago
Mail: Postfix (my go to SMTP server). However, a lot of people like Exim as well, but I've never got into it. Sendmail is powerful, but unwieldy. Postfix is very simple to configure a basic email server, especially b/c RedHat does
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by akbar501 13y ago
Great post. I could not agree more. To further the article, CI/CD are often neglected by small teams / startups. However, startups would benefit more than large teams (as a percent of time) by automating the build and deploy proce
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by akbar501 13y ago
conspiracy: a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful. collusion: secret or illegal cooperation or conspiracy, esp. in order to cheat or deceive others.
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> But we're talking about the tech employee's relative share of the company's own profits, right? Not exactly. The key issue is not whether anyone made more or less money. What is at issue is violation of US law. As of tod
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by akbar501 13y ago
In cases of conspiracy, I believe the illegal act is the very act of meeting to plan criminal activity. The effectiveness of such planning is not the deciding factor as to whether or not the people involved have behaved criminally. As a par
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The calls are straight forward and direct. If you have not qualified the prospect already, then you must do this in the first 15 seconds. The basic steps are 1.) Identify yourself 2.) Very short intro to why you're calling 3.) Ask a qu
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User acquisition will be greatly helped if you can provide evidence. Specifically, have some friends or people you know use the service and document the results. Show that the service works. Overall, good idea (assuming everything works eff
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by akbar501 13y ago
From moot's blog post, "Building any business is hard". This statement could not be more true. I've had the fortune of founding a successful company. And yet, I still find that building new revenue streams is a royal pai
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by akbar501 13y ago
It's important to note that Grunt can be used in 2 (more?) ways: 1.) As a build tool 2.) As a continuous build tool (with watch and live reload) React's Gruntfile is well organized and is a great option for #1. However, use of thi
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by akbar501 13y ago
I never stated whether I was referring to profit or revenue. However, from the article one can infer that the entire discussion is about revenue.
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by akbar501 13y ago
@AznHisoka, I did not mean to imply that hosting is free. What I was driving at is that hosting was previously a multi-million dollar investment. Before LinTel became the norm, servers ran on Sun, which was extremely expensive at their scal

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