alexmingoia

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by alexmingoia 5y ago
Where does your traffic come from? Is it SEO from domain match of “delete tweets app”?
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Splitting the app into different codebases or databases will complicate development, and the speed at which you're able to iterate. Ultimately, you will want to be presenting the same data in different ways for the different roles (man
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- Get rid of comment downvotes. They only make people feel bad, aren’t a substitute for moderation, and aren’t necessary for comments to sort by votes. - Double the number of entries on HN pages.
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You’re right: We have limited time. Is a calendar necessary to consider that? The way I see a calendar is for events that must happen at a specific time (appointments, birthdays, classes, etc.). To-dos may happen at any time. For example,
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Cool idea! Who is it for? How will it help? Why do they want it? If it was already built right now, who would your first customer be?
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deoxy.org - Thé Ðëòxÿríßøñµçlëìç HÿÞêrdïmèñsîøñ If you know, you know. It was one of the coolest website gardens on the early web. It was a personal handcrafted wiki, art project, and community focused on psychedelics, anarchism, mysticism,
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Hypercard Simulator(hypercardsimulator.com)
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As someone who runs an RSS feed reader ( https://sumi.news ), I think RSS is terrible compared to email for notifying users of updates. 1. Email is more efficient. Email doesn’t require constant polling. 2. Email client support is
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I’m curious, what is your business model? Biztoc.com doesn’t seem to have ads and it’s free.
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Haskell is my favorite language, because my apps never crash, and there’s a single unifying semantics (everything is a function).
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https://mailbrew.com let’s you compile everything into a daily digest email (RSS, Twitter, newsletters, Podcasts, etc.). You could also use a webapp that does the same like https://sumi.news
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I read only the top threads from yesterday in my morning email digest from Mailbrew.
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CloudFlare free page views analytics + saving ?ref= on signup. That gets you traffic + conversion rate broken down by channel.
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Do ads show up after you play? I don’t see how it’s monetized.
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You could leave Europe. Move to a low cost of living country and live on $1200/mo. Saving $36k will buy 3 years of living. Start a SaaS or other investments in your off time. If I could do it all again (no wife, kids, or fear) that’s w
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Put it on microacquire.com and have them buy it through there. Zero cost and risk to you.
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How we manage programming projects in Basecamp(world.hey.com)
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You’re always going to miss out on something. That’s life. You can’t know everything, focus on everything, and be everywhere. The danger is consuming without intention. It’s useful to ask yourself why you’re reading the news. Is it what you
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One book: • “How to Win Friends and Influence People” by Dale Carnegie Three lessons: • Be professional. Do what you say you’re going to do. Don’t take anything personally. • Commit to one thing at a time. Priorities always change. Decide w
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I use Mailbrew, which combines Twitter, RSS, newsletters, podcasts, whatever into a single daily digest sent to my email. Worth every penny.
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At the end you touch on why it’s hard: fear of failure. When you put yourself out there you have to accept rejection. For developers, coding is an easy way to hide. It’s also why working for yourself is hard. Having a boss tell you what to
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Can you serve your first customers manually? If so, consider setting up a landing page + Stripe checkout to get your first payments. Then you’ll be in a better position to fund development or raise capital. I’d be happy to help you setup a
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by alexmingoia 6y ago
I use < https://yunaru.com > because I built it. It may interest you. It’s fast, simple, and has a clean UI with no ads, popups, or paywalls. The premium plan also includes custom domain/SSL and privacy-respecting analy
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Thanks! It’s open-source too. There’s a link to the GitHub in the footer.
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I'm working on < https://yunaru.com/ >, a combination reader and blogging platform. Follow RSS and Twitter feeds, and blog whatever you want.
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There’s no import feature or bookmarklet yet, but that’s a good idea. Right now, following is as simple as making a POST to /followings with url=<url> body and a session cookie. So it shouldn’t be too hard to make a bookmarklet.
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Yeah, blogging is free. Just click the pencil icon and start writing. Yunaru is still new, so let me know if you run into issues or have feedback. There’s a GitHub link in the footer, so feel free to open an issue.
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I agree the social aspect is what makes Twitter appealing. Twitter combines microblogging with a feed reader. If you’re interested in a simple RSS reader + blogging, check out < https://yunaru.com/ >. It provides a mini
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Yes, this combined with the fact that US and British drug policy was exported everywhere in the 20th century, especially after WWII with the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (which morphed into UNDCP), and before that with the Paris Conv
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It’s very odd to me that HN has a problem with premined cryptocurrency, considering equity operates the same way. All startups sell “tokens” (shares) they created out of thin air. Startups also eventually sell them to the public, after havi

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