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by andyish 2y ago
More often than not, yes. I’ve worked companies of varying sizes for 15 years and all have done atleast one hackathon a year. Over that time I’ve seen exactly 3, maybe 4 hacks that could have been an amazing product. In two cases legal said
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by andyish 2y ago
There is something worse than building a side project and not having enough users, and that's building a side project and having enough users to make it a full-time job but you don't make enough money for it to be your full-time j
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by andyish 3y ago
They got time, salaries, and a credit line while they developed and tried to grow the product, and I imagine they had a pretty great time with $350m over the years. It's not as though they intentionally undercut them by a dollar, their
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by andyish 3y ago
I've gone back to this comment so many times, it's not a clearcut guide as what to do but it has some valuable points in. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1447467
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by andyish 3y ago
Got an M1 Pro. Still happy with it, don't see a need to upgrade yet. it reminds me of the 2014 MBP which was a solid workhorse for at least 4 years.
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by andyish 3y ago
Last job I worked from home with monthly trips down to the London office which was okay. To go back to the office 4+ times a week I'd be looking for something along the lines of: - 6-hour days without the pay cut - Significant pay rise
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by andyish 3y ago
I built https://team-today.com with a friend about 4 years ago and have been working on it full-time for the past 6 months. I tried to get funding but never really got there and we've just managed to grind it out to a point
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by andyish 3y ago
Name of your SaaS: Team Today [team-today DOT com] What problem are you solving: Team and office planning. Knowing when your colleagues are going to be working and where from. Then using this to provide insights into office usage. Use cases
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by andyish 3y ago
Very similar position to you, apart from I'm in the UK and have a b2b app. To start with, unless you already know people, raising money can be a full-time job in itself, everyone wants to offer advice and no one wants to cut a cheque.
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by andyish 3y ago
Why aren't social media sites/apps considered as publishing platforms and subject to the same laws? I wouldn't be able to put a TV ad on SkySports with a song in the background of it without paying for usage.
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by andyish 3y ago
Yeah, I've seen that trend a lot. Execs don't want to fully commit and lose half of their office space so they reduce it down a little bit. I imagine they'll reduce it again if it's the same for the duration of the tenan
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by andyish 3y ago
Exactly. I see companies downsizing to offices with more meeting and collaboration spaces
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by andyish 3y ago
These are offices for 10 to 20 people (1200 to 2000 sq/ft) if your company isn't flush with cash an office is becoming a luxury rather than a necessity. Especially in a major city where a small office can be 100k a year. The trend
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by andyish 3y ago
It's no surprise, just speak to some of the pilots and they'll tell you all sorts of stories.
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by andyish 3y ago
I wonder what's happening at Airbus right now? If they're doubling down and empowering on their engineering divisions or if they too focused on cost cutting from engineering and QA and thanking their lucky stars it's not them
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by andyish 3y ago
Yes, definitely less fully remote roles, but the vast majority are some rendition of hybrid. Ranging from remote first to mandating several days in the office.
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by andyish 3y ago
I'm genuinely surprised that your typical exec isn't looking at things like this thinking: "We're spending this much a month on office space for our 500 staff at this location. Let's knock that down to 100 and push
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by andyish 3y ago
Cold outreach and marketing. Everyone I ask for advice tells me to just start with 10 a week and see where it goes after a few months. So that's what I'm going to do. Dev wise, going to try and develop plugins for more marketplace
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by andyish 3y ago
Because everyone has an opinion and whatever it is, there's always a counter argument to itYou can post about it and lots of people can relate, and if people relate to it they're more likely to comment. So many people make it out
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by andyish 3y ago
It takes a mature and disciplined team to use TBD and these teams are few and far between. Every developer you add to your team (or department) increases the risk that someone is going to miss a test, or an edge case and ultimately break th
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by andyish 3y ago
Selling to businesses can be really hard. You can get stuck with ISO standards, data and server locations and SLAs. The lead time on sales can be many months, and there's a real chance it falls through. And on top of all that there&#x2
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by andyish 3y ago
people are getting so hung up on remote vs office as though it's either or. Out side of tech people who want to work in the office 5 days a week are in the minority along with people who want to work at home 5 days a week. The vast maj
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by andyish 3y ago
You've got to do both or find a co-founder that rounds off your startup team, in this case I guess it would be someone on the sales/marketing/commercial side. If you do go down the route of learning and upskilling in marketin
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by andyish 3y ago
People don't want to pay for 'good' software, so you get more and more corners cut until you end up with something that nearly unusable (or more likely, just not very good).
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by andyish 4y ago
Return to the office... unless we're making layoffs, then work from home. Great.
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by andyish 4y ago
There really aren't many (if any) other career paths that will pay so well that you could upskill in and reach pay parity in a few years. You could try something like a PM/BA role, orientated more around the user and stakeholder m
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by andyish 4y ago
I imagine there's a lot more going on behind the scenes that the author realises. If it's a single product startup a PM will be getting pulled in different directions by sales, marketing, tech, clients and investors. All who have
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by andyish 4y ago
This is the area my startup is in (hybrid working) and i've been exposed to work practices and decisions at several hundred companies. Unsurprisingly, the common theme is that it's a massive culture shift. You're looking at b
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by andyish 4y ago
Posing for a corporate headshot is a whole new level of awkward (similar to the IT Crowd act casual dinner party scene)
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by andyish 4y ago
Remember when their marketing gimmick was "Love is sharing your password"

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