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by andyish 4y ago
Me and my co-founder are both technical/design and it's too easy to take refuge in feature development than do what needed on sales/marketing... a form of procrastination I guess. Sales, sales, sales. It's all sales. And
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by andyish 4y ago
We integrate into MS and Google which holds personal information such as names but we do make an effort to reduce the amount of personal information we hold. The real difficulty is getting government or financial institutions to buy in, the
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by andyish 4y ago
React, Java, AWS. Took us about 6 weeks to build the initial MVP, each feature we add took a similar amount of time to implement, we typically iterate over things three times. We build something, make it better, then make it perfect. So far
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by andyish 4y ago
Thanks Jay
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by andyish 4y ago
I built https://team-today.com in a lock down as a way for my remote team to see when people are on holiday, going to site, or wfh. Since then it’s grown to include other features like desk booking and PTO approvals. But at it’s
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by andyish 4y ago
So long as you can sell you just can just about turn any basic business process into a $100k idea.
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by andyish 4y ago
They'll figure something out, but my money is on quick fixes will run rampant and tech debt will grow. When they need someone to fill a specific role, they will no doubt go to the nearest consultancy and spend 5x as much on temporarily
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by andyish 4y ago
No doubt they'll all be back in a few months. If Twitter brings in verified users for a fee it's ultimately going to get leveraged for advertising. I imagine an "only target verified users" option being offered to advert
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by andyish 4y ago
For the sake of 30k I wouldn't be surprised if Asda/Lidl/Tescos step in with the cash for a PR piece. Along the lines of "Being so confident they're the cheapest supermarket, we'll back a price comparison site&
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by andyish 4y ago
Nice idea, if you can identify hashtags from the given content as well that would be ace
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by andyish 5y ago
Good tips and different things work for different people. I find that I need to find something that I think would take a week to build. Then accept the fact it's going to take 8 weeks to finish given i'm doing about one hour a day
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by andyish 5y ago
Working as a senior developer which is fine but me and a friend have bootstrapped an idea we had at the start of the year. We've got some paying users (nothing insane), just trying to grow it and improve it. It's quite fun, I almo
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by andyish 5y ago
It's difficult problem, but don't forget the day rate might sound high but it has got quite a few hidden costs bundled up in it: pension, holidays, down time, expenses and the various taxes. To answer your question: different thin
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Show HN: Team Tracker, helping teams with flexible working(team-tracker.com)
2 points by andyish 5y ago|1 comments
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by andyish 5y ago
Hi HN, We've built a tool that started as a pre-covid project but as we've been preparing to go back to the office its found a new use for showing when people are planning to be in the office, wfh or on holiday. We've added s