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aregsarkissian
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aregsarkissian
8y ago
I would have my retinas checked by a retina specialist. Floaters may indicate retina issues that may lead to retina detachment. If caught early there are better options for remedy.
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aregsarkissian
8y ago
"The great courses" (google it) has a many well done courses taught by college professors on a variety of topics
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aregsarkissian
8y ago
Try to focus on one specific technology that is popular in enterprise software and become an expert at it. Take one to three months if possible and just focus on that one thing. I'll use the example of front end development with Angula
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aregsarkissian
8y ago
One of the more difficult parts of self hosting with a service like digital ocean is managing your own database. Luckily DO just introduced managed postgres databases. Also you can use DO load balancer so you don't have to manage a loa
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aregsarkissian
8y ago
Don't know about books but you might check out thegreatcourses.com that has many videos that try to explain math concepts in a simplified manner by lectures from college professors
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aregsarkissian
8y ago
One good middle ground option may be installing and running your language/framework locally but running supporting data services such as mysql, redis etc in docker containers.
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aregsarkissian
8y ago
Laravel even more then rails and django comes with pretty much everything you need for modern web dev built in. Full auth system, feature and unit test infrastructure, background jobs, push notifications integrated with a scalable third par
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aregsarkissian
8y ago
The method I like to use is to intertwine MVP development and customer feedback together as I incrementally build an MVP. So you should start with identifying your target customer and get them involved in the building of the MVP from day on
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aregsarkissian
8y ago
Take a look at the recently announced phoenix framework live view
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aregsarkissian
8y ago
Ask yourself WHY the real live person you have identified to sell your product to would want to use your product. Then find out if that is really true by directly telling them this is WHY they should use it and monitoring their real respons
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aregsarkissian
8y ago
Try finding one person that you think has the problem you are trying to solve. Contact and talk with that person and see if you can build something small or even manually solve that persons problem. Expand out your market and product from t
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aregsarkissian
8y ago
Laravel Spark may be an option
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aregsarkissian
8y ago
Only way to find out is to go talk to some small restaurant owners. Maybe there are some industry events that you can demo your service to restauranteurs.
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aregsarkissian
8y ago
I'd say the laravel/php and Ruby on Rails communities are the closest thing there is to that. Many of the people involved in those communities run sass businesses or build sass business tools.
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aregsarkissian
8y ago
Start by finding a small group of people that have a problem that you might be able to solve by writing python scripts or a simple web app perhaps built with flask. Joining a few meetups or online forums or looking for problems in your curr
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You need a very specific set of users that you can explicitly identify and know how to reach online that have a specific problem that your side project helps solve. Can you identify such a user? If not then that is your first job to find on
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aregsarkissian
8y ago
One option would be is to use a showhn post right here which is intended for promoting projects
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aregsarkissian
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"People who take everything for granted" so so true. Everything that is, was once not. And everything that is, will soon not be.
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aregsarkissian
8y ago
Laracasts.com and codecourse.com for laravel and vuejs rapid application development
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aregsarkissian
8y ago
Laravel backend with vuejs components deployed to laravel forge is my choice even though I am an enterprise asp.net core developer. Check out laracasts.com for their new series on the newly released Laravel 5.7
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aregsarkissian
8y ago
Could be the number of concurrent requests they can serve by scaling out to more servers
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aregsarkissian
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A lot of advice here is about finding time to work on your product on nights and weekends. You also need allocate some time during the day for marketing and communicating with your target customers
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aregsarkissian
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Start with shipping from day one. Before any coding. If it's a web app create a new hello world project push it to a git repo. Get a cheap server from a hosting company deploy your hello world app to it. Point a real domain to it and i
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For every 45 minutes of sitting get up and walk around for 15 minutes. While walking keep thinking about what you were working on to stay in the zone. For every 3 to 4 hours of working take a two hour break and do active things. Also try to
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He means pick a combination with one selection from each front end and back end category. For instance you can pick vuejs from front end and combine it with php/laravel on the back end
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It's not the burden that is the main issue. While complying may add more cost and complexity, the real issue is the additional risk of the possibility of getting sued for improper implementation.
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aregsarkissian
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FYI with flask you don't have to use decorators for routing. You have the option to define all your routs in a single file.
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aregsarkissian
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Yes there is something like the intersection of three overlapping circles. One is do things you like, the other is do things you are good at doing and the third is do things that will give you income that you will be satisfied with.
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aregsarkissian
9y ago
Don't think about entrepreneurship. Think about things that interest you. Immerse yourself in those things and make as many strong connections as possible to others interested in the same things. Take advantage of the fact that you ar
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aregsarkissian
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As I read this it sounded a lot like what basecamp and 37 signals have been saying and doing for a while.
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