atzero

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by atzero 4y ago
Is there any non obvious pitfalls that I should know about? I mean theres the general pitfalls about starting a company that everyone on HN knows, but anything about starting a company in your 30s?
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by atzero 4y ago
Because I have an idea I cant stop thinking about and I feel like ill regret it the rest of my life if I dont try it.
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by atzero 4y ago
Hey OP here, thanks for all the advice and the offer at the end. However I am nowhere near ready to start down this path so maybe way down the line ill send you a DM haha.
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by atzero 4y ago
Do you feel like that because you were once a professional, that it helps with the startup? As in, does it help you avoid useless nonsense that doesnt add to the bottom line? Also the time management piece is ultra important here I think.
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by atzero 4y ago
I agree with all of this. Fortunately my spouse is very supportive, she just doesnt want to become destitute, and I cant blame her. Also fortunately, we are both boring homebodys and she wouldnt really have a problem with me working on thi
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by atzero 4y ago
I think I understand what you mean. Bootstrap = use your current salary. VC = use startup funds to pay yourself but it gets touchy real quick. I currently make 140k in MCOL, so to hear that taking a 140k salary isnt out of the question, e
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Ask HN: How do you start a startup in your 30s when you have wife/kids/mortgage?
237 points by atzero 4y ago|327 comments
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by atzero 4y ago
The best code is the code you dont write. If you have a huge lumbering app that solves a small problem, its not well written.
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by atzero 5y ago
I am a Star Citizen backer, and have been since 2015. I have over $1200 spent in this game (over the course of the last 7 years). My most expensive, and longest held ship, the Orion, is not flyable yet. Yet, I regret absolutely nothing. It
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by atzero 8y ago
Our team uses Kanban just as a way to keep track of all the tasks we have and see what anyone of us is working at a given time. It's then up to the project manager to distill that info and distribute it to whoever needs to know. As a d
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Ask HN: WRT Doing things that don't scale – How do I validate a SaaS idea?
1 points by atzero 9y ago|0 comments
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by atzero 9y ago
I built a unit test library for shell scripts that provides a unit test api that functions very similarly to JUnit. The library is only a single file in size; the idea being that you shouldnt need any permissions whatsoever to use the libr
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Show HN: A unit test library for shell scripts, that is one file(github.com)
1 points by atzero 9y ago|1 comments