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   by buf 4y ago

   I bought ETH when it was $7 back in 2017 and participated in literally every single investment I could until about 2019, resulting in 7 figure returns. I wouldn't touch the stuff now. The ability for regular people to invest in crypto
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   by buf 4y ago

   I'm an indie hacker and I send 2M emails per month on Sendgrid. It costs around $1k per month. I use sendgrid because it just works, but I'm always curious when a new thing comes around and I'd love to save some money. How do
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   by buf 4y ago

   No. It was asked but it was not an issue. It felt harder to rent an apartment than to get VC funding when you have a record. It was an issue when I immigrated to Europe the first time though.
4. 94.▲
   by buf 4y ago

   I've been meaning to but as you can imagine it's a sensitive topic. Many people in society simply cannot accept that a convicted felon deserves second chances once their time is served. It's been 20 years and I was finally pa
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   by buf 4y ago

   Rails / React / Tailwind / Postgres - I try new things out as they come out, but this is my current stack. Early days of a project - I have an active audience, so I simply email them when I want to try a new project. Before t
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   by buf 4y ago

   Now that's surprising! Usually the HN and CCC crowd don't mix.
7. 97.▲
   by buf 4y ago

   I get so nervous writing something for the crowd.
8. 98.▲
   by buf 4y ago

   I don't write often, but when I do I share it here: https://www.siliconvict.com
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   by buf 4y ago

   I'm doing the labor but it's saas so mostly it's automated.
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    by buf 4y ago

    I wrote about this extensively here: https://siliconvict.com/articles/5-lessons-starting-a-500m-a... It took me nearly a decade to get to where I am today ($700k / year), and half of that time I had a full-time jo
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    by buf 4y ago

    According to this data, I'm doing better than 99% of Indie Hackers (I make $700k a year). To me, this tells me that Indie Hacker members are busy networking pretending to build companies, and not actually doing it. I say this because I
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    Twitter Ads vs. Using Twitter for Ads(siliconvict.com)

    1 points by buf 4y ago|0 comments
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    by buf 4y ago

    I spent the better part of a month last year shopping for a blogging platform before I decided that it was actually easier to build my own. I went through Gatsby, ghost, Jekyll, and notion. This is the most basic rails app you can get and i
14. 104.▲
    by buf 4y ago

    Thanks for the heads-up! Some of the site is just ancient and I'm doing a big rebuild right now. I've added a note to fix that. Cheers!
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    by buf 4y ago

    I'm the sole developer of www.castingcall.club and www.closingcredits.com. About 1M people use these two products a year and I've ran them for about 7 years. While I have no plans of stopping working on them in the near term, I ha
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    by buf 4y ago

    I always generates an image of a moon for me.
17. 107.▲
    by buf 4y ago

    Did nobody read The Martian?
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    by buf 4y ago

    This. I used Cloudflare for 10 years as a free customer. Now I pay them at least $5k a month. Freemium works when the services are good.
19. 109.▲
    by buf 4y ago

    I started using vim 13 years ago. Editors come. Editors go. Vim remains.
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    by buf 4y ago

    Thanks Richard. I feel so honored having worked on 3 unicorns, one of which I helped start. It's been instrumental in my companies that I run now. If you're not comfortable with a cash donation, perhaps I can volunteer my time, or
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    by buf 4y ago

    I haven't considered taking it over until your comment just now. I've always told myself I'd write a book and do some talks at some point in my life, but I've been heads down either trying to survive or building companie
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    by buf 4y ago

    This really bums me out. I was a convicted felon at 18 years old, poor, living on the street. It wasn't any government re-integration program that helped me, it was a random person I met in highschool. I worked my way through everythin
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    by buf 4y ago

    I enjoy the concept of Ikigai, but I think it's appropriate for most people to start with Money and then work your way into other categories, otherwise they might be innaccessible: https://siliconvict.com/articles/
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    Ask HN: Is there a list of angel investors or early stage investors?

    2 points by buf 4y ago|0 comments
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    by buf 4y ago

    Yes, for 17 years.
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    by buf 4y ago

    I also do the same as the author, but I only build websites with a clear monetization model. Every project I've done after my first successful one as been in an adjacent audience. Doing roughly $700k revenue yearly right now over the
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    by buf 4y ago

    What are Germany's long-term cap gains rules for normal equities?
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    by buf 4y ago

    I remember seeing the ICO presale of urbit come across my inbox. I didn't understand it then and I don't understand it now. Good on them though.
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    by buf 4y ago

    This isn't used widely because it is hard. But it's not but novel. 1. Companies want to standardize their hiring when really they should be looking to customize it to each candidate. 2. Lots of companies want to spread the blame o
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    by buf 4y ago

    Hi, comment OP here. I decided to blog about this. It's cheeky, apologies. https://siliconvict.com/articles/6-how-to-hire-actually-good...