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by codegeek 3y ago
I have checked references provided by candidates and I have provided references when asked. Almost always, it is BS because let's face it: Most people wouldn't wanna piss the candidate off and provide either a "they are aweso
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by codegeek 3y ago
Bought a side project doing 2k MRR (4 months old). So technically it was already making money.
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Don't consider changing it. Change it. If your landing page eats CPU, you will lose lot of potential customers. I immediately bounce from any page that eats my CPU.
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It's the new Gold rush. So this was bound to happen.
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by codegeek 3y ago
Hence the "middleman mafia" that health insurance is. Can't wait for it to die
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by codegeek 3y ago
To most people "I run a software business" and then if more questions come through, I expand further. Sometimes to family/uncles/aunts, I just say "I work in IT".
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I don't necessarily die on that hill but I definitely want to fight on that hill.
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by codegeek 3y ago
Do what works for you best as an employer. As an employer, it is not easy to have remote teams especially if you are not designed to work remotely. Junior folks need more in person collaboration as well in my experience. So it really depend
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by codegeek 3y ago
I have never raised money (at least not so far) but as far as I have understood, investors don't care about the fact that you were able to acquire traction using miniscule capital. They care that you grew fast and there is a billion do
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by codegeek 3y ago
The problem is that most of these posts are low quality. People don't want to add enough information about them or their idea and most posts end up being "Hit me up and i will tell you more".
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by codegeek 3y ago
Some tried and tested ways: - Build content of value in the domain your startup is in. Could be Blog Posts, Social Media posts, youtube videos etc. For example, if you are working on a solution for learning a language, you must create conte
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by codegeek 3y ago
The way I define bootstrap is if the money is a Debt that needs to be paid back and you personally are on the hook. If you are not required to pay it back, it is not bootstrapped whether you used your own money or someone else's.
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by codegeek 3y ago
It is never too late to start something you want to do. Never. Ray Croc was a an average mediocre salesperson until 52 when he got into the McDonald's franchising stuff. Colonel Sanders was 60+ when he started KFC. Eric Yuan was 40+ wh
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by codegeek 3y ago
The word "Paisa" is also used generally for "money" depending on the context. But specifically, 100 Paisas = 1 INR (Rupee).
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how are you different than resend (another YC company) ?
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How are you different compared to similar tools like signoz ?
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IPV6 adoption reminds of the whole Python 2=>3 fiasco except it is much much worse.
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by codegeek 3y ago
Blazor server but with the new .NET 8 release coming up, I am curious as now there will just be Blazor web app and you can choose both in same project.
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WordPress is totally fine and used by many agencies in the real world. It gets a bad rep because it is extremely popular and has low barrier to entry which also attracts more eyeballs and script kiddies trying to break in due to vulnerabili
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by codegeek 3y ago
I am using it and going to double down on .Net Core with Blazor.
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PHP and C# .NET Core.
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I learned COBOL in college circa 2001 for one of the CS courses and it was so much fun. The task was to do a project together with another person in our class and then present it to the rest of the class. I remember loving the simplicity an
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by codegeek 3y ago
Pretty much. As a consumer, I never trust Yelp reviews and stopped clicking on their links.
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I refuse to believe that failed deployment can bring a company down. That is just a symptom. The root cause has to be a whole big collection of decisions and processes/systems built over years.
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- 6:30-6:45ish: My son wakes up (a Toddler) which means we wake up - 6:45-8:30 : Play with my son, help with his breakfast while my wife works with my other 2 older kids who also wake up around 7 for school - 8:30-9: Get ready for work Then
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by codegeek 3y ago
It is interesting that YC has invested in many of these similar PaaS already and they keep doing it. Some names that I have come across (all are YC backed): - Nullstone - Aptible - Porter - Flight Control - Fly.io I have a feeling I am miss
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by codegeek 3y ago
I have interviewed many candidates from bootcamps. The problem with bootcamps is that they don't teach you the fundamentals and throw you in with some latest hot framework (react etc) without you really understanding the fundamentals.
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Ask HN: Best CLI/terminal tool for Windows?
2 points by codegeek 3y ago|3 comments
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You don't need 600K to start a software business. You just don't. That's a mentality that won't help you. Look at Indiehackers and so many people who started a side project and got enough revenue to keep it going without
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by codegeek 3y ago
Not sure about layouts but look at this: https://autostrada.dev/ The author alex edwards is top notch and I have found him to be a great teacher on how to build web apps in Go.

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