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by davidscolgan 8y ago
My business skills awakening was started when I discovered Kai Davis and Nick Disabato's podcast Make Money Online: https://makemoneyonline.exposed/ Simultaneously hilarious and incredibly valuable information I had ne
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by davidscolgan 8y ago
I've had pretty good luck with buying a new ASUS laptop every year or so and then giving the old ones to my family. They definitely don't last as long as a Mac, but the specs are often comparable and I prefer to run Windows/
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by davidscolgan 8y ago
If the service is writing code, I won't give them the work if they end up wanting a refund. If the service is something monthly, I'd only offer a guarantee on the first month. So I'd say it would still definitely work for f
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by davidscolgan 8y ago
I don't really need access to your database unless there's an emergency and I need to make bugfixes. At the beginning if there is a need to get to know each other more first I can just get read-only access to your code and be aro
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by davidscolgan 8y ago
I agree with you. SaaS is in my opinion the hardest way to make money as a developer. Not only do you have to make working software, you also have to do every other thing a freelance business requires. The path I often see is: Developer b
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by davidscolgan 8y ago
Thanks! I've worked with a lot of smaller companies that really don't _need_ more than one developer, and in fact are more efficient and effective with only one developer, but still have expressed a this fear of losing that one d
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by davidscolgan 8y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote Are you the owner of a software system that has a single developer working on it? Are you worried about what would happen if they left? With a single developer on your team, your Bus Factor is one - one person has all
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by davidscolgan 8y ago
I love working in rooms that have complicated views out the window. Cityscapes, forests, busy roads, or a giant power grid complex like this. Coffee shops and coworking spaces are great for this when getting my own space with a view is mo
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by davidscolgan 8y ago
Hey Abi! It's been really cool to follow Pull Reminders. I've been bringing it up in conversations a lot lately as an example of a solid one-person founder technical SaaS. Hope it continues to succeed! Thanks for all of your i
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by davidscolgan 8y ago
Hey Malcolm, cool to have you chime in! I've appreciated reading your stuff around the internet and your IndieHackers interview was really cool. I noticed you have a coaching offering as a higher tier on Complice - have you had much s
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by davidscolgan 8y ago
I believe complice.co is also a profitable one/two person team productivity app that makes a few grand a month. https://www.indiehackers.com/product/complice
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by davidscolgan 8y ago
I've been pretty impressed with pullreminders.com - it is a Slack bot that alerts you for unreviewed pull requests. Seems to actually solve a real need and since the author, Abi Noda, has been pretty open about talking about it, seems
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by davidscolgan 8y ago
You can certainly install a windowing environment into the virtual machine. I've done this a few times when I actually needed a windowing environment inside of Linux for complicated servers or doing things across multiple ports. It w
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by davidscolgan 8y ago
Oh cool, thanks so much for posting this. I've just ordered a pair. I've always wanted the ability to just "turn down" the sound of everyday life. I've actually wondered if some of my social anxiety has come from
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by davidscolgan 8y ago
Speaking of tech Slacks, here is a nice list I saw recently: https://github.com/ladyleet/tech-community-slacks
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by davidscolgan 8y ago
Glad it was helpful! My stuff's in my profile. Also happy to chat over email if you have any other questions. Cheers!
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by davidscolgan 8y ago
I've done freelance web development for a number of years now. In general, the best jobs have all come from inbound leads instead of outbound leads. Upwork and cold emailing and door to dooring can work but require a lot of effort an
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by davidscolgan 8y ago
My strategy has for a long time been to run Windows 10 for all of my browsers and games and paint programs and then run a virtual machine of linux with VirtualBox. I just use terminal Vim, so I run the virtual machine headless and ssh into
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by davidscolgan 8y ago
I started out my career building these sorts of websites, making $3000 Wordpress custom themes. The secret sauce was my lead source who had super developed business sense and social skills, and went out and wined and dined clients and sold
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by davidscolgan 8y ago
I can't speak much to the military things in this post, but I will just add that as someone who also tried to make money from video games for quite some time in the recent past, it's _such_ a hard way to make money. Web developmen
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by davidscolgan 8y ago
I escaped the 9-to-5 with freelance web development. I never actually had a full time job because I decided I never wanted one when I was doing a summer job in college that required me to sit in one place programming for 6-8 hours a day.
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by davidscolgan 8y ago
Second reading this book at some point. I think what originally hung me up about it was that it isn't really prescribing an exact system, just a series of general ideas that you can use in whatever system you are using. It can be use
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by davidscolgan 8y ago
Similar Warren Buffet's methodology - consider your top 25 priorities. Then pick the top 5. The next 20 are your "avoid at all costs" list, since they will always try to distract you. I really like the idea of working on la
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by davidscolgan 8y ago
If you are building something software related, just using Github like you might on any paid gig or employment project is a solid idea.
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by davidscolgan 8y ago
The thing I love the most about the Bullet Journal idea is how simple and quick it is. Productivity systems that require a bunch of maintenance and fiddling never seem to work for me.
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by davidscolgan 8y ago
Procrastination is fun and complicated. "Just Do It" doesn't seem to help much for me. After reading more I've found a number of reasons for procrastination that may be helpful depending on the cause: Is the task too v
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by davidscolgan 8y ago
I very much identify with the struggle of lots of different projects. Another thing that's helped me recently is to make it "impossible not to" do the thing I want to do. I managed to solve my exercise problem by hiring a p
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by davidscolgan 8y ago
Something that helped me regarding this - I took some time and made a document that contained every project on my plate. I realized I was trying to do 11+ projects of significant size. And as such I was really doing not much at all from w
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by davidscolgan 8y ago
Another thought I once realized - I think early on in my career I heard about Agile and thought it meant "not planning at all". This seems to _not_ be true at all but I think it made me subtly opposed to planning. I now see that
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by davidscolgan 8y ago
I had an epiphany of sorts about this when working on a freelance project with a client who was particularly organized. They had a kanban board split up into Inbox (ideas and incoming features and bugs), Backlog (accepted tasks), In Progre

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