dieselz

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Ask HN: SAFE note for development time
1 points by dieselz 8y ago|0 comments
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by dieselz 9y ago
I really dislike comments that are negative about design when someone has spent a lot of time researching the problem and the commenter has not. With that said, here is me doing that exact thing: I agree with usaphp. With equal visual hi
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by dieselz 9y ago
I'd say this is pretty awesome: https://blog.ycombinator.com/research I don't think it's common for a VC to hand out free money. The best part is that with the data they get from these experiments, combined
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by dieselz 9y ago
I'm not sure why a pessimistic comment is at the top of practically every HackerNews article, but in this specific case, what data do you have to support YC becoming a "typical VC." What have they done in the past that has b
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by dieselz 9y ago
I'd take it a few steps further. Change "Junior" to "Bootcamp graduate" and "Mid-level" to "Junior." If there is anything even close to linearity between the "levels" of software devel
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by dieselz 10y ago
POST http://api.shrug.es/shrugs You'll receive a 201 (if the server isn't overloaded with requests) and a JSON response including metadata regarding a shrug, including correct pronunciation based on the geo-locati
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by dieselz 10y ago
heh, my buddy said the same thing. I'm looking into expanding into other verticals. I think the flip table industry is ripe for copy/paste disruption.
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Show HN: Finally contributing back ¯\_(ツ)_/¯(shrug.es)
21 points by dieselz 10y ago|13 comments
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by dieselz 10y ago
Agreed - essentially in the new age of single page apps where the biggest payloads (static assets) are being offloaded to CDNs and the apps running on VPSs are simply providing lightweight APIs (in terms of bandwidth). Memory and CPU cores
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by dieselz 10y ago
I believe the RethinkDB team will be a great fit for Stripe. RethinkDB was literally a pleasure to work with. As someone who has had to endure the pain of setting up a production mongo environment, I was thrilled to see how easy RethinkDB
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by dieselz 10y ago
Before the pitchforks come out, keep this in mind: before Obamacare increased access to affordable individual plans, employers were the typical purchasers of health care plans. When you have a 100+ person company, the company pays a rate
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by dieselz 10y ago
> But I seriously doubt you will get people to voluntarily pay money I've always been curious about this. I'd definitely pay $25/mo if it was distributed amongst the websites I visit. Bonus points if it would distribute
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by dieselz 10y ago
No no - two separate services. I was just saying an API for a cleaning service would be great, just like an API for a courier.
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by dieselz 10y ago
if you check out the bottom of the article, Uber has developed a dashboard for SMBs. But it's smart that they've opened this up to enable startups to leverage this as well as enterprise customers.
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by dieselz 10y ago
This is a game changer - not only for what service it provides, but I think it will lead to more companies making APIs for totally non-technical tasks. Sure there are companies like task rabbit, shyp, etc etc, but this is the next level of
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Show HN: Custom Font Icons – Crowd-Commissioned Icons That Match Font Awesome(customfonticons.com)
2 points by dieselz 11y ago|0 comments
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by dieselz 13y ago
Not sure what your career path is, but I'm going to make the assumption that you're a software developer. SF and NYC are silly expensive (I live in Silicon Valley, south of the city, and it's also very expensive). You don&#
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How Ramen Hacked The Worlds Largest Hackathon(blog.ramen.is)
13 points by dieselz 13y ago|2 comments
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By_drone – EasyPost Prepped for Drones(easypost.com)
6 points by dieselz 13y ago|0 comments
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by dieselz 13y ago
I would go about it by setting a realistic market salary for my skill set, and then share with you 50/50 any salary over that number. Curious to hear your thoughts on that model.
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by dieselz 14y ago
Looks great! One suggestion would be to change your pricing from $0.99/month to $11.99/year. Assuming you're going to use Stripe, you will be charged $0.65 in credit card fees if you charge yearly instead of monthly, which will cost you $
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by dieselz 14y ago
Looks nice, but maybe you could be more specific than "Radically changing how you manage money"
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by dieselz 14y ago
Because they can. It's not necessarily a bad thing that they do take such a large percentage however. The more money they make, the more economical it is for them to advertise & invest in the platform. More advertisement & invest
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by dieselz 14y ago
To deploy without granting your development environment ssh access to the staging or production environments, I suggest you setup port knocking which triggers a script on the server to checkout the latest code. The command can be as simple
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by dieselz 14y ago
Figure out a niche market opportunity that could generate revenue. Learn whatever skills you need to to build that product. Aim for break even by the end of the summer.
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by dieselz 15y ago
exactly my thought when building contact formify :)
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by dieselz 15y ago
Hi ceejayoz, no - that would definitely not happen. I would never throttle the emails - I'd just get in touch with you if you were over the limit.
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by dieselz 15y ago
touché
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by dieselz 15y ago
* Free tier has changed to 50 contacts / mo [ http://contactformify.com/plans ] * Hi kapkapkap, the paid plans would be a few dollars a month for greater volumes. I'm not sure what the cost will be yet because I don't know my costs before
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by dieselz 15y ago
Hi m_ke - I have, but what I'm hoping to offer is a much simpler implementation of contact form handling. contactme.com seems to be a CRM system that also handles contact forms.

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