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by drchiu 6y ago
A few years back I released an app that was almost a direct copy of another app. It’s made enough to buy a Tesla S. Never let people say “How is your idea different from X?” Honestly, sometimes it doesn’t have to be... much or at all.
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Cost of 1gb of data in every country(visualcapitalist.com)
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by drchiu 6y ago
Andrew Wilkinson is someone I've heard of (see his tweets across my timeline every few days), and so his signal gets boosted a lot in trendier tech circles. Another Canadian company ("Berkshire Hathaway" of software) is Const
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by drchiu 6y ago
Back a few years ago when I first started dabbling in side projects and wanted to grow some side income, I found the greatest motivator was wanting to get out of my day job (which I hated). I wasn’t organized and in retrospect nothing was w
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Spacex Crew Dragon Module parked at ISS generating more power than expected(futurism.com)
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Canada considering internet link tax(theglobeandmail.com)
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by drchiu 6y ago
I'd say that in CS, there's a lot more transferrable knowledge. In medicine, there's a lot of specialization and niche knowledge. The cardiologist would know very little about orthopaedic specialist, for instance. I was a GP
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by drchiu 6y ago
Agree with this. I’ve got a medical degree as well as self taught developer for 15+ years. The longer you do it, the easier it becomes as the knowledge just kind of seeps through immersion. But I can imagine for a mind that’s new to either
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by drchiu 6y ago
Is yours a b2c or b2b app? Been following all this closely because we were thinking of developing a mobile client for our b2b SAAS.
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by drchiu 6y ago
Yup. Another good examples are Nortel and BlackBerry. The government in Canada needs to be supportive about developing global leaders in expertise. Healthcare, once considered a world’s top, isn’t really today, but many Canadians still reta
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by drchiu 6y ago
Beyond the question of whether it’s your marketing, is it also a problem of the size of your addressable market? How novel is your solution compared to the ways (Ie. how well) existing solutions work? I’ve been in projects before where thin
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by drchiu 6y ago
Tangential question (which has been on my mind) related to this: I don’t have a CS degree. Background in something completely unrelated. But I’ve been able to make a living programming doing my own thing (bootstrapped online stuff). As a re
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Victory Gardens(en.wikipedia.org)
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by drchiu 7y ago
It isn’t that easy to train someone to handle medical emergencies. They don’t typically fall into the same “path”. As well there’s a technical skill component that takes a while to master due to variations in person-to-person anatomy. Took
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by drchiu 7y ago
Bought shares today due to the general market drop. Bought more after hours after this announcement. My gut tells me it’s due to some personal reason. Perhaps health. Time will tell. Company is good and has a lot of great brands and assets.
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Molecular Clamp(en.wikipedia.org)
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Lindy Effect(en.wikipedia.org)
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Shopify joins Facebook’s cryptocurrency Libra Association(techcrunch.com)
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DigitalOcean raises $100M in debt as it scales toward revenue of $300M(techcrunch.com)
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Antibody-dependent enhancement of severe dengue disease in humans (2017)(science.sciencemag.org)
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by drchiu 7y ago
I remember the same thing. The tones can be picked up relatively easily when practicing with actual Mandarin speakers. There becomes a "in-use" memory that's easier to recall than trying to remember all those tone strokes.
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by drchiu 7y ago
I’ve noticed this myself. Going niche makes it hard to find the right market fit. Ive found that it’s easier to find users/customers in a broad market and positioning as an option instead.
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“Humans will never migrate to other planets,” says Nobel prize winner Mayor(hindustantimes.com)
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by drchiu 7y ago
As a side note, Shopify acquired an app to help with this whole process of importing AliExpress products for drop shipping a few years ago for about $10-15 mil. Oberlo, it is called [1]. I would guess based on the acquisition price that the
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by drchiu 7y ago
It's difficult, as others have mentioned. I have a few legacy side projects on Shopify. At this point, I would say treat it as a marketing channel for your SAAS, but don't rely on it solely as a means of distribution. Some merchan
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by drchiu 7y ago
I’ve tried both methods in terms of email delivery: outsourced vs self built. I think it’s great you’ve decided to own another part of your stack. The rationales you presented are the same ones many of us who have gone down this path have c
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by drchiu 7y ago
I echo your sentiment as well (also from a background of having ran a Shopify app with thousands of installs). There's a lot of misconception of how much hard work it is amongst beginner Shopify merchants in order to generate sufficien
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by drchiu 7y ago
No, I don't think so as "cold medicine" doesn't actually kill cold viruses (eg. rhinovirus).
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Plastic ingestion by people could be equating to a credit card a week(newcastle.edu.au)
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by drchiu 7y ago
Yes it’s affecting their system as well.

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