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by geetfun 9y ago
That’s right. The small business SAAS biz in niches.
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by geetfun 9y ago
Yeah noticed this in our production app today. Thanks AWS. Thank goodness we had multi AZ DB running and other failovers.
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Ask HN: Who has turned a side project to full time gig? And at what revenue?
49 points by geetfun 9y ago|9 comments
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by geetfun 9y ago
Buffering of the leadership is part of any top down culture. The hint that corruption may lead to the top is naive, as it almost always does. Plausible deniability often comes into play.
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by geetfun 9y ago
I can relate. Having been both a medical doctor (former career) and as an tech-related entrepreneur, I hate telling people what I do, why I left my old job, and if I make any money at all in my new job. No joke, I just tell them I'm a
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by geetfun 9y ago
Great to see bureaucracy not getting in the way of something like this. Is there a link somewhere about Google’s tech and motivation?
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by geetfun 9y ago
In an ironic twist, I was playing around with this and switching tabs trying to check out on a Shopify store, and my browser crashed.
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by geetfun 9y ago
Congrats and definitely it's for the long game. Changing infrastructure is a hard thing to convince revenue generating companies to do, as they aren't as price sensitive. It'll take years to grow the product to the point wher
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by geetfun 9y ago
They're using the lean startup methodology. Iterate. Iterate. Iterate.
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by geetfun 9y ago
Short but great advice from this. Keeping things simple. Focus on the current moment. Undertstand there are things beyond our control. Work on things even when they seem difficult. Life skills. That's all there is to it.
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by geetfun 9y ago
Like the old saying... you owe the bank 10 thousand dollars? Your problem. You owe them 10 billion? Their problem.
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by geetfun 9y ago
Good to know! Thanks!
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by geetfun 9y ago
Looks interesting. I wonder what kind of market this app might serve. For larger apps, I would worry about support. 5 dollars per year tells me that the developer is doing this as a hobby. For small side projects, I can see tinkerers buildi
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by geetfun 9y ago
As someone who went to university and got an advanced degree, I can relate with what he's saying. Nowadays, I no longer directly utilize the skills and knowledge I gained from my 8+ years in school. But at the same time, the way I thin
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by geetfun 9y ago
Sublime 2/3 has been very valuable for me. Don't know what all the fuss is about there being no roadmap or some other stuff. The dev team has never asked me for another dime other than the initial license fee. I've written so
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by geetfun 9y ago
Robert Downey Jr and friends are gonna have to suit up a lot more often in light of this.
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by geetfun 9y ago
Name your expiration and ask. Cheap enough, it's worth the gamble!
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by geetfun 9y ago
Being a good investor takes a certain kind of temperament. Can't really teach this. For most, as Buffet says, stick with the index fund.
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by geetfun 9y ago
Seriously, right? Can totally see another article like this one with the title, "How I created a viral thread on hackernews and made X dollars on Fiverr."
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by geetfun 9y ago
Yup. We use a lot of Let's Encrypt certs with domain validation via http-01 where our internal API can handle all the requests and validation without the end user requiring any technical knowledge. It seems they will evaluate other opt
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All Railscasts Pro tutorials now free(railscasts.com)
2 points by geetfun 9y ago|0 comments
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by geetfun 9y ago
Definitely not meant to be interpreted as a practical question. Just a theoretical "what if" kind of question.
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Ask HN: How much BTC could AWS mine if Amazon put all resources into mining?
7 points by geetfun 9y ago|5 comments
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by geetfun 9y ago
Echo the same thoughts myself. Like they say, the best time to start a startup was in 2014. The second best time is now. For me, there was also some fear as the revenue was quite new. Although it was significant, the thought has never and s
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by geetfun 9y ago
A lot of Shopify groups. Search up anything Shopify or ecommerce mastermind. Be aware that a lot of them are set up as groups that simply try to sell you stuff. The best ecommerce folks are basically the best marketers.
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by geetfun 9y ago
Anyone who hangs out on Facebook group e-commerce forums basically have seen the outrageous claims the authors of this paper alludes to. Nice to see an analysis like this for a change.
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by geetfun 9y ago
What I find disturbing about the verdict is this: If the person found guilty of manslaughter then goes and commits suicide citing, in a suicide letter, that the words of the judge made her do it, would the judge be guilty? Now, I know that
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Michelle Carter guilty of manslaughter in texting suicide case(cnn.com)
7 points by geetfun 9y ago|6 comments
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by geetfun 9y ago
Definitely not. Find your niche and solve the problem the other company isn't solving or solving well. Over time your product will differentiate where your customers tell you to go.
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by geetfun 9y ago
There's good debt and then there's bad debt. Good debt is one where you use other people's money to build your own wealth in appreciating assets. Bad debt is where you borrow on credit to buy yourself a momentary satisfaction

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