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by giorgioz 4y ago
don't ask permission, ask forgiveness
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by giorgioz 4y ago
Multi-language websites and blogs. I made an internal tool to manage them and turn it into a SaaS last here: https://www.polyblog.io
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by giorgioz 4y ago
intercom.com and mailchimp.com are two of the most famous SaaS and they are not sales driven. The articles ties together things that do not need to be tied: 1) Enterprise SaaS is only a part of SaaS Sales work better for Enterprise (big fis
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by giorgioz 4y ago
> Your business must have at least $50,000 in a Mercury account. I love the super transparent and easy requirements. You got 50k$ you get the credit cards.
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by giorgioz 4y ago
The app has been reinstated: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.waiter.andr... Given I didn't posted the name of my app this is not related to this post. The downtime was around 2 days. Still al
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by giorgioz 4y ago
It's a B2B order management system for restaurants: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.waiter.andr... Nothing nefarious and no crypto anywhere as you probably were wondering! :D
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Tell HN: Trivially bot banned from Google Play Store twice in a year
9 points by giorgioz 4y ago|4 comments
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by giorgioz 4y ago
WOW!! Reading the articleI really felt like I was there!! I love the trepidation of building something new! In few cases when the breakthrough is very high and long-earned I scream: IT COULD WORK !!! like in Frankeinstein Junior https:&#x2
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Starting a prototype wind turbine for the first time(linkedin.com)
1 points by giorgioz 4y ago|1 comments
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by giorgioz 4y ago
I've watched the screenshots 3 times in 2 years when someone has been missing deadlines and failing to explaining why for several weeks in a row. I employee people from all over the world. Some of them have real problems. A guy from Ve
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by giorgioz 4y ago
In fact, I don't trust my employees to a full 100% degree. I didn't have time or ways to build trust (yet). They work on the other side of the planet, I've never met them in person. Many of them are literally missing the few
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by giorgioz 4y ago
This is not an argument. You are literally saying you don't want to believe in something that is actually happening. I'm telling you of a real problem with real people. You are saying it's not possible to believe it (unbeliev
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We are a startup of 6 people and we do international hires from different countries. So practically certainly no 2 candidates we've ever interviewed knew each other. You assume we are a big startup with a big budget and all problems th
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by giorgioz 4y ago
Please ask me questions rather than assuming I simply do things. In Waiterio we do not have managers at all so far. We are 6 people and there isn't a single manager. There you go!
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The number of people on the planet is limited. Maybe you work in a venture backed startup and you hire people with a yearly salary of 100k or more. The rest of the startups from other locations and less funding will choose less talented peo
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by giorgioz 4y ago
You assume everyone is self-oriented and wants to be autonomous and have a great work ethics and care about their privacy. There are people like that. There are also people that want a lot of guidance. There are also people that just wants
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by giorgioz 4y ago
No-one ever quit from our company so that's not it.
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by giorgioz 4y ago
I'm from Rome, Italy and I feel like I'm on a sinking boat where everyone is enthusiastically carving holes in the bottom. My grand-parents bought a house to my parents when they were 27. My parents had it easy and never learned p
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by giorgioz 4y ago
At https://www.waiterio.com we are fully remote and we introduced 32 hours work weeks except for customer support which still does 40 hours a week. We track hours with hubstaff.com which takes a random screenshot every 10 minute
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by giorgioz 4y ago
knope! Fuck it ship it! Done is better than perfect! Better to light a candle than curse the darkness! perfect is the enemy of good!
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Elon Musk Sees Extinction of Italians on Persisting Low Birth-Rate(bloomberg.com)
2 points by giorgioz 4y ago|6 comments
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by giorgioz 4y ago
Dublin, a lot of US companies have European headquarters in Dublin. The salary is higher than other EU cities. The cost is higher but if you are in your 20s without kids you can save a lot more than what would save in other cheaper cities w
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by giorgioz 4y ago
"Some man's trash is another man's treasure". Plus many young people in their 20s like to live in cool places. Berlin is cool. It's underground, it's edgy, new things are tried, clubs are cool. It's a big
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by giorgioz 4y ago
No it's not just FAANG. Just FAANG literally imply only Facebook Apple Amazon Netflix and Google offer healthcare. So I need to find only one more company that does offer healtcare to disprove you. And I'll name Intel where I work
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by giorgioz 4y ago
Software engineers that go to the USA do the H1B visa which only very big employers can offer. Those big employers always offer very good health care plans. You are compensated far more than you would earn in Europe so being laid off is not
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by giorgioz 4y ago
Cloudflare and Vercel are companies that they are pushing innovation like Heroku did in the early days.
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by giorgioz 4y ago
> Selling to Salesforce for $212 million was an obvious win NO! I always thought the very opposite. Selling Heroku to Salesforce was a mistake. Heroku should have cannibalized it's own dyno pricing and follow AWS Lambda with 100ms i
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by giorgioz 4y ago
For software engineers in Europe is Dublin, Berlin and London. I'm one of the few that made it all the way to California. I've been always the guy trying to push fellow software engineers to go to the USA. Even though I lasted in
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by giorgioz 4y ago
I totally agree on this and I would like to add an item: - glass smartphones - the iPhone X and Pixel 3 are all in a unibody of glass that is very fragile despite all gorilla glass marketing bullshit. The result is that we have to use plast
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by giorgioz 4y ago
Could you mention the alternatives? I know only of remote.com and deel.com

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