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by gxespino 10y ago
I'd question how you're presenting and selling yourself to potential employees. You have ALL of the leverage. Cracking $100k should have been easy, IMO.
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by gxespino 10y ago
Your personal experience as someone hiring developers or yourself looking for new jobs? I think a candidate with a 4 year CS degree and 1-2 years work experience should probably command more than $120k. A lot of it depends on how well you c
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by gxespino 10y ago
Intellectual arrogance is just as ineffective as plain ignorance.
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by gxespino 10y ago
Totally confused for a second or two. Such is recursion.
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by gxespino 10y ago
Are you compensating applicants during the 3 day hackathon? Seems like an incredibly arduous process...
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by gxespino 10y ago
Excella Consulting | Arlington, VA & Washington, D.C. | Full-time, ONSITE | https://www.excella.com/ We're a small-mid sized consulting company (~180 people) with a small company feel. Founders really invest in per
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by gxespino 10y ago
Excella Consulting | Arlington, VA & Washington, D.C. | Full-time, ONSITE | https://www.excella.com/ We're a small-mid sized consulting company (~180 people) with a small company feel. Founders really invest in per
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Austin police are now impounding drivers in the peer-to-peer ridesharing group(techcrunch.com)
8 points by gxespino 10y ago|0 comments
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by gxespino 11y ago
The question I'd ask you is if you could afford not to use Melt as a way to delight your customers. Gifting your best customers with surprise tokens of appreciation (~$15), especially if your company's products are in the high end
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by gxespino 11y ago
Thanks for the comment and suggestions. I'm actually working on a lightweight CSV uploader for some of our early users who are Realtors.
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Apply HN: Melt – API for Physical Gifting
6 points by gxespino 11y ago|7 comments
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by gxespino 11y ago
Thanks! Yes, I'm working with a few luxury brands as it's much easier to showcase the value of a $20-50 gift in comparison to a customer buying a $xK item
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by gxespino 11y ago
http://melthq.com I'm building the API for physical gifting. Want to reward your best customers with chocolates, flowers, company swag, etc. but don't want the operational overhead? Automate making a call to Melt'
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by gxespino 11y ago
Please reduce or remove the background music in your demo video. I could barely make out the sounds being picked and that was probably the only reason why I watched the video.
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Product Quest: Follow Along with a First Time SaaS Founder(blog.melthq.com)
1 points by gxespino 11y ago|0 comments
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by gxespino 11y ago
How would you describe a API-based SaaS company with a heavy operations factor tied into it? My co founder and I are building the API for personalized gifts and while the software part is clear, literally half of the company is figuring out
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by gxespino 11y ago
From a personal experience: my best days are when I get a good morning workout in. I feel energized the rest of the day. I think the sense of early accomplishment helps in a way.
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by gxespino 11y ago
Shame. I was really enjoying streaming while I coded. Not so much the livecoding platform (very buggy from my experience), but the activity itself. I don't think I'll stream on their site again after this. Can't stand to supp
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by gxespino 11y ago
I doubt the part about last ditch publicity event. Would writing a postmortem on why you've failed really help to bring in customers? Most likely not.
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by gxespino 11y ago
I used to rehab and build eco friendly homes. It was definitely a hustle and grit and grind type of business. It was all about snowballing your bankroll into more and bigger projects. You find ways to turn $10k into $100k and then you get a
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by gxespino 11y ago
Thats awesome! I've been to your site a few times but haven't been able to pull the trigger. I leave my full time, non dev job this summer to spend time reading, learning, and travelling. I'll def. look into Hacker Paradise.
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by gxespino 11y ago
What camp?
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by gxespino 11y ago
Should probably put in a default 25% for vacancy and maintenance, although most investors I know analyze investments with an even wider margin. The cap rates generated are meaningless otherwise.
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by gxespino 11y ago
Another vote for stripe. I know of many junior web devs cutting their teeth on stripe. It's too easy.
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by gxespino 11y ago
I'm doing this right now and am on project #2. I'm charging $3k for an MVP also delivered in 2 weeks. My number one regret is not charging more. Even after negotiating feature sets and getting things down to bare minimum, $3k is n
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by gxespino 11y ago
Nope, thats not me, although I'll probably reach out to him soon. The market for nursing isn't bad, although it's not as good as it was 5 years ago. Job satisfaction, however, is horrible. I'll start a similar book and s
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by gxespino 11y ago
Wow, thanks for the motivation. I'll start documenting the process and see where it goes!
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Ask HN: Nurses who left to code, how was your transition like?
1 points by gxespino 11y ago|2 comments
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by gxespino 11y ago
This is interesting to me. I'm a nurse who recently made the transition to developer and I think others could benefit from my experience. Did you validate a need for this book prior to starting? Do you see an exodus of lawyers leaving
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by gxespino 11y ago
Stripe was the first API I ever hooked into and it was a breeze. I've since tapped into a dozen other APIs and I've yet to find one as simple as Stripe. Kudos and good luck in the future. Would love to tag a long whenever you star

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