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by holler 5y ago
Hey everyone, Felt like a good day to post an update on Sqwok after last posting a Show HN in December last year ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25470672 ). The site development has continued to move forward, sometimes
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Sqwok Public Chat – A news-centric social network for conversationalists(sqwok.im)
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by holler 5y ago
I posted a Show HN about a new social news discussion site last December and it shows up in algolia. Also, still working on it! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25470672
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Congrats! That's a great story. How long did you work on it solo? Who was the first person you brought on?
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> With this in mind, we found the perfect balance of the "early startup employee" compensation package: 50% stock, 50% equity, 0% salary[0]. I'm IN! Congrats :D 0: https://imgz.org/blog/
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https://sqwok.im is a topical aggregator with chatrooms built into every post. Think of it like Twitter but with chat rooms instead async comments. There's no voting and the focus is on science, tech, engineering, markets,
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Agree. What advantage does FastAPI have over Starlette on it's own? I've written my latest api w/Starlette and found it to be excellent.
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I agree, however in my case the motivation was to build something I myself want to use. It's been a long road to build it but I have found a small handful of organic users (almost entirely from Show HN post I did last Dec), who've
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by holler 5y ago
I agree with that, and it depends on what you're building, but just having a second person to offload/distribute the marketing/growth work could be significant.
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I've spent two years building a new social network idea that I wanted to use myself, and now that I'm finally feeling good about the site's development, I realize that the _real_ challenge begins - marketing. It's kind o
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> It's also nice that I can join a server, get my answer, then leave that server with no lingering email sign up for some one-off forum that I'll never visit again. Wondering if https://sqwok.im would fit this use c
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> A web app that melded the discord experience of live chat, but also had topics that could be discussed and kept around for both search engines and archives to look back. I am building just that at https://sqwok.im & wou
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haha, it's not a bad idea, although not sure how to monetize it? lmk if you want to brainstorm and/or use thronehunter.com
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Neat. I've been holding onto a domain thronehunter.com, for 10 years now, after a stint at a startup in a downtown metro, where the office was a very small "loft" with 10+ people squeezed in. Myself and a few others fairly qu
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> There's even the suggestion that there are creatures that can't really be classified into plant or animal - it's not clear what they are at all. Could you expand on that at all? It sounds really fascinating.
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It's the same reason SpaceX is eating Boeing's lunch with their space program. One uses an iterative build process, and the other uses the more historical waterfall method. That's not to say waterfall didn't or doesn&#x2
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I feel the same way, and I'm reminded of a quote from Elon Musk recently when discussing Starship's Raptor engine: "It's 10-100x more difficult to design the production system than the engine itself" So what we real
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by holler 5y ago
well said, that's a good rule for life in general
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this brings up something I've wondered about, why not start a gig barber app? you sign up and someone shows up at your house/work/wherever and cuts your hair
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lol! it took a few tries but she got it down and luckily enjoys doing it so far... saving me $50/month!
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That may be true, but $45 already felt like the upper limit so even a $5 increment feels like too much (my hair is short afterall!)
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by holler 5y ago
The barber shop I went to for years used to charge $35 for a haircut pre-pandemic, which with a ~$10 tip ($45) already felt real high. Now a haircut is $50 and I no longer go, opting instead to cut my own hair w help from my girlfriend. Ma
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by holler 5y ago
This is frightening as I've been building a new social network heavily reliant on AWS services. Of course the goal isn't to build a bastion for bad content, but this seems like a major risk in building on AWS, particularly when th
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by holler 5y ago
Directly next to where I live there are multiple people living in the hillside. Each day for the past year+ they park their BMW, Honda Accord, and Toyota Camry on our street, and then walk off into the park, hop a fence, and down to whereve
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by holler 5y ago
> I mostly filled the time with traveling the world. I made it to all 7 continents, so I put that time to good use. That sounds pretty cool! What were some of the highlights or places you enjoyed? What's the art website?
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What did you do to fill your time in that 2 1/2 years? Did you get bored or find yourself wanting to return to productivity?
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There were two helicopters involved, border patrol and tucson police. They also phoned into the FAA as it was going down. They also made visual contact with the light on the underside of the drone: "From what I can tell just from its p
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by holler 5y ago
s/engage/talked to? whether you tell them they're delightful or a creepy perp, you're _talking_ to them. You're expending energy which is the opposite of a up/down vote or a like which requires no energy and do
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> A low-quality trollish sentence is quick to write; drop a few of them here and there and you got a few lurkers graduate to what the platform can now claim as “active users”. It’s a symbiotic relationship. Agree, trolls will always try
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It's based on realtime activity and time decay so far, with ideas for enhancing it as the site grows. So far the reception has been positive and people appreciate that it's just focused on conversation. Def aware that scaling it p

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