jasonswett

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by jasonswett 11y ago
When I discovered that there was a third path between job and startup, a whole new world opened up for me. http://www.jasonswett.net/the-whos-who-of-the-micro-isv-worl...
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by jasonswett 11y ago
I view it as the OP doing market research before he invests a lot of time into building something people may or may not want. If all you have to contribute is discouragement, why bother saying anything.
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by jasonswett 11y ago
Find a technology (or combination of technologies) that's widely used but not very well documented, and provide the missing documentation. That's exactly what I did with AngularOnRails.com and it's worked out great for me.
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Interview with Tero Parviainen, Author of Build Your Own AngularJS(angularonrails.com)
1 points by jasonswett 12y ago|0 comments
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by jasonswett 12y ago
It sounds to me more like the OP doesn't want to be peppered with 30-second bits of communication all day while he's trying to work on something else. You can't keep billing Client A while you're responding to an email f
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by jasonswett 12y ago
FWIW I could see myself using this service. What would probably change it from a "maybe" to a "definitely" for me is if you offered not just fill-ups but oil changes, detailing, mechanic visits - i.e. all vehicle mainten
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by jasonswett 12y ago
I've never really considered pumping gas to be downtime. It takes long enough to be annoying but not long enough to start thinking about anything meaningful.
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by jasonswett 12y ago
The difference for me is that that getting gas is a REAL time-taker-upper for me, and that I really have outsourced this job in the past. I've never outsourced getting quarters for laundry, because if I'm going to do that, why wou
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by jasonswett 12y ago
If my time is worth, say, $500/hr, it's economically rational for me to outsource practically everything that doesn't require my unique skills. I've paid people to fill my gas tank before as well as oil changes, laundry,
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by jasonswett 12y ago
This service is probably meant for people with higher-value ways to spend their time than fill up their gas tank, i.e. business owners.
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How to Wire Up Ruby on Rails and AngularJS as a Single-Page Application in 2015(angularonrails.com)
3 points by jasonswett 12y ago|0 comments
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Webinar: How to Get Started with AngularJS and Ruby on Rails(kickstarter.com)
1 points by jasonswett 12y ago|0 comments
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by jasonswett 12y ago
Is it targeted to devs looking for full-time work only or will it make sense for freelancers as well?
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by jasonswett 12y ago
> Pay yourself a monthly amount and don't touch the rest. This is exactly what I do. I used to not and it sucked. I would never ever go back. I would also add the micro-tip that I set up not only separate accounts for business and p
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How to Set Up Authentication with AngularJS and Ruby on Rails(airpair.com)
1 points by jasonswett 12y ago|0 comments
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by jasonswett 12y ago
> I believe that services companies and recruiters make a living of hiding this information from the developer community, and often take a 20-25% cut just for sending an email with a CV, a second email to schedule an interview and sendin
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How to Get HTML5 PushState Working with Angular and Rails(angularonrails.com)
2 points by jasonswett 12y ago|0 comments
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Do You Really Understand What It Means to Be PCI Compliant?(benfranklinlabs.com)
1 points by jasonswett 12y ago|0 comments
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by jasonswett 12y ago
If you're a solo founder I think the place where the money is is in "boring" B2B products. There's a whole community called the micro-ISV community you might not be aware of that is full of people doing what you seem to
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How to Deploy an Angular/Rails Single-Page Application to Heroku(angularonrails.com)
1 points by jasonswett 12y ago|0 comments
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by jasonswett 12y ago
No, not isomorphic.
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by jasonswett 12y ago
That's an awesome idea. I'll definitely check your stuff out.
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by jasonswett 12y ago
Nice. I think your Angular/Devise work will probably end up being helpful for me.
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by jasonswett 12y ago
Hmm. Unless I'm crazy, RABL is a totally different thing for a different purpose. RABL is a tool (as is the analogous JBuilder, the default JSON-rendering-thingy for full-blown Rails) whereas Rails::API is a framework.
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by jasonswett 12y ago
Thanks! I'll check it out.
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by jasonswett 12y ago
I didn't have to do anything special to allow CORS, and now that I think of it I'm not sure why, because it's been necessary on other SPA projects I've been involved with. Maybe because both servers are localhost. That w
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by jasonswett 12y ago
Thanks!
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How to Wire Up Ruby on Rails and AngularJS as a Single-Page Application(angularonrails.com)
109 points by jasonswett 12y ago|33 comments
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by jasonswett 12y ago
Finding customers is more a function of skill + effort than luck. I visited over 100 hair salons, did a bunch of cold calls, and more. You can get customers if you try hard enough for long enough, and try enough different business ideas.
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by jasonswett 12y ago
Good point. I haven't personally gone that route but I could imagine it being an effective way to do it.

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