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by jconley 4y ago
Expo with the managed workflow I assume? Not a bare project? :)
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Ask HN: Who's tired of upgrading React Native?
30 points by jconley 4y ago|17 comments
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by jconley 4y ago
Justin Kan talks a lot about this same situation in his own life. Check out his YouTube [0] if you haven't already. I bet if you reached out he would talk to you as well... [0] One example: https://www.youtube.com/watch
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by jconley 5y ago
I refuse to do those and have fallen victim to it as a founder, so not in my case.
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by jconley 5y ago
I do the same. But I've done it enough times now that I usually start at the 10k number, just to survive a huge press surge without trouble. Hardware and software is good enough now that this isn't usually much of an overhead.
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by jconley 5y ago
The paradoxical thing about this for me is that both the most junior and senior engineers fall victim to this line of thinking. I have done so myself, on both ends of the experience/skill spectrum. As a junior it was because the tech
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by jconley 5y ago
I also enjoy the art of creating something from nothing and improving people's lives. Observing systems and taking a different angle on things than others have done in the past. I've been lucky enough to be able to do this through
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by jconley 5y ago
I think a lot of people touched on it, but when choosing a market for your product as a small team starting out you likely don't choose desktop. Unless your users are primarily on desktop (e.g. pc gaming, software development). These d
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by jconley 5y ago
If anybody wants to help solve this problem, hit me up. :) Working on it...
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by jconley 5y ago
Yeah, they're proof that this sort of thing can be valuable. But they have a very different approach. Proprietary language, components, etc. I wouldn't want to be locked into their ecosystem. That's typical with game engines,
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by jconley 5y ago
Anyone interested in fixing news, and doing it with Web3? We build an open source and non profit news organization that's a combination of Wikipedia and Genius. The goal is to be a destination that people can trust to provide more than
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by jconley 5y ago
I'm working on a "Unity for everything else". If you build an IoT product, most anything consumer facing, tools for small business, etc, your customers will expect a multi-platform experience. They want an app on iOS and Andr
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Ask HN: Who does omni-platform code sharing?
2 points by jconley 5y ago|0 comments
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Anyone Building on React and React Native?(docs.google.com)
5 points by jconley 5y ago|0 comments
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by jconley 5y ago
I have a project that will be fueled by scraping. We should chat. :)
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by jconley 5y ago
I fire engineers like you. You're lucky. :)
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by jconley 5y ago
Yes, this is generally the issue with open networks. Very, very hard to get complex and disparate client/servers to play nicely with each other. Perhaps with the capital that is being put behind web3 someone will figure this out.
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by jconley 5y ago
We tried our hardest back in the early 2000's to make this stick. I cofounded a startup building servers, clients, and SDK's. Maybe the world is finally ready for it now. The issue we ran into was customers/consumers just did
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by jconley 5y ago
Of course if someone wants to cheat at this they can, even with those deterrents. It's a fun cat and mouse game for the cheater, less so for the developer. :) I'd recommend reading Greg Gaffer's articles. He gets into a lot o
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by jconley 5y ago
I feel like this is a lesson that the engineer(s) on every big scale service learns the hard way... :) I wish more libraries did this sort of thing out of the box.
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by jconley 5y ago
I think the comments so far are spot on. #1 big deal is you need to be networking and finding clients. My comments assume you are USA-based. Many contracts are awarded by someone in an org saying "hey I know a company that can do that.
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by jconley 6y ago
We use a forked and heavily modified Saleor at Brava ( https://www.brava.com ). Our version is over two years old. It brings with it all of the headaches of running your own eCommerce. At the time we chose it because of our requir
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by jconley 6y ago
Don't take it too seriously. Play the game. It's just sales and marketing and you are the product.
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by jconley 6y ago
It's probably a good thing as long as they can reuse the training/annotation data. Startups often do full rewrites of underlying technology multiple times as they scale. With the pace of advancement of AI/ML right now I would
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by jconley 6y ago
Yeah, given the resources, I'd want to pursue all the possibilities in a promising product/market in parallel. They may have even had working prototypes for some time or even be near launch and they are just feeling out whether th
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by jconley 6y ago
Yes, indemnification clauses are common. Nobody wants to go out of business because of something a customer of theirs did on a platform. Especially when user generated content is in play.
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by jconley 6y ago
No but I can imagine a senior software engineer that couldn't write FizzBuzz during an interview. I would probably stumble on it myself. I prefer to look at what people have done and not their credentials. I don't hire people that
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by jconley 6y ago
This largely applies to people that have already produced working software in the real world, but... Companies should trust the people applying based on their resume and ability to talk about what they have done in the past or how they woul
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by jconley 6y ago
Yes. Also negotiated to get lower rent on the new place. You can probably negotiate with your current landlord if you threaten to leave (of course you have to be willing to move).
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by jconley 6y ago
Just an anecdote here, but my main spending account and auto loan is with a small local credit union (SFCU). They have been very helpful and proactive in terms of helping people with reduced cash flow. They are deferring payments on auto lo

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