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by jmstfv 5y ago
> How was he ever going to focus on the other code qualities? Even if you can, you shouldn't expend a non-trivial amount of brain cycles on that, especially early on. > If on the other hand you're experienced it's proba
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by jmstfv 5y ago
I love Postgres and used it in the past in my businesses. With my new business, though, I went with SQLite. It's good enough , and I don't have to worry about keeping it up 24/7 (or paying someone to keep it up). I can copy
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by jmstfv 5y ago
> A volatile currency with direct transaction fees ranging from $0.05-60 [edited per FreeRadical - thanks!] You don't need to transact on-chain (i.e. settlement layer). There's a lightning network, where transactions are instan
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by jmstfv 5y ago
No.
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by jmstfv 5y ago
This is something that has been worrying me for quite some time. Considering how many folks use Notion as a knowledge base for their personal and professional lives, I'm sure others feel the same. Since their API is in public beta, I&#
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by jmstfv 6y ago
There are other options like Singapore and Estonia, but the last time I checked, you had to travel there to open a bank account.
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by jmstfv 6y ago
I know for the fact that Mercury was closing accounts for the residents of Belarus because it was too costly for their partner bank to figure out who's on the sanctioned list. In that case, you will have to travel to the US to open a b
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by jmstfv 6y ago
Shortly, the Silicon Valley Bank blocked my account access because their telephony service couldn't reach my foreign number via SMS/Phone call 5 times in a row. Had to make several calls to unblock my account. You'd think tha
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by jmstfv 6y ago
https://www.revolut.com/en-US/help/profile-plan/verifying-id... > We are currently only supporting legal residents of the European Economic Area (EEA), Australia, Canada, Singapore, Switzerland, Japan and
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by jmstfv 6y ago
I wish there was a service like Atlas, but for Canada. I wasn't gung ho about incorporating a business abroad, as it introduces unnecessary complexity and costs money in the early stages. But as someone who didn't have access to t
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by jmstfv 6y ago
That, and LLCs tend to be easier to run.
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by jmstfv 6y ago
With Atlas, I filed a form and received an email with docs (to sign) a few days later. I got my Certificate of Incorporation and a bank account (got blocked, but that's a different story) the same day I signed docs. Then, they invite y
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First tax year with Stripe Atlas(tryhexadecimal.com)
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by jmstfv 6y ago
> I am looking at a C Corp from Stripe instead of the LLC because I think the business will grow in the next two years. https://stripe.com/atlas/guides/llc-vs-c-corp I'd say go with a C Corp if you know yo
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First tax year with Stripe Atlas(tryhexadecimal.com)
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HTTP 206 – Partial Content(tryhexadecimal.com)
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HTTP 410 – Gone(tryhexadecimal.com)
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HTTP 405 – Method Not Allowed(tryhexadecimal.com)
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HTTP 416 – Range Not Satisfiable(tryhexadecimal.com)
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by jmstfv 6y ago
I started writing HTTP status code guides for my SaaS business: https://tryhexadecimal.com/guides/http/ A lot of guides on the Internets concerning HTTP status codes are regurgitations or outright ripoffs of RFCs
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HTTP 414 – Request URI Too Long(tryhexadecimal.com)
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by jmstfv 6y ago
My iOS setup: 1. Install Firefox Focus, which has a built-in content blocking capability. FF Focus only allows one tab at a time, which is mostly suitable for quick, throwaway tasks. It's not a browser if you want to have multiple ta
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by jmstfv 6y ago
I share all tools (and their costs) I use to run my SaaS publicly: https://tryhexadecimal.com/running-costs Roughly speaking: * AWS for servers/database/CDN (because I have credits) * Netlify for static site hosti
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by jmstfv 6y ago
> How long did it take you to build the first version? The calculator or Hexadecimal? It took a couple of hours to build a calculator, and a couple more to polish it. Hexadecimal took a very, very long time to build (several months). Eng
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by jmstfv 6y ago
If you're using a SaaS in the cloud, you're already locked-in. I'm fine with that unless there are proprietary components not available elsewhere (or not compatible with alternatives). If you look at the breakdown, you'l
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by jmstfv 6y ago
Yeah, it is somewhere around that. I pay a third of that, though, since I'm still using AWS credits.
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by jmstfv 6y ago
Thanks a lot for your support, Dom. Appreciate it!
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Show HN: Calculate how long your website/API can be down(tryhexadecimal.com)
101 points by jmstfv 6y ago|15 comments
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by jmstfv 6y ago
Well, that largely depends on the subreddit and the context. Always read the wiki before posting. When in doubt, ask moderators if they're OK with self-promotion. Self-promotion doesn't mean you spam links left and right. Try to p
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by jmstfv 6y ago
Howdy HN! I quietly launched Hexadecimal several months ago. The idea is simple: monitoring websites & APIs for uptime, and having a decent looking status page to display status (duh!) of said websites/APIs. On top of that, Hexad

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