jordansmith

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by jordansmith 10y ago
Honestly, I slowly moved away from being a developer. Anyone with an idea can hire a developer to make their SaaS project, or whatever the idea is. The money is in the marketing of the project. I switched to affiliate marketing and making e
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by jordansmith 10y ago
Doing good in school is more important than partying and playing video games. There is time to do those things in the future, school is really a one time thing.
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by jordansmith 10y ago
Are you a US citizen, or Aus? How do you deal with the visa? I want to move to thailand for an unknown amount of time but the visa seems like more than I would care to deal with. Don't want to have to do visa runs and all of that.
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by jordansmith 10y ago
This looks interesting. It would be nice if you had some video/photos of the dashboard / features so you can see what it all looks like before making an account.
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by jordansmith 10y ago
I used to use the hacker news enhancement suite on chrome, it makes it alot more manageable. I recently switched back to safari so am stuck using the default site, and it is much harder to navigate around.
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by jordansmith 10y ago
Not fully a developer nowadays, but I either self manage or use cloud services. Lately I have been thinking about hiring a freelancer to optimize some servers, but other than that I control the servers for my business. I should probably pay
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by jordansmith 10y ago
I use one of my personal domains that has catch all email setup. So I can do a@domain.com and b@domain.com. Both will show up in my inbox.
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by jordansmith 10y ago
Free tier is good to have to easily build your list of people to advertise to. Use these emails to push your paid tiers, push affiliate links/one off offers, etc.
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by jordansmith 10y ago
I do not know your exact situation, but I think you should do a mix of both. I make a large amount of my money from affiliate/ad revenue, and it is way too easy for things to go bad. If you sell subscriptions you own everything. If you
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by jordansmith 11y ago
Desk: Cheap tempered glass L-shaped desk. Think I got it at staples or walmart. Chair: Standard leather office chair from Staples Monitor: 13" Macbook Air & 22" Asus 1080p monitor Keyboard: Apple magic keyboard. I have a WASD
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by jordansmith 11y ago
Making an instagram stat tracker, very similar to socialblade. Socialblade's instagram tracking has went down hill in the past few months and also want to avoid the 5 account limit. Nothing crazy complicated, but just something that wi
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by jordansmith 11y ago
FB/IG video ads have been doing very well for apps. You can target people in relationships. I would try a basic video that just is informative showing off your app. I would also see If you could get a short video made that is somewhat
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by jordansmith 11y ago
> but your brain can easily give you a short term false sense of excitement until you realize a week later that this idea you picked up is something you're really not as interested in as you thought you were. aka every side project
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by jordansmith 11y ago
I never thought the posters actually did any sort of motivation. I always saw them as decorations, and wanting to give a certain feel to the space.
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by jordansmith 11y ago
Currently just use the default Mail.app
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by jordansmith 11y ago
Reach out to minecraft servers to buy advertising. BuySellAds.com Minecraft hosting affiliate program. Bonus if they have a recurring cost per sale model
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by jordansmith 11y ago
I say yes. If someone else is successful you know that it is a proven market. Depending on how big they are you might not be able to beat them, but that doesn't mean you still can't be successful.
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by jordansmith 11y ago
I stopped classes to continue working on a successful business. Worst case scenario is I go back and finish my last 2 years if I need to
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by jordansmith 11y ago
You might be already doing this with your React/Webpack, but picking up some ES6 might be a good thing to do. I've slowly been adding some ES6 into my code and there are some really nice things.
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by jordansmith 11y ago
Haha yea that is true. DO is much easier to just get a VPS up and running asap. But imo EC2 servers aren't that hard after you do it your first time or two. Most of the defaults work and I always setup SSH key on DO servers anyway. The
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by jordansmith 11y ago
AWS can be easy and can be confusing. If you want to use it like DO/Linode it isn't hard. Just fire up an EC2 server and you are good to go. It can get confusing when you start linking multiple services together, but many of these
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by jordansmith 11y ago
I have always felt like this method sounds good, but is just annoying to do. I want to login fast, usually with passwords that autofill from lastpass or similar app. Maybe if the information on the site was sensitive it would be worth it, b
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by jordansmith 11y ago
Really it depends on the app, but for the most part I like to give options for 1, 3, and 4. Social login is linked to an actual account that can be used for 3/4 if they want.