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by jot 13y ago
This is a great observation. If the title of the post was longer it would have been "10 Things You Should Shout at Brilliant Web Developers Who Are Building a Product for Financial Independence" Once you have financial independenc
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by jot 13y ago
Have you seen one of those products before? If so why did you not copy it?
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by jot 13y ago
I probably failed to set the context. :) I felt an extreme position was needed to respond to brilliant but highly principled people (who I wished were joking) but I felt were saying things like: "How dare you suggest that I would ever
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by jot 13y ago
That might be true in the case of the first version of Instagram and Twitter. It was probably far from trivial once they had significant traction. Why do you think no one copied them at the early stage? You'd think that Twitter with al
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by jot 13y ago
Today there is a great market for aluminium and glass mobile phones. I wouldn't recommend going into that market if you have limited financial resources. If the first, second or third developer of mobile phones made them out of alumini
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by jot 13y ago
People who are serious about delivering quality are brilliant. I want people like you to have a proper chance at doing what you do sustainably . That way the world will have less bad products built by people who are only good at sales and
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by jot 13y ago
Have you ever worked on a rebuild? Copying is surprisingly hard, almost never trivial. Check out how bad Rocket Internet's products are compared to the services they copy. They are pros at copying and still they can't get it right
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by jot 13y ago
It doesn't have to be. That said if I made it more abstract the result would likely be less web developers reading it. I've met more web developers that need to hear these things (probably because I spend more time with them than
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by jot 13y ago
Very true. It's not just in the name of 'design' and 'user experience' perfection that developers overly delay their first product.
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Things You Should Shout at Brilliant Web Developers(blog.jonathanmarkwell.com)
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by jot 13y ago
More like these here: http://principles.adactio.com/
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by jot 13y ago
For those not familiar with FreeAgent (the makers of this (marketing) app), they are one of the UK's most successful SaaS startups. I've been fortunate enough to have been a user of their main app ( http://freeagent.com
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by jot 13y ago
Disclaimer: I once paid for three months of SEOMoz How different would this thread be if it were Google, Microsoft, Salesforce or some billion dollar company that decided to launch an Internet marketing brand at Doz.com? SEOMoz's openness h
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by jot 13y ago
I got loads out of the first couple of lessons here: http://www.trydesignlab.com/ It's like Codecademy but for design.
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by jot 13y ago
Maybe it's time for a HN Brighton meetup?
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by jot 14y ago
Any thoughts on what decides the point at which a business is no longer an early stage startup? When does it make sense to level up from deer hunter to elephant hunter?
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Build services so good that people prefer to use them(gov.uk)
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by jot 14y ago
This is a surprisingly open and detailed answer from Dave McClure.
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The business model of 500 Startups(quora.com)
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by jot 14y ago
They could probably charge more with a title like that too. :)
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by jot 14y ago
There's less demand for freelance testers because having a one is a nice to have rather than a must have. Clients rarely understand the value of testers, they appear to simply be an optional additional cost. Freelance developers have little
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by jot 14y ago
First thing I wondered when I saw the announcement was how long until you'd support it :) Great work!
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by jot 14y ago
I just built this alternative landing page for Dataclips to try and better communicate their awesomeness: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/297/dataclips/index.html HN thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5075584
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by jot 14y ago
I just built this alternative landing page for Dataclips to try and better communicate their awesomeness: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/297/dataclips/index.html HN thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5075584
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by jot 14y ago
I built this because despite knowing about the existence of Heroku Dataclips since February 2012, it hadn't clicked just how brilliantly useful they are. I could have saved days of my time over the last 6 months if I'd better understood the
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A better landing page for Heroku Dataclips(dl.dropbox.com)
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£6 is a bargin. Worth it for Sanderson Jones's Start Up Stand Up alone: http://vimeo.com/54188797
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How to get featured on the App Store(realmacsoftware.com)
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by jot 14y ago
"Eighty percent of our revenues are from products that didn’t exist 60 days ago." I'm sure last time I heard a fact like that about Apple it was more like "products that didn't exist 3 years ago." Impressive that they seem to be speeding up
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by jot 14y ago
UK, London £40,000 - £60,000 CTO / Lead Developer You’re a Python, Ruby or PHP web developer, and you’re bored of hearing about photo-sharing apps. You’ve always imagined putting your skills to use and making a real difference to the world.

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