jsherer

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   Ask HN: Are you voting?

   17 points by jsherer 12y ago|52 comments
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   by jsherer 12y ago

   Genuinely curious...why does it feel odd to say that?
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   by jsherer 12y ago

   Can you give a little background on the technologies you used?
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   by jsherer 12y ago

   I'm a big fan of Salvatore's analyses. They are straightforward from the perspective of somebody who knows the ins-and-outs of their system(s). We need more of this.
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   by jsherer 12y ago

   Linode seems pretty equivalently priced, especially with their new SSDs. Do you know how their reliability is?
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   by jsherer 12y ago

   I host Minimal Reader on Digital Ocean and have to seriously reconsider them for production use at this point. I'm considering switching back to AWS, but want to explore my options. Do any of you have recommendations on an equivalently
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   by jsherer 12y ago

   I launched Minimal Reader [1] last year right before Google Reader shut down. It started small, grew organically, and now I've been able to wrangle together a couple thousand customers. [1] https://minimalreader.com
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   by jsherer 12y ago

   Automattic (the company behind Wordpress.com) open sourced[1] their legal documents with a Creative Commons license. It includes their Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. You can use these to get your moving in the right direction, but be
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   by jsherer 12y ago

   I've saw restarts and networks issues frequently on DO months ago. They seem to have stabilized in the NYC datacenters where I host https://minimalreader.com/ but overall, the stability always seems to be on the edge o
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    by jsherer 12y ago

    I concur. I use Ansible for my deployments on Digital Ocean. It would be trivial to move over to Linode because of Ansible's flexibility (which is actually something I consider every time DO has network issues). Hopefully this competit
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    by jsherer 12y ago

    I run https://minimalreader.com/ on Digital Ocean. They do have moments of downtime every now and then, the most severe being 12 hours of severe network issues back in October 2013. Since then, I have rarely had issues with
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    by jsherer 12y ago

    You should give all of the free services a try to see what you like. Do you subscribe to a lot of feeds? Disclaimer: I run https://minimalreader.com
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    by jsherer 12y ago

    I'm working on something like this. Would you be willing to chat about it?
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    by jsherer 12y ago

    I love hearing about this. I've been growing my reader Minimal Reader https://minimalreader.com/ for the past year and can say that thousands of paying customers helps reassure that there's still a market for RSS.
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    by jsherer 12y ago

    Here's the patent: http://www.google.com/patents/EP1868820B1?cl=en
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    by jsherer 13y ago

    My first software product I launched on the side 5 years ago still makes quite a bit more than $1k/m (and that's in non-recurring revenue). Its best month was more than $15k while I was working full time. I was able to quit my cor
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    by jsherer 13y ago

    Press is a decent Android app with a lot of sync options. I use it with my reader via Fever API. The only complaint is that it has a few memory leaks which causes it to crash every now and then on memory constrained devices.
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    by jsherer 13y ago

    MnmlRdr ( https://mnmlrdr.com ) of course ;)
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    by jsherer 13y ago

    Props. I've been considering the same move. It takes guts to make it happen.
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    by jsherer 13y ago

    Feedbin is a good service. If you like them, you should stick with them.
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    by jsherer 13y ago

    Author of MnmlRdr here. Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions.
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    by jsherer 13y ago

    I agree. This is my approach for http://mnmlrdr.com/ — no social integration because a lot of people are only interested in reading their feeds, not talking about it in their reader app.
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    by jsherer 13y ago

    Glad you're liking it! If anybody else wants a preview account, feel free to get in touch. (I'm the creator)
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    by jsherer 13y ago

    Looks intriguing. One website note, though: I think the animated slides are transitioning too quickly as I was unable to read them in time before they switched to the next slide.
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    by jsherer 14y ago

    I'm getting a lot of "We're experiencing problems and this post was not saved. Please copy/paste this post somewhere and try posting later. Sorry!"
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    by jsherer 14y ago

    In the U.S. definitely. Check out The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA)
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    by jsherer 14y ago

    I build TodoPaper and combine it with TaskPaper and DropBox to sync across my PCs and Macs and iPhone. It's a plaintext file format that also has a number of open source projects that highlight the files when you work in Vim, Notepad++, etc
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    by jsherer 14y ago

    > I don't think you could grow to that size codebase with Javascript. I disagree. Any substantial JavaScript application can reach this size and more. It all depends on the level of abstraction you choose and the functionality framework
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    by jsherer 14y ago

    Awesome to see more of these types of things coming to our great city :)
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    by jsherer 14y ago

    I agree with the other posters. You need to take some time and get re-inspired, and to do so, it helps just talking with somebody about it. The fact that you're posting about it here tells me that you're likely to make it through (otherwise