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Ask HN: Solo founders, what’s “stuff breaks while you're unavailable” strategy?
7 points by leros 4y ago|11 comments
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by leros 4y ago
Have you considered going the route of technical product manager? It seems like those projects have more rigid criteria than typical product management with all the business ambiguity.
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by leros 4y ago
I went from developer to product manager. I'm better at developing and have more earning potential as a developer, but I can't stop product managing because I just can't handle staying heads down on a development project whil
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by leros 4y ago
I have found Bluetooth to be a very smooth experience, but only when using more recent devices. For example, my Bluetooth Pixel Buds work great with my new Samsung S22 phone and my new MacBook. My Samsung S22 and my 2021 car work great and
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by leros 4y ago
Updating your LinkedIn is probably enough.
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by leros 4y ago
You have 100% power to negotiate if you're willing to lose the job offer. Otherwise you're gambling. For my first job, I told the recruiter "I really want to work here, but I need my pay to be 50% higher because I have anothe
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by leros 4y ago
You might have done something online that made you look like a more active candidate. Companies are using all sorts of fancy recruiting tools these days to help them more efficiently reach out to candidates.
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by leros 4y ago
I'm a generalist, but I joined my company through a specific role and had to find opportunities to be a generalist and leadership that would accept it.
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by leros 4y ago
Be wary of advice from a successful entrepreneur. They've gambled and won. Unless you want to be an entrepreneur and you're also ok with the idea of failing and never becoming rich from it, their advice might not apply to you and
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by leros 4y ago
I was going to ask how your host your projects since lots of small hosting fees can add up. I saw a guide on your site where you use Firebase, which would explain how you keep things cheap. Is that still your strategy?
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by leros 4y ago
I feel like this is a paradox. If it's simple enough for a non-tech user, I assume it's basically self installing and self managing. That basically sounds like managed hosting. Even if the install is automatic, self hosting requir
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by leros 4y ago
That's true. Video calls and phone calls are the same thing in my mind. Taking explicit time out of your day to spend time talking to someone.
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by leros 4y ago
Is that because you don't like talking on the phone?
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Ask HN: Do you talk to family and friends on the phone?
2 points by leros 4y ago|4 comments
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by leros 4y ago
RunBuildRun makes creating a runner a one click operation. We give you a registration token for your runner, which you then register in the GitLab interface like usual. The primary value over GitLab's runners is that RunBuildRun doesn&
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by leros 4y ago
I think it's a good filter. I'll get excited about 100 things and only care about a few of them later.
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by leros 4y ago
It sounds like Russia might get declared a terrorist state soon. I assume that changes things.
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by leros 4y ago
I operate a service called RunBuildRun that sells managed GitLab runners that run on DigitalOcean droplets. I have lots of droplets. I may need to bump up my price a bit :)
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by leros 4y ago
"It might not be your fault, but it is your problem." In other words, improving your life is your responsibility and nobody is going to do it for you.
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by leros 4y ago
Can someone explain what this is to me? As far as I understand, it's faster Postgres.
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by leros 4y ago
Cloudflare really does have some unique technology and they're iterating insanely fast. They're releasing stuff nearly weekly that makes me want to redesign my systems.
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by leros 4y ago
I went to a week long workshop on a farm. Part of the workshop was a ban on all electronics. Initially it was really uncomfortable not having my phone but after 3 days I got used to it. It was incredible. I started doing things like waking
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by leros 4y ago
I assume you ask this question because you feel you're spending too much time on screens versus doing something else. I have two thoughts: 1) What is it you wish you were doing instead? Would you rather do that than looking at your scr
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by leros 4y ago
I work at a FAANG-adjacent company. It's absolutely incredible how much more money there is to be made with what we already have. You could lay off the entire product and engineering teams and still grow the shit out of this company fo
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by leros 4y ago
I'm sure they've done the math on it and it's just not worth supporting from a revenue perspective. There must be some operational cost that became a burden.
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by leros 4y ago
It's a retention issue. If people don't level up fast enough and get raises they'll leave for another company.
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by leros 4y ago
PornHub. Seriously. I'm saying this partially for shock value, but also because it's a good and interesting engineering blog. They do some cutting edge stuff with video streaming at scale.
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by leros 4y ago
I used to manage engineers at another large tech company and this was a big problem. There was nowhere near enough big projects to get everyone the evidence they needed for promotions. As a result we ended up doing two things a lot: 1) over
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by leros 4y ago
Huh. I thought about making something like this a few years ago. I'm amazed to see the idea turn into a successful business.
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by leros 5y ago
I think your analysis is fairly accurate. There are plenty of sites that are mostly static with some dynamic functionality injected in. JAMStack is great for those use cases. For fully dynamic applications, JAMStack may not be the optimal a

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