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by lscott3 14y ago
Yeah, I was running into that as well. I have quite a few machines hooked up to it so it becomes a real pain. I just started using a private github repo.
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by lscott3 14y ago
Thanks! Never claimed to be a writer!
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by lscott3 14y ago
The response wasn't too bad. I didn't get a whole bunch though. I didn't try to spam em either. Here is the post: http://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/js3d7/service_m...
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by lscott3 14y ago
I see the error, bad link on my part :)
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by lscott3 14y ago
Yeah! I had to choose to wait on Heroku or get the post out I chose to get the post out. I will take a look at the logs and see what happened. Thanks for trying it out though!
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by lscott3 14y ago
I also plan to do some more in person visits around my area (Columbus, Ohio) to give a demo on it. Not sure on how that will work but it is worth a shot.
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by lscott3 14y ago
I at least plan to try out one of those $100 free Google Adwords setups to dip my toe into marketing. I am not an Adwords pro.
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How I got my first paying customer(lscott3.com)
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by lscott3 14y ago
Good luck on this man. You will find that it is far riskier staying at your day job. The reason I say that is because you will always have one foot in. A safety net. You will not have the same motivation to make things happen. Having no sa
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by lscott3 14y ago
Excellent! I know I have caught myself thinking about this way too much. It often stops the flow of getting good ideas out the door. I have rewrote projects 2 or 3 times because I have learned something new and just had to apply it because
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by lscott3 14y ago
You went around parading on a few posts on HN with this.
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by lscott3 14y ago
I think it is a decent idea or, if you have other skills outside of programming you could do consulting and get ideas from there. I am a developer but ran my own computer repair shop for a while and seen a problem that I could solve which l
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by lscott3 14y ago
Very cool Kevin! I just checked out the site. I think with sites like qstartupapp.com (I am biased I helped work on it :)) and companies Founders Network, people with ideas can get through the feedback loop even faster. As I am sure all of
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by lscott3 14y ago
As far as the customization aspect I think that is two different markets. A person like me doesn't necessarily want to customize all the way down to which kernel the device is running. I like how stupid simple it is, open up app store, buy
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by lscott3 14y ago
I think that is a good idea. I did a switch not to long ago that was kinda hacky to get it to work. I went from iPhone to android then back to iPhone. I def. lost some data in the process and this was at least 1.5 years ago so we didn't hav
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by lscott3 14y ago
So this would pair startups to help each other? For instance if I need designers I would use this service to find a startup that provides this service?