mattcurry

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by mattcurry 16y ago
Yes, exactly.
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by mattcurry 16y ago
Sorry, that was unclear. Off the top of my head I probably spent $5k in 2010. I'll know for sure once I write the next post.
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How Much Money I Made From Side Projects In 2010(pseudocoder.com)
276 points by mattcurry 16y ago|49 comments
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You Don't Really Want a Rock Star(pseudocoder.com)
10 points by mattcurry 16y ago|1 comments
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by mattcurry 16y ago
FYI: The json that powers the ajaxy interface includes pretty much their entire users table, including email address. When they first launched the hashed password was also in there, but at least they fixed that. So their claim: "your email
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by mattcurry 16y ago
I sorted the comments by oldest first and skimmed them looking for people dumping on facebook with things like "flash in the pan" or "i could build this in a weekend". Surprisingly few. In fact most people loved it. So if you're looking fo
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by mattcurry 16y ago
These benchmarks are from two years ago. The version of Cake used isn't even a stable release (1.2 RC1). Either way 1.3 has replaced 1.2 and is plenty fast for 99.99999% of sites.
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by mattcurry 16y ago
I'm about 1/2 way through it. The chapters are short so they generally don't go into too much detail. Often times there will be a interesting sentence that I wish was blown into it's own chapter. To answer your question: Most HN regulars w
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by mattcurry 16y ago
I got this one too, back at the beginning of Sept. $45 then. I guess he must be doing good enough to raise the rate.
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by mattcurry 18y ago
The feeds are cached, so items may not appear right away. Plus there is an additional lag depending on how often Google pings the feed. Anyway, I checked out your case and I see the link in your feed now. I plan on dropping the cache time
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by mattcurry 18y ago
Frankly the old version of the site sucked. I finally got around to launching the new version this past summer. I was hesitant to push it considering I had no real QA other then myself. It would have sucked to spent a ton of time/money t
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by mattcurry 18y ago
Thanks fuzzmeister. Let me know if you hit any issues. I coded and launched it in a weekend, so it may have some bugs. So far it's worked well for me though.
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by mattcurry 18y ago
Thanks for the criticism...copywriting isn't my strong suit. In my defense I think the site makes sense if you're a teacher. At least that's what my wife (the teacher) tells me :)
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by mattcurry 18y ago
Honestly the reason I wrote the post wasn't to advertise the sites or brag about the money (which isn't all that much to brag about anyway). I originally started the blog with the goal of focusing on these type of side projects, whether the
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by mattcurry 18y ago
Hey jbenx, Thanks for the critiques. I will definitely take it into consideration. RE: ASIN and ISBN - I was torn on whether to include those, since I agree with you that it can be confusing. I also have the option of dropping the entire