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by meowtastic 4y ago
I'd say it depends on how much effort it'll take to deliver the work. Want to spend a day clearing up a piece of technical debt? Guesstimate how much faster you'll end up adding new features after resolving it. But the bigger
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by meowtastic 4y ago
Ha, I wish!
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by meowtastic 4y ago
I've noticed a common theme across several such posts/comments - our definitions of a "good" company can widely differ. I, for one, find it's important that the team can always quantify how every feature adds value
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by meowtastic 4y ago
Hmm, it depends on whether you do want to talk to others over a call. If yes, then I need ti figure out a way to force people to get together and talk. If not, then the project would probably not be useful for you.
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by meowtastic 4y ago
I have the same issue. I hate leetcode, am a good communicator and want to always connect what I build to the value it delivers to customers. But the companies that care about this the most are startups, and I've had some really bad ex
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by meowtastic 4y ago
Didn't know Discord doesn't encrypt messages. How do you go about doing it then? If I send a message, wouldn't it automatically go to Discord's server?
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by meowtastic 4y ago
Interesting, thanks for the feedback! What would you want to get out of a group chat? And I'm guessing you wouldn't want it to be time-limited to like an hour right?
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by meowtastic 4y ago
Alrighty, this little project didn't really work out so I'm going to log off for the day and go to bed. I'll keep the coffee tables open until tomorrow morning, in the off chance anyone wants to chat. And allow everyone to me
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by meowtastic 4y ago
Had a chat with someone, hurray!
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by meowtastic 4y ago
Nothing new in my latest update, crickets can be clearly heard on the server. I'll keep the server alive until tomorrow, won't delete the tables anymore.
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by meowtastic 4y ago
Another round, another fail. Had one person joining the server and :gasp: waving at me, but they disconnected afterwards :sad_trombone: While a very small sample size, even those who did end up joining weren't interested in having a ch
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by meowtastic 4y ago
2nd session over, looks like this is turning into a majestic fail as no new people joined the server T__T. HN seems to still be pushing the post to viewers since I have some comments on the post (thanks sanity3141 and cloudking!) and upvote
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by meowtastic 4y ago
I think they went with Discord because it's by far the easiest way to get started. And it still kinda works, although you can get lost in the flood of messages. The reason they have the generation prompts in the public channels is to g
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by meowtastic 4y ago
Also I've got a friend who's built a ChatGPT Discord bot - check it out, it's entirely free: https://twitter.com/firtozb/status/1610344330236989440
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by meowtastic 4y ago
Greetings first commenter! I agree, Discord is pretty amazing because it gives you a lot of features for free that you'd need when starting out. The flip side, just from observing other servers, is that you constantly have to manage th
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by meowtastic 4y ago
1st session down. 3 people joined the server, but no one wanted to have a chat T_T. I probably should've set up a website as many will be turned off by the direct link to Discord, but ah well, wanted to get it out there for today. And
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by meowtastic 4y ago
Will be posting my learnings from each session on this thread.
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Show HN: Have voice-only virtual coffees with fellow HN'ers(discord.com)
10 points by meowtastic 4y ago|16 comments
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by meowtastic 4y ago
I'd say 0.1:1 from personal experience. Often you see founders who want to build facebook-but-better type of stuff from day 1. My advice is to avoid first-time tech founders, it's very hard to coach them into adopting the lean sta
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by meowtastic 4y ago
Wouldn't it be easier just to attend meetups? Plenty of them in London.
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by meowtastic 4y ago
Makes sense. I just can't find something that interests me so much that I'd want to work on it in the evenings/weekends. Maybe with time...
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by meowtastic 4y ago
What kind of InfoSec role were you doing? I sometimes find team dynamics too draining :)
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by meowtastic 4y ago
Is it a good time to get into it now though? I would've thought InfoSec roles are first on the chopping block when budgets get squeezed in a tech downturn.
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by meowtastic 4y ago
I think they're valid points. A lot of people argue that it's easier than ever before just because the costs are lower, without factoring in many other crucial aspects like timing, competition, and so on.
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by meowtastic 4y ago
Great idea, but wouldn't it better to just have a web app that takes the link to the page as an input?
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by meowtastic 4y ago
> It is harder to build something today than it used to be. Interesting viewpoint. I really want to a bootstrapped software business, but I find it so hard to come up with a financially-viable opportunity.
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by meowtastic 4y ago
Do the majority of self-taught devs in the US get that kind of money within 1 year? I honestly find it hard to believe.
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by meowtastic 4y ago
Sales.
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by meowtastic 4y ago
I live in the UK, don't make nowhere near 200k nor do I know anyone who makes that amount (across all levels).
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by meowtastic 4y ago
I'm self taught, spent 4 months entirely on my own going through freeCodeCamp and The Odin Project. My tip - only do it if you enjoy it, there's plenty other professions out there with a better ROI on time invested.

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