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by mfrye0 9y ago
Definitely. To get anywhere near profitable you need to have the right people and to be in it for the long haul.
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by mfrye0 9y ago
The funny thing about this whole shit show is that could have been me. Before transitioning to tech in SF, I had a career in the entertainment industry down in LA. My buddy pitched me with marketing jargon just like this for a Coachella sty
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by mfrye0 9y ago
I'm curious about that too. They must have gotten close or raised all of it, as they actually attempted to have the event.
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by mfrye0 9y ago
That is awesome. Thanks for sharing.
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by mfrye0 10y ago
Yeah there is a bit of a learning curve there. I was doing the same when I first started. It really depends on what you're trying to do, but it really comes down to storing state and data in a central location. If it's a simple co
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by mfrye0 10y ago
Yeah, I totally understand what you mean. I felt the same when I first got on AWS. What helped me immensely was taking a job where they had the whole stack on AWS, and I had the chance to learn by doing. Secondly, I signed up for this class
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by mfrye0 10y ago
Note: Link is to our blog post discussing the project. The link to the Github repo is near the bottom of the post.
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Open-source email finder – Find anyone's email for free(blog.thebigpicture.io)
4 points by mfrye0 10y ago|1 comments
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by mfrye0 10y ago
Sure thing. Thanks. I've actually been looking at Snowplow and that seems pretty badass so far. Might work for what I'm looking at.
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by mfrye0 10y ago
Ah gotcha. Thanks for the input. I've been looking at Snowplow and it seems really cool.
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by mfrye0 10y ago
I think San Francisco is definitely among the top cities. You don't need a degree. It's all about what you can do. What have you done? What skills do you have? When I was looking, I researched a lot of the job openings and looked
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by mfrye0 10y ago
I'm doing the same thing. Been working on it for a year now and I'm solo. Not going to lie, it's fucking hard sometimes. It's definitely not for everyone. Some days I want to give up and some days when things come togeth
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by mfrye0 10y ago
Sounds pretty cool. What tech is it based on? Just a standard api and db? Also, can I ask how big your company is? A few million records is decent volume.
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by mfrye0 10y ago
Sounds really useful. I'll have to check that out.
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by mfrye0 10y ago
Yeah I agree. It's a tough call sometimes.
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by mfrye0 10y ago
Whoa. That's badass. Do you pull any info regarding the IP addresses, or is it only the raw logs that you're going through?
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by mfrye0 10y ago
Yeah I hear you. I run into the same issue - why pay if you can build it yourself. Thanks for the insight.
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by mfrye0 10y ago
I haven't heard of WebTrends before. I'm looking at their website now. Are you self-hosting it? I can't find info on that option.
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by mfrye0 10y ago
Yeah that makes sense being a government org.
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by mfrye0 10y ago
I'm not sure if I follow you there. What did you mean by, "The bigger the data the more self-hosting will make sense for you, but the less for your customers"?
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by mfrye0 10y ago
Good feedback. Yeah I was thinking the same thing - that companies who are self hosting are more likely to be engineering-oriented. Otherwise like you said it's just too much of a pain to handle it yourself. May I ask, why did you self
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by mfrye0 10y ago
Yeah. I'm actually asking the question as one of my friends mentioned we should offer a full self hosted option for enterprise. I don't know if we want to go that direction though. Plus I wasn't even sure who is actually self
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by mfrye0 10y ago
Yeah, that would be awesome.
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by mfrye0 10y ago
This looks awesome. Just what I was looking for. Seems like they have some decent companies using them too.
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by mfrye0 10y ago
I've been talking to a friend about it and he mentioned using Elastic Search to build our own setup. Idk if it's the right use case though...
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by mfrye0 10y ago
Thoughts using it so far?
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by mfrye0 10y ago
Yeah I've been looking at Piwik. What do you think so far? The only aspect I didn't like was it was PHP. Not really my strong language - if I wanted to customize it.
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Ask HN: Who is using a self hosted analytics system?
27 points by mfrye0 10y ago|39 comments
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by mfrye0 10y ago
This looks great. I'll definitely try it out.
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by mfrye0 10y ago
Yeah I've been there too. I actually had that realization while in college. I saw my friends a couple years older than me who were graduating, but could not find jobs, and were going no where. It took me awhile, but you need to figure

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