mtlynch

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   by mtlynch 4y ago

   I work with a US-based compliance testing lab. It was $7k to do both FCC and CE testing. I'll share the name over email if you'd like. I also talked to UL, who's like the gold standard for compliance testing, but they were pr
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   by mtlynch 4y ago

   Have you considered retail Or other distribution channels? I've reached out to a couple of resellers, but they weren't interested, though I didn't pursue it very heavily. With supply shortages, I can only produce ~200 devic
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   by mtlynch 4y ago

   Thanks for reading and for the constructive feedback! Yeah, the About page is something I haven't touched much since I first launched the site, and I agree that it feels not quite consistent with the tone of the site or where the compa
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   by mtlynch 4y ago

   Yeah, remote power switching is definitely doable. It would either be wiring directly into the motherboard's or controlling an external power switch. The challenge is making it user-friendly, supporting it, meeting compliance requireme
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   by mtlynch 4y ago

   > Thank you for publicly sharing and documenting so much information about this epic quest you're on (I'm sure it's a solid PR move, too :). Honestly, I don't see much of an impact on sales when my blog posts reach t
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   by mtlynch 4y ago

   It's not 100k users , but those are installs, even if it's in a CI/CD pipeline.
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   by mtlynch 4y ago

   Thanks for reading! One subtle point about the profit is that because I'm selling a physical product, there are still a lot of unrealized gains in inventory. I estimate that if stopped purchasing new material and just liquidated my exi
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   by mtlynch 4y ago

   Hey Cory! Good to hear from you! I miss those early meetups. That was a great group. Thanks for reading!
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   by mtlynch 4y ago

   Yeah, I think taking myself out of the critical path and making the business more location-independent will make it more attractive to a buyer if I decide to sell.
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    by mtlynch 4y ago

    Oh, I'd love that! I'll reach out.
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    by mtlynch 4y ago

    Thanks for reading and for sticking with it!
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    by mtlynch 4y ago

    Thanks for reading! Nope, we're still on Raspberry Pi. It's difficult to move to other hardware because it would mean managing a lot more of the OS stack ourselves, and then we'd still have thousands of users still on Raspber
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    by mtlynch 4y ago

    I'd love to work with US vendors because that would solve a lot of problems, but I tried twice in 2022, and it went disastrously both times. I tried working with a US vendor on assembling PCBs, and the soldering was incredibly sloppy.
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    by mtlynch 4y ago

    Author here! Happy to take any feedback or answer questions about this post.
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    My fifth year as a bootstrapped founder(mtlynch.io)

    499 points by mtlynch 4y ago|161 comments
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    by mtlynch 4y ago

    It's a little silly to critique a Show HN for having fewer features and less UI polish than a tool that's had a 12 year head start.
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    by mtlynch 4y ago

    Gotcha, thanks for the extra details!
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    by mtlynch 4y ago

    Thanks for sharing this! I'm a networking amateur, and one thing I've struggled to figure out is VLANs for wireless devices. It seems like VLANs are managed at switch level, so does that mean that all devices on a particular AP ha
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    by mtlynch 4y ago

    Wow, awesome! Congrats, Phil!
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    by mtlynch 4y ago

    I'm a Fastmail customer, and it's pretty easy to talk to a human. They don't always fix my issue quickly, but I can at least get a hold of a human within 24 hours.
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    by mtlynch 4y ago

    Thanks!
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    by mtlynch 4y ago

    I didn't know that. Good tip!
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    by mtlynch 4y ago

    Wait, which one of us is the real me?
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    by mtlynch 4y ago

    Staying warm. In the winter, I used to stay warm by turning up the thermostat. Then I discovered (via HN) the Low-Tech Magazine article, "Insulation: first the body, then the home." [0] The article argued that it's much more
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    by mtlynch 4y ago

    Wait, which one is right?
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    by mtlynch 4y ago

    Ah, I see. I hadn't thought of that. Thanks!
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    by mtlynch 4y ago

    > No production Java/.NET runtime directly interprets bytecode, it gets dynamically compiled into machine code. And as a result it can dynamically _recompile_ it if it discovers runtime profiling patterns that mean a different compi
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    by mtlynch 4y ago

    >>Go is faster than Java / C#, more memory-efficient than Java / C# >Look up any set of benchmarks online and you'll find this claim to be mixed at best. I don't know a ton about low level performance, but I&#x2
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    by mtlynch 4y ago

    One of my favorite jokes from 30 Rock is when Liz is complaining to Jack about a relationship problem: > Jack: You have more sexual hangups than an adult chat line run by Gilbert Gottfried. > Liz: What? > Jack: That was written
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    by mtlynch 4y ago

    I tried two. The first one was a dud, but the second one legitimately made me laugh. My setup > Scientists have discovered a new breed of monkeys that intuitively understand how to use Instagram. GPT's punchline > They're c