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by nathanstitt 6y ago
I subscribed to the newsletter and browsed the listings https://feinternational.com/buy-a-website/ I contacted them about any that looked promising and they send you a prospectus that listed the name and the financials
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by nathanstitt 6y ago
Yeah I’m not a fan of the php, but I have written it in the past so don’t mind it that much. I’ve went through and updated it a bit but am forcing myself not to get sucked into updates that realistically wouldn’t add much value As I’ll doc
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by nathanstitt 6y ago
It is my first time purchasing any type of business. In the past I've mainly invested in commercial real estate. My thought is that it has a much quicker pay-off than pretty much any other investment. If I only manage to hold the site
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by nathanstitt 6y ago
Not sure about the other cloud providers, but AWS has billing limits with email warnings when you approach them. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2...
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by nathanstitt 6y ago
In the past they had outsourced pretty much everything about the site, but we've taken it all in house. It's mainly just myself and my wife who handles marketing and UI. We joke that I build it and then she makes it pretty. We do
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by nathanstitt 6y ago
Definitely not millions, more like mid 10s :-D A good rule of thumb for valuing a SaaS is to take trailing 12 months revenue and multiply by 2-5 depending on the growth potential of the the business. In this case it was at the bottom end of
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by nathanstitt 6y ago
good point, rss is at the index page, but I wasn't linking to that yet since I only have the single post. https://nathan.stitt.org/myclientspot/index.xml I'm trying to stay one month ahead of the posts. For
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by nathanstitt 6y ago
Hi HN! Like the title says I recently purchased a SaaS ( https://myclientspot.com/ ) that was desperately in need of updates and am gradually working through it. I'm planning to write a series of posts about the process
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Show HN: I bought a SaaS and am modernizing it(nathan.stitt.org)
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by nathanstitt 8y ago
One of the reasons is that the books are often used in printed format in classrooms and it's important that the page numbers of the ebook match what the teacher assigns from the printed copy. With epub format the page # will vary depen
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by nathanstitt 8y ago
I used object proxy to create a DSL for constructing object factories, inspired by Ruby's FactoryBot https://github.com/nathanstitt/object-factory-bot It's pretty handy for generating data for unit tests, but
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by nathanstitt 9y ago
Not quite. The large round speedometer in the center on the mini is only to honor the old mini look. They also have a fairly large digital speedometer on the top of the steering column.
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by nathanstitt 9y ago
Exactly! Thanks for pointing this out because everyone seems to miss it. At the moment that an investment is made, a company should be worth just as much as it was before, but will have more liquid assets because it's traded equity fo
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by nathanstitt 10y ago
Library looks attractive, but it has 185 open issues and 106 pull requests. The pull requests go back to 2013, I have no idea why people continue to open new ones since it appears they have little chance of getting them merged.
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by nathanstitt 11y ago
I've used gh-board before and really like the ability to "merge repos" You can view all the PR's across multiple organizations and repositories, which makes it very handy for someone who's a member of multiple proj
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by nathanstitt 12y ago
I agree, that's the single feature that's always kept me loyal to Firebug. There's a bug open on that at: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=972655 I'm attempting to find time to assist with
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by nathanstitt 12y ago
I suspect that a larger issue might be that Linux users tend to run servers with multi-terabyte collections of stuff . It'd be difficult for them to make money at $5 a month off a guy who wants to backup 20TB of usenet archives or wha
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by nathanstitt 12y ago
Same. Mine didn't burn much oil, but would refuse to start when the engine was warm because of the weak compression. Would fire right up when it was cool though. Loved how it handled and the 9,000 rpm redline.
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by nathanstitt 12y ago
I really like Telerick. They do seem to have a good system of widgets and data bindings. I haven't used them in anger though so don't really know for sure. I was pretty bummed they removed the grid from the open-source component
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by nathanstitt 12y ago
I may be misremembering, but my recollection was my then employer started using Ext version 2 primarily since it had the rich widget ecosystem and also supported IE 4 well. We were writing internal enterprise apps and it was a good fit. As
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by nathanstitt 12y ago
Exactly! Well said, "any jackass can plop in a data table and move on." The problem with that approach is that it's very deceptively easy. The data table morphs into a screen, then into an app, and before long you've
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by nathanstitt 12y ago
Yeah, I agree that ExtJS is a pretty good fit for Stockor, and is why I choose it originally. Now I'm struggling with being more responsive and wanting to open the code up for embedding widgets into third party pages. Extjs really doe
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by nathanstitt 12y ago
Article's a bit over a year old, but the points it raises are still very valid. As the creator & maintainer of a large ExtJS application (stockor.com/demo), I find it very much a mixed bag. Love the comprehensive widgets that
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by nathanstitt 12y ago
A warrant's has to also have legal justification, i.e. "reasonable suspicion". If it does not, that's one more thing that can be argued at trial, with the possibility that the search can be thrown out. Of course, the on
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by nathanstitt 12y ago
Right there with you. Back in the "compile it yourself" days of Linux, freshmeat was the place to look. I find http://jsdb.io/ works pretty well for JS libraries. You might find it useful.
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by nathanstitt 12y ago
Well, no it's not "quite doable" Unless your definition of doable is "the landing zone must be in the middle of a large open space and clearly marked with highly contrasting colors". And must not be experiencing win
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by nathanstitt 12y ago
It occurs to me that what BuzzFeed's doing is that following the mantra of "Don't create something unless you're sure you can sell it" They've mastered the art of selling a product (Journalism, faux or otherwis
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by nathanstitt 12y ago
Sure. The biggest driver is that I want it to work equally well on mobile, including phone sized screens. The other is the file size and load speed. Right now the build is pushing almost 3mb, and takes around 10-20 seconds to load. That&#
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by nathanstitt 12y ago
I'd love to chat with you about my open source ERP, Stockor (stockor.org) Email is nathan @ that domain. I'm currently firming up the plugin interface for it and am really want to get it right so that third-parties can easily bui
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by nathanstitt 12y ago
I'll take the opportunity to plug my attempt, Stockor @ http://stockor.org/ It's built in Ruby and currently uses ExtJS for the UI. I'm currently rebuilding the front-end in Backbonejs.

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