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by noodle 12y ago
Force yourself to go to the gym on a regular schedule and work out for an hour a day M-F. Before work, after work, whenever. Just schedule it and do it. For me, the key has been to realize that I'm not "wasting" or "lo
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by noodle 12y ago
This is going to be correlated to what the web developer is doing more than anything else. Doing .net work? Windows. Doing Rails? Probably OSX. Doing Python? Slight edge towards linux. Java? Toss up. Etc..
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by noodle 13y ago
This is sane advice if you're playing the standard VC game where you shop around for a co-founder, raise funds, and build a product (not necessarily in that order). OP's situation sounds more like a bootstrapped small business whe
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by noodle 13y ago
> I invested all my personal wealth. I think this is being overlooked. You invested all your personal wealth into this company and in return you got unvested shares ?
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by noodle 13y ago
I was sort of spitball including that in there in my calculations, but yes. This is an important thing for people to understand when dealing with or becoming a contractor/freelancer. I think that a lot of people don't realize thi
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by noodle 13y ago
I wonder if they're including people who have a full-time salaried position with the job title of "Consultant" in this mix. It would make the numbers make more sense.
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by noodle 13y ago
> That's what an average consultant likely makes as a salary. No, that is what a highly productive (100% utilized) consultant at $42/h makes as revenue. If you were to convert it into something comparable to a salary and accou
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by noodle 13y ago
> ActionController::Live still feels pretty half baked. It is very half-baked. I put it into a production system and had tons of headaches.
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by noodle 13y ago
the google web fonts used in the body text seem to be acting weird.
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by noodle 13y ago
Yes, I worked on a reverse-engineered annotations project at some point in time, among other things. The YT space is definitely under-represented here, though I can't say I'm surprised. All the related startups are hybrid tech a
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by noodle 13y ago
The vast majority do rep themselves. Only the top talent are catered to by the MCNs like Maker. Then why would a small YouTube star want to join an MCN? The studios do still tend to provide a support structure and tech stack to help you g
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by noodle 13y ago
I think the problem people seem to have is that it is standard, stereotypical advice. The entire premise is built upon the fact that you have a job that pays enough money to allow you to do the things he's suggesting -- people with un
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by noodle 13y ago
1) There's a difference between on-demand and spot instances. 2) Well... yes. My entire premise is based upon not making any long-term leases/purchases, as I stated. Hence, if you bought a 1 year reserved instance, you're d
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by noodle 13y ago
Could you elaborate on this?
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by noodle 13y ago
It's also risk mitigation. You can spin those AWS instances up and down smoothly depending on your needs. You can't get rid of a 1+ year lease agreement, or something that you purchased. Nor is it a good idea to buy/lease m
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by noodle 13y ago
I like the idea of the product and your pricing is fine. But you just have to figure out a way to hit your target market. In this case, your target market is probably freelance developers. I know that I've evaluated http:/&#x2F
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by noodle 13y ago
I'm trying the product out myself right now, it scratches an itch I've had for a while. Starting on Free plan, might upgrade to paid. I'm not sure what "team features" are on the Team plan that would warrant such a
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by noodle 13y ago
Just speaking off the top of my head here, but services like HireFire ping the Heroku API to poll for information on when to scale. The Heroku API is a little rate limited. You'll probably get a more responsive result using GA.
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by noodle 13y ago
I'd say two things: One is that you're correct, it has been happening for years within the industry, so it's kind of weird to see an article almost in the style of an "expose" on the practice. Two is that it really
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by noodle 13y ago
Saved up. Edit: I also wanted to note that it really is important for a founder to take a salary eventually . Specifically, its a risk to the company. You shouldn't be putting yourself in a place to have money problems, nor should y
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by noodle 13y ago
> So I'm curious. Founders, how many of you truly take no salary? I currently take no salary. The company is profitable and we're looking to hire soon, but my co-founder and I promised to not take any salary for a predetermine
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by noodle 13y ago
A "recall" is usually used in reference to a product being physically returned to the supplier in some form. A vehicle recall means you have to take the vehicle to the manufacturer or dealer so they can take physical action on it
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by noodle 13y ago
I think they were YC rejects who then went to TechStars.
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by noodle 13y ago
sendgrid, iirc
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by noodle 13y ago
I'd simplify it further. HN likes things that are new, interesting and novel. Not even necessarily things that encompass "hack values". You could submit a Show post that has an excellent idea that would make you rich, but i
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by noodle 13y ago
This is the best answer. You can scale any language to 100k pageviews/day. Some scale easier than others, but almost anything reasonable will hit those numbers with the proper infrastructure. New languages and frameworks have their p
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by noodle 13y ago
I've been working on raising one of my quotas for the past 10 months. Filled with regular meetings with Google reps about it.
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by noodle 13y ago
I'm impressed that the quota was lifted so readily. I've hit quota limit issues with other Google API services and hit brick walls regarding raising them.
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by noodle 13y ago
That is a very valid point, but it is not the point that was brought up in this thread.
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by noodle 13y ago
Please note that I didn't say "Play", I said "app store" and my parent said "app store equivalent". Amazon Appstore falls under both umbrellas.

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