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by noodle 5y ago
Based on the comments, this might be a slightly different POV on the topic, but not understanding the value of personal/professional networking and soft skills. Very early on in my career, I was less interested in the networking aspec
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by noodle 5y ago
I participated in reddit secret santa twice, 10 years ago. Both times, I sent something out and got nothing. It was a nice idea, and I'm not really salty about it cuz I gave some nice things to strangers and the point of the season is
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by noodle 5y ago
I've also thought about this a lot wrt microsaas projects. Specifically, looking to acquire projects that are small but match my tech expertise such that I can consolidate certain aspects of them easily. Ultimately maintenance will pr
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by noodle 5y ago
Does it? It feels to me like it stands to gain a good bit. There are a lot more people remote working either part or full time, and many remote workers like to use coworking spaces. Their potential customer base is probably higher than i
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by noodle 5y ago
This is interesting but I also wonder where the effect tapers off. I'm working on a startup in a particular space, and almost all competitors have high ratings on marketplaces but behind the scenes we know their churn is HUGE because
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by noodle 5y ago
Most regular non-trivial maintenance is also on your plate as a homeowner. Need a new roof? That's on you, and isn't reflected in the standard monthly payment. If you rent, its on the property owner.
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by noodle 5y ago
> Right now, almost all the clients that we acquire are through Upwork. We are a bit nervous about the risk of getting kicked from the platform in the future for any reason. Not that we are doing anything that violates their terms, but
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by noodle 5y ago
> Yes, but as a programmer I'd rather have a mediocre programmer who is a good communicator and who knows how to integrate with the team I wholeheartedly agree with this, but fwiw, the FAANG companies OP applies for generally speaki
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by noodle 5y ago
This is entirely dependent on the business and the pricing of the product. Monthly SaaS was basically crafted in order to bypass the procurement process, to make it easier for business customers to buy software on the corporate card. Part
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by noodle 5y ago
> To be very blunt because I'm anonymous, how do I monetize this stickiness to extract maximum value from future customers? Addons/extras/upsells. Find some features that might make the most sense as something that exists
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by noodle 5y ago
I generally speaking agree with this in spirit, and I've been the one in the seat making the Heroku <-> AWS decision. But for the last 3 companies I've made that choice, the decision to move from Heroku to AWS doesn't
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by noodle 6y ago
> And which is better? It all depends on context! I long considered myself a generalist because I typically work with early stage startups to get them going and growing, and that requires being competent at many things, wearing many hats
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by noodle 6y ago
Is any of this shocking or contrary to what's already been said in public? You could summarize the whole article like this: Tesla intends on building a great L2 system, releasing it publicly, and then moving on to L3 afterwards.
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by noodle 6y ago
> OPM went to JC for S2 because the very expensive S1 from Madhouse had already satisfied the goal of bringing tons of new fans to the franchise. IIRC it was also scheduling. Madhouse was booked up for a while.
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by noodle 6y ago
IMO the "problem" is that RH doesn't tell you that (or at least their marketing makes it confusing at minimum). The way they describe it as an "instant bank transfer", not "we give you margin until your transf
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by noodle 6y ago
Sure, but that isn't the topic I was responding to. The previous poster suggested that its not a topic that anyone talks about, when it is; and suggested that businesses hiring fewer people is the only possible outcome/side-effect
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by noodle 6y ago
Everyone talks about it. This is pretending that businesses would do nothing in response to the changes. They'd do a lot of stuff, like raise prices, invest in efficiency improvements, invest in their employees, reduce employee hours
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by noodle 6y ago
> Am I missing something? A few things. I'm not an expert, but: > They don't even need to buy up 100%. They only need to buy up 20%. Then they're back in the situation of being under 100% shorted, and problem no longer
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by noodle 6y ago
> Do you really think that the guys at VW and others can't figure it out? It just takes a while. Probably, yes, but Tesla does have quite a head start. This is also something both professional and armchair analysts have been saying
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by noodle 6y ago
IMO major consequences from this repeal has been very slow to roll out due to states threatening to implement their own local NN laws, which would create a really painful, fragmented legal web for companies to have to traverse. Some ISPs a
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by noodle 6y ago
Depends on your definition of "successful" and "side business", but yes, a few. The most successful one I had that was a true side business was a nice aggregation and stats website that was probably doing around $2-3k&#
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by noodle 6y ago
From my understanding, the way they moderated was to show content to 5 literally random Parler users and let them decide as a group what to do with the content. This kind of by its own nature drags a platform in a specific direction based o
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by noodle 6y ago
Its hard to give more specific advice without knowing more about the product, but to me it does sound like the most straightforward path would be to keep your existing free plan as-is today, and then offer a paid plan structure on top of it
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by noodle 6y ago
Compared to Witcher 3, they DID do this with 2077. 2077's main storyline is roughly 20 hours long, while the Witcher's is about 50 hours. CDPR is kind of known for their longer story driven stuff, and its my understanding they t
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by noodle 6y ago
IIRC Plenty of Fish was doing like ~1m/y in ad revenue before the guy started hiring people in 2008. Probably a less viable option now given the ad landscape, but that one always stuck with me as a solo founder success story with a no
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by noodle 6y ago
I think it entirely depends on the path you're taking. For example, I'd disagree with the quoted section you made for a different reason. I'd almost always suggest early stage startups to use something like Heroku (if it wo
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by noodle 6y ago
No prob - I know a bit more info than I'm mentioning in public, just didn't want to overly distract here. Feel free to drop me an email if you want or something
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by noodle 6y ago
This is interesting, as IIRC another YC alum had a (non-YC) startup that failed that did almost exactly this (which shut down a while ago) - a marketplace of interviewers that recorded stories from older family members. Dunno if you'v
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by noodle 6y ago
> It seems pretty unlikely that a very specific bundle of proposed legislation is the only way to address climate change. Are all other countries doomed to failure because they don't have the Green New Deal? GND is not the only way
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by noodle 6y ago
Yes you can coast normally if you disable regenerative breaking. If its on, your car slows down a lot faster than it would if you were just coasting, so it triggers the break lights when you remove your foot from the gas

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