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by philippz 9y ago
If you want to sum it up as marketing, do so. Of course you have to do "marketing & sales" for yourself. IMHO passion is the foundation. All of these things turn out as aspired if you have the passion to pursue your goal even
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by philippz 9y ago
The rest is related to soft skills: Sharing: Sharing your knowledge is crucial to become an expert. This is the only way to get recognized as an expert and getting paid like one. You should in general do this within your target group, in yo
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by philippz 9y ago
Exactly, younger peoples brains are able to learn faster. On top they have more time due to (most of time) less responsibilities. Their whole body is in a better state to evolve, this also includes their brain.
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by philippz 9y ago
I know that you asked for more money, but basically what helps you to stand out is passion (and the implications it has). You can make a lot of money by building something on your own, climbing up the management ladder or becoming a domain
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by philippz 9y ago
That depends on your history. You won't become an expert over night, especially in your age (this sadly is a factor). So pick something close to your history and as always... go for passion, otherwise you just won't be good enough
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by philippz 9y ago
Depends on the structure of your team and the stage of your company, doesn't it? For example in the first year of STOMT i developed STOMTs backend / API but in the meanwhile i do not code anymore and my focus fully transitioned t
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by philippz 9y ago
That heavily depends on your stage. In the seed and early stages it is about you as the founder who can sell the product the best. Network like crazy, go for long lasting relationships and make your first customers very happy. For any other
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by philippz 9y ago
Sad. Facebooks involvement by utilizing PHP and pushing the language by extending it was a good sign for the PHP community. Would have loved to see that they align with PHP7 or even further, push their engineers into improving PHP itself. P
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by philippz 9y ago
I also enjoy Stripe. When we did our website, we generally took Slack & Stripe as examples.
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Ask HN: Best Documented Web APIs and Integrations?
17 points by philippz 9y ago|8 comments
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by philippz 9y ago
This question is a bit unspecific. Getting to be a speaker is more than just being good at public speaking. It's about building a personal brand. For that you have to start sharing your knowledge. Start blogging, share what you got to
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by philippz 9y ago
Building a community mostly consists of three parts: 1. Creating value for a specific target group. An early product/market fit lets word-of-mouth spread. 2. Let people participate. Giving people the feeling to be heard is crucial. A p
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by philippz 9y ago
That sounds crazy. Of course the battery life suffered over time but it an "ok"ish manner. I heavily made used of the dockingstation and i always removed the battery beforehand to protect it. But to be honest, meanwhile i prefer
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by philippz 9y ago
I used to work with HP Elitebook (yes, Windows) for 7 years and after that switched to Macbook Pro. I enjoyed both. While the Mac has the right filesystem in place, is fast and reliable. The HP Elitebook was easy to upgrade in terms of hard
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by philippz 9y ago
Yeah right.
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by philippz 9y ago
On the one hand it provides a greater user-experience if Whatsapp can figure out the URL and preview information about the posted URL (like any social network does today, even we do it at STOMT when you attach an URL to your feedback). On t
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by philippz 9y ago
There was enough said about taxes. The procedures to open a startup in Germany are complex. This is the cheapest way: Go to the notary and create a "UG" after "Musterprotokoll". Create a company bank account, transfer th
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by philippz 9y ago
Use a very simple tool to give feedback. This is how we collect feedback (internal and external): https://www.stomt.com/stomt And it creates a great feedback culture as i can give feedback as a normal user or anonymously an
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by philippz 9y ago
I will be preparing STOMT for IPO. AR/VR will be on the hype and it's getting easier to develop AR layers. Advertising has founds its way into it.
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by philippz 10y ago
Definitely. But more often i use Pocket instead
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by philippz 10y ago
Procrastination doesn`t start at your work. I`m sure there are other areas in your life that could be better. Start establishing healthy habits. It will affect every part of your life and thereby reduce procrastination. One important point
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by philippz 10y ago
We're using our own service for customer feedback, crowdsourcing and also bug tracking: https://www.stomt.com/stomt
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Ask HN: Advice/Mentorship in exchange for stock options – was it worth it?
5 points by philippz 10y ago|0 comments
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by philippz 10y ago
2013 there was a big flood in Germany. I was a victim and lost a lot of my stuff. I instantly wrote a simple and fast HTML-app to coordinate all those thousands of volunteering flood-helpers. The city and the university who tried to organiz
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by philippz 10y ago
Oh, i just read that one a few days before. Really good point.
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by philippz 10y ago
According to https://github.com/blog/841-those-are-some-big-numbers they have 2 million repositories, getting 4500 new ones every day. But that was 2011. On their about page they say they have +53 Mio projects hosted a
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by philippz 10y ago
The way your blog looks like and by asking a question like that i would guess that you are pretty unexperienced. But this is gross estimation. Of course you can be a good marketer, if you want to. Try to get as much experience as possible.
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by philippz 10y ago
I use Chrome. Here i can be sure to always have support for cutting-edge web standards, the developer tools are amazing and for anything else i have a great extension-ecosystem.
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by philippz 10y ago
We had one implemented but removed it. It only makes sense if you can immediately answer. So, you basically need a customer service person for that... 24/7 - Most of the time a well written FAQ is enough. For feedback i would rather re
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by philippz 10y ago
STOMT was also down

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