pieterhg

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   by pieterhg 10y ago

   Hi! I made Nomad List so maybe I can tell you more. I wrote it in plain JS with only jQuery. The backend is PHP. They communicate through simple POST requests (see the Network tab when you filter). The database is SQLite for simplicity sake
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   by pieterhg 10y ago

   From my data, it's mostly 25 to 35. So they leave after graduating college and presumably come back after 35 to settle. That might change though as it's only been a decade that people have been doing this (and only a few years on
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   by pieterhg 10y ago

   If you leave you can Airbnb your place and mitigate that (and even make a profit).
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   by pieterhg 10y ago

   You can easily mitigate that by just Airbnb'ing your place out when you're not there.
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   by pieterhg 10y ago

   I've done it from 2013-2016, on and off. What many people do is travel then think "this is it, I want to do this forever", then travel, isolate themselves from their home communities, live in cheap places, make some money, sh
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   We have an epidemic of bad posture(levels.io)

   156 points by pieterhg 10y ago|146 comments
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   Show HN: Imgapi.io/keyword, returns image based on keyword in URL

   2 points by pieterhg 10y ago|0 comments
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   by pieterhg 10y ago

   Haha yes. I think at a certain scale you get rumors. I was never aware people thought it was a breach btw! Pretty crazy.
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   by pieterhg 10y ago

   I usually start with a low price and then slowly raise it until I see a big drop off. Not scientific in any way but it works for me.
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    by pieterhg 10y ago

    I'd love to be debunked :)
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    by pieterhg 10y ago

    Plain HTML, JS and PHP
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    by pieterhg 10y ago

    What. No, there was never a security breach. We uploaded the logs because people asked for them. Lots of people asked for the chat logs (of public channels only) to be public and searchable. Like the forum. So I made them. Then lots of peop
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    by pieterhg 10y ago

    Also one more answer: I think BECAUSE I work almost 100% alone, I work faster than big teams (the mythical man month thing). The stuff I make isn't top-notch, but it works just good enough for people to enjoy using it. It's not su
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    by pieterhg 10y ago

    Thanks! Let me know if you have feedback etc :)
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    by pieterhg 10y ago

    Thank you!
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    by pieterhg 10y ago

    I will! My blog is a perpetual backlog of posts, but it'll happen :)
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    by pieterhg 10y ago

    Because I live in the Netherlands. And if I want to keep living here, I can't just offshore my company to somewhere and run it from here. Especially not since it's a 1-person company. It'll be judged by the Dutch IRS as a Dut
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    by pieterhg 10y ago

    An SP, but that's stupid tax wise as almost 50% goes to tax then. With a Dutch Ltd., it's 20% corporate tax and minimum CEO salary about 50K/y. So then you pay ~50% on that salary + corporate tax on your revenue.
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    by pieterhg 10y ago

    Hi Sung-won! I love Remote Base and I borrowed A LOT from Product Hunt, and they borrowed a lot from Reddit, who borrowed from Digg. So it's all just inspiration. I think it starts to bug when it's competition!
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    by pieterhg 10y ago

    It's about $2k in job ads, but another $3k+ in normal ads, partly from BuySellAds, which has a text-based native ad API they're letting me try out.
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    by pieterhg 10y ago

    Haha, that's probably true!
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    by pieterhg 10y ago

    I built the site, but then I thought, omg I'm going to lose all these users once they leave. So I added a MailChimp email box, then a chat group, a forum and kept making more for them. That's how people kept coming back and finall
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    by pieterhg 10y ago

    It's mostly from memberships (click Join) and some ads
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    by pieterhg 10y ago

    I've automated mostly everything from getting weather data, to soon giving people refunds, to soon ad sales. I mostly try to ignore competition and stubbornly make what I would like to use myself. It helps that I am a "nomad"
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    by pieterhg 10y ago

    I'm a single founder, I'm nearing $400k/y revenue. It started a side project on here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8107222 and then grew over the last 2 years. 2014: ~$50k 2015: ~$200k 2016: ~$400k Al
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    Show HN: 10,000+ places to work from near you(placestowork.co)

    14 points by pieterhg 10y ago|1 comments
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    Show HN: Escape the Brexit, find a place to move to now that UK left the EU(escapethebrexit.com)

    10 points by pieterhg 10y ago|7 comments
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    by pieterhg 10y ago

    Thanks!!
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    by pieterhg 10y ago

    I literally have no idea. I have someone who does it for me. But 4 conversions seems very low. Do you have any experience setting it up? My Twitter is @levelsio
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    by pieterhg 10y ago

    It's now moderated by city editors and users can submit data too on the site.