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by rachelandrew 12y ago
Bristol has a pretty good startup scene (I've recently moved here). Have you checked out some of the local networking and support groups? There is some stuff concentrated around Engine Shed http://www.engine-shed.co.uk/
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by rachelandrew 12y ago
1. I've always cooked. My parents cooked at home and so I just assumed that's what you do. 2. Kind of - we get an organic box with a load of stuff in so I work around that. 3. Lots of Indian food (dal, veg curries, sometimes chick
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by rachelandrew 12y ago
I have no idea why people were queuing. I pre-ordered mine online[1] and it turned up at my house on launch day[2]. 1. I'm a woman 2. My iPhone was was water damaged - I'm not normally a launch day person but I got it soaked out r
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Support the Independents(rachelandrew.co.uk)
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Show HN: Grid by Example – Usage Examples for the CSS Grid Layout Module(gridbyexample.com)
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Show HN: CSS Layout Modules, 2nd edition book and video tutorials(rachelandrew.co.uk)
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by rachelandrew 12y ago
Not as much as I did because I shattered my elbow joint 18 months ago, and it's still pretty wrecked. Getting back into it but with limited range of movement I run into stuff I can't do all the time. Have had to learn to love the
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by rachelandrew 12y ago
Identify the sort of person or company who has the problem your product is seeking to solve. Who are they? Where do they hang out online? What other things are they interested in? Start writing stuff or creating giveaways that are of intere
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by rachelandrew 12y ago
I've written for traditional publishers for a number of years but earlier this year I self-published an ebook - The Profitable Side Project Handbook: http://rachelandrew.co.uk/books/the-profitable-side-project It&
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by rachelandrew 12y ago
The ConFoo Conference in Montreal is always an excellent one for PHP (and other technologies). http://confoo.ca
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by rachelandrew 12y ago
One of the problems with developing a product for non-profits and churches is that you run into needing to have your offering assessed by a committee before a decision can be made. Rather than one business owner or individual being able to
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by rachelandrew 12y ago
I'm one of the founders of Perch CMS ( http://grabaperch.com ) which has a blog add-on. One of our core features is that you can drop Perch and any of the apps into an existing website - without needing to put the entire site
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by rachelandrew 12y ago
I run. I usually come back from a run with sticky code or business problems solved and things I need to write half written in my head. There is definitely something about being on my feet and out in the fresh air that allows my brain to sor
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by rachelandrew 12y ago
Pre-announced and got people to sign up to my mailing list in return they got chapter 1 and the table of contents early. I write a weekly email about side projects and building products so a lot of my early traffic came from that. We did ex
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by rachelandrew 12y ago
I start out in Scrivener and end up in HTML. Scrivener is great for the actual writing process, although it takes a bit of learning to get used to. I wrote up on my blog about creating the various versions http://rachelandrew.co.
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by rachelandrew 12y ago
I keep meaning to write up complete figures but I launched my self-published ebook The Profitable Side Project Handbook in January http://rachelandrew.co.uk/books/the-profitable-side-project Sales from that are well ov
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by rachelandrew 12y ago
I ran London this last year, which was my first marathon. I'd done a few halfs before that but was coming bac to running after a nasty injury and surgery. As others have said the important thing is to get that long slow run in at the w
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by rachelandrew 12y ago
I wrote up last month how I became good at estimating time. http://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2014/06/20/how-to-become-... TL:DR you need to start tracking your time and noting when your estimates were
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by rachelandrew 12y ago
OmniFocus for my own stuff, Trello for team tasks.
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by rachelandrew 12y ago
I wrote about how I built mine here: http://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2014/01/07/html-epub-mobi... TL:DR going from HTML to PDF is more of a PITA than you think, .mobi and epub is pretty straightforwar
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by rachelandrew 12y ago
PHP is a big reason for WordPress doing so well, because it's everywhere, it is cheap to host (as in you can stick a whole heap of PHP sites on one box and it will generally be fine) so it's cheap to get hosting. My product ( http
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by rachelandrew 12y ago
I used to do quite a bit of troubleshooting/rescuing half finished projects, or live things that had no developer involved for one reason or another. Not that many years ago I was still seeing people storing credit card numbers in plai
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GTD and OmniFocus 2 Productivity Workflow(rachelandrew.co.uk)
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by rachelandrew 12y ago
I would definitely go for creating plugins for popular content management systems. You can then optimize landing pages for each CMS - people searching for "generate PDF from WordPress" etc. People using a CMS solution are a really
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5 Tips for the Healthy Frequent Traveller(rachelandrew.co.uk)
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by rachelandrew 13y ago
There are also ways you can mitigate the risk to some extent. If possible build something your existing business needs. That way if it doesn't take off as a product you still have something that meets a need you have. Launch the smalle
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by rachelandrew 13y ago
Perch CMS had paid back all costs (other than our time) 24 hours from launch. It took almost 4 years for it to replace our entire income as a consultancy and for us to stop taking on client projects. Between launch and that point we were sl
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by rachelandrew 13y ago
You have self-identified the issue, "I'm using dreamhost because it's pretty cheap". If you are running a site that matters to you, get it onto decent hosting. That is probably going to cost a bit more but will pay back
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Playing a mind game. On distance running and product launches.(rachelandrew.co.uk)
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by rachelandrew 13y ago
Our side project ( http://grabaperch.com ) became our main source of income in January 2013 however it took almost four years to get to that point. Perch was profitable if you didn't take our salaries into account after 24 ho

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