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   by rozenmd 2y ago

   I've written a few guides on this. Some quick pointers: - You build it, you run it If your team wrote the code, your team ensures the code keeps running. - Continuously improve your on-call experience Your on-call staff shouldn't
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   by rozenmd 2y ago

   Buttondown.com is really good, with a founder that still cares about the business.
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   by rozenmd 2y ago

   If you have the money to burn (and if you're early stage, you will be burning), ads can quickly tell you a lot about whether people are attracted by your ad copy and landing page. They work particularly well after speaking to lots of u
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   by rozenmd 2y ago

   I've noticed the effectiveness for bringing in customers taper-off over the years. I still build in public ( https://maxrozen.com/articles?q=diaries ), but spend more of my time on traditional marketing efforts instead.
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   by rozenmd 2y ago

   Build things and get feedback as you go.
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   by rozenmd 2y ago

   I use a mix of honeypot fields, Cloudflare turnstile and straight up blocking certain domains from signing up.
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   by rozenmd 2y ago

   Fundamentals I picked up from years of writing on the Internet: - Shorter sentences In general, you should aim to write sentences with 8-13 words each. - Shorter words You may think of this as "dumbing-down" your writing, but you
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   by rozenmd 2y ago

   As a fellow uptime monitoring vendor I couldn't figure out what this does - an explainer paragraph would do wonders
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   by rozenmd 2y ago

   AWS RDS, have clocked 0 downtime in 3.5 years, does the job.
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    Yaak Is Now Open Source(yaak.app)

    9 points by rozenmd 2y ago|3 comments
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    by rozenmd 2y ago

    iFixit did a teardown video the other day: https://youtu.be/QdZoK3MfV28
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    by rozenmd 2y ago

    There's a developer platform: https://workers.cloudflare.com/
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    by rozenmd 2y ago

    Much like running a software business: you think you're signing up to get "paid to code", when in reality that's only 10% (if that) of the work to do.
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    by rozenmd 2y ago

    Pretty sure a HN comment lead me to buying a Kobo Clara, strongly recommend!
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    OnlineOrNot Diaries 21(maxrozen.com)

    1 points by rozenmd 2y ago|0 comments
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    by rozenmd 2y ago

    I started blogging instead, and I imagine a fair few other developers did too
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    by rozenmd 2y ago

    People are always looking for better, cheaper, easier to use $PRODUCT. There are several fairly large bootstrappers in this space, go for it.
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    by rozenmd 2y ago

    tbh as a Twilio user I sometimes wonder whether they abandoned Twilio itself (SMS/Calls)
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    by rozenmd 2y ago

    I guess it's true, I'll be around in 10 years, they probably won't be.
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    by rozenmd 2y ago

    Most folks here are probably tired of hearing about it, but I work on https://onlineornot.com - uptime monitoring and status pages for software teams. My aim is to build something better than what's already out there. I&#x2
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    by rozenmd 2y ago

    (This doesn't apply to every API in the list, but) having made the mistake of using a public API (that later went offline) for examples in a book of mine, never again. These days I keep an API deployed on a subdomain I control.
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    by rozenmd 2y ago

    That's the thing, I work full time so that my business is default alive - I see myself doing this in 10 years. It being able to pay it's own bills from the first month was encouraging, but I don't really have a framework for
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    by rozenmd 2y ago

    I'm not building anything particularly billion-dollar scale (though my competitors think they are, given how much they've raised). The idea is improving on uptime monitoring/status pages. It's a slow business to build, b
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    by rozenmd 2y ago

    I've been working on OnlineOrNot ( https://onlineornot.com ) for the past 3.5 years - this year I've been focusing on "finishing" my MVPs. In particular, I've been building functionality for status pages t
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    by rozenmd 2y ago

    I also have the Phillips, game changer for northern hemisphere winter
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    by rozenmd 2y ago

    Huge amounts of land with stable sunny weather.
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    by rozenmd 2y ago

    ideal customer profile
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    by rozenmd 2y ago

    Here, we caught 35 minutes of downtime: https://github.onlineornot.com/incidents/6Yyj8YWD94zE
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    by rozenmd 2y ago

    cache?
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    by rozenmd 2y ago

    I think what most folks miss is that only building the core functionality is not enough to be viable for most customers. The "core" part of OnlineOrNot took a weekend of engineering work to get into an MVP state. The other 99% t