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by rozenmd 2y ago
Updating your landing page tagline barely feels like marketing, but it can have surprising effect. OnlineOrNot's used to be "Know your site is down before your customers do", and I'd get feature requests that seemed abso
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TFA reminds me that most people miss the basics (eventually letting their domain expire), which is a much bigger threat than domain takeover: - Enable 2FA - Check that your domain is set to auto renew - Lock your domain from transfer - Chec
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> Decide who you're writing for, and write to that audience. He has, and he does.
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I can't tell if this comment is sarcastic but maybe washing doesn't need to be hyperoptimised down to the instant the machine finished
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> Not sure why driving 70kmh on a country road is more dangerous than going 130kmh on a highway. If you hit the edge of the highway, you'll likely bounce off the barrier and survive. If you go over the edge of a national road at 70k
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The same reason I pay for AWS Lambda: I'd rather let someone else deal with it. Until the costs outweigh the benefits, I'll keep using it.
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I'd pick a SaaS category with plenty of existing (non-VC) incumbents, and build something better that I personally have experience with using, just as I did in 2021.
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Purely vibes. I didn't have thousands of views yet to get statistically significant results, all I could do was guess.
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- I tweeted every time I was thinking about a feature, building a feature, and released a feature - I tweeted random things I learned about running a business, as I learned them - I tapped my personal network on LinkedIn to find out what fo
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Thinking of doing this in the south-west of France. Decent houses (2-3 bedrooms, well insulated) go for around 300k (within an hour of a regional city like Toulouse).
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I invested into content marketing pretty early on so that tends to buy me time - when I started I'd get no traffic if I didn't spend every day talking about it, now it's a bit more relaxed.
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Normally I'd say OnlineOrNot but it's been several weekends in a row where I couldn't be bothered (normally I do 4-6 hours a weekend on top of the two hours I do before each workday). So it's a Steam Deck weekend for me.
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Startups for the rest of us. It's the only podcast where every episode is relevant, and that I've consistently listened to for years (as a bootstrapped founder myself).
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It used to be like "Ask HN" threads on HN - random experts would chime in, obvious self-promo would get nuked, and you'd actually learn something at the end of the day.
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Recently I found Cloudflare's WARP app let me bypass the chat-only restriction on some long-haul airlines. You'd get like 5kbps bandwidth, but it was enough to read HN.
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Because putting the tech together is only a tiny part of building a business. I witnessed a startup disrupt a legacy $40k-a-device business with a raspberry pi and some adafruit sensors (eventually building their own boards after proving it
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When it works, it works (as in, when you're first or second product of the day, you can count on it being a consistent source of traffic for months to come). Don't be fooled into thinking a couple of hours spent on a Product Hunt
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by rozenmd 2y ago
Hey, thanks for sharing!
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HN's UI is not the product.
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Building products myself, with my own rules on how it'll be built, and how we get feedback from customers. I fell out of love for programming after working at too many feature-shops where we'd churn out feature after feature (and
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+1 for secondhand, surprisingly easy to find around the world too (I had one couriered from Paris, from a liquidated startup to my home office in Toulouse)
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Have them perform a task similar to what you want to hire them for. In my case, I had them build a feature in a React app. There was a candidate that solved it faster than I did, while explaining their approach and trade-offs live, so we hi
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"The hardest parts of being in business long term are all people problems." - Alex Hillman
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I'm 3.5 years into building the uptime monitoring + status page solution I wanted to see in the world, I'd argue the "core" part took a weekend to get into an MVP state. The trick is the other 99% that non-early adopters
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MNT Pocket Reform is helping prove the demand here too. It'll probably remain niche, but damn I want one.
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I just wanted a tool that told me if my website was online, or not.
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You end up at a form that books a meeting with me, the founder. We'll walk through the problem you're facing that lead you to fill out the meeting form, and you'll either get a solution that day, or it'll be built rapidl
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If you feel like a blog post: https://maxrozen.com/lessons-from-my-third-year-running-a-sa... In short, started the 200th uptime monitor while working full time, added a bunch of features, did some marketing, added status p
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https://onlineornot.com - I built a cute widget for it, and eventually that turned into a business
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It's a long story: - https://maxrozen.com/2018-review-starting-an-internet-busine... - https://maxrozen.com/2019-further-reflections-trying-to-star... - https://maxrozen.com/indiehackin

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