rsweeney21

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by rsweeney21 5y ago
As developers we often confuse "startup idea" with "solution to a problem". A fantastic startup idea includes a way to monetize the idea. Without a way to monetize the idea, it's a feature. Sometimes it is simple
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by rsweeney21 5y ago
The short term reward of feeling good about completing a feature or fixing a bug is intoxicating. Even learning a new skill can quickly make you feel better about yourself. It's easy to justify that spending excess time on things like
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by rsweeney21 5y ago
If they have access to some users' emails, they wouldn't need access to okta to reset the password and take control of the account. If a hacker has access to your email then you've already been pwnd.
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by rsweeney21 5y ago
Services that automate the interviewing or vetting process benefit the hiring manager, but feel impersonal and disrespectful to candidates. (Isn't my time valuable too?) In today's market you will likely see a large percentage of
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by rsweeney21 5y ago
Shameless plug: I started Facet ( https://www.facet.net/passive-search ) to do just this. You set your preferences for jobs you'd be interested in (salary range, tech stack, location/remote, etc) and our algorithm m
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by rsweeney21 5y ago
For my most recent venture I went into an existing market with hundreds of competitors (technical recruiting). I knew there was demand, though I did have to learn specific tactics for selling this service. I stumbled on the idea by experien
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by rsweeney21 5y ago
Sounds like marketing and selling are not only outside your skillset, but outside your interest. You could have easily learned how to do it in the past 20 years if you had the aptitude. You'll never make it solo if you can't find
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by rsweeney21 5y ago
It’s because if you apply directly, they don’t get paid for their work. So they hide the details until you talk to them. I’m a software engineer that started a recruiting company. The current state of the industry is pretty bad. We are tryi
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by rsweeney21 5y ago
I agree with the premise of this blog post. But there are downsides to having a small team. We're a bootstrapped startup with 15 employees. When we lose an employee (sickness, termination, voluntary) it really hurts us. We have a 3 per
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by rsweeney21 5y ago
For years I ran triple monitors side by side. Then I tried dual widescreen monitors stacked vertically. This has been game changing. It is much easier on my neck to look up 10 deg vs turning sideways 45 deg I can split VC code into three
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by rsweeney21 5y ago
Some feedback on the demo video from a potential customer: It moves way too fast. It's a chat based product, but things were moving around so much and so quickly, I couldn't read anything. A minute in, I had no idea what that prod
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by rsweeney21 5y ago
I always thought stuff like this happened to OTHER founders, but would never happen to me. But my board fired me six months after closing our series A. The advice in this article is 100% spot on. I didn't know any of this. I was totall
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by rsweeney21 5y ago
Could not imagine living without Prettier. It's a code formatter. The team agrees on how we want to do formatting, and we check in our Prettier preferences, so everyone's code on the team is formatted the same automatically. Helps
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by rsweeney21 5y ago
It's because in software engineering your work product is confidential/proprietary and work samples take a very long time to produce. If you could review someone's code from their previous jobs, I think it would be quite easy
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by rsweeney21 5y ago
I run Facet (www.facet.net), we help software engineers find contract work and full-time jobs. We've worked with hundreds of companies and helped hundreds of contract developers find contract/consulting work. Generally speaking, t
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by rsweeney21 5y ago
So the rest of the story is that Ohio was the first state to pass a law requiring users be able to cancel subscriptions on-line. So we had to add it back in, but only for users in Ohio and it was burried on the site and had like 7 pages of
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by rsweeney21 5y ago
Many years ago I added the feature to xbox.com to allow you to easily cancel your Xbox Live Gold subscription. We built a UX that was ideal for consumers - a couple of clicks, no "Here's what you'll be missing..." screen
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by rsweeney21 5y ago
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but why don't we just let forest fires burn? Isn't it a natural part of the ecosystem renewal process? We'd still want to protect homes and people of course, but it seems like that would be e
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by rsweeney21 5y ago
The font on the landing page is...unconventional. What was the motivation for choosing it? Side note: I'm not sure why, but a font like this makes me trust a site less, even though I know it's just a line of CSS. Can someone expla
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by rsweeney21 6y ago
Helping other people is actually a tool I use to manage my anxiety. :) Helps me put my worries in perspective. It works really well!
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by rsweeney21 6y ago
We're only operating in the US right now. I'm not sure what a trading firm is...
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by rsweeney21 6y ago
I'm a software engineer that runs a technical recruiting company. I worked at Microsoft and Netflix for a decade. Email me at robert at facet dot net. I will interview you and tell you why you're not getting hired.
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by rsweeney21 6y ago
Congrats on the launch! Some feedback from a potential customer: The first thing I read on your homepage is: "A faster and more engaging way to empower your team." This means absolutely nothing to me - I have no idea what your pro
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by rsweeney21 6y ago
This is super interesting. I'm your target customer. We have that spreadsheet you describe, even the tabs. Pricing is good. My only skepticism is that it can model our forecast the way we need it modeled. Gonna check it out.
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by rsweeney21 6y ago
Low interest rates means managers of pensions and other large money managers can't put their money in bonds. They would lose money because the interest rate is lower than inflation. So they need somewhere else to put it.
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by rsweeney21 6y ago
Not directly related to the post, but developers should be aware that developer salaries will likely jump significantly this year. The VC market is super hot right now - VC firms are being flooded with cash, and they need to deploy it. Comp
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by rsweeney21 6y ago
The typography looks nice, but it is not optimized for reading. If you want something that will work well, copy the font and color styles from medium or substack. They've done all the research for you. Here's a full list of the is
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by rsweeney21 6y ago
For context, Austen Allred is the co-founder and CEO of Lambda School, so efficiency wins are going to be pretty valuable for him. Also, as a CEO you are constantly thinking in terms of ROI. It doesn't matter how much software costs if
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by rsweeney21 6y ago
It doesn't matter what % of your company you own. What matters is whether or not you control a majority of the board seats.
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by rsweeney21 6y ago
They are a large and very lawsuit happy VC. It's not worth the risk to warn other people about this VC.

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