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by semicolonandson 6y ago
Thanks for the head's up! I checked the logs and it was just a case of an incorrect error message. Fixed now.
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by semicolonandson 6y ago
Thought I'd post this here since I imagine there's a strong cross-over of interest: If you'd like a guided video code-tour of how all the pieces of a production web-app fit together, I publish detailed weekly screencasts show
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by semicolonandson 6y ago
Play to your strengths. I'm a programmer (there's a good chance you are too if you're hanging out here), so my preferred technique is scalable content generation for SEO. For example, I get about 90% of my 200,000 monthlies t
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by semicolonandson 6y ago
If you're comfortable broadening the scope to _non-language-specific_ engineering skills, check out my Semicolon&Sons screencasts. The drive behind this project is to demonstrate non-beginner issues facing professional developers.
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by semicolonandson 6y ago
Lessons I learned in my first year (prolly 2010) - Dip your toes into a few different markets in as inexpensive a manner as possible. The difference in ease of marketing you'll see between lackluster ideas and winners will literally be
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by semicolonandson 6y ago
Your prediction was spot-on ufmace. Thanks for a powerful counterpoint to consider. My core value-add should be good content and if I get that right, the list will probably sort itself out. Also it's reassuring to remember that the peo
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by semicolonandson 6y ago
Very pithy and memorable. You have a great economy with words.
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by semicolonandson 6y ago
Glad you enjoyed the content. Re: the layout on the home-page. Good point. I think I'll organize it in terms of linear "tracks" instead.
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by semicolonandson 6y ago
Very true. Those who leave early were very unlikely to buy any paid offerings that may one day appear.
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by semicolonandson 6y ago
Said fear is also a problem in my personal life too. Guess these demons have an analogue in business too. Thanks for the spiritual boost!
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by semicolonandson 6y ago
IMO the best place is whatever subreddit best describes that exact topic. I've found technical subreddits to be welcoming of thoughtful, well-written articles (in contrast to much of the rest of reddit which tends to frown upon self-pr
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by semicolonandson 6y ago
A lot of the European LessWrong community, at least, hangs out on a Telegram group, with many of the social bonds being formed at yearly gatherings. The discussion is sublime.
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Ask HN: Is it rational to be afraid of mailing my list due to unsubscribes risk?
36 points by semicolonandson 6y ago|61 comments
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by semicolonandson 6y ago
I agree. I'm already trialing out a freelancer for this.
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by semicolonandson 6y ago
I very much welcome the feedback. Full-screen is something I personally didn't consider. I use the Wistia player and it seems to be fully responsive on page resizes -- the issue is more that the player is constrained by the size of its
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by semicolonandson 6y ago
For whatever reason, this big picture knowledge about how to bring everything together to make effective software is rarely taught explicitly. Rather we mostly see guides to the latest syntax or features of the framework du jour. Having bee
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by semicolonandson 6y ago
Before I start, some context: I'm an indie-hacker and live off a web-app I programmed myself and maintained for over a decade (check my profile if you're curious). This context is important because 1) I don't need the shared
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by semicolonandson 6y ago
I've been an indie-hacker for a decade and personally the biggest win by a country mile is Heroku (platform as a service). Even though I'd consider myself good with linux etc., I still love Heroku because it's a massive time
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by semicolonandson 6y ago
Thanks for the advice -- will add that to the auld backlog.
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by semicolonandson 6y ago
Yes indeed. I lived for a spell in Rathmines, but mostly in Galway (so a hybrid G4 accent).
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by semicolonandson 6y ago
This is exactly what I'm covering with my Semicolon&Sons screencasts. Basically I've run a profitable production web app for 10 years (~14k LOC, 200k monthlies, revenue higher than any day-job I could get) as well as a few And
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by semicolonandson 6y ago
I've boot-strapped and lived from a web-application for over ten years, some of which have involved less than one day per month's worth of work. I credit this to boring technologies. Looking back, the best technical decisions were
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by semicolonandson 6y ago
If anyone is looking for some vim-porn (in the form of screencasts of a decade-long user going through various workflows), I'd like to use this opportunity to share some screencasts I recorded that I think will resonate with fellow HN
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by semicolonandson 6y ago
My current philosophy is that programming is mostly about not making mistakes, so I'm most interested in cutting my error rate than in learning the latest tech, whatever that might be. To that end, I keep a mistake log, into which I in
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Ask HN: Do Mailchimp/Drip etc. offer deliverability advantages over AWS SES?
1 points by semicolonandson 6y ago|1 comments
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by semicolonandson 6y ago
I've lived for 10 years solely from the revenue of an indie web app I wrote, so I guess my experience is applicable in so far as you're also doing bootstrapped/shoestring investment web applications. I just started a YouTube
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by semicolonandson 6y ago
This is a need I'm hoping to address with my latest project, Semicolon&Sons. Basically I've built and maintained a web app business for the past ten years and can share a ton of war stories about how certain architectural deci
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by semicolonandson 7y ago
I just finished listening to an engaging series of podcasts by Michael Lewis (author of Flash Boys, The Big Short etc.) about the loss of referees in our society. It's called Against the Rules: https://atrpodcast.com/