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by takkatakka 9mo ago
https://chrispryan.com/
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by takkatakka 9mo ago
Sounds like you certainly found a market. Do you have any estimates on how big that market is, and thus how much of the market you have captured? And then from there, figuring out what the rest of the market is using, and why.
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by takkatakka 9mo ago
Do you have product market fit, and just need to do more marketing? If so, I would keep going. Otherwise, I'd probably be a bit burnt out after 3 years of no PMF.
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by takkatakka 9mo ago
Trying to create a moon jar in pottery class
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by takkatakka 9mo ago
A session recording and product analytics tool: https://scryspell.com/ I built it because I thought session recording was such a cool feature, and wanted to know how to make one. I have a version 1.0, and now working on how
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by takkatakka 1y ago
Working on a session recording app: https://scryspell.com Currently it's meant to help devs fix UI and UX issues by seeing exactly what their users saw, including a log of the browser console and network traffic. I say curr
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by takkatakka 1y ago
1. For me, at a senior dev level, about half are multiple rounds of leetcode / system design and the other half are some sort of live coding something more practical. 2. I think they're mostly just making calls to the existing LLM
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by takkatakka 1y ago
https://scryspell.com - a simple session recording and analytics tool. I used to use squeaky.ai which was a pretty simple session recording tool, but they got tired of running it and shut it down. PostHog is pretty great and wit
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I made yet another session recording tool(scryspell.com)
1 points by takkatakka 1y ago|1 comments
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by takkatakka 1y ago
It's pretty basic and missing a lot of features, but the session recording core is there. For now, I built the backend just using Java, SpringBoot, PostgreSQL, Jooq. The recording part uses rrewb: https://github.com/rrw
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by takkatakka 1y ago
The method I've been going with recently is to just clone an existing app. I was inspired by max rozen blogging about building the '200th uptime checker'. https://maxrozen.com/#bootstrapping-onlineornot I&#x2
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Show HN: I put a face on a 'button' that reacts to your cursor's distance(chrispryan.com)
1 points by takkatakka 2y ago|0 comments
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by takkatakka 2y ago
Just dinking around making an RDP electron app.
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by takkatakka 2y ago
Wow. Their salary ranges seem low? Backend Engineer, assuming that is mid level: "The base salary range for this full-time position is between $38,900 USD to $87,500 USD"
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by takkatakka 3y ago
I've tried a variety of things (LinkedIn Ads, Reddit Ads, Google Ads, SEO, responding to relevant reddit questions). Most of the paying customers come from google ads, but a few have come from my reddit comments. The reddit comments ar
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by takkatakka 3y ago
Self-employed running https://bankstatement2csv.com Like the url implies, it's a pdf bank statement to csv converter. What Rob Walling from microconf would call a 'step 1 business'. I quit my job in December to wo
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by takkatakka 3y ago
“ I’ve recently put a lot of thought into the product and realized that there is a real gap in the market that I can fill and make this into a real business” Was the market gap realization from conversations with current/prospective cu
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by takkatakka 3y ago
I built https://bankstatement2csv.com It's a pdf bank statement to csv converter (which seems like an increasingly popular niche for solo devs), making $550/month as of today. Marketing is challenging, and have only r
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by takkatakka 3y ago
Been seeing a lot of lay offs still
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by takkatakka 3y ago
I’m using Java in a new-ish project of mine. It’s not glamorous, but there is a library for everything which is nice. I also have the most experience with it (Clojure coming second), so that lets me focus on building rather than learning a
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by takkatakka 3y ago
Just recently surpassed $500/mo with a pdf to csv converter, https://bankstatement2csv.com But as someone else mentioned, from a purely financial stand point, I'd be better off investing in an index fund.
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by takkatakka 3y ago
Got my side project to $100 MRR
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Ask HN: Google Vision vs. AWS Textract vs. Tesseract?
2 points by takkatakka 3y ago|0 comments
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by takkatakka 3y ago
Sometimes, but maybe not in a traditionally productive way most might think here. Living in Denver, it feels like there is an implicit message that you should be getting out into the mountains as often as possible. Climbing, running, skiing
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by takkatakka 3y ago
I've been working on a pdf bank statement converter. The work itself isn't inherently interesting. It's the full ownership of a thing I made, combined with actually helping people, that makes it really satisfying to work on.
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by takkatakka 3y ago
It was my half hearted attempt at factorio with Clojure: https://github.com/pyrrhic/learning-clojure-factorio-clone It mostly just showed that I had a genuine interest in programming, and served as a talking point (why
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The quest for a $500/month side project: First paying customer(bankstatement2csv.com)
3 points by takkatakka 3y ago|0 comments