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by v1l 3y ago
I'll take the other side of this. There are of course bad and average eng managers who have skills that are subpar. Let's keep them out of this discussion - they should be fired. But the majority of eng managers who have the chops
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by v1l 3y ago
The entitlement in the comments for severance, healthcare etc baffles me. You were paid a salary for your services while you were employed. You didn't give more, they didn't pay less. Now you're not - that's the end of t
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by v1l 3y ago
Entitlement is more prevalent than we think.
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by v1l 3y ago
Is that part of the contract that if the business is shutting down or laying people off that they need to continue to pay for things for you? I don't see why there's any obligation.
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by v1l 3y ago
effed up year.
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by v1l 3y ago
My advice would be to either build it for a different niche (i.e., not software teams) or to go against the grain and target it to the agile rebels. If you do the latter, it still needs to be useful but you at least stand a chance. What if
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by v1l 3y ago
I don't know where you're based but if you're out of the US, then by design the clients you're working with want it cheap. But between cheap and ridiculously pricey, there is a world of freelancers that are just reasonab
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by v1l 3y ago
That's great that you've built a deep roster of clients. Can't disagree that it's the best source of work.
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by v1l 3y ago
I think the platform needs to be niche and not-built-for-scale by design. This doesn't gel with the VC backed route. I absolutely think there's room for a few 1-2M revenue businesses here that could be built by a motivated self fu
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by v1l 3y ago
The vetting and hoops of interviews (talent side). From the client side, there's nothing onerous but Toptal also prioritizes (requires?) clients that have mid to longer term commitments.
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Ask HN: Do you look for freelance tech opportunities? What do you hate about it?
8 points by v1l 3y ago|13 comments
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by v1l 3y ago
Oh absolutely believe that asking yourself these questions is critical. Even if the answers aren't encouraging or positive. In the very least, they make you think about how you might overcome these challenges if they exist for your bus
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by v1l 3y ago
Jason's obviously a smart chap and knows much more about startups than I do but following this decision tree would effectively have meant that most startups that exist today likely wouldn't exist. A few examples: Notion, Airtable,
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by v1l 3y ago
Grand Seiko
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by v1l 3y ago
> Is a single CEO worth that many jobs? This question is a sign of not understanding how business works.
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by v1l 3y ago
It's funny to me that no one complained about Sundar's pay when things were going swimmingly well.
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by v1l 3y ago
agree, are you an engineer? Manager or IC?
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by v1l 3y ago
How much of what you're suggesting is kept manually up to date?
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Ask HN: Head Of/VP/CXO at a startup? Help me validate this idea.
2 points by v1l 3y ago|5 comments
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by v1l 3y ago
Do yoga.
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by v1l 4y ago
What are some products where this is true? (you see what I'm doing here :) -- digging for ideas)
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by v1l 4y ago
What are your competitors doing differently? (it's not the funding) Do they have traction? Do you have any hail mary cards left up your sleeve? If not, or if you've run out of steam, or don't believe in this anymore (blind fa
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Ask HN: How does your team answer “What's shipping?”
1 points by v1l 4y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What's Shipping?
1 points by v1l 4y ago|0 comments
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by v1l 4y ago
How on earth do you even curate/create a huge collection like that? Do you really sign up and try? Do you crawl the web? Either way, impressive work!
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by v1l 4y ago
can you explain in human? #notbeingsarcastic but I literally didn't get it.
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by v1l 4y ago
We don't standup every day. Many standups also end up being purely status updates and a lot more happens in a day than is reported in a standup. Decisions are made, meetings are held, customer conversations are had...too many to list h
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Managers of distributed teams: would you like more “mini” updates?
3 points by v1l 4y ago|3 comments
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by v1l 4y ago
The elephant in the room for return to office is commute. If the office was <20 mins for most employees, I doubt there would a huge hue and cry over going in 2-3 days a week.
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by v1l 4y ago
A solution to that I see is a marketplace focused on such work (you could say Upwork is that but it's a race to the bottom, so there needs to be better filters).

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