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by vishnumohandas 6y ago
> Mylio Mylio looks really cool, thanks for sharing! > spend 50% of your time marketing As a thin-skinned introvert, marketing doesn't come naturally to me. But yes, I've been trying to internalize this and in fact this blog
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by vishnumohandas 6y ago
This was valuable feedback, thanks. > people who understand and care about end to end encryption could just set up a NextCloud instance This is the exact problem I'd like to solve. It worries me that currently only the tech savvy ca
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by vishnumohandas 6y ago
> taking 7 months to build and not shipping anything So I spent the first couple of months chasing an on-premise alternative to photo storage[1]. Then I realized that the product was difficult to sell, and required a substantial investme
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by vishnumohandas 6y ago
> why do it? 1. I'm scratching my own itch. I wanted a privacy friendly alternative to Google Photos to store and organize my memories, I couldn't find any that were as convenient, so I'm building one. 2. I have a clear pa
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by vishnumohandas 6y ago
Hey, author here. To reiterate, this really is the happiest I've been. The initial few months were not smooth (as indicated by the article). Mostly because was an expectation mismatch with respect to how comfortable I believed/was
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Persisting as a solo founder(vishnu.tech)
699 points by vishnumohandas 6y ago|257 comments
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Persisting as a Solo Founder(vishnu.tech)
8 points by vishnumohandas 6y ago|3 comments
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by vishnumohandas 6y ago
> you just couldn't convince your friends to join and therefore can't be trusted As you grow older, the number of friends who can afford to take financial risks reduces because they will have components such as family and kids
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by vishnumohandas 6y ago
I was thinking of a widget where in I can set the font-style and related properties, along with the background color and padding.
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by vishnumohandas 6y ago
Hey oskarahl, as a solo dev working on https://ente.io , I was looking for something just like this! The MVP imo is the ability to zoom. What I'd kill for is the ability to add text widgets to point out/explain features
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by vishnumohandas 6y ago
I found the generic approach NextCloud takes towards file-storage to yield underwhelming results when it comes to photos. Features like searching for photos by faces, locations, intelligent sorting are all lacking and making their mobile me
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by vishnumohandas 6y ago
Yes, but it seems like the project was abandoned[1] and the community fork has not had any activity either[2]. More importantly, the lack of a mobile-first experience was a deal breaker for me and my family. [1] https://github.co
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by vishnumohandas 6y ago
I’m building an on-premise alternative to Google Photos[1]. Started working on this because it’s not okay for Google to have unencrypted access to and own all my memories. [1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=b5XN5GMmc6I
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by vishnumohandas 6y ago
The client code is available here: https://github.com/ente-io/frame To be honest and upfront, this won’t be a freeware. I’m planning to charge a reasonable one time fee that’ll help pay rent. :)
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by vishnumohandas 6y ago
Built a self hosted alternative to Google Photos for my family. Will be productionizing it soon. Here’s a sneak peak: https://youtu.be/b5XN5GMmc6I
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by vishnumohandas 6y ago
Have been using SimpleAnalytics for my websites for a while now and couldn’t be happier. Please keep building.
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by vishnumohandas 6y ago
Questions: 1. What was the highest uptime Boris pulled off? 2. Why did you have to decommission him? Was there an eventual hardware failure? Thanks!
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by vishnumohandas 6y ago
> it's shown me that I am capable of going toe to toe with myself. I can relate a lot to this. Of all the things I did, documenting thoughts (along with solutions to problems as and when they popped up) helped the most. Updating thi
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by vishnumohandas 6y ago
I’m sorry if I sounded dismissive. I guess it was because my experiences with psychiatrists were painful and frustrating. I completely understand and agree that medication could be a viable solution for someone else.
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Surviving Depression(vishnu.tech)
479 points by vishnumohandas 6y ago|206 comments
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by vishnumohandas 6y ago
Looks quite neat, the segregation by languages works well. Suggestions: - Dark theme. - A nicer font for the search results page (some mono font perhaps?)
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Uber CEO Kalanick Argues with Driver Over Falling Fares(youtube.com)
2 points by vishnumohandas 10y ago|0 comments