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by waprin 3y ago
Always great to see indie hackers content. Since Channing mentions interstitial journaling, I want to share my interstitial journaling app called Interstitch at https://Interstitch.app I shared it here on HN and PH and got 2 upv
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by waprin 3y ago
Figma mocks give most of the info you need to map to HTML/CSS pretty easily, much more so than image mocks It tells you the colors and will show you spacing etc
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The Mental Game of Entrepreneurship(writing.billprin.com)
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by waprin 3y ago
I am a long-time developer who's always dreamed of building an indie software business but design skills hold me back. I recognize this and get plenty of feedback around it. So this year I set out to improve to at least try to get to &
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by waprin 3y ago
A pitch deck is something you make for investors. I'm not talking about investors, I'm talking about customers. Lots of management consultants can make a pitch deck. Very few can actually find people willing to pay for an MVP of a
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by waprin 3y ago
Thanks! I'm in a similar boat. I'm not lecturing anyone having learned from success but having learned from failure. I just spent an entire year spent building software products and they almost all failed. I wrote a long retro (to
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by waprin 3y ago
Technical expertise is very rarely where the core value of a product comes from. If you're really pushing some boundary and just have a better technology product, like original Google or ChatGPT, then sure, tech is your special sauce.
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by waprin 3y ago
If you’re required to install software on your phone for work then your employer should be legally required to pay for your phone. And then if you want your own phone you pay for it yourself. And if your employers IT team lets corporate dev
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by waprin 3y ago
Well, there's obvious problems with online, starting with that it's technically illegal and unregulated in most US states, which is a pretty big one. Secondly, the rise of solvers and other AI have greatly increased the risk of yo
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by waprin 3y ago
Poker is one of America's favorite past time and many losing players enjoy the act of going to a cardroom and playing with others. We've often bemonaed the lack of "third places" like churches and the ensuing rise of lon
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by waprin 3y ago
Live poker is still quite soft. While you do have to be better compared to years past, it's also far easier to get better because you can study solvers. I used to be a "good but not great" online player, but the extent to whi
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by waprin 3y ago
Maybe? Not super up to date on that to be honest, split between too many projects already :)
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Show HN: I made a tool for interstitial journaling called Interstitch(interstitch.app)
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by waprin 3y ago
Yet multiple times I’ve seen people on this site defend Apples approval process as a good thing since they get such a great curated experience as a consumer. But here’s the thing - you don’t know what you’re missing because you never see it
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by waprin 3y ago
I am a strong believer in spaced repetition. My current primary focus is building a spaced repetition platform for learning poker solver solutions with the aim of winning money at live poker games ( www.livepokertheory.com ) . The motivatio
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by waprin 3y ago
I have a 2 year old daughter and even though I intuitively know it's important to set a good example, I've already been shocked to the extent this is true. My daughter loves grabbing our phones and watching whatever she can pull u
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by waprin 3y ago
Thanks for the kind words and the heads up on the broken link. I think Next has a great DevEx, but I'm just using it for some projects as a solo dev without a ton of traffic so perhaps there's some rough corners I haven't exp
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by waprin 3y ago
I built a website that was super simple using server side rendering using Django. Then I got a bunch of feature requests that made it less simple and the client-side javascript started getting crazy spaghetti code. I actually somewhat knew
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by waprin 3y ago
Not a successful self-funded entrepreneur but Im working on it and I’ve studied a lot of the greats. DHH and Jason Fried blog and books like Rework Arvid Kahl is a successful software bootstrapper and has a few great books and a bootstrappe
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by waprin 3y ago
Thanks for sharing. I think the #1 thing most bootstrappers struggle with is finding the right market, idea, validation etc. As much as people say “ideas are overrated” I increasingly think that’s not true, it’s that a good idea has to incl
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by waprin 3y ago
I really enjoy the concept of unknown knowns, but I don’t agree with your example, which is an unknown unknown. To me the corporate version of the unknown known is when a a project is certainly doomed, for reasons everyone on the ground kno
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by waprin 3y ago
My hypothesis is not that people are spoiled but psychologically anchored. We buy thousands of items and for most people it’s impossible to know how much something “should” cost. So we anchor our expectations to what we know. Web software w
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by waprin 3y ago
I don’t work in crypto but I read a ton of tech blogs and this guy: https://cmichel.io/ Seems legit and claims to have made one million in 14 months in bug bounties, although he was #1 on some leaderboard. Based on his blog
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by waprin 3y ago
Especially since 2015 when public nash solvers became available that calculate equilibrium strategies across the whole game tree (previously they only did preflop) I have a blog dedicated to the topic www.livepokertheory.com I would stop sh
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by waprin 3y ago
My anecdotal experience agrees that blog posts with promotions are better than "here's my product" , on average. Though you can just do both. I've front paged Hacker News a few times and I've recently had a lot of s
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by waprin 3y ago
More thought out blog posts: billprin.com/articles Weekly updates, rants: billprin.com/notes Been off and on with blogging but next half of 2023 really committing to at least posting more monthly retrospectives and hopefully more
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by waprin 3y ago
daniel vassallo's small bets (costs a bit to join)
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by waprin 3y ago
Since you’re interested in more opinions I’ll toss mine in as someone full time focused on building a one person software business. First, I think entrepreneurship is a bit like music genres. There’s a lot of different styles. If you’re try
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by waprin 3y ago
This is a passion of mine as well , and is called “life logging” or “the quantified life”. I have a long term passion project called Navigoals (Navigoals.com) built around the concept. It’s like a habit tracker but I organize all my habits&
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by waprin 3y ago
Yes I just migrated from Jekyll to NextJS. I agree it’s a terrible idea if you just want a blog. My motivation was to improve my web dev skills and have a low stakes playground to try stuff, since I’m using Next on most of my projects. Howe

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