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by waprin 4y ago
I mostly blog because I like writing, I like owning my own identity on my own site, and because other people have written about the benefits it's brought them. I haven't blogged a ton (I plan to more) but I wouldn't say it&#x
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Ira Glass on Storytelling (2008)(youtube.com)
14 points by waprin 4y ago|2 comments
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by waprin 4y ago
I mentioned this video on another thread and a couple people went to the effort to email me to specifically thank me for sharing it so I thought it was worth it's own thread. It's 4 short videos, the last two videos I've seen
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by waprin 4y ago
The other day I was aimlessly browsing through Youtube, and I found a video by a man named Ira Glass. I had never heard of him but apparently he's a famous NPR journalist. He told a story about how in English class he learned to start
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by waprin 4y ago
Firstly, it's tough to avoid subscriptions on platforms like web and iOS because it's awkward to distribute a v1, then 2 years later a v2 as a new purchase, the way desktop software used to work. On web, you'd have to run mul
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by waprin 4y ago
Thanks for writing Micheal, I’m also 30-something ex-Google SWE and currently all-in on solo dev bootstrapping, so your blog is one of my (many) big inspirations. As you note, I do think if your primary objective was to catch up to SWE comp
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by waprin 4y ago
Entrepreneur is a very broad term. A power lifter may wonder why the boxer is doing footwork drills when he just needs to lift heavy weights until he realizes they’re both athletes but in different events. It’s silly to label “open startups
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by waprin 4y ago
I'd argue the exact opposite. Key costs like hosting are way cheaper, back then you probably had to rack server in a data center, now you can deploy a free/cheap PaaS with a free/cheap database while you find PMF. Marketing i
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by waprin 4y ago
If you compare the pg essays from 2000-2010 to 2010-now, there's a very noticeable shift in tone on this exact topic, even moreso if you zoom out of pg and consider YC messaging then and now. Tons of old pg essays sound straight from s
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by waprin 4y ago
Yeah it’s interesting reading the old pg essays where he says, VCs suck but they are a necessary evil. After all, racking reliable servers will cost at least 20k, paying a PR firm so that there’s a chance anyone will hear about your site wi
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by waprin 4y ago
Congrats and thanks for sharing, as an aspiring SaaS bootstrapper and father there’s plenty of headwinds so nice to see people sharing their stories piloting through them.
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The simplest app that makes money(billprin.com)
213 points by waprin 4y ago|94 comments
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by waprin 4y ago
Well said, good analogy. There’s the immediate issues of the policy. But there’s the bigger issue of the thought process that led to the policy. One of Elons central criticism of old Twitter management was unfair content moderation policy.
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by waprin 4y ago
I'm similar, though not necessarily chores - usually other projects. In my goal tracker, I set high levels goals to be productive, but then about 30 different possible tasks count as productive. I track them at a low level so I can kee
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by waprin 4y ago
Programmers: > "Why does BigTech keep tracking me!" > "If you're not the customer, you're the product!" > "Why is the internet getting monopolized by a few media empires owned by a few billionaire
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Tell HN: Apple App Store Broken for WatchOS Devs
1 points by waprin 4y ago|0 comments
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by waprin 4y ago
Great article. I played Stratego a lot as a kid and it always felt simpler than chess, go , or poker so it’s surprising it’s a much bigger game tree unless you stop and think. I’m curious about the comparisons to poker. I know the hot algor
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by waprin 4y ago
I've been in Bay Area high tech software for a long time now, and more recently I've been participating more in the indie hacker scene. It is fascinating to me that I do know many extremely talented engineers who either dream of s
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by waprin 4y ago
Email is most reliable since I try to moderate social media but Ill ping you on Twitter
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by waprin 4y ago
5 years ago I would have downvoted you. Based on some unfortunate personal experiences I have to emphatically agree. I would also throw cut down on social media / porn / addictive games as very important if you’re identifiying as
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by waprin 4y ago
I just shipped my first SwiftUI app and have more queued up. Don't know of any Discords but happy to join one or start one with you.
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by waprin 4y ago
Yeah even in the webdev world, the zeitgeist has shifted from "write as many tests as possible, 100% code coverage, in fact 100% branching code coverage. Use an absurd amount of mocks to achieve this" to "write tests, not too
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Just Say No to Unreasonable On-Call(billprin.com)
4 points by waprin 4y ago|0 comments
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by waprin 4y ago
Despite being in the industry a long time, I think most of what I worked on had little to no impact. In terms of impacting other people, probably the biggest thing was blog posts and sample code. It’s funny how sample code has less “cred” t
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by waprin 4y ago
I'm not in any way associated with Notion but I find Notion way better than what you've listed _for me_. I love Notion because it makes it easy to organize lots of notes and has a good search feature. The databases are super usefu
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by waprin 4y ago
I had the same reaction. The phrase "chemical imbalance" can't die soon enough. I've met some very smart people who were misled into thinking there's much more scientific evidence than exists that there's some
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by waprin 4y ago
A noble goal. One of my bad habits I've been tracking and trying to reduce is rude behavior to people, online or in-person.
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by waprin 4y ago
Ahh I’m working on exact same project. I applied to YC with the idea and was told that “nobody wants this” during the interview. There’s a ton of problems in the space around privacy and UX. But I’m incredibly excited about projects in this
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by waprin 4y ago
I noticed this too and I have a simple explanation. Ruby and Python overtook Java and C++ in the early 2010s in _spite_ of their lack of a good typing system, not because of it. On the whole, they are much more productive languages. Now we&
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by waprin 4y ago
The blog post literally says Stripe has higher transaction volume than ever. Anecdotally my indie friends all report modest revenue growth this year while my big tech friends report more work for less money (due to equity grants decline). F

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