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   by wenbin 7y ago

   (author of this blog post here) The hardest part of building this business is to keep motivated for a relatively long period of time. I'm still early in this startup journey. This is only the 2nd year of me working full-time on Listen
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   by wenbin 7y ago

   Sure. It's around $700/month for me + my wife. I wish I could've known more practical info about starting a company before I quit my day job, e.g., how much for insurance, what company credit card to use, how to pay tax, wher
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   by wenbin 7y ago

   Good point! For people who have tons of experience with serverless, serverless is probably a better choice than running servers for some use cases. As a small business owner, there are two types of cost that I need to consider: Time: the ti
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   by wenbin 7y ago

   Some examples that I used help from contractors: 1. Built some reusable ReactJs components. 2. Design / illustrations 3. Proofread website copy / blog posts 4. Built experimental app like this one https://itunes.apple.c
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   by wenbin 7y ago

   Hello poidos, (I'm the author of this blog post) I couldn't do all these things when I was in school :) I worked in companies for a few years and learned some engineering practices. Then I had basic skills to prototype my own side
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   by wenbin 7y ago

   I'm wenbin, the author of this blog post & I built Listen Notes. Thanks for bringing up this question :) Yes, Listen Notes is making some money - not a lot, but enough to cover all the cost and bring in a bit profit as of today. Th
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   by wenbin 7y ago

   This Acquired podcast episode did a great job covering the rise of Huawei https://lnns.co/oPr5nUSzLxX
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   by wenbin 7y ago

   reminds me of this quora question and excellent answers What do people in Silicon Valley plan to do once they are over 35 since most will neither make it big nor move up the management chain of command? https://www.quora.com&#x2F
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   by wenbin 7y ago

   Congrats on the launch, bernat!
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    by wenbin 7y ago

    Shopify enables new generation of Mom & Pop E-Store :)
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    Podcasts from Tech Companies(listennotes.com)

    2 points by wenbin 7y ago|0 comments
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    by wenbin 7y ago

    “Hot or not” directly or indirectly inspired the launch of Facebook and YouTube. Amazing! If you want to learn more about “hot or not”: https://youtu.be/uagKWIEffq8
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    by wenbin 7y ago

    It was supposed to be "Hot or Not" with videos.
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    by wenbin 7y ago

    From my experience, it seems that you can find a podcast for any topic nowadays... I curated a list of podcasts "There's a podcast for that" https://lnns.co/9Q1vbicJXgY -- well, it's like "there&#x2
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    by wenbin 7y ago

    You can come find RSS feed for most podcasts on my site https://www.listennotes.com/
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    by wenbin 7y ago

    I hope exclusive podcasts don't become a trend. Podcasts are very good media format for informal education / learning. Instead of spending 30 hours reading a book, you can just listen to conversion among smart people in 30 minutes
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    by wenbin 7y ago

    Tobi is like a younger Jeff Bezos :) I binge listened quite a few his podcast interviews https://lnns.co/aECRtZ2fNn9
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    by wenbin 7y ago

    Pinboard is such an inspiration to my (one-person) entrepreneur journey!
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    by wenbin 7y ago

    In early 2000, QQ [1] had a product feature like this - realtime typing & chatting. It was mainly for two intimate people to use (两人世界). A few years ago, Tencent sunset this feature. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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    by wenbin 7y ago

    Superhuman founder & ceo is doing quite a few podcast interviews recently https://lnns.co/65uTMm9nytW
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    by wenbin 7y ago

    Listen to this recent podcast interview w/ its founder & ceo https://lnns.co/V8Z-SfuvqbB The founder raised $750k initially. Spent 20% buying superhuman.com and $45k hiring a design agency to turn wireframes into h
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    by wenbin 7y ago

    Thanks for sharing your YC story! Some personal experience: I applied to YC for 8 times over the past few years. Got one onsite interview (late 2017). Got rejected. I documented that onsite interview experience here: https://broa
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    by wenbin 7y ago

    forbes.com is down also?
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    by wenbin 7y ago

    btw, Google Analytics realtime is down as well.
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    by wenbin 7y ago

    Django and other modern web development framework handles db migrations pretty well. $ python manage migrate
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    by wenbin 7y ago

    yes, from san francisco
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    by wenbin 8y ago

    Some Silicon Valley VCs seem to love 996. - An article from VC https://www.google.com/search?q=mike+moritz+ft+996&ie=UTF-8&... (first result; paywalled, but okay to read via google search results) - A 996 podcast fr
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    by wenbin 8y ago

    I use Django to build https://www.listennotes.com/ and https://www.listennotes.com/api/
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    by wenbin 8y ago

    I use Drift on a few pages of my website https://www.listennotes.com . It’s a critical channel that users can chat directly with me, who built the website. It encourages conversation and I get tons of good feedback directly from
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    by wenbin 8y ago

    I just listened to Michael's podcast interview. Very smart & inspiring! https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/invest-like-the-best/mi...