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Show HN: Find similar podcasts(listennotes.com)
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by wenbin 4y ago
i’ve been using django/postgres for over a decade. if it were 5 years ago, i’d use django/postgres for every project. but recently i would use cloudflare pages, r2, d1, zero trust… in many cases, we don’t want to put eggs in the s
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by wenbin 4y ago
there are way more small teams (1~10 fte) in software world than people expect, but they don’t make enough money to be on such list. still, their revenue might be USD $1m/enployee. good for individuals, but not good enough for media&#x
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by wenbin 4y ago
op here. I've been looking for affordable hosting solution to serve multimedia files, e.g., podcast audio, which is typically the biggest part of cost for hosting. Cloudflare R2 is an attractive solution. R2 doesn't have egress fe
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Show HN: Self-hosted CMS on serverless Cloudflare(github.com)
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by wenbin 4y ago
As a customer, I do hate subscription for everything... But as an entrepreneur, I think subscription revenue is a good business model to support the ongoing development of a business. To find a balance, I don't think it's necessar
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by wenbin 4y ago
I resonate with everything said in the post based on my experience building my own projects over the past decade. I'd say that indie hackers don't need to feel pressured to build in public. You have the freedom to share or not sha
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by wenbin 4y ago
Future of knowledge work [0]: 1. 5-hour work day, not pretending busy work for 8 or even 12 full hours (eg, 996 in China tech corps) Knowledge work, especially creative work, is just different from hard manual labor. More work hours won’t n
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by wenbin 4y ago
> Who is Zhang Yitang? > Born in 1955, Zhang could not attend school and taught himself mathematics at the age of 11. He worked in the fields and factories for several years to make his way to Peking University, where he earned his ma
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A practical way to upgrade Postgres major versions with near-zero downtime(freecodecamp.org)
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Ask HN: How do angel investors/VCs deal with “zombie companies”?
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by wenbin 4y ago
A trend I've seen on HN over past few years is that people love showing off how they are able to save money by spending more of their own time, especially on infra/cloud things - if you calculate your own hourly rate correctly, it
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by wenbin 4y ago
DocuSign did ~$2.4B annual revenue [1]. So each employee generates ~$320k annual revenue ($2.4B / 7,400), which sounds about right. SaaS companies typically do low $100,000s per employee per year. [1] https://www.docusign.co
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Ask HN: How to share a list of curated article links nowadays?
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by wenbin 4y ago
Thanks for the writeup! It works smoothly on my M1 Macbook Pro! A few days ago, I tried Stable Diffusion code and was not able to get it work :( Then I gave up... Today, following steps in this blog post, it works for the very first try. Ha
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by wenbin 4y ago
Is this supposed to be like RunKit [1], but for many different languages? Our Podcast API product [2] uses RunKit to provide "run node.js code right on our API docs web page". RunKit has been acquired by Stripe. It's unlikely
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by wenbin 4y ago
* Making money from your own project is bad. You shouldn't put ads or charge a SaaS fee from your own project / startup / small business. But it's okay to be well paid by a FAANG as an employee. * "I can build this
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by wenbin 4y ago
One of my most favorite book. The author, Ray Huang, got his bachelor’s degree in USA at age 36.
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A practical way to upgrade Postgres major versions with near-zero downtime(listennotes.com)
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by wenbin 4y ago
I listen to a lot of podcast episodes (over 5,000 in the past 5 years [1]), but I don’t subscribe to podcasts. The way I listen to podcasts is similar to how I consume web contents: Search by topics/people, and Find podcast episodes to
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Show HN: inca.fm - Create a short video by combining a photo, voice, and text(inca.fm)
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Show HN: Just Listen: Listen to random podcast episodes(apps.apple.com)
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by wenbin 4y ago
From Hacker News or Techcrunch, it seems that engineers are creating exciting new software projects everyday, using exciting new technologies. But in reality, most engineering time in the world is spent doing maintenance work or incremental
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by wenbin 4y ago
This kind of happens in the podcast world as well. Many people/companies create fake podcasts and submit to all podcast directories / apps. The main purpose is to do blackhat SEO - links in the rss feed will be syndicated to podca
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by wenbin 4y ago
These two - 1) The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20985875 (Not posted by myself :) 2) Podcast API - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?
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Show HN: Find Similar Podcasts(listennotes.com)
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Show HN: Chrome extension to suggest podcasts of a website(chrome.google.com)
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by wenbin 4y ago
This is gold! I've been following Gergely's journey for quite a while. Personally I learn a ton from Gergely's writings / tweets. As a fellow one-person business [1], the only thing I'd like to add here (after runni
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Numbers of tech companies when they were small(listennotes.com)
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Please also note that some products from "Indie Hackers" are actually from a small team (e.g., 5+ people) that raised a"tiny" family & friends round (e.g., $500k) :) In the purest form of "indie hacker" (i.

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