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Good enough engineering to start an Internet company(listennotes.com)
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How to evaluate a 3rd party RESTful API?(listennotes.com)
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There’s a Podcast for That(listennotes.com)
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Monitor Podcast Mentions(listennotes.com)
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Instead of Monthly Billing, a Daily Alternative for SaaS(listennotes.com)
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by wenbin 4y ago
Great job! How do you do search result ranking? Any signals that you use to decide “this is a high quality video from reputable channel and it’s relevant”? I would imagine # of followers / likes / comments / like-comment rati
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by wenbin 4y ago
It’s like learning a second language. You learn programming language to talk to computer
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Ask HN: Any SaaS doing daily subscription, in addition to monthly/annual?
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by wenbin 4y ago
For listennotes.com, we did a postgres 9.6 => 11 upgrade (in 2019), and 11 => 13 upgrade (in 2021). ~0 downtime for read ops, and ~45 seconds downtime for write ops. Our database is less than 1TB. One master (for writes + some reads)
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Podcast Search Engine(listennotes.com)
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by wenbin 5y ago
https://wenbin.org/ Hosted on Github pages. A single html file.
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by wenbin 5y ago
When google got started, they indexed ~25 million web pages. Then they grew together with the web, compounding over ~30 years. Today, it’s totally possible for a single person or a small team to build a domain specific search engine that in
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by wenbin 5y ago
Two pricing tactics that I wish more SaaS businesses could adopt - 1. Daily subscription and auto-cancel. For example, you can subscribe for 3 days, then it'll automatically cancel your subscription after 3 days. In Gitlab's case,
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by wenbin 5y ago
Vagrant + Parallels works fine for me.
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by wenbin 5y ago
I’ve been happier since I started working on my own business full time. The key is to be able to control my own time. If you can figure out a way to be able to control your time as much as possible, you’ll likely be happy. What people reall
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by wenbin 5y ago
Congrats on achieving the $1m ARR milestone!
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by wenbin 5y ago
It's easier to create many disposable email addresses than "real" email. To get a new "real" email address, you need to fill a lengthy form (e.g., try it on Gmail.com now) and it's not easy to automate the proc
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by wenbin 5y ago
They do: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-email-routing/
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by wenbin 5y ago
From a service provider's point of view [1], a big portion of "users" with disposable email domains have intention to do bad things, e.g., spamming, aggressively scraping contents... It's not easy to distinguish users-wh
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by wenbin 5y ago
I’m actually surprised how cheap the server cost is , given the scale of linchess… Great job! Recent years, I have a feeling that HN commenters would assume server cost should always approach $0, not matter how big, or how different a real
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Monthly product updates of Listen Notes (Sep. 2017 – now)(listennotes.substack.com)
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by wenbin 5y ago
FYI - Google hires 10,000+ search result raters [1], who are contractors, to evaluate search result quality. In an ideal world, you build a thing, and it's done. It runs automatically and prints out money. In reality, you still need hu
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by wenbin 5y ago
Digital products could have a “finished” state, which is great for users, but bad for companies. Dropbox could’ve been a finished product in 2012. Simple and focused personal storage solution. But it can’t justify the valuation of Dropbox,
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by wenbin 5y ago
Education tech startup -> musical.ly -> acquired by Bytedance -> TikTok
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by wenbin 5y ago
It’s hard for me to pick one, as I’ve listened to many :) Here’s my master playlist (the only rss I subscribe on overcast): https://lnns.co/3iXVgJq5MRa
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by wenbin 5y ago
My two cents - Don't feel too bad if you can't find something you love to do for a long period of time. Many many people don't know what they love to do their entire life. And that's totally okay. We've been explori
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Show HN: Podcast Search Engine(listennotes.com)
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by wenbin 5y ago
ListenNotes.com has servers running on us-west-2. One issue is that outbound requests from our servers us-west-2 timeout. Other than that, it seems that we are running ok so far.
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by wenbin 5y ago
As a sole-founder/developer [1], I resonate a lot with OP's post. Use google to figure out how much real companies spend on marketing vs R&D (e.g., engineers salary). Then you'll know how important marketing is. It's
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by wenbin 5y ago
1. Use whatever you already know. 2. Start building now. It’s okay not to write unit tests at the beginning. It’s okay to run everything on a single ec2 instance. It’s okay to not have “forgot password” flow when you launch your project v0

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