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by wwalser 10y ago
What's your experience with Sails been like? I considered it for askinline.com when starting but quickly abandoned ship and ended up rolling a backing using Hapi & Sequelize. I couldn't be more satisfied with the decision. Hap
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It's not that React doesn't "support" web components. React is a competitive alternative to web components. Custom HTML elements (components) done better, done now and without aggressive browser shimming. My understandin
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Just don't let Justin join him. They'd clown too hard :p
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Not the op but: Gimlet is very good at creating well put together and edited stories. That seasons is very human and dives headlong into the painful (and beautiful) parts of slowly grinding and iterating toward failure. Failure from an inve
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I listened to all of the previous episodes and enjoyed the podcast. I'm glad you're getting it started back up. My only negative feedback would be that by the end it felt similar to what investors say about demo day. All of the co
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Similar to others here I used it for a few months when it was initially released then eventually switched back when the load time got to me. I still use the native mobile client. I'll also use m.gmail.com occasionally if I want to do s
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If anyone has recommendations for adapting to the new USB-C based hardware, I'd be interested in hearing it. I haven't had time to do the research myself but will if nothing shows up in this thread (the new machine arrive late thi
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by wwalser 10y ago
I don't understand all of the fighting in this thread. I don't understand why people are acting like every liberal was on board with these policies until the election. It's simply not accurate. Two groups of people who comple
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* Prepare. It's crummy that highly skilled practitioners have to do this in order to jump the sometimes silly hurdles put in place by technical interviews but it's a fact. No point bristling against it. I've always scheduled
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by wwalser 10y ago
Hi James Having read most of the login/signup/sign-in documentation from end to end over the past few months (paired with several different implementations), I have most of it sorted for myself. Early on, what was missing was what
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by wwalser 10y ago
Similarly, Google is pushing developers toward Firebase as a replacement for their identity toolkit[1]. However, while reading the provided documentation and tutorials, it's not clear how anything is better than the old toolkit except
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But a good proxy for VCs, where most non-IPO exists are basically considered a failure. 1.5-3x returns from a "successful" sale to a larger company is a failed investment for most VC firms.
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Atlassian's funding wasn't typical VC growth money either. The first round was taken off the table by the founders and was primarily a mechanism to get board members in preparation for a US based IPO. They also took a second round
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A few things make the data slightly misleading. In cases of multiple founders (so most of the data points), only one founder seems to be represented by the "Founder Ownership" percentage. Additionally, in some cases the percentage
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Hacker news, where having a brand name means all products you released have to be fully featured, documented, well marketed, omni-platform and take full advantage of the "obvious" synergy with your existing products. Otherwise, it
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I know this isn't a great answer to your question, feel free to ignore it :). You may find that books are under rated. With all of the free resources available I find that I often underestimate the value of someone having spent several
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I've heard from a few sources that they didn't feel that YC was as good for B2B SaaS as it was for other types of businesses. It seems like their attention is more focused on B2C and if you are B2B it better have some sort of inno
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by wwalser 10y ago
Did Referly have a two sided marketplace? I knew Referly as a platform that allowed individuals (bloggers, authors, content marketers) to track the referral links that they themselves share. I thought it was basically a database of referral
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> How do I make the case to my company that this is a worthwhile investment? By helping them to understand how all of the following will work: * User acquisition * Ongoing costs * "fit" with the larger business * Making lots of
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I believe the CEO answered that questions here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12550520
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> "> 250K base salary (total > 300K comp)" This point will keep lots of people making >$300k out of the conversation if "base" is taken to mean cash compensation (which is what I would take it to mean). I&#x2
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The top comment in this thread starts with "live in the US" to which this person responds that you can make the salary in question while living outside of the US with a "remote gig for that US based company." You're
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Sending thousands of emails that: Bounce because they aren't real. Land in inboxes of people who don't remember your service and therefore mark it as spam. Land in inboxes and are not opened. Are all great ways to get I
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Does C actually control 30% of the legal entity (c-corp or LLC I assume), or was the agreement an up front verbal commitment of 30%? Is there a vesting schedule in place? The most reasonable thing, I think, it to treat the situation as a we
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Add email capture and use that to communicate with users about new features and ask what they'd like to see added to the game.
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Having spent literal years creating and maintaining large WYSIWYG projects based on TinyMCE and CKEditor, I can not sing the praises of the latest iteration of these editors highly enough. Between sidestepping contenteditable almost entirel
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> I personally know many newbies who find it extremely hard to dive into the React/Redux realm because there is a serious learning curve. As opposed to… classical OO frameworks where it's easy to dive in and build something tha
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YC-backed Clerky released a few standard incorporation documents[1]. I'm not sure if the shareholder agreement is in there. Startup Commons also has some reasonable documents available http://www.startupcommons.org/foun
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The most effective means that I've found is building relationships with people who are slightly ahead of where you're at around your area. You could do it remotely and in fact one of my mentors is remote but generally, building th
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No problem. I think probably_wrong's recommendation of one card with no keywords on it may be the best solution.

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