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Great review/post. Remote work is the way of the future. A recent study from of IBM employees showed that if employees have a modest commute then they only need to work 38 hours/we…

What if delegation is your weakness (as it is for most of us)?

I really hope I can help. It's so important and rarely talked about in our community.

That'll change. Someone is building out the identity right now. But I have a thing for monkeys. Don't judge.

I think I answered that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6600121 There are people out there who love the bloggers/writers they follow and will support them. A newsletter …

I'm glad you liked it! I have a "day job". I run another company with a dozen employees. I love creating things, too. I'm like a construction foreman that loves what he does so muc…

Live-blogging was way more helpful to the development process than I ever imagined it would be. Even if you don't feel comfortable sharing everything in public, I'd keep a private …

So far after 8 hours, one of HappyLetter's customers has 13 subscribers. They've only announced their letter on Twitter and ADN. Many of the Gruber-inspired school of bloggers try …

The problem is the very, very skilled hedge fund and institutional investors that are capable of moving a stock to stratospheric heights are judged on their performance on a month-…

The link to the DOL is broken. Any chance you can give the name of the "smell test"?

I started doing web development as a consultant at 16. I didn't care much about going straight to a university while I was at High School and I had about a 3.0. I never bothered ta…

Whether this is true or not, it's a bit nutty to risk the fate of my livelihood on Google ads because Google is saying I "can". And in other news, my barber always thinks I need a …

Interesting. As I explore, prompting seems > open ended for feedback. Thanks for the suggestion.

What services are you all using to collect feedback in your apps? I checked out Get Satisfaction, but it seems like overkill to start with. Wondering if there is something a bit mo…

Is that people who join a beta? Or is that people who sign up to be notified of when the beta opens up (as is our case)?

I'm working on a web app that targets small businesses and freelancers. We will eventually be charging a-la 37Signals pricing model. We currently just have a single landing page at…