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alex_g

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About alex_g

alexgreene.me

twitter: @alexg473

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    Hello, I'm Alex Greene ! https://alexgreene.me/ Location: San Francisco, CA Remote: Yes, or hybrid Willing to relocate: Not likely Technologies: Figma, Play, SwiftUI, HTML/CSS, Pyt…

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    Comment #27763177

    What about a higher property tax if you are not living on the property for more than x days a year?

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    Comment #27631762

    Absolutely, that’s why I tried to frame it as high to most but not everyone. In regards to being cheaper to buy than to build, that’s certainly possible. Depends on your skillset.

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    Comment #27631659

    What is the app?

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    Comment #27627636

    All valid reasons, but I think my point was moreso if they find themselves posting on MicroAcquire, they will likely end up in my #3, whether they intended to or not, and rightfull…

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    Comment #27625962

    No shame in my #3 above. I'm not an expert, but typically multiples range from 1-4x annual profit, but I've heard through the grapevine that some folks are paying 5-10x. So absolut…

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    Comment #27625886

    Yeah that's messed up. Any time you're buying anything, but especially a business, you need to do your due diligence. Perhaps I'm naive, but I think your risk in buying a business …

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    Comment #27625245

    If you're interested in buying and/or selling small projects, you can typically expect to pay more than $5k for something that's making any consistent amount of money. You're also …

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    Comment #27624977

    This is totally off topic but I'm a huge fan of your work!

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    Comment #27624710

    Me neither.

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    Comment #27555995

    This 1000%. I was an ML engineer, and to me it was far more about data management/cleaning than nitty gritty algorithms improvements, but that's definitely not industry standard. I…

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    Comment #27543574

    This is really cool! Clearly a lot of thought went into making it. That said, I feel like the otters could have just made a bulletin board to solve their problem

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    Comment #27533517

    This beautiful but 5 minutes in and my 2015 macbook pro cannot handle it.

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    Comment #27504597

    I saw this exact thing pop up on ProductHunt at some point in the last year. Sorry, I don't remember the name, but it was an iOS app.

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    Comment #27438047

    I believe Jane Jacobs also discusses the same point in her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities .

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    Comment #27371094

    Instagram already has marketplace features, and personally it lost its rarified space vibes to me a long time ago.

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    Comment #27144590

    I agree with the parent comment. I understood what the problem your product was solving from the title of this Launch HN thread, but viewing the landing page, I think there's big r…

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    Comment #27136091

    Today I checked my spam folder for the first time in months, thanks to having read this thread. Low and behold there was an email in there that was fairly important.

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    Comment #27118629

    Not everything is held together with nails.

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    Comment #27083050

    No because he can leave if he wanted to. He stresses that- if someone gave him $2 million he would stay.

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    Comment #27082761

    Both are free. As for hosting, Wordpress has a free hosting option.

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    Comment #27070480

    Ghost, or Wordpress, or just write some markdown or html. Honestly it doesn't need to be better in every way to be better.

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    Comment #27070452

    Medium is really the worst reading experience. Trying to prevent me from selecting and copying text?