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I've been working on a platform for car collectors to manage their car collections. https://capsured.com

Reminds me of this article from Salon published back in 2002: https://www.salon.com/2002/05/31/back_in_the_day/

Just soft launched my app for landlords to manage their rental properties. It is targeted to Canadians with a focus on Ontario to start. https://boredlandlord.com

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I run a pretty large NBA blog, that gets crazy traffic. We decided to spend energy and time moderating comments. Basically we go by "don't be an asshole", and while it's onerous, t…

Solid points. And I agree. I played hours of video games when I was like 10/11.

I truly hate it. The only saving grace to all of this is that both my boys read at least an hour a day. hopefully it all balances out, but we will have a strict no social media rul…

Two boys, 9 and almost 7. They get 40 minutes a day (mon-thur) of tv that they watch together. On Friday and Sunday, we have family movie night. Age appropriate, which is getting h…

The books are so much better; big fan of Cornwell.

Awesome, have them email me sam [at] aproductguy [dot] ca

We're a FinTech startup (deposits, pre-paid card, mortgages, investments), based out of Toronto, and looking for a CTO. Would prefer local, but open to remote (prefer EST time zone…

So we are an early stage startup. Lost our original dev team (1 bacnded + 1 front end) during the lockdowns (they are alive, we just had to let them go) but have recovered, and loo…

Worked for a startup in 2000 which Sun Microsystems bought. My options get switched to Sun options, and had a strike price higher than the value of the shares. Right before the opt…

I legit miss Sun. Worked there for two years in 2002/03, and the level of talent there was astounding.

How you invest depends on what your goals are. You need to define the "why" before you can move on to the "how".

Lots of people start blogs, publish a ton of articles, don't get the traction off the bat that they are expecting, and it slowly/quickly dies. Start small. Consistently publish (wh…

It's definitely feature, not flaw; think of all the lost revenue from merchants/acquirers/issuers/associations/etc when a card needs to be legitimately replaced (e.g. updating your…

Trying to validate a Twitter audience tool that identifies influencers/potential customers/customers/people of interest for a specific topic. The goal is to figure out if my algo d…