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Why not try sell Pocket instead of shutting it down? Seems like such a waste

Super cool. Typo here “Show your art, keep friends up-to-date or share family photos with lode ones.”

Funny because I often read “open to work” as “desperate”. Would love to know the success rate of quietly looking vs “open to work” and who gets hired more.

Maybe not, but they’ll tell you what they don’t like about an incumbent and that’s sometimes all you need to enter a market.

Start telling your story about why you built it in the first place. Tell it on any community that you think people who are in a similar need will be. Get narrow, try a few small ni…

Crowdfunding and donations are very high risk for fraud and money laundering activities. These approved platforms likely do some type of risk mitigation that Stripe is comfortable …

A helpful thread from hn the other day on how auth tokens work and how companies like Plaid don’t actually store your credentials (like how mint did back in the day) https://news.y…

Probably depends mostly on the payout country (where you are located) that will drive KYC requirements from the processor (stripe, etc), where people are paying you from (currency …

I believe there will continue to be a market for people building websites. Storefronts, landing pages, personal pages, blogs. I don’t see these going away. The feedback I keep seei…

Can't wait to try this. One workflow I've started using is drafting/formatting in notion and then exporting to markdown. But having the visual editor of Github would reduce the ste…

I finally splurged on an Apple Watch. But before I had a very cheap $20 alarm vibrating watch marketed towards reminding people to take their pills. It worked great as a vibrating …

This is not shade because I like this space, but how did you decide YC/venture path was right for Roame? I see many bootstrapped builders in travel (or have a lower margin business…

For early versions I’ve had a much easier time building with subscription model (used a third party, set up in one day). Unless it was a key differentiator for a customer choosing …

(Very US centric question around tax day / April 15). I've always wondered what it's like to work on these products at Intuit/TurboTax (or competitors) that get such high demand se…

I’ve had a good experience with carrd.co for making fast landing/signup pages

Love this askHN post. I'm currently working on "JobMailer". When I was looking for a job and applying to 100-200 positions, I got really good at the process. To me it seemed like a…

Related article from the prior day: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-06/why-conve...

Electrical stimulation might help prevent atrophy while waiting to see if the bracing works.

In a python-based backend, one suggestion for retrieving "additional details" could be SMS via Twilio or other. Easy to use with Python and might be a good context fit for followin…

You can do both to hedge that interest rate risk. Some fixed, some floating. No one knows where rates are headed and savings account providers can change rates at any time.

I’ve had that happen too. Unfortunately these seem like edge cases for most companies and sms based 2FA remains the default. I’ve finally found a good workaround when traveling abr…