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I hike and backpack as much as I can. It also helps that I built myself a side project to keep track of all of the trails I hike/camp, so this pushes me to find new places to explo…

Very weird, now it works after reading this and re-checking. Oddly enough I restarted Chrome and Firefox twice before posting the comment in hopes that it was just my machine. Than…

Edit: About 15 minutes after posting, this seems to work fine on my site now. Sorry for the confusion! The spinner does not stop and it gives no results for my site ( https://myhik…

This site is great - and it looks like there are others out there too. I use this for backpacking and astrophotography to figure out precipitation and cloud patterns (as to not was…

Totally agree. It's great for fellow engineers to poke around on to make sure you aren't an idiot or aren't copying/pasting projects from the web, but you're right.. for the most p…

Good to know. Maybe I'll post again in a couple of months to see if I can snag more users.

Nice! Yeah definitely mixed results with Reddit, but it's great for free one-time advertising. Another downside is you can't hit your audience more than once without being targeted…

Yeah it's definitely mixed. Luckily I haven't had any negative feedback, it's been mostly positive and I've had some great suggestions as well. Downside is it takes a bit of time t…

Reddit. As an experiment I posted my side project in subreddits related to what the project's about. I went from ~15 registered users to 45 registered users in a couple of days. Go…

Onsite engineers for UAT and rapid bug fix turnaround. Most bugs reported from customers, during UAT, are fixed by the next morning for another round of testing. This is not always…

https://myhikes.org This is a site I built for myself, friends, and the public; however, I haven't promoted it much... Trying to get more users, but it's been under construction fo…

Very true

Yeah I'm currently at the 'next big project' and asked for a fair raise. I got a bonus and was told salary reviews will happen within a few months. The company reviews everyone at …

My equity is extremely small, if not negligible. The company continues to grow, but the engineering teams grow slower than other parts of the company. This puts more and more strai…

Very good point!

In short I work for a start up who underpays me. This company is ~5 years old and every time I bring this up, they throw a small amount of money at me to shut me up and remind me t…

I think I've decided to take a different approach... I want to know what I can do to be inline with the rest of the industry. I think it makes sense to propose this as a question t…

Great advice, this is really what I'd like to do... propose that I have an offer that I don't really want, but the money is better - hoping that they can match it, since the offer …

Gotcha that makes sense. Part of me feels like I'm being greedy and part of me actually feels like I'm being taken advantage of in certain ways, so I'm personally struggling with w…

Awesome, thanks for the feedback. I've literally never had anything negative come from my bosses, it's only been praise about how much I've grown and to keep up the good work. When…

Okay, very interesting... I like the way you think. Luckily, I built various components and the entire CSS layer (which gets very complex) is really only understood by me... which …

Okay great, that makes sense. Thanks for the advice!

I feel as though I need a raise because my responsibilities have changed drastically since my last raise. I'm now managing people and leading a project. On top of that, my pay has …