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in the application form. it explicitly states which visas it sponsors: J-1, TN, E-3, sometimes O-1, and says "Softmax is not able to sponsor H-1B visas for this role."

The idea that what matters most is having the most followers is very arbitrary and not relevant to many strategies for enjoying Twitter. In my experience, Twitter is best as a plac…

(author here) Well detected! Yes, I do have an financial interest in this semantic battle. I haven't read Scott Adams' whole book but I found myself called to respond to his take w…

I've found some shifts in my language have helped with this. Here's some examples from a blog post I wrote on this awhile ago: Instead of "Some people are born to be singers—I’m no…

(Creator of complice.co here, summoned by HNWatcher.) I'm glad to see this thread because yeah, most productivity apps are just organization structures that don't support metacogni…

I'm the creator of Complice and it was indeed made largely by me (I have another collaborator but he joined after it was already making over $3k/mo) but I wouldn't call it simple! …

Creator of Complice here. I agree it's sad the rooms are empty! I thought it would be way easier than it turned out to be, to get a room off the ground. There are a few private one…

Here's the Hacker News room, for instance: https://complice.co/room/hackers (Not a lot of people in it lately, but we could change that ;) )

There is something important to be said about the effect of having a really clear sense of purpose. I think this is seriously underrated. But I think it's also the case that part o…

I remember a classic breakdown of 7 areas of life which has in a few places when reading about goals etc: Career, Family, Financial, Mental, Physical, Social, Spiritual. These aren…

I run a productivity app called Complice ( https://complice.co/ ), which is currently making me about $3k/mo. If you want to learn tons more about the process of getting to profita…

Too content with your life? Think bigger. eg... http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/ ...it doesn't have to be climate change per se. The point is that if you don't see things to im…

Fixed! Thanks muchly.

Totally agreed. I think I have a few years at least before I need to worry about VR market saturation crowding me out though :P It's an interesting question of whether it might mak…

Strangers has worked in some of the earlier rooms I've worked with... I think the issue here is that it's basically all strangers to start. It's easy to add a few new people to som…

Awesome! Yeah I find it can work very well with teams, including in-person (you don't use the video or chat as much, but it's still cool to be in sync and see what each other is wo…

I'm kind of a jack-of-all-trades, so I did all of my own design. I don't know that I could get hired by a big company to do design work, but I'm good enough to make my own UIs. One…

I got a ton of signups to Complice yesterday via the IndieHackers HN launch ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12269425 ) so I thought it would be cool to see if we could coale…

I described this in pretty great detail over on IndieHackers ( https://indiehackers.com/businesses/complice ) and also answered a bunch of related questions on this HN thread: http…

I really like this "I'm feeling kind of lucky" feature that Google search used to ship with Firefox and that still works: http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=na…

Hmm. I think my biggest milestone came when someone signed up for the free trial, didn't respond at all to the personal "how is the trial going?" message... didn't respond to my "b…

I reached out to some friends of mine, pitching them something like "I'm developing a system to help you achieve your goals. It's based on daily planning and reflection. Paypal me …

I mean, mean is better than median in that if you multiply it by time then it gives you the sum. But mean over what period? It's a bit complex. I think that probably @csallen was u…