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Beautifully written and illustrated. Also informative, and funny. Top marks.

Hi! Late to the party, but this is exactly the kind of problem that my startup, Trolley, solves. Warning: shameless plug. It's a no-code shopping cart that works with Stripe. We of…

Hi! Late to the party, but this is exactly the kind of problem that my startup, Trolley, solves. Warning: shameless plug. It's a no-code shopping cart that works with Stripe. We of…

My consulting work is pretty quiet right now so I'm working lots on Trolley [1] - my payments tool. Lots of people right now seem to be looking for new ways to get paid / make mone…

I'm slightly surprised by Patreon's pricing, given they're not a discovery platform - it's really just subscription payments and some simple CRM stuff... It's pretty easy to make a…

The only thing you lost was your humanity?

I'm using Middleman [1] for the homepage of my product Trolley [2] - love it. As an ex-Rails guy, ERB is so familiar, and the rest of the structure just makes sense. 1 - https://mi…

Looks pretty flexible and interesting... I particularly like that you can scale-up the complexity of the programming as you get better (eg moving from Scratch to Python to ROS)

https://www.ideasarecheap.net ^^ I built this more or less on a bet about a year ago. Give it a dollar and it will give you a startup business idea. (No Markov chains here, it's a …

I built, and run, Trolley [1], a simple payments tool that lets you take payments from any website (or just a link). It's Clojure in the back end, on Postegres, on Heroku. Everythi…

Substack is cool - but it's kinda expensive. I wrote a short blog a few months ago about how to get most of the benefits it offers with way less cost (and without being tied to a s…

"People don't want chatbots" I'm working with a successful ecommerce company who have hugely improved conversions on their (high touch, bespoke but sold online) product by introduc…

https://trolley.link - my payments project. It lets you put a payment button on any website and pop up a cart; single products, donations, deposits, subscription / recurring paymen…

So much so that I made this for fun a few months ago :) https://www.ideasarecheap.net

http://rorygibson.me I've been playing with the typography on the site recently. Not massively happy with it but there you go; I'm sure I'll get round to changing it in a few weeks…

1) CRUD / data entry systems: stay with request-response. 2) Complex webapps with snappy functionality that need to feel "native" - whatever that means: think about an SPA. Then re…

I did a joke side project that encouraged users to pay $1 for a ridiculous startup idea ("Uber for firemen" or "Disrupt the cat grooming industry") It made me $25 - but gave me the…

Don't call yourself a freelancer. You're a consultant who helps your clients to improve their businesses. Price accordingly, then over successive engagements, raise prices. As long…

I just - last week - moved from a 2012 retina MBP 13" to a new XPS 13" with Ubuntu 18. Loving it. Also running i3 (actually i3-gaps, + terminator, dmenu, emacs) I also bought a 34"…

The old one is, iirc, a clone of the PCOL (Possession Claims Online) system - another MoJ project centred around small claims. PCOL dates from 2006 (I should know, I helped work on…