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The second link doesn't seem to work but the first one does, thanks for explaining. Is it just organic growth or do you buy ads or something?
It should be working now? I think it's on Apple, itunes.apple.com has been slow for days. Mac apps == organic. iOS apps == mostly organic, I'm testing some ads for VidCap.
It was topic about showing your side projects, or something similar. I had small website just like [1] but with ads (I sold it later). It gave me lot of traffic, more visibility, eventually better Google rank and more money from ads. Such small/fun sites can get you real money! 1: https://randomcountrygenerator.com/
Hi I see that you are serving your own OSM tiles, can you share how are you generating them? Especially in webp?
It was topic about showing your side projects, or something similar. I had small website just like [1] but with ads (I sold it later). It gave me lot of traffic, more visibility, eventually better Google rank and more money from ads. Such small/fun sites can get you real money! 1: https://randomcountrygenerator.com/
What did you use for ads? Adsense?
This one by user tempsy about /r/wallstreetbets from January 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22186392 This comment made me aware of the whole options market and leverage. I didn’t know a thing before reading it. I made €500k by betting that the Corona virus will have more impact than the market anticipated in February 2020 and got it right. Which of course, was kinda naive and quite lucky. I totally cannot…
How much money did you turn into 500k? Predicting the consequences of a once in a lifetime black swan event is surely very lucky. But fortune favours the brave as they. You will never win a lottery if you dont buy the goddamn ticket!
Here's one for you. Buy iBonds from treasury.gov now! Think of it as a risk free savings account that pays almost 10%[0] at the moment since it tracks inflation which is currently high. If you need the money back you just forfeit the last 3 months interest. If you have a business open an account for that entity as well, get one for your spouse, get one for your child, then spread the word. Note the limit is $10k per…
Hn post pointing to git commit where AMD engineer said that spectre does not apply to AMD: placed an option against Intel.
I later repeated it after hearing (again on hn) a rumor of another spectre-related Intel bug. This one did not make a splash in the markets. As I was ready to give up and pull out my options play, I happened to be delayed due to international travel, Intels's CEO resigned (due to having sex with his wife). The stock tanked even harder, and I made 3x what I made off of spectre. I learned my lesson on market rationalit…
This one by user tempsy about /r/wallstreetbets from January 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22186392 This comment made me aware of the whole options market and leverage. I didn’t know a thing before reading it. I made €500k by betting that the Corona virus will have more impact than the market anticipated in February 2020 and got it right. Which of course, was kinda naive and quite lucky. I totally cannot…
You're probably going to lose it all by betting incorrectly.
I learned my lesson already and pulled the plug. At some point I realized that I know nothing and should get back to buy and hold.
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I later repeated it after hearing (again on hn) a rumor of another spectre-related Intel bug. This one did not make a splash in the markets. As I was ready to give up and pull out my options play, I happened to be delayed due to international travel, Intels's CEO resigned (due to having sex with his wife). The stock tanked even harder, and I made 3x what I made off of spectre. I learned my lesson on market rationalit…
He resigned due to having sex with his wife? In some marriages it may be an unusual occurrence, but I’m not sure why you’d have to resign because of it.
I think that it is not unreasonable to speculate that was the reason they gave and not the "real" reason for firing.
I started the original "Who wants to be hired?" thread [1], which lead to me landing a gig with Kaggle [2] (a scrappy startup, at the time, 2014), which ultimately got acquired by Google (this was in 2017). I'm still with them to this day, over 8 years later [3]. Have always been grateful for the community picking up that thread, allowing me to get recognized by a great company! [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?…
A year and a half ago I started building a better personal finance simulator / retirement calculator, mainly for myself and friends/family to use. I was about T-minus one week from halting work on it and starting something else when I posted to Show HN on a whim: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26969173 . I didn't even think to check back on it until during a meeting I noticed my inbox was suddenly filling up :)…
1. 5-input 'retirement calculators' that various sites had up as lead-gen tools 2. Build a complex and bug-riddled model in a spreadsheet 3. Pay for a financial planner to plug my situation into their spreadsheet
I saw ProjectionLab on HN, though, and it was exactly what I was looking for. The end result I cam up with was good, but even just playing around with the modeling helped me build up a much better intuition than I'd started with. Thanks for your work, and I'm glad you stuck with it!