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Left $150k software engineering job (well got fired for making video called "9 Ways to cope with having a boring 9-5 job" which somebody found and sent to HR) to make videos about stuff I think is interesting ( https://www.youtube.com/c/JDiculous1 https://www.facebook.com/HonestLogic ), with a slant towards addressing wage slavery, basic income, student loans, capitalism, etc. Still in the early stages, but I'll be h…
- https://nulis.io - tree text editor for writers - https://helix.startuplab.io - habit tracker - https://fictionhub.io - fiction publishing platform - https://startuplab.io/blog - started writing articles on startups/tech Also a few smaller projects.
I quit my job as a software engineer at Google early this year to teach people how to code. I started paying people $15/hr to learn so they can make ends meet while learning instead of working at Walmart. I thought about all the missing pieces in my engineering growth and created a curriculum that welcomes students from 0 engineering background and plugs in all the holes that were black boxed to me in my engineering…
There's so many assumptions in mathematics, I've always assumed it must just take too much time/expertise to cover them properly. Engineering != math, but accomplishing that is revolutionary.
Overall a great learning experience. Its free to use if anyone wants to try it out: tuneco.logikgatemusic.com
- https://nulis.io - tree text editor for writers - https://helix.startuplab.io - habit tracker - https://fictionhub.io - fiction publishing platform - https://startuplab.io/blog - started writing articles on startups/tech Also a few smaller projects.
Hmn, Helix means I'm probably going to stop work on the project I started this week. :) I shall need some tool to ensure that I replace it with something equally virtuous. Oh, look, Helix!
Don't let it stop you from making your own app, though. There are thousands of similar apps out there, doing your own take on it can still be valuable and resonate with some people more than other apps.
You won't dominate this niche by being first to the market, but you can still have a successful project by building a good product and marketing it well.
I quit what many would consider a successfull job in programming and had a sabbatical year. Moved to a smaller town and down sized everything in spending to the point where I pay $600 per month for housing, food and bills, so living of my savings haven't been an issue at all. I have focused on things like reading (read +40 books in 2017, up from 1-2 per year), wood working, sketching, running and skiing. To keep up m…
What did you do about your social life? Isn’t that lonely to be away from friends and family for so long?
I quit what many would consider a successfull job in programming and had a sabbatical year. Moved to a smaller town and down sized everything in spending to the point where I pay $600 per month for housing, food and bills, so living of my savings haven't been an issue at all. I have focused on things like reading (read +40 books in 2017, up from 1-2 per year), wood working, sketching, running and skiing. To keep up m…
> I pay $600 per month for housing, food and bills Is that in the US? Sounds really low...
I quit what many would consider a successfull job in programming and had a sabbatical year. Moved to a smaller town and down sized everything in spending to the point where I pay $600 per month for housing, food and bills, so living of my savings haven't been an issue at all. I have focused on things like reading (read +40 books in 2017, up from 1-2 per year), wood working, sketching, running and skiing. To keep up m…
Curious if you'd like to share your age and when you started your professional career? Do you recommend doing this earlier or later in one's career?
But, I think doing it early (say after ~3 years) has the advantage of settling/deepening the understanding of your work. Often the early years are super hectic and you try to be your best, neglecting things like mindful reflection. I believe sabbatical can help this, kind of like how sleep organizes and "cleans up" thoughts/memories. We need both the short sleep and "long" sleep.
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Have you tried https://p2k.co/ ?
Yes, I've used it for a few months. That's the reason I've started working on my thing. I felt that it didn't have the features that I needed the most (hyphenation, dropcaps, ad removal etc.) and I would have felt like a jerk to ask for these things from the developer. These are not common needs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I've started working on a similar service but didn't ship. I'd love to chat (email in profile).
I started coding a platform to save webpages.(Evernote like) There are two main ideas: * Build a personal webarchive so that links you like never disapear * Being able to find any articles you liked in the past by searching them from their title, content or similar sentences of the text (like you can search "wooden house" and it will find an article which contains the sentence "wooden home") The platform will be avai…
I believe Pinboard.in offers these features.