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Thank HN: From Google form to $1k in revenue in one month

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Re: Thank HN: From Google form to $1k in revenue in one month

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Post by rsp1984 »

spent an hour putting up a Google form and static site on a cheap Digital Ocean instance.

Now I feel like the Old Geek (I'm 32):

What's the deal with Digital Ocean? If the website is static and receives content by manual copy-pasting from a Google sheet (as outlined in the article), why bother with Droplets and Storage and all the other configuration? Why is good old web hosting (the kind where you just upload your html/php/js via FTP and it all just works) not good enough for this? Really curious.

Re: Thank HN: From Google form to $1k in revenue in one month

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Post by BillinghamJ »

rsp1984 wrote: post #32

spent an hour putting up a Google form and static site on a cheap Digital Ocean instance. Now I feel like the Old Geek (I'm 32): What's the deal with Digital Ocean? If the website is static and receives content by manual copy-pasting from a Google sheet (as outlined in the article), why bother with Droplets and Storage and all the other configuration? Why is good old web hosting (the kind where you just upload your h…

Digital Ocean is just a simple VPS provider - I wouldn't even call it cloud.

The usual cPanel PHP 5.4 shared hosting is consistently unreliable, insecure and a generally overall bad idea. Who would you actually even trust to run it?

Re: Thank HN: From Google form to $1k in revenue in one month

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Post by pcsanwald »

mikemikemike wrote: post #27

I wonder if the problem is specific to ageism in individual contributor roles. I've worked at a few startups where maybe 1/3 of the product team was over 40, but I can only think of two coworkers over 40 who didn't have any direct reports. Do we find ourselves wondering why an individual hasn't "advanced" to a management position after 10+ years?

I don't ever wonder this when hiring. It's very common to see someone who tried management for a while and didn't like it or wasn't good at it, and have concluded that they love coding for a living.

Technical management isn't for everyone, and isn't a natural progression from being a software engineer. The transition is very difficult for most people.

Re: Thank HN: From Google form to $1k in revenue in one month

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Post by LyndsySimon »

Jugurtha wrote: post #11

Awesome.. I remember reading your first post and finding the idea neat but also saying in my head, with amusement: "right, everything is easy when your name is John Wheeler ". Archibald.

Everything is easy if you expect it to be, and act as if it's going to be.

Lyndsy. :)

Re: Thank HN: From Google form to $1k in revenue in one month

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Post by madeofpalk »

gregsadetsky wrote: post #3

Congrats! Small note, none of the listings appear when using uBlock Origin [ https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa... ], a popular ad blocker. It seems related to your /js/ads-controller.js file (it gets blocked because of the "/js/ads-" portion in the path). I would suggest fixing that (and preferably minimizing your JS into one bundle).

This has bitten us in the backside before.

We never understood why certain pull requests wouldn't load in Atlassian Stash/BitBucket Server - turns out our adblocker was blocking the page from loading due to having "ad" in the title.

Re: Thank HN: From Google form to $1k in revenue in one month

#40

Post by stevesearer »

life_is_short wrote: post #36

I found a bug. Job postings aren't sorted by date correctly. For example https://oldgeekjobs.com/jobs/California?page=2 shows jobs posted '2 days ago' while the front page shows jobs posted '30 days ago'.

It looks like it may be listing 'Old Geek Jobs' posts first and then the backfilled job posts from StackOverflow second.
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