This is great. Great idea, and an extremely good example of building just an MVP and going from there.
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
#42I don't get something - 37 is now considered "old"? Is this some kind of millenia neolang?
Old begins at 20, now, maybe 25. Anything after 35 is old without even the benefit of plausible deniability.
40 and above, you might as well be dead.
Re: Thank HN: From Google form to $1k in revenue in one month
#43spent 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…
DO is a simple hosting if you want. It is more or less the same way.
You create a droplet with one click with either apache or nginx and you're good to go. Sftp probably, If you feel nostalgic you can have ftp access too.
I would understand if the author was writing about setting up the blog with angular and using Amazon fg6 instance with cloudfire load balancer...
Re: Thank HN: From Google form to $1k in revenue in one month
#44Congrats! 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).
It's incredible that people put up with how buggy these adblocker extensions are. Seriously, blocking an arbitrary URL with "ads" in the path?
Can't they just stick to blocking domain regexes instead of actually breaking the web?
Re: Thank HN: From Google form to $1k in revenue in one month
#45spent 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?
Eh, DO is cloud. The instances are virtual and can be resized dynamically.
Re: Thank HN: From Google form to $1k in revenue in one month
#46I just joined a new company and I feel a little reverse-ageism from my part. My team and most of the company employees are at a younger point in their life. After leaving a company where I could talk to people about kids the same age as mine and such, I find it all a little unnerving and uncomfortable. They've been fine and I imagine once I've been there awhile it will be ok, as I still have people outside of work to talk to, but it will take a little getting used to.
Also - When I search for 'c#' it seems to filter out the '#'.
Re: Thank HN: From Google form to $1k in revenue in one month
#47What are your marketing/PR plans now that you've gotten a few major press hits?
All too often people aren't ready for the buzz when it comes, and see a sharp spike that then falls off a cliff once the buzz dies down.
Re: Thank HN: From Google form to $1k in revenue in one month
#48Congrats! 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.
I've run into that as well. I'm amazed that popular ad blockers still do that, since it's obviously trivial to work around for actual ads, and will result in so many false positives.
Re: Thank HN: From Google form to $1k in revenue in one month
#49Woah - did I miss the announcement that old is now 35 and above? Given the working range of professional engineers in the SF field, it sad that its not easier to invert the problem and build a Young-Fun-and-Full-of-Recent-Academic-Course-Material-Jobs.com.
"The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA) protects certain applicants and employees 40 years of age and older from discrimination on the basis of age in hiring, promotion, discharge, compensation, or terms, conditions or privileges of employment." [0]
OldGeekJobs.com works since it's the reverse of this... essentially discriminating against younger candidates. It's not legal to discriminate against 40+ in the US.
[0]: https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/discrimination/agedisc
Re: Thank HN: From Google form to $1k in revenue in one month
#50I wish folks like Bray had championed this cause 20 years ago. It may not have done much, but... it feels a bit weird to hear old people complain about discriminatory impact. I can't say he was a contributing factor to the ongoing 'youth culture', but... it wasn't hard to see this coming. My situation may be somewhat unique, in that I've had grey hair since I was 18. Not a HUGE amount at 18, but... people noticed. By…
I can't comment on Facebook but at Google I see plenty of people in their mid 30s and beyond. I joined in my early 40s. Yeah, we hire a lot of new grads / younger folks (I interview a lot of new grads) but I haven't noticed any overt ageism in the groups I've been in. Plus, the people making the hire decision don't see the candidate anyways. You should/would most likely get called out by the hiring groups if you added in color/vague "cultural fit" references.
This is just my experience, though.