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

Post by fencepost » Thu, Oct 20, 2016, 12:24 AM UTC

BillinghamJ wrote: post #33

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?

Post by blaze33 » Thu, Oct 20, 2016, 12:28 AM UTC

jbyers wrote: post #59

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 is a good reason to never prefix generated Javascript with hex hashes, at least without swapping out vowels. We rolled the dice one and had this happen on Wikispaces once; it was utterly infuriating to debug.

Post by duderific » Thu, Oct 20, 2016, 12:34 AM UTC

SystemOut wrote: post #50

mgkimsal wrote: post #28

I 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 adde…

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Oct 20, 2016, 12:35 AM UTC

morganvachon wrote: post #51

Fantastic job and a great service! One thing: The linked article states that you started on October 15th, but the screenshots indicate you started September 15th.

Post by toadi » Thu, Oct 20, 2016, 1:06 AM UTC

duderific wrote: post #65

SystemOut wrote: post #50

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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 adde…

Well, that's a huge company with many different types of engineers, and in business a long time (relatively). I would say the ageism is more likely at small startups that happen to have mostly young (in their 20s) engineers.