Just a idea which I am sure would be easy given what you currently have, femalegeekjobs.com
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
#72Great, I love that this worked out!
What's the purpose of backfilling jobs from StackOverflow -- is it just to make the site look less like a ghost town? Aren't those not necessarily old-geek friendly jobs?
Re: Thank HN: From Google form to $1k in revenue in one month
#73Awesome and congrats!
how'd you make those sweet gif screen caps?
Re: Thank HN: From Google form to $1k in revenue in one month
#74If there's an insistance on a fixed-width font for the site, I really wish it was something more like Consolas/Inconsolata etc... The job descriptions are nearly unreadable on my display, lighter gray, with a relatively thin font weight.
Re: Thank HN: From Google form to $1k in revenue in one month
#75Congrats! 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).
Oh man - thank you. I was getting reports of the same, and now I know why. Fixed.
Still broken for me. Turns out I have div#ads filter enabled that comes from one of the uBlock 3rd party sources.
Re: Thank HN: From Google form to $1k in revenue in one month
#76Just a idea which I am sure would be easy given what you currently have, femalegeekjobs.com
I don't think this should exist
Re: Thank HN: From Google form to $1k in revenue in one month
#77Woah - 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+…
It reverses it by discriminating against the young, fighting ageism with ageism. I didn't realise age discrimination against those younger that 40 was legal in the US. There are other countries where a "jobs for the old" site would most likely be illegal.
Re: Thank HN: From Google form to $1k in revenue in one month
#78spent 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…
Good old web hosting is not good at all. Please please never ever use shared web hosting for anything. As soon as your site gets a little bit popular you're almost guaranteed it's gonna get hacked.
Re: Thank HN: From Google form to $1k in revenue in one month
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Nice catch, never thought about it. Is it more problematic with preffixes (vs. suffixes etc.) or should we generally avoid any random string? Appending a hash to the script is very convenient to force the download of the new version of an asset (but maybe we have better solutions now, haven't considered this issue in a while).
In your site's code, reference the asset in a path that includes the timestamp the asset file last changed.
e.g.
/js/1476929634/myscript.js instead of /js/myscript.js
Then use your webserver to rewrite /js//myscript.js to /js/myscript.js
Re: Thank HN: From Google form to $1k in revenue in one month
#80It sounds like everything worked out perfectly for the author on that fateful day. What are the odds that a stranger saw the author's initial (unsuccessful) post in the HN 'new' section and decided to write a whole article about it, post it to HN (with a link to the original form) and that this new post made it to the front page... Then it crashed... But thankfully there was an HN moderator on that day who cared enough to edit the link to send users directly to this form.
It sounds like the author made the most of it though, so I guess it's well deserved.