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Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?
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#222JavaScript; Server side rendering an app shell (React / Redux) that uses the WordPress REST API:
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#223I've worked at the highest paying job i ever got in my career. But then i quit in july to focus on a startup I joined after we were featured in techcrunch and received angel investment. Now i realized that the money was the least of our problem and the startup is on the brink of death. I replaced the source of my income from job to stock market investments. Now i am focusing on a new side project that poped in my hea…
Can you tell me more about the problems you faced with your startup? My experience with 2017 has been the same in terms of working at the highest paying job I've had in my career. However, I AM thinking about leaving the traditional job market at some point to start my own start up in the next 3 years. I want some reality checks though.
The main problem we had is over promising. For every client we had, the CEO promised some features we cannot deliver.
Many of the financial decisions made wasted tons of money. (Microsoft Azure is not for your up and coming start up, too expensive)
I tend to favor meeting one customer at a time to understand the problem we are trying to solve, but we went for bulk email and spamming. The few clients I met one on one still believe in us today.
The startup idea was good. The solution was poorly executed, and we had too many chefs in the kitchen (5 co-founders).
I hope this makes sense.
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#224A great weather extension https://weatherextension.com/
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#225I built a SaaS product. Got to YC video interview stage and rejected. Eventually failed and closed up shop.
Now I'm building an Indie Hackers style site geared towards e-commerce and consumer product makers. (https://www.starterstory.com)
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#226Spent the last 9 months on a startup I co-founded, https://carbonstate.com We are producing an ECM system aimed at the SMB market. The short feature list is: - Configuration driven; no coding required to create management systems - Complex schema support ( nested and linked types ) - Automatic data entry/modification form creation - Workflow support - Compiled templating with fragments and support for reverse proxy c…
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Electronic counter measures?
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#227The Rakudo compiler: https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/ Feeling a lot more optimistic about it today than a year ago. \o/
Which part have you worked on? I've seen some interesting blog posts on Rakudo. I'd like to see more written about how the JIT works though.
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#228I shelved a startup I worked on for over a year due to failing to gain any traction or raise any funding.
I started tutoring students in Python, JS, and Java on Wyzant. I enjoy teaching, and it helps pay the bills.
I applied to Fullstack Academy and have an interview in a few days. I want to stop spinning my wheels and become employable as a professional Software Engineer.
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#229I've been building LiveFeeds ( https://www.livefeeds.io/ ), a platform for helping online retailers keep their affiliate data feeds and ad networks up to date. Currently, many affiliates work from data feeds that are only published once or twice a day, leaving them out of sync on prices and stock levels for many hours every day.
Ok so - I am your target customer exactly. My team is responsible for generating product feed files to give to agencies and engines. The process is extremely painful and usually ends up wasting the time of up to 10 people in the company for what should be some automated process. And here’s the thing - because it’s revenue generating, finding the budget to pay for your service is super duper easy.
So with that in mind, here’s some unsolicited feedback -
* I need you to state your limitations up front. How many products can you handle, what is the size of data you can handle?
* What platforms do you integrate with? This wasn’t obvious to me after quickly scanning the site
* Do you let me dedupe, aggregate, or create new data attributes in your platform?
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#230Left $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 hitting this hard in 2018.