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Pieter Levels Makes $600k a Year from Nomad List and Remote OK

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Re: Pieter Levels Makes $600k a Year from Nomad List and Remote OK

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Post by BrianOnHN »

znpy wrote: post #130
mytherin wrote: post #98

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I'm not sure how those are comparable. Most people don't need extreme HA for their websites. It's totally fine if a standard webshop goes down from 2AM-3AM, or if a personal blog is down for a minute because an S3 VM crashed and needs to be rebooted. Most websites are not Google or Amazon, and gain very little from more 9's past the initial 2~3, which is totally manageable on a single server. Why spend thousands sett…

Yes, people should evaluate ha needs in terms of business needs: what happens if my website goes down? Will I lose money? How much money? "How much money?" Is probably the most import question, as it actually helps in evaluating if there's a business case for investing into the financial commitment, engineering effort and maintenance burden of an ha solution. On a different note, I've seen mysql-based multi-master se…

Google crawls 24/7, so as long as you aren't relying on SEO it's fine. Google doesn't want to send traffic to servers with frequent 500 errors.

Edit: there is also more to be said about this. I'd research crawl-budget if you're interested.

Re: Pieter Levels Makes $600k a Year from Nomad List and Remote OK

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Post by nickjj »

umaar wrote: post #31

Sometimes I think it's fascinating the rabbit holes we'll go down, when ultimately, the user just doesn't care. TypeScript vs. plain JS Logic-less templates like Mustache vs. Handlebars Vue vs. React Using async/await, and adding the relevant infrastructure to support that (transpiler) Clean code practices in general Unit tests, end to end tests CSS BEM vs. tailwind You can make indirect connections to imply the user…

> Where's the line though? When is gumroad or squarespace not the answer?

Gumroad is going to handle payments for you.

You mentioned a course. If you plan to offer video streaming, you'd have to come up with something to provide that platform.

There's places like Teachable and Thinkific for that. That's what I did initially and now years later I want to build my own platform because there's a massive laundry list of things that I don't like about those existing platforms.

But now it's difficult to move an audience from platform A to B because they expect a working and fairly feature rich solution since that's what they are used to. It means the custom solution needs to be shipped as something more than an MVP, which makes it take longer to develop. At the same time, like you said, building the platform takes away from creating the content.

If I could go back in the time I would have built my own platform first while testing the demand with free videos on Youtube.

Re: Pieter Levels Makes $600k a Year from Nomad List and Remote OK

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Post by dang »

christophilus wrote: post #14
BoorishBears wrote: post #10

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If you don't get why the fact a high successful venture is using such a barebones tech stack is not noteworthy, you must be following a different tech industry than I am

I mostly follow HN, a successful tech forum that is written in a single lisp file and runs on a single server. It’s not surprising to find successful projects run with a simple stack. The opposite is more surprising.

Currently 9 arc files containing 13k lines of code. If you throw in the language implementation it's 11 files and 15k lines.

Re: Pieter Levels Makes $600k a Year from Nomad List and Remote OK

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Post by dang »

Insanity wrote: post #71
christophilus wrote: post #14

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I mostly follow HN, a successful tech forum that is written in a single lisp file and runs on a single server. It’s not surprising to find successful projects run with a simple stack. The opposite is more surprising.

It's a single lisp file? That's pretty cool, Is this public somewhere?

Not sure where that idea came from but it has never been a single file. More at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24263568

Re: Pieter Levels Makes $600k a Year from Nomad List and Remote OK

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Post by kreetx »

sixQuarks wrote: post #70
kreetx wrote: post #44

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What site is that? :)

I knew someone would ask. Sorry but I’m not gonna reveal it, don’t want competition. I will say it’s been online for over a decade, information rich, with affiliate lead generation as the main source of income.

Hah! But great work otherwise then. But did it start out as a hobby, or was it entirely planned as a business?

Re: Pieter Levels Makes $600k a Year from Nomad List and Remote OK

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Post by umaar »

nickjj wrote: post #132
umaar wrote: post #31

Sometimes I think it's fascinating the rabbit holes we'll go down, when ultimately, the user just doesn't care. TypeScript vs. plain JS Logic-less templates like Mustache vs. Handlebars Vue vs. React Using async/await, and adding the relevant infrastructure to support that (transpiler) Clean code practices in general Unit tests, end to end tests CSS BEM vs. tailwind You can make indirect connections to imply the user…

> Where's the line though? When is gumroad or squarespace not the answer? Gumroad is going to handle payments for you. You mentioned a course. If you plan to offer video streaming, you'd have to come up with something to provide that platform. There's places like Teachable and Thinkific for that. That's what I did initially and now years later I want to build my own platform because there's a massive laundry list of…

Hey this is really helpful thanks, very interesting to know you would've built your own platform.

Fortunately I already have my own platform for my first course, so maybe reusing that would be best rather than assuming the grass is greener, with things like gumroad/teachable.

Re: Pieter Levels Makes $600k a Year from Nomad List and Remote OK

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Post by Insanity »

dang wrote: post #135
Insanity wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a single lisp file? That's pretty cool, Is this public somewhere?

Not sure where that idea came from but it has never been a single file. More at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24263568

Thanks dang! :-)

Re: Pieter Levels Makes $600k a Year from Nomad List and Remote OK

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Post by HeadsUpHigh »

pieterhg wrote: post #11
brainless wrote: post #4

I am a solo founder and I recently saw the post of solo founder persistence, which I am yet to read in full. Pieter is one of those that can consistently deliver. He has been doing that for years now. I admire him and what he does, yet I know I can not. I am plagued by mental, emotional issues that break my routine every few months. I started focusing on perseverance and I am happy with where I am now. There is still…

Hey :) you should see my brain and discover what I'm plagued by! I struggle with moderate anxiety and depression on and off too and esp this year has been quite hard. Work is quite therapeutical for me because it keeps me creative, active and have goals. It keeps me on the rails really. Daily creative stuff to work on. My dad does the same as he's always renovating the house, doing woodworking, or studying film histo…

Not a founder or anything like that myself, just someone with a lot of work to do who had depression in the past. I agree that consistently working out helps a lot as well as giving yourself tasks to do. You can use the good times to try to find a higher purpose for yourself, that's in my experience the best long term solution.

Re: Pieter Levels Makes $600k a Year from Nomad List and Remote OK

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Post by throwaway815190 »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #43
umaar wrote: post #31

Sometimes I think it's fascinating the rabbit holes we'll go down, when ultimately, the user just doesn't care. TypeScript vs. plain JS Logic-less templates like Mustache vs. Handlebars Vue vs. React Using async/await, and adding the relevant infrastructure to support that (transpiler) Clean code practices in general Unit tests, end to end tests CSS BEM vs. tailwind You can make indirect connections to imply the user…

Yeah that is what it boils down to often; the user doesn't care. It's more about what's best for the developer. The problem is that a lot of developers want to work with what is 'sexy' at the moment. That's one factor that also drives e.g. job adverts; most vacancies I've seen will have "cryptocurrency" and "IoT" sprinkled in, just for the sake of looking attractive. And old applications get rewritten in newer tech b…

Another factor here is employability. Employers go with the latest fad framework because they think it'll improve their ability to hire engineers in the short term. Unfortunately, this means that web developers need to always know the latest fad framework, whether they like it or not, or they won't get interviews let alone job offers.
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