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Re: My product is my garden

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Post by emddudley »

yesenadam wrote: post #19

> This is my garden, and I intend to putter. I was about about to correct that use of "putter" as a typo, but it seems it's a USAism. Never seen that before. I'd always thought machines/engines putter, gardeners potter. I put it to the super-accurate Purported Google Results Test: putter in my garden - 7 million potter in my garden - 142 million putter around - 9 million potter around - 363 million putter about - 49…

I'm from the U.S. and the phrases "potter around" and "potter in the garden" are new to me. I have always used "putter".

My pronunciation of putter is "puh-ter" (same sound as under) and potter is "pah-ter" (same sound as father).

Re: My product is my garden

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Post by scotttrinh »

ehnto wrote: post #96
klausbreyer wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where can I join this? :) This goes into the direction of something I heard of in the past as "slow business". I started a (now rather small) list, together with the lost manifesto: https://v01.io/2021/01/13/slow-business-list/

Slow business is a great term for it, that is the antithesis for grow-fast or burn out trying style companies. I love seeing businesses that grew naturally out of a grass roots need, tied directly to real world industry or community needs. Check the link in my profile!

Discord invite seems to be invalid now?

Re: My product is my garden

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Post by Rumudiez »

raintrees wrote: post #109
jimbokun wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"an independent life is impossible unless you have enough healthy young people around to do the labour." Or about $1 million stashed in index funds, give or take based on cost of living in your location.

Or around $600K in down payments in cash flowing rental properties in the US... My wife and I spent around $75K to get approximately $1K a month in cash flow (5 doors, $200 each)...

I think the topic is independence, not being a parasite on others who are less well off than you.

Re: My product is my garden

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Post by cosmojg »

benjaminjosephw wrote: post #36

Where are there online communities for people into this kind of tech sub-culture? Most Indie Hacker type communities seem to eventually attract a critical mass of "Hustle Boys" and most startup communities tend to be dismissive of anything that doesn't have hyper-growth potential. It makes sense that a large number of tech entrepreneurs live between these two extremes. Where do they hang out?

Mastodon and Pleroma are home to many communities filled with people like this! One of my favorite instances, Merveilles[1], is probably among the highest quality in terms of the people themselves and the projects they work on, but there are dozens of others with similar energy. Make an account somewhere[2][3] and see for yourself!

Oh, and if you're willing to leave the Web, there's also Gemini[4]. Here are some proxied links to aggregators, CAPCOM[5] and Spacewalk[6], where you can find all sorts of people writing about their intimate personal projects, technological and otherwise (although mostly technological).

[1]https://merveilles.town/public

[2]https://joinmastodon.org/

[3]https://pleroma.social/

[4]https://gemini.circumlunar.space/

[5]https://proxy.vulpes.one/gemini/gemini.circumlunar.space/cap...

[6]https://proxy.vulpes.one/gemini/rawtext.club:1965/~sloum/spa...

Re: My product is my garden

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Post by justusthane »

This is a little off-topic, but related: I've done hobbyist webdev for a long time, but only HTML/CSS/JS/PHP. I have an idea for a web app I'd like to build--would you folks recommend Rails or Django, and why?

I have very little background with either Ruby or Python, so the language choice itself isn't a deciding factor for me (although I have slightly more interest in Python).

Re: My product is my garden

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Post by ehnto »

scotttrinh wrote: post #114
ehnto wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Slow business is a great term for it, that is the antithesis for grow-fast or burn out trying style companies. I love seeing businesses that grew naturally out of a grass roots need, tied directly to real world industry or community needs. Check the link in my profile!

Discord invite seems to be invalid now?

Got a new one in there, you can try again now.
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