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Popped a link in my profile, trying not to be spammy!
It says "link invalid"?
Oops, try the new one, sorry!
My product is my garden
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I feel the same way. Even if you have a lot of ideas, as I'm sure everyone has, how would you decide on the "right" one to pour all your energy into?
That's the minimum viable product thing - you need to figure out what's actually helpful to people. For instance, I hope some day someone takes up the mantle and goes out making a decent free identity system. I think most of the North European countries have one of those, and they are all proprietary and suck with no interoperability. If think there's government or even EU money to be had for something that works. So…
We can do better than Shibboleth.
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#125https://medium.com/@cmaitchison/are-you-a-software-gardener-...
I finally have words to describe the kind of programming I like to do in my spare time!
Thank you for linking to that article.
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#126I quit my job at Google a little over a year ago to work full time on my product. I still don't make near half the salary, but that connection to my users using a product I built is something that, prior to this last year, I didn't know I'd be so attached to. Users message me to appreciate some small look & feel improvements, they leave feedback and I fix things for them, I get excited about a new feature and it brin…
> Users message me to appreciate some small look & feel improvements, they leave feedback and I fix things for them, I get excited about a new feature and it brings value to their work. This is great. But if you thrive on this kind of positive feedback, I'm curious to know, if you ever get the occasional bit of angry/negative feedback (e.g. from a user who is really pissed off about a feature change that broke their…
I do get churn, and have users unhappy about things, but it's just as valuable feedback, if not more, than the positive ones.
The only demotivating thing would be silence. In the Show HN post, quite a number of people said it wasn't what they were looking for or it was lacking xyz. But that's a whole lot better than languishing in 3 upvotes and no comments at all.
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"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)...
$75k for five doors? Might I ask whereabouts? That seems ridiculously cheap per unit.
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#128I quit my job at Google a little over a year ago to work full time on my product. I still don't make near half the salary, but that connection to my users using a product I built is something that, prior to this last year, I didn't know I'd be so attached to. Users message me to appreciate some small look & feel improvements, they leave feedback and I fix things for them, I get excited about a new feature and it brin…
Wow! This product is making my day. Great job. I am still hacking around on it. I would like to sign-up as a team, though I only have need for 3 seats.
Thanks! If you send me an email (in my profile), happy to make that work for you
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#129Pangloss, who was as inquisitive as he was argumentative, asked the old man what the name of the strangled Mufti was. ‘I don’t know,’ answered the worthy man, ‘and I have never known the name of any Mufti, nor of any Vizier. I have no idea what you’re talking about; my general view is that people who meddle with politics usually meet a miserable end, and indeed they deserve to. I never bother with what is going on in…
I was reminded of Being There by Jerzy Kosiński:
> In a garden, things grow... but first, they must wither; trees have to lose their leaves in order to put forth new leaves, and to grow thicker and stronger and taller. Some trees die, but fresh saplings replace them. Gardens need a lot of care. But if you love your garden, you don’t mind working in it, and waiting. Then in the proper season you will surely see it flourish.
> A gardener! Isn’t that the perfect description of what a real businessman is?
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
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)...
$75k for five doors? Might I ask whereabouts? That seems ridiculously cheap per unit.
I believe they're saying the down payment was $75k